Int. No. 647
By Council Members Avella, Brewer, Felder, Fidler, Gentile, Gerson, Gonzalez, James, Koppell, Liu, Recchia Jr., Sears, Vacca, Weprin and Mitchell.
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to make nurses available to public and private high schools.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph c of section 17-187 of chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
c. Intermediate and High Schools. The department shall provide at least one nurse, provided that a nurse has not been provided pursuant to subdivision b of this section, or public health advisor or school health service aide, as appropriate, at each public and private intermediate and high school which i) had at least two hundred students enrolled on the last day of the second month of the preceding school year; ii) submits a written request to the department that such nurse or public health advisor or school health service aide be provided; and iii) maintains pursuant to any rules promulgated by the commissioner, an appropriate medical room wherein such nurse or public health advisor or school health service aide can carry out his or her duties.
§2. This local law shall take effect one hundred eighty days after its enactment.
AS
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5/21/07