NY Public Health Legal Manual

Index

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• II. Applicable Law
• A. New York Public Health Law
• B. State Sanitary Code
• C. Laws of the City of New York
• D. Local Ordinances
• III. Jurisdiction Over Public Health Issues
• A. Local Health Officers
• 1. Identity
• 2. Responsibilities
• B. State Commissioner of Health
• C. Federal Government
• IV. Isolation and quarantine
• A. Definitions
• 1. State Sanitary Code
• a. Isolation
• b. Quarantine
• 2. New York City Health Code
• a. Isolation
• b. Quarantine
• B. Communicable Diseases Covered
• C. Identification and Reporting of Communicable Diseases
• 1. Physician
• 2. Laboratory
• 3. Local Health Officer
• 4. State Health Commissioner
• D. Authority to Isolate
• 1. Physician
• 2. Local Health Officer
• 3. NYS Commissioner of Health
• E. Authority to Quarantine
• 1. Local Health Officer
• 2. NYS Commissioner of Health
• F. Voluntary Isolation and Quarantine
• G. Involuntary Isolation and Constitutional Standards
• 1. Substantive Due Process
• 2. Procedural Due Process
• H. Involuntary Isolation and Quarantine: Issuance of Health Order by NYS Health Commissioner or Local Health Officer
• 1. Authority
• 2. Standard for Health Order
• 3. Contents of Health Order
• 4. Duration of Health Order
• 5. Enforcement of Health Order
• a. Civil Enforcement
• b. Criminal Enforcement
• I. Involuntary Isolation and Quarantine: Issuance of Court Order
• 1. Authority
• a. Public Health Law
• b. New York City Health Code
• c. Habeas Corpus
• d. Article 78 Review
• 2. Standard of Review
• 3. Right to Counsel
• 4. Subsequent Judicial Retention Orders
• 5. Costs of Isolation and Quarantine
• J. Provisions Covering Isolation and Quarantine for Specific Diseases
• 1. Tuberculosis
• 2. Typhoid
• 3. Diphtheria
• V. Mandatory Examination and Treatment
• A. Authority
• 1. Examination
• 2. Treatment
• B. Constitutional Restraints: Examinations
• C. Constitutional Restraints: Treatment
• VI. Inspections and Seizures of Property
• A. Authority
• 1. Public Health Law [Communicable Disease]
• 2. State Sanitary Code [Communicable Disease]
• 3. New York City [Communicable Disease]
• 4. Public Health Law [Nuisance]
• 5. New York City [Nuisance]
• 6. Eminent Domain; Public Health Law
• B. Constitutional Restraints
• 1. Fourth Amendment: Searches and Seizures
• 2. Fourteenth Amendment: Procedural Due Process
• 3. Fifth Amendment; State Constitution, Article I, Section 7(a): Just Compensation for Seized Property
• VII. Control of Domestic Animals With Diseases Affecting Humans
• A. Agriculture and Markets Law [AML]
• 1. Searches and Seizures
• 2. Vaccination
• 3. Quarantine
• 4. Destruction of Animals Exposed to Disease
• B. New York City Health Code
• 1. Reports
• 2. Investigation
• 3. Seizure and Isolation
• 4. Destruction
• VIII. Emergency Responses to Disasters
• A. Authority
• 1. Executive Law [Exec. Law]
• a. Role of Localities
• (i) Local Disaster Emergency Plans
• (ii) Local Responses to Disasters
• (iii) Local Use of Disaster Emergency Response Personnel
• (iv) Local States of Emergency and Suspension of Local Laws
• b. Role of the State
• (i) State Disaster Preparedness Plans
• (ii) State Declaration of Disaster Emergency