If a pathologist, coroner, medical examiner, or other person determines from examination of a corpse or from history of the events leading to death that at the time of death this individual apparently was affected with a communicable disease, he/she shall report the case within 24 hours to the proper health authority according to the manner indicated in section 2.10 of this Part as if the diagnosis had been established prior to death.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 2.11