N.Y. Public Health Law § 2150: Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in institutions

§ 2150. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in

institutions. Whenever any person is declared by the commissioner to be

a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli and whenever, for the protection of

the public health, the commissioner certifies to the necessity of

continued isolation; or, whenever, the sanitary code prohibits a carrier

of typhoid fever bacilli from engaging in his usual occupation, such

person may be given hospital or institutional care under the

surveillance of the local health officer at the expense of the state if

the hospital or institution in the judgment of the commissioner is

properly equipped for the care and maintenance of said person.