N.Y. Correction Law § 24-a: Actions against persons rendering health care services at the request of the department; defense and indemnification

§ 24-a. Actions against persons rendering health care services at the

request of the department; defense and indemnification. The provisions

of section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any

person holding a license to practice a profession pursuant to article

one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred

thirty-two, one hundred thirty-three, one hundred thirty-six, one

hundred thirty-seven, one hundred thirty-nine, one hundred forty-one,

one hundred forty-three, one hundred fifty-six or one hundred fifty-nine

of the education law, who is rendering or has rendered professional

services authorized under such license while acting at the request of

the department or a facility of the department in providing health care

and treatment or professional consultation to incarcerated individuals

of state correctional facilities, or to the infant children of

incarcerated individuals while such infants are cared for in facility

nurseries pursuant to section six hundred eleven of this chapter,

without regard to whether such health care and treatment or professional

consultation is provided within or without a correctional facility.