N.Y. Public Health Law § 2305 : Care And Treatment — Public Health — Control Of Sexually Transmissible Diseases — Sexually transmitted diseases; treatment by licensed physician or staff physician of a hospital; prescriptions Date: 25 Jul 2016 TEXT PDF Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237 1. No person, other than a licensed physician, or, in a hospital, a staff physician, shall diagnose, treat or prescribe for a person who is infected with a sexually transmitted disease, or who has been exposed to infection with a sexually transmitted disease, or dispense or sell a drug, medicine or remedy for the treatment of such person except on prescription of a duly licensed physician. 2. A licensed physician, or in a hospital, a staff physician, may diagnose, treat or prescribe for a person under the age of twenty-one years without the consent or knowledge of the parents or guardian of said person, where such person is infected with a sexually transmitted disease, or has been exposed to infection with a sexually transmitted disease. 3. For the purposes of this section, the term "hospital" shall mean a hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter. N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2305 Amended by New York Laws 2013, ch. 56,Sec. E-35, eff. 3/28/2013.