N.Y. Public Health Law § 2221: Tuberculosis; records of tuberculous patients; confidential

§ 2221. Tuberculosis; records of tuberculous patients; confidential.

Reports of tuberculous patients made pursuant to law and the sanitary

code and also all records of examinations of such patients shall not be

open to inspection by any person other than the health authorities of

the state and of the local health district, and said health authorities

shall not permit any such report or record to be divulged so as to

disclose the identity of the person to whom it relates, except as may be

authorized in the sanitary code.