N.Y. Public Health Law Section 506
Unlawful interference with research laboratory operations

An agency as defined in subdivision three of Public Officers Law § 86 (Definitions)section eighty-six of the public officers law may deny access to records or portions thereof concerning biomedical research or biomedical teaching conducted at an institution of higher education authorized by the state education department or at an institution within the state that receives state or federal funding to conduct such biomedical research or such biomedical teaching that, if disclosed, could endanger the life or safety of any person or would be reasonably likely to endanger the security of such biomedical research laboratory.

Source: Section 506 — Unlawful interference with research laboratory operations, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBH/506 (updated Nov. 28, 2014; accessed Sep. 19, 2026).

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