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New York Public Health Law Section 2 - Definitions

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    § 2. Definitions.  1. Whenever used in this chapter, unless otherwise
  expressly stated or unless the context  or  subject  matter  requires  a
  different  meaning,  the  following  terms  shall  have  the  respective
  meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
    (a) Department. The term "department" means department  of  health  of
  the state of New York.
    (b) Commissioner. The term "commissioner" means commissioner of health
  of the state of New York.
    (c)  Health district. The term "health district" means a county health
  district,  part-county  health  district,   city,   town,   village   or
  consolidated health district having a separate board of health.
    (d)  County health district. The term "county health district" means a
  health district comprising the entire  county  heretofore  or  hereafter
  established.
    (e)   Part-county   health  district.  The  term  "part-county  health
  district" means all that part of a county outside of a  city  or  cities
  having  a  population  of fifty thousand or more heretofore or hereafter
  established as a health district.
    (f) County department  of  health.  The  term  "county  department  of
  health" means that division of the county government having jurisdiction
  over the public health of a county or part-county health district.
    (g)  County health commissioner. The term "county health commissioner"
  means the executive officer of a county department of health.
    (h) Local board of health. The term "local board of health" means  the
  board  of  health  of  a  county,  part-county,  city,  village, town or
  consolidated health district.
    (i) Municipality. The term "municipality" means a city, village,  town
  or consolidated health district.
    (j)  Local  health  officer. The term "local health officer" means the
  health officer of a  county,  part-county,  city,  village,  town  or  a
  consolidated health district.
    (k) Sanitary code. The term "sanitary code" means sanitary code of the
  state of New York.
    (l)  Communicable  disease.  The  term  "communicable  disease"  means
  infectious, contagious or communicable disease.
    (m) State institution in the department. The term  "state  institution
  in  the  department"  means any state hospital or institution subject to
  the jurisdiction, supervision and control of  the  state  department  of
  health, and such other state hospitals and institutions as may hereafter
  be  made  subject  to  the  jurisdiction, supervision and control of the
  state department of health.
    (n) Sexually transmissible disease. The term  "sexually  transmissible
  disease"  shall  mean  a  disease  that  appears on the list of diseases
  promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to section twenty-three hundred
  eleven of this chapter.
    2. Whenever the term "state board of health" occurs or  any  reference
  is  made thereto, in any law, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to the
  department as described in this article.

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