§ 602. Core public health services. 1. To be eligible for state aid, a
municipality must provide the following core public health services:

(a) Family health, which shall include activities designed to reduce
perinatal, infant and maternal mortality and morbidity and to promote
the health of infants, children, adolescents, and people of childbearing
age. Such activities shall include family centered perinatal services
and other services appropriate to promote the birth of a healthy baby to
a healthy mother, and services to assure that infants, young children,
and school age children are enrolled in appropriate health insurance
programs and other health benefit programs for which they are eligible,
and that the parents or guardians of such children are provided with
information concerning health care providers in their area that are
willing and able to provide health services to such children. Provision
of primary and preventive clinical health care services shall be
eligible for state aid for uninsured persons under the age of
twenty-one, provided that the municipality makes good faith efforts to
assist such persons with insurance enrollment and only until such time
as enrollment becomes effective. Provision of prenatal clinical health
care services shall be eligible for state aid for uninsured women of any
age, provided that the municipality makes good faith efforts to assist
such women with insurance enrollment and only until such time as
enrollment becomes effective.

(b) Communicable disease control, which shall include activities to
control and mitigate the extent of infectious diseases. Such activities
shall include, but not be limited to, surveillance and epidemiological
programs, programs to detect diseases in their early stages,
immunizations against infectious diseases, investigation of diseases and
prevention of transmission, prevention and treatment of sexually
transmissible diseases, and arthropod vector-borne disease prevention.

(c) Chronic disease prevention, which shall include promoting public,
health care provider and other community service provider activities
that encourage chronic disease prevention, early detection and quality
care delivery. Such activities include, but are not limited to, those
that promote healthy communities and reduce risk factors such as tobacco
use, poor nutrition and physical inactivity. Provision of clinical
services shall not be eligible for state aid, subject to such exceptions
as the commissioner may deem appropriate.

(d) Community health assessment, as described in section six hundred
two-a of this article.

(e) Environmental health, which shall include activities that promote
health and prevent illness and injury by assuring that safe and sanitary
conditions are maintained at public drinking water supplies, food
service establishments, and other regulated facilities; investigating
public health nuisances to assure abatement by responsible parties;
protecting the public from unnecessary exposure to radiation, chemicals,
and other harmful contaminants; and conducting investigations of
incidents that result in illness, injury or death in order to identify
and mitigate the environmental causes to prevent additional morbidity
and mortality.

(f) Public health emergency preparedness and response, including
planning, training, and maintaining readiness for public health
emergencies.

2. The municipality must incorporate into each core public health
service the following general activities:

(a) ongoing assessment of community health needs;

(b) education on public health issues;

(c) development of policies and plans to address health needs; and

(d) actions to assure that services necessary to achieve agreed upon
goals are provided.

3. The commissioner may approve a state aid application in which the
municipality actually provides fewer services than those set forth in
subdivision one of this section as long as the application identifies
the availability of other services, who will provide those services and
the manner in which the services will be provided and financed.

4. The commissioner shall consult with the county health
commissioners, public health directors, and boards of public health when
promulgating rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions and
purposes of this article. The commissioner shall not have the power to
prescribe the number of persons to be employed by any municipality.