N.Y. Public Health Law § 621: State aid; public health emergencies

§ 621. State aid; public health emergencies. If the state commissioner

or a county health department or part-county department of health or

municipality, with the approval of the state commissioner, determines

that there is an imminent threat to public health, the department shall

reimburse counties or municipalities at fifty per centum for the cost of

emergency measures as approved by the department and subject to the

approval of the director of the budget, except that aerial spraying for

mosquitoes on state land shall be reimbursed at one hundred per centum,

within amounts appropriated. Such funds shall be made available from

funds appropriated for public health emergencies, only to those counties

or municipalities, which have expended all other state aid which may be

available for related activities and have developed measures to

adequately address the emergency. Reimbursement is conditioned upon

availability of appropriated funds. For purposes of this section,

"municipality" means a health department of a city that is not located

in a county or part-county health district or a county in which the

legislature has the powers and duties of a board of health of a county

or part-county health district and cities with a population of over one

million persons.