N.Y. Public Health Law § 2101: Communicable diseases; physicians and institutions; duty to report

§ 2101. Communicable diseases; physicians and institutions; duty to

report. 1. Every physician shall immediately give notice of every case

of communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it,

to the health officer of the local health district where such disease

occurs.

2. If there be no physician in attendance on any case of communicable

disease, it shall be the duty of the superintendent or other officer of

an institution, householder, hotel or lodging housekeeper, or other

person where such case occurs, to give the notice of such case of

communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it, to

the health officer of the local health district where such disease

occurs.

3. The sanitary code may provide that when cases of certain

communicable diseases occur (a) in districts of less than fifty thousand

population not having a full-time health officer, or (b) in state

institutions or (c) in tuberculosis hospitals or sanitoria, such cases

shall be reported directly to the department or its district health

officer.

4. Such notice shall contain such information concerning the case as

shall be required by the sanitary code.