Section 2130. AIDS and HIV infection; duty to report  


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  • 1. Every physician or
      other person authorized by law to  order  diagnostic  tests  or  make  a
      medical  diagnosis,  or  any  laboratory  performing  such  tests  shall
      immediately (a) upon initial determination that  a  person  is  infected
      with  human  immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or (b) upon initial diagnosis
      that a person is afflicted with the disease  known  as  acquired  immune
      deficiency  syndrome (AIDS), or (c) upon initial diagnosis that a person
      is  afflicted  with  HIV  related  illness,  report  such  case  to  the
      commissioner.
        2.  The  commissioner shall promptly forward such report to the health
      commissioner  of  the  municipality  where  such  disease,  illness   or
      infection  occurred.    When cases of such disease, illness or infection
      occur in a municipality not having a health commissioner,  such  reports
      shall be forwarded directly to the district health officer.
        3.  Such  report shall contain such information concerning the case as
      shall be  required  by  the  commissioner.  Such  report  shall  include
      information  identifying  the protected individual as well as the names,
      if available, of any contacts of the protected individual, as defined in
      subdivision ten of section twenty-seven hundred eighty of this  chapter,
      known  to  the  physician  or  provided to the physician by the infected
      person.