{"id":"DUT-NY-004","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 2, title 1); Commissioner of Health","authority":"N.Y. Const. art. XVII, § 3; police power; L. 1953, ch. 879, as amended","instrument":"N.Y. Public Health Law § 206 (Commissioner; general powers and duties)","title":"Commissioner; general powers and duties","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMER"],"addressees":["the Commissioner and Department of Health; through their orders, regulations and guidance, every employer and every owner or person in control of premises"],"clause":"1. The commissioner shall: (a) take cognizance of the interests of health and life of the people of the state, and of all matters pertaining thereto and exercise the functions, powers and duties of the department prescribed by law; (b) exercise general supervision over the work of all local boards of health and health officers... (d) investigate the causes of disease, epidemics, the sources of mortality, and the effect of localities, employments and other conditions, upon the public health.","enforcement":"None in the section itself; the orders, regulations and determinations issued under it are enforced through §§ 12, 12-b, 16 and 229","functions":[],"notes":"The Commissioner to act on epidemics and on \u0027the effect of... employments and other conditions, upon the public health,\u0027 the statutory charge under which the Department of Health issued the COVID-19 guidance that the Governor\u0027s directives made binding on every reopened business and under which the Commissioner issued the 2021 determinations and emergency rules (Exs. NY-071 to NY-075).","sourceUrl":"https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._public_health_law_section_206","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":254327,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-NY","url":"/library/DUT-NY-004","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-NY-004","citation":"New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 2, title 1); Commissioner of Health, N.Y. Public Health Law § 206 (Commissioner; general powers and duties) (standing) (Ex. DUT-NY-004)","stateName":"New York","related":["NY-071","NY-075","NY-073","NY-072"]}