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2020 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases
Title 1 - General Provisions
2102 - Communicable Diseases; Laboratory Reports and Records.

Universal Citation: NY Pub Health L § 2102 (2020)
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§  2102.  Communicable  diseases;  laboratory reports and records.  1.
  Whenever any laboratory examination discloses evidence  of  communicable
  disease,  the  results  of  such  examination together with all required
  pertinent facts, shall be immediately reported by the person  in  charge
  of  the laboratory or the person making such examination to the local or
  state health official to whom the attending  physician  is  required  to
  report such case.

2.  The  person in charge of such laboratory or the person making such
  examination shall keep for a period of  time  to  be  specified  by  the
  commissioner,  a  record  of  all  the  facts  in  connection  with such
  examination, including the identity of the person from whom the specimen
  is taken and the name of the physician, if any, sending such specimen.

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