N.Y. Public Health Law § 329: Local health officer; immunity from personal liability

§ 329. Local health officer; immunity from personal liability. 1. No

health officer, inspector, investigator, public health nurse, or other

representative of a health officer, and no person or persons other than

the county, city, village or town by which such health officer or

representative thereof is employed shall be sued or held to liability

for any act done or omitted by any such health officer or representative

of a health officer in good faith and with ordinary discretion on behalf

or under the direction of such county, city, village or town pursuant to

its regulations or ordinances, or the sanitary code, or this chapter.

2. Any person whose property may have been unjustly or illegally

destroyed or injured pursuant to any order, regulation or ordinance, or

action of any board of health or health officer, or representative of a

health officer, for which no personal liability may exist as aforesaid,

may maintain a proper action against the county, city, village or town

for the recovery of proper compensation or damages. Every such suit must

be brought within six months after the cause of action arose and the

recovery shall be limited to the damages suffered.