Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 21 > Title 8 - Novel Coronavirus, Covid-19

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bridge: means a structure including supports erected over a depression or an obstruction such as water, highway, or railway, having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads and having an opening measured along the center of the track or roadway of more than twenty feet between under croppings of abutments or spring lines or arches, or extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes and may include multiple pipes where the clear distance between openings is less than half of the smaller contiguous opening. See N.Y. Highway Law 230
• Case individual: means an individual with a confirmed or probable diagnosis of COVID-19. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Contact individual: means an individual who has or may have come in contact with a case individual or who has or may have been exposed to and possibly infected with COVID-19. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Contact tracing: means COVID-19 case investigation and identification of case individuals and contact individuals. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• contact tracing entity: means an individual or entity employed by or under contract with the state, a local government, a state or local governmental entity, or an agent thereof, to conduct contact tracing, engage in contact tracing, or receive contact tracing information. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Contact tracing information: means any information that includes or can reveal the identity of any case individual or contact individual, and any COVID-19-related information or test results, received or collected for the purpose or in the course of contact tracing. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Covered entity: means a governmental entity or a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, as defined in § 292 of the executive law. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• De-identified: means , in relation to contact tracing information, that the information cannot identify or be made to identify or be associated with a particular individual, directly or indirectly and is subject to technical safeguards and policies and procedures that prevent re-identification, whether intentionally or unintentionally, of any individual. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Immigration authority: means any entity, officer, employee, or government employee or agent thereof charged with or engaged in enforcement of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, including the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Department of Homeland Security, or United States Customs and Border Protection, or agent, contractor or employee thereof, or any successor legislation or entity. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Law enforcement agent or entity: means any governmental entity or public servant, or agent, contractor or employee thereof, authorized to investigate, prosecute, or make an arrest for a criminal or civil offense (except a designated civil offense), or engaged in any such activity, but shall not mean the department, the commissioner, a health district, a county department of health, a county health commissioner, a local board of health, a local health officer, the department of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York, or the commissioner of the department of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Permitted purpose: means :
  
  (a) disclosure to appropriate health care providers or their personnel for the purpose of the clinical diagnosis, care or treatment of the case individual or contact individual who is the subject of the information, where an emergency exists and the individual is in immediate need of medical attention and an attempt to secure consent would result in delay of treatment which would increase the risk to the individual's life or health;
  
  (b) facilitating a legally-authorized public health-related action, where and only to the extent necessary to protect the public health in relation to COVID-19; or
  
  (c) use or disclosure of contact tracing information to pursue a legal action in relation to a violation of this title; provided that disclosure shall be subject to in camera review and approval by the court, and, if the use is initiated by a party other than the case individual or contact individual who is the subject of the contact tracing information, the information must be highly material and relevant for the purpose. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Support: means resources or services provided to an individual to enable such individual to safely quarantine or isolate, including grocery, meal or pharmacy delivery, laundry services, child or elder care, pet walking, assistance with telephone, internet, or other communication services or devices, health and mental health services, legal services, provision of appropriate living space for individuals who cannot isolate or quarantine at home, and income replacement. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2180