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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
1. Any person having tuberculosis who shall dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion so as to cause offense or danger to any person or persons occupying the same room or apartment, house, or part of a house, shall on complaint of any person or persons subjected to such offense or danger, be deemed guilty of a nuisance and any persons subjected to such a nuisance may make complaint in person or writing to the health officer of the local health district where the nuisance complained of is committed.
2. It shall be the duty of the local health officer receiving such complaint to investigate and if it appears that the nuisance complained of is such as to cause offense or danger to any person occupying the same room, apartment, house or part of a house, he shall serve a notice upon the person so complained of, reciting the alleged cause of offense or danger and requiring him to dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion in such a manner as to remove all reasonable cause of offense or danger.
3. Any person failing or refusing to comply with orders or regulations of the local health officer requiring him to cease to commit such nuisance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than ten dollars.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 2223. Tuberculosis; carelessness of patients; violation and penalty; duty of health officer - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/public-health-law/pbh-sect-2223/
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