New York Public Health Law Section 2150 - Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in institutions.

   2150.   Typhoid   fever;   carriers;   care  and  maintenance,  in
  institutions.  Whenever any person is declared by the commissioner to be
  a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli and whenever, for the  protection  of
  the  public  health,  the  commissioner  certifies  to  the necessity of
  continued isolation; or, whenever, the sanitary code prohibits a carrier
  of typhoid fever bacilli from engaging in  his  usual  occupation,  such
  person   may   be   given  hospital  or  institutional  care  under  the
  surveillance of the local health officer at the expense of the state  if
  the  hospital  or  institution  in  the  judgment of the commissioner is
  properly equipped for the care and maintenance of said person.

Last modified: February 3, 2019