2006 New York Code - Local Health Officer; Immunity From Personal Liability

 
    §  329. Local health officer; immunity from personal liability.  1. No
  health officer, inspector, investigator, public health nurse,  or  other
  representative  of a health officer, and no person or persons other than
  the county, city, village or  town  by  which  such  health  officer  or
  representative  thereof  is  employed shall be sued or held to liability
  for any act done or omitted by any such health officer or representative
  of a health officer in good faith and with ordinary discretion on behalf
  or under the direction of such county, city, village or town pursuant to
  its regulations or ordinances, or the sanitary code, or this chapter.
    2. Any person whose property  may  have  been  unjustly  or  illegally
  destroyed  or injured pursuant to any order, regulation or ordinance, or
  action of any board of health or health officer, or representative of  a
  health  officer, for which no personal liability may exist as aforesaid,
  may maintain a proper action against the county, city, village  or  town
  for the recovery of proper compensation or damages. Every such suit must
  be  brought  within  six  months after the cause of action arose and the
  recovery shall be limited to the damages suffered.