2014 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 21 - CONTROL OF ACUTE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Title 5 - (2150 - 2153) TYPHOID FEVER
2150 - Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in institutions.

NY Pub Health L § 2150 (2014) What's This?

2150. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in institutions. Whenever any person is declared by the commissioner to be a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli and whenever, for the protection of the public health, the commissioner certifies to the necessity of continued isolation; or, whenever, the sanitary code prohibits a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli from engaging in his usual occupation, such person may be given hospital or institutional care under the surveillance of the local health officer at the expense of the state if the hospital or institution in the judgment of the commissioner is properly equipped for the care and maintenance of said person.


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