{"id":"DUT-NY-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 21, title 1); powers exercised by local boards of health and health officers","authority":"N.Y. Const. art. XVII, § 3; police power; L. 1953, ch. 879, as amended","instrument":"N.Y. Public Health Law § 2100 (communicable diseases; local boards of health and health officers; powers and duties)","title":"Communicable diseases; local boards of health and health officers; powers and duties","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE"],"addressees":["persons generally (\u0027all persons and things infected with or exposed to\u0027); owners or persons in control of premises, places and things"],"clause":"1. Every local board of health and every health officer shall guard against the introduction of such communicable diseases as are designated in the sanitary code, by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things infected with or exposed to such diseases. 2. Every local board of health and every health officer may: (a) provide for care and isolation of cases... (b)... prohibit and prevent all intercourse and communication with or use of infected premises, places and things","enforcement":"§ 12-b(1): wilful refusal to comply with a lawful order of a local board of health or health officer is a misdemeanor (Ex. DUT-NY-002); § 12: civil penalty up to $2,000 per violation (Ex. DUT-NY-001)","functions":[],"notes":"Every local health authority to control \u0027all persons and things infected with or exposed to\u0027 a designated communicable disease and, on that authority, to isolate cases and to bar the use of \u0027infected premises, places and things\u0027 until \u0027thorough purification and cleansing\u0027 is complete; every owner or person in control of such premises to submit to that control, on pain of § 12-b(1) (misdemeanor for wilful refusal to comply with a local health order) and § 12.","sourceUrl":"https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._public_health_law_section_2100","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":187694,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-NY","url":"/library/DUT-NY-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-NY-007","citation":"New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 21, title 1); powers exercised by local boards of health and health officers, N.Y. Public Health Law § 2100 (communicable diseases; local boards of health and health officers; powers and duties) (standing) (Ex. DUT-NY-007)","stateName":"New York","related":["DUT-NY-002","DUT-NY-001"]}