New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Chapter VI - Food Control
Subchapter B - Slaughterhouses, Refrigerated Warehouses and Locker Plants (Article 5-A Agriculture and Markets Law)
Part 245 - Slaughterhouses
Section 245.7 - Employment of persons with disease

No person affected with tuberculosis or other communicable disease in a transmittable stage shall be employed in any department where any product is handled or prepared. The commissioner, when he has reasonable grounds to believe such action necessary, may require a medical examination of any person handling edible products and a certificate of a duly licensed physician showing the absence of such disease as a condition precedent to such continued employment.