New York Laws
Article 2 - Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
24-A - Actions Against Persons Rendering Health Care Services at the Request of the Department; Defense and Indemnification.

§ 24-a. Actions against persons rendering health care services at the
request of the department; defense and indemnification. The provisions
of section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any
person holding a license to practice a profession pursuant to article
one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred
thirty-two, one hundred thirty-three, one hundred thirty-six, one
hundred thirty-seven, one hundred thirty-nine, one hundred forty-one,
one hundred forty-three, one hundred fifty-six or one hundred fifty-nine
of the education law, who is rendering or has rendered professional
services authorized under such license while acting at the request of
the department or a facility of the department in providing health care
and treatment or professional consultation to incarcerated individuals
of state correctional facilities, or to the infant children of
incarcerated individuals while such infants are cared for in facility
nurseries pursuant to section six hundred eleven of this chapter,
without regard to whether such health care and treatment or professional
consultation is provided within or without a correctional facility.

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