N.Y. Public Health Law § 2305: Sexually transmitted diseases; treatment by licensed physician or staff physician of a hospital; prescriptions

§ 2305. Sexually transmitted diseases; treatment by licensed physician

or staff physician of a hospital; prescriptions. 1. No person, other

than a licensed physician, or, in a hospital, a staff physician, shall

diagnose, treat or prescribe for a person who is infected with a

sexually transmitted disease, or who has been exposed to infection with

a sexually transmitted disease, or dispense or sell a drug, medicine or

remedy for the treatment of such person except on prescription of a duly

licensed physician.

2. A licensed physician, or in a hospital, a staff physician, may

diagnose, treat or prescribe for a person under the age of twenty-one

years without the consent or knowledge of the parents or guardian of

said person, where such person is infected with a sexually transmitted

disease, or has been exposed to infection with a sexually transmitted

disease.

3. For the purposes of this section, the term "hospital" shall mean a

hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter.