Public Health Law article 2, title 3, § 242 · Title 3. State Health Areas
District health officers; powers and duties
Text — Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
* § 242. District health officers; powers and duties. 1. Each state district health officer, under the direction of the commissioner and subject to the provisions of this chapter and the sanitary code, shall act under the immediate supervision of the regional health director of the regional health area in which his district is located, as the representative of the commissioner in all matters affecting public health within his district, and shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be assigned to him.
2. Each state district health officer shall act as the representative of the commissioner, and under his direction, in securing the enforcement within his district of the provisions of the public health law and the sanitary code.
* NB There are 2 § 242's
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- Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/PBH242
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- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
- The Senate's note "There are 2 § 242's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.
- The law prints more than one section numbered 242 under different headings; this one is cited with its heading.
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