§ 2130. AIDS and HIV infection; duty to report. 1. Every physician or\nother person authorized by law to order diagnostic tests or make a\nmedical diagnosis, or any laboratory performing such tests shall\nimmediately (a) upon determination that a person is infected with human\nimmunodeficiency virus (HIV), (b) upon diagnosis that a person is\nafflicted with the disease known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome\n(AIDS), (c) upon diagnosis that a person is afflicted with HIV related\nillness, and (d) upon periodic monitoring of HIV infection by any\nlaboratory tests report such case or data to the commissioner.\n 2. The commissioner shall promptly forward such report to the health\ncommissioner of the municipality where such disease, illness or\ninfection occurred. When cases of such disease, illness or infection\noccur in a municipality not having a health commissioner, such reports\nshall be forwarded directly to the district health officer.\n 3. Such report shall contain such information concerning the case as\nshall be required by the commissioner. Such report shall include\ninformation identifying the protected individual as well as the names,\nif available, of any contacts of the protected individual, as defined in\nsubdivision ten of section twenty-seven hundred eighty of this chapter,\nknown to the physician or provided to the physician by the infected\nperson.\n
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