State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Pbh > Article-23 > Title-1 > 2301§ 2301. Venereal disease; proceedings to compel examination or isolation; confidential records. 1. Upon the refusal of any person suspected of being infected with any venereal disease to submit to the required examination or to permit specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken for laboratory examination, or to comply with the restrictions imposed by isolation, pursuant to section two thousand three hundred of this chapter, the health officer may apply to a justice of the supreme court or, if the suspected person resides or is sojourning (a) in a county outside of the city of New York, to the county judge of such county, or (b) in a city having a population of fifty thousand or more, outside of the city of New York, to the city judge or acting city judge of such city, or (c) in the city of New York, to a city magistrate of such city, for an order compelling compliance. 2. The justice, judge or magistrate to whom application for such an order is made, may, upon good cause shown, require such suspected person to appear before him at chambers forthwith, or upon such notice as he shall direct, to show cause why the order should not be granted, and if after the hearing the justice, judge or magistrate shall determine that the suspected person may constitute a source of infection to others, the justice, judge or magistrate may direct by order, that the suspected person shall submit to such examination and permit such specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken for laboratory examination, or shall comply with the restrictions imposed by isolation. 3. All papers pertaining to any proceeding for such an order compelling compliance shall, if placed on file as court records or otherwise, be sealed and withheld from inspection; and no person shall be allowed access thereto except upon an order of a justice of the supreme court or a judge or magistrate of the court wherein the proceeding was had. No order for access and inspection shall be granted except on due notice to the person named therein as the suspected person and on good cause shown.
