Section 347.1. Required testing of the respondent in certain proceedings


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  • 1. (a) In any proceeding where  the  respondent  is  found  pursuant  to
      section  345.1  or  346.1  of  this  article, to have committed a felony
      offense enumerated in any section of article one hundred thirty  of  the
      penal  law,  or any subdivision of section 130.20 of such law, for which
      an act of "sexual intercourse", "oral sexual conduct"  or  "anal  sexual
      conduct", as those terms are defined in section 130.00 of the penal law,
      is  required  as  an  essential  element for the commission thereof, the
      court must, upon a request of the  victim,  order  that  the  respondent
      submit  to  human immunodeficiency (HIV) related testing. The testing is
      to be conducted by a state,  county,  or  local  public  health  officer
      designated  by  the order. Test results, which shall not be disclosed to
      the court, shall be communicated to the respondent and the victim  named
      in  the  order in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-seven
      hundred eighty-five-a of the public health law.
        (b) For the purposes of this section,  the  term  "victim"  means  the
      person   with   whom  the  respondent  engaged  in  an  act  of  "sexual
      intercourse", "oral sexual conduct" or "anal sexual conduct",  as  those
      terms are defined in section 130.00 of the penal law, where such conduct
      with  such  victim  was  the  basis  for  the  court's  finding that the
      respondent committed acts constituting  one  or  more  of  the  offenses
      specified in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
        2.  Any request made by the victim pursuant to this section must be in
      writing, filed with the court and provided by the court to the defendant
      and his or her counsel. The request must be filed with the  court  prior
      to  or  within  ten days after the filing of an order in accordance with
      section 345.1 or 346.1 of this article, provided that,  for  good  cause
      shown,  the  court may permit such request to be filed at any time prior
      to the entry of an order of disposition.
        3. Any requests, related papers and orders made or filed  pursuant  to
      this  section,  together with any papers or proceedings related thereto,
      shall be sealed by the court and not made  available  for  any  purpose,
      except  as  may  be  necessary  for  the conduct of judicial proceedings
      directly related to the provisions of this section. All  proceedings  on
      such requests shall be held in camera.
        4.  The  application for an order to compel a respondent to undergo an
      HIV related test may be made by the victim but,  if  the  victim  is  an
      infant  or  incompetent  person,  the  application may also be made by a
      representative as defined in section twelve hundred  one  of  the  civil
      practice  law  and  rules.  The  application  must  state  that  (a) the
      applicant was the victim of the offense, enumerated in paragraph (a)  of
      subdivision  one of this section, which the court found the defendant to
      have committed; and (b) the applicant has been offered counseling  by  a
      public  health  officer  and  been advised of (i) the limitations on the
      information to be obtained through an HIV test on the proposed  subject;
      (ii)  current  scientific assessments of the risk of transmission of HIV
      from the exposure he or she may have experienced; and (iii) the need for
      the applicant to undergo HIV related testing to  definitively  determine
      his or her HIV status.
        5. The court shall conduct a hearing only if necessary to determine if
      the  applicant  is the victim of the offense the respondent was found to
      have committed. The court ordered test must be performed within  fifteen
      days  of  the date on which the court ordered the test, provided however
      that whenever the respondent is not tested within the period  prescribed
      by  the court, the court must again order that the respondent undergo an
      HIV related test.
    
        6. (a) Test results  shall  be  disclosed  subject  to  the  following
      limitations,  which  shall  be specified in any order issued pursuant to
      this section:
        (i)  disclosure  of  confidential  HIV  related  information  shall be
      limited to that information which is necessary to  fulfill  the  purpose
      for which the order is granted;
        (ii)  disclosure  of  confidential  HIV  related  information shall be
      limited to the person making  the  application;  redisclosure  shall  be
      permitted  only  to the victim, the victim's immediate family, guardian,
      physicians, attorneys, medical or mental health providers and to his  or
      her  past  and future contacts to whom there was or is a reasonable risk
      of HIV transmission and shall not be permitted to any  other  person  or
      the court.
        (b)  Unless  inconsistent  with  this section, the court's order shall
      direct  compliance  with  and  conform  to  the  provisions  of  article
      twenty-seven-F  of  the  public  health  law.  Such  order shall include
      measures to protect against disclosure to others of the identity and HIV
      status of the applicant and of the person tested and  may  include  such
      other  measures  as  the  court  deems necessary to protect confidential
      information.
        7. Any failure to comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  or
      section  twenty-seven  hundred  eighty-five-a  of  the public health law
      shall not impair the validity of any order of disposition entered by the
      court.
        8. No information obtained as a result of a consent, hearing or  court
      order  for  testing  issued pursuant to this section nor any information
      derived therefrom may be used as  evidence  in  any  criminal  or  civil
      proceeding  against the respondent which relates to events that were the
      basis for the respondent's conviction,  provided  however  that  nothing
      herein  shall  prevent  prosecution of a witness testifying in any court
      hearing held pursuant to this section for perjury  pursuant  to  article
      two hundred ten of the penal law.