New York Laws
Title 1 - General Provisions
2500 - Maternal and Child Health; Duties of Commissioner.

§ 2500. Maternal and child health; duties of commissioner. 1. The
commissioner shall act in an advisory and supervisory capacity, in
matters pertaining to the safeguarding of motherhood, the prevention of
maternal, perinatal, infant and child mortality, the prevention of
diseases, low birth weight, childhood obesity, and defects of childhood
and the promotion of maternal, prenatal and child health, including care
in hospitals, and shall administer such services bearing on the health
of mothers and children for which funds are or shall hereafter be made
available.

2. The commissioner shall establish minimum standards in accordance
with established and accepted medical principles for local maternal and
child health services administered by or under the general supervision
of the commissioner.

3. In conjunction with the state department having general
supervision, the commissioner may make or may cause to be made
investigation of the conditions affecting the health of children in
institutions for day care or domiciliary care. If he shall find any
conditions detrimental to health in such institutions, he shall make and
report recommendations thereon to the appropriate state department.

4. The commissioner shall cooperate with other state departments
having jurisdiction over matters affecting the health of mothers and
children, to the end that existing activities may be coordinated and
duplication of effort avoided. He shall cooperate with and stimulate
local agencies, public and private, in promoting such measures and
undertakings as may be designed to accomplish the purposes of this
section.