New York Laws
Title 1 - General Provisions: State Laboratories; Approved Laboratories
502 - Environmental Laboratories; Examinations; Certificates of Approval.

(a) a basic amount of five hundred dollars to be charged to each
laboratory;
(b) the balance of the program cost from:
(1) an additional amount to be charged to each laboratory proportional
to total adjusted volume of analytes performed by the laboratory in the
preceding year as defined in regulations of the department, the total
amount collected from which shall equal fifty percent of the balance of
the program costs;
(2) an additional amount to be charged to each laboratory proportional
to the number of analytes for which such laboratory maintains its
certification.
Subparagraph one of paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall not apply
to government laboratories.

7. For those categories, procedures or specialities as specified in
subdivision three for which the commissioner has issued certificates of
approval, the commissioner shall within thirty days of receipt of an
application for a certificate from a laboratory existing on or before
April first, nineteen hundred ninety-three, which is initially required
to obtain certification, review such application and issue an interim
certificate of approval in the particular category, procedure or
speciality to all laboratories which provide adequate documentation in
their application that they are capable of performing quality work in
the category, procedure or speciality under review. An interim
certificate of approval in specified categories will remain valid until
such time as the commissioner shall reach a determination on the
application.
8. The commissioner may adopt and amend rules and regulations to
effectuate the provisions and purposes of this title.
9. A person who intentionally violates or refuses or omits to comply
with subdivision two of this section, or any regulation adopted pursuant
thereto, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction, by
imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than
one thousand dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment. A second or
subsequent conviction shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more
than one year or a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred
dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment.
10. The department may require an environmental laboratory to report
laboratory test results to the department, or to any other health
department in an electronic manner prescribed by the department.