N.Y. Public Health Law § 1399-j: Definitions

§ 1399-j. Definitions. As used in this article:

1. "Motel or hotel" shall mean establishments distinguished as hotels,

motels, bungalow colonies, or any other establishment comparable or

equivalent to any of those previously mentioned. The term shall not

include those places or facilities not having the general

characteristics of a motel or hotel as that term is generally understood

and the State Commissioner of Health shall have the power to except from

this article and the Sanitary Code a place or facility that is not

within the intent of this definition of a motel or hotel.

2. "Officer" shall mean the health commissioner of a city of fifty

thousand population and over or of a county or part-county health

district, or the state district health officer, in whose jurisdiction a

hotel or motel is located or any county health director having all the

powers and duties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two of this

chapter.