Bill Text: NY S07358 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the county health commissioner to notify certain individuals in the event of an emergency creating an imminent risk to public health and safety.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-22 - PRINT NUMBER 7358A [S07358 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S07358-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7358--A
I N S E N A T E
May 2, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. McDONALD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to notifying local
officials of the occurrence of certain emergency situations
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 352 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF AN EMERGENCY WHERE AN IMMINENT IMPERILMENT
4 TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY EXISTS, IN ADDITION TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS
5 HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE NOTIFIED, THE COUNTY HEALTH COMMISSIONER
6 SHALL IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS OF THE EXISTENCE OF
7 SUCH EMERGENCY:
8 (A) THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EACH MUNICIPALITY AFFECTED BY THE
9 EMERGENCY; AND
10 (B) EACH MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE
11 EMERGENCY EXISTS WHO REPRESENTS THE AREA AFFECTED BY THE EMERGENCY.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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