N.Y. Public Health Law 2584 – Children with physical disabilities; transportation
§ 2584. Children with physical disabilities; transportation. 1. The department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the appropriations made therefor, such transportation for such children with physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner is needed to such places wherein the medical services outlined in section two thousand five hundred eighty-one of this chapter are administered or provided to such children.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 2584
- Children with physical disabilities: means any persons under twenty-one years of age who are disabled by reason of a defect or disability, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, or who are suffering from long-term disease, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, chronic granulomatous, cystic fibrosis, epidermolysis bullosa, muscular dystrophy, nephrosis, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, blood dyscrasies, cancer, lymphatic diseases, including, but not limited to: insufficiency of lymphatic circulatory function (to include all forms of lymphedema, both primary and secondary); lipedema; complex vascular diseases of the lymphatic vasculature, including lymphangiomatosis, lymphangioleio-myomatosis, lymphangiectasias, lymphangiomas, cystic hygromas, Gorham's disease, lymphangiosarcoma, and complex vascular/lymphatic malformations and syndromes, brain injured, and chronic asthma, or from any disease or condition likely to result in a disability in the absence of treatment, provided, however, no child shall be deprived of a service under the provisions of this chapter solely because of the degree of developmental disability. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2581
- Medical service: means such diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative care by medical and paramedical personnel, including hospital and related care, and drugs, prostheses, appliances, equipment and devices as necessary. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2581
2. When the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health district or the medical director of the program for children with physical disabilities, or the department of health of the city of New York, in pursuance of section two thousand five hundred eighty-two of this chapter, shall issue an authorization for medical service for any child with physical disabilities, including among the expenses thereof transportation necessary to obtain such services, the commissioner, if he approves such order, shall issue a certificate to such effect, copies of which shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors or other governing elective body of the county or chief fiscal officer of the city of New York and one in the office of the commissioner.