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2016 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 22 - CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS
Title 2 - (2221 - 2230) CONTROL
2222 - Tuberculosis; protection of patient's family; duty of physicians and health officers.

NY Pub Health L § 2222 (2016) What's This?
   2222.  Tuberculosis;  protection  of  patient's  family;  duty  of
  physicians and health officers.  1. It shall be the duty of a  physician
  attending  a  patient having tuberculosis to take all proper precautions
  and to give proper  instructions  to  provide  for  the  safety  of  all
  individuals  occupying  the same house or apartment, and if no physician
  be attending such  patient  this  duty  shall  devolve  upon  the  state
  district health officer or local health officer.

2.  All duties imposed upon physicians by any sections of this article
  shall be performed by the state district health officer or local  health
  officer  in  all  cases  of tuberculosis not attended by a physician, or
  when the physician fails to perform the duties herein specified.

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