New York Public Health Law Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS: STATE LABORATORIES; APPROVED LABORATORIES

• 500 - Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research; Establishment.
  1. The commissioner shall establish and maintain one or more laboratories with such expert assistants and such facilities as are necessary for routine examinations and...
• 501 - State Laboratories; Approved Laboratories; Powers and Duties of Commissioner.
  1. The commissioner shall have authority: (a) to make, at the expense of the state, examinations and analyses, at the request of any health officer...
• 502 - Environmental Laboratories; Examinations; Certificates of Approval.
  1. For the purposes of this section, "environmental laboratory" is any facility that examines or is available for the examination of samples or specimens including,...
• 503 - Laboratories; State Hospitals; Service to Counties and Municipalities.
  1. The director of any hospital in the department, with the approval of the commissioner, may enter into a contract with proper municipal or county...
• 504 - Laboratories; Scientific Tests on Living Animals; Rules; Approval.
  1. The commissioner is authorized to designate approved laboratories or institutions wherein properly conducted scientific tests, experiments or investigations, involving the use of living animals,...
• 505 - Animal Irritancy Tests Prohibited.
  1. No manufacturer or contract testing facilities shall conduct traditional animal test methods within this state for which an appropriate alternative test method has been...
• 505-a - Purchase of Certain Animals for Scientific Tests.
  It shall be unlawful for any laboratory or institution approved under this article, to purchase any dog or cat for experimental purposes unless the seller...
• 506 - Unlawful Interference With Research Laboratory Operations.
  An agency as defined in subdivision three of section eighty-six of the public officers law may deny access to records or portions thereof concerning biomedical...

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