§ 225. Public health and health planning council; powers and duties;\nsanitary code. 1. The public health and health planning council shall,\nat the request of the commissioner, consider any matter relating to the\npreservation and improvement of public health, and may advise the\ncommissioner thereon; and it may, from time to time, submit to the\ncommissioner, any recommendations relating to the preservation and\nimprovement of public health.\n 2. The public health and health planning council shall appoint one or\nmore advisory committees expert in the major areas of public health\nconcern, including but not limited to health education, health manpower,\neconomics and delivery of health service, sanitation problems and\ninterprofessional relationships. Members of advisory committees need not\nbe members of the public health and health planning council.\n 3. The public health and health planning council shall have no\nexecutive, administrative or appointive duties except as otherwise\nprovided by law.\n 4. The public health and health planning council shall have power by\nthe affirmative vote of a majority of its members to establish, and from\ntime to time, amend and repeal sanitary regulations, to be known as the\nsanitary code of the state of New York, subject to approval by the\ncommissioner.\n 5. The sanitary code may:\n (a) deal with any matters affecting the security of life or health or\nthe preservation and improvement of public health in the state of New\nYork, and with any matters as to which the jurisdiction is conferred\nupon the public health and health planning council;\n (b) prescribe the qualifications of public health personnel of the\ndepartment, directors of divisions, regional health directors, state\ndistrict health officers, local health officers; county and city health\ncommissioners, deputy and assistant county or city health commissioners;\npublic health administrators; county health directors and deputy and\nassistant county health directors; directors of county physically\nhandicapped children's programs; directors of medical care (local\nassistance programs); public health nurses; public health physical\ntherapists; public health educators; nurse-midwives; medical social\nworkers; public health social workers; radiation safety officers;\nsanitary and public health engineers, sanitarians, sanitary inspectors;\npublic health veterinarians; operators of public water treatment and\npurification plants; and the qualifications of persons not paid from\npublic funds and who are appointed and employed after January first,\nnineteen hundred forty-seven, as operators of water treatment or\npurification plants owned or operated by water companies, corporations\nor by a person or group of persons serving the general public residing\nin a political subdivision or any part thereof;\n (c) establish regulations for the promotion of health in any or all\nIndian reservations;\n (e) establish regulations for the maintenance of hospitals for\ncommunicable diseases;\n (f) prescribe standards of efficiency for such laboratories as are\nunder contract with the commissioner for the examination of specimens\nreceived from local health officers or physicians for routine\nexaminations and analyses;\n (g) set forth the diseases for which specimens shall be submitted for\nexamination to a laboratory approved by the department.\n (h) designate the communicable diseases which are dangerous to the\npublic health;\n (i) set forth the nature of the information required to be furnished\nby every physician in his notice to the department of each case of\ncommunicable disease.\n (j) establish regulations in respect to contact or communication with\nor use of infected premises, places or things and prescribe the method\nor methods for the purification and cleansing of the same before general\nintercourse with the said premises, places or things, or use thereof is\nallowed;\n (k) establish regulations defining the methods
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