New York Laws
Title 1 - General Provisions
2102 - Communicable Diseases; Laboratory Reports and Records.

§ 2102. Communicable diseases; laboratory reports and records. 1.
Whenever any laboratory examination discloses evidence of communicable
disease, the results of such examination together with all required
pertinent facts, shall be immediately reported by the person in charge
of the laboratory or the person making such examination to the local or
state health official to whom the attending physician is required to
report such case.

2. The person in charge of such laboratory or the person making such
examination shall keep for a period of time to be specified by the
commissioner, a record of all the facts in connection with such
examination, including the identity of the person from whom the specimen
is taken and the name of the physician, if any, sending such specimen.

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