Laws of New York (Last Updated: November 21, 2014) |
PBH Public Health |
Article 21. CONTROL OF ACUTE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES |
Title 3. HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS |
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.