N.Y. PBH Law § 1399-J
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§ 1399-j. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Motel or hotel" shall mean establishments distinguished as hotels,\nmotels, bungalow colonies, or any other establishment comparable or\nequivalent to any of those previously mentioned. The term shall not\ninclude those places or facilities not having the general\ncharacteristics of a motel or hotel as that term is generally understood\nand the State Commissioner of Health shall have the power to except from\nthis article and the Sanitary Code a place or facility that is not\nwithin the intent of this definition of a motel or hotel.\n 2. "Officer" shall mean the health commissioner of a city of fifty\nthousand population and over or of a county or part-county health\ndistrict, or the state district health officer, in whose jurisdiction a\nhotel or motel is located or any county health director having all the\npowers and duties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two of this\nchapter.\n
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