New York Laws
Title 1 - General Provisions
2205 - Tuberculosis; Removal of Patients to This State; Reciprocity Agreements.

§ 2205. Tuberculosis; removal of patients to this state; reciprocity
agreements. 1. The commissioner may make reciprocal agreements with
state officials or agencies of other states regarding interstate
transportation of state charges without state residence and to arrange
for the acceptance and tuberculosis hospital care and treatment of
persons receiving similar public care and treatment in other states in
accordance with the terms of such reciprocal agreements, but this state
shall not, nor shall any county or city be committed to such care and
treatment of persons who are not, in the opinion of the commissioner,
entitled to such public care and treatment by the laws of this state.

2. No agreement made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall
become effective until the attorney general has approved its form and
sufficiency.

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