N.Y. Public Health Law § 2130: AIDS and HIV infection; duty to report

§ 2130. AIDS and HIV infection; duty to report. 1. Every physician or

other person authorized by law to order diagnostic tests or make a

medical diagnosis, or any laboratory performing such tests shall

immediately (a) upon determination that a person is infected with human

immunodeficiency virus (HIV), (b) upon diagnosis that a person is

afflicted with the disease known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome

(AIDS), (c) upon diagnosis that a person is afflicted with HIV related

illness, and (d) upon periodic monitoring of HIV infection by any

laboratory tests report such case or data to the commissioner.

2. The commissioner shall promptly forward such report to the health

commissioner of the municipality where such disease, illness or

infection occurred. When cases of such disease, illness or infection

occur in a municipality not having a health commissioner, such reports

shall be forwarded directly to the district health officer.

3. Such report shall contain such information concerning the case as

shall be required by the commissioner. Such report shall include

information identifying the protected individual as well as the names,

if available, of any contacts of the protected individual, as defined in

subdivision ten of section twenty-seven hundred eighty of this chapter,

known to the physician or provided to the physician by the infected

person.