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.
                                                                  LBD09050-04-2
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