2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 21 - CONTROL OF ACUTE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Title 1 - (2100 - 2112) GENERAL PROVISIONS
2100 - Communicable diseases; local boards of health and health officers; powers and duties.

 
    §  2100.  Communicable  diseases;  local  boards  of health and health
  officers; powers and duties.  1. Every local board of health  and  every
  health officer shall guard against the introduction of such communicable
  diseases  as  are  designated  in  the sanitary code, by the exercise of
  proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of  all  persons  and
  things infected with or exposed to such diseases.
    2. Every local board of health and every health officer may:
    (a) provide for care and isolation of cases of communicable disease in
  a  hospital  or  elsewhere  when  necessary for protection of the public
  health and,
    (b) subject to the provisions  of  the  sanitary  code,  prohibit  and
  prevent  all  intercourse  and  communication  with  or  use of infected
  premises, places and things, and require, and if necessary, provide  the
  means  for  the  thorough  purification and cleansing of the same before
  general intercourse with the same or use thereof shall be allowed.