State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Pbh > Article-23 > Title-1 > 2300§ 2300. Venereal disease; examination or isolation. 1. Whenever a health officer to whom cases of venereal diseases are required to be reported shall have reasonable ground to believe that any person within his jurisdiction is infected with any venereal disease, such health officer may cause a medical examination to be made for the purpose of ascertaining whether such person is in fact infected with such disease in a stage which is or may become communicable. 2. Every such person shall submit to such examination and permit such specimens of blood or bodily discharges, or both, to be taken for laboratory examination as may be necessary to establish the presence or absence of such disease, or, upon refusal to do so, such person shall be isolated by such health officer. 3. The required examination may be made by the health officer or by a physician selected by him, or, at the option of the person to be examined, by a licensed physician who, in the opinion of such health officer, is qualified to make such medical examinations and is approved by him. 4. Any person so examined may be isolated until the results of such examination are known. 5. The physician making such examination shall report promptly thereon to such health officer, but shall not issue a certificate of freedom from venereal disease to or for the person examined 6. The term "health officer" as used in this article shall mean a county health officer, a county commissioner of health, a city health officer, a town health officer, a village health officer, the health officer of a consolidated health district or a state district health officer.
