2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 5 - Public Institutional Care for Adults › 194 - Powers and Duties of Commissioners of Public Welfare in Relation to Public Homes.

§  194.  Powers  and  duties  of  commissioners  of  public welfare in
  relation to public homes. Commissioners of public welfare shall
1. be responsible for the management of the home and for the  care  of
  its incarcerated individuals,
2.  have  control  of  the  admission  and  discharge  of incarcerated
  individuals of the home,
3. within the limits of  the  appropriations  made  for  the  purpose,
  appoint  qualified  physicians, matrons, nurses, officers and employees,
  and vest in them such powers as he may deem necessary for the management
  of the home,
3-a. have the authority, in the event the home includes  an  infirmary
  for  the  care  of  chronically  sick patients, to enter into contracts,
  subject to the written approval of  the  department,  with  any  medical
  school  or  non-profit  hospital,  organized pursuant to the laws of the
  state of New York, whereby such medical school  or  non-profit  hospital
  shall agree to provide and supervise all or part of the professional and
  related  staff  necessary  for  the  operation  of  the  infirmary.  The
  personnel so provided by such  medical  school  or  non-profit  hospital
  shall not be deemed to be employees of the public welfare district.
4.  purchase  all furniture, implements, food, materials and equipment
  necessary for the upkeep of the home and for the care of  the  needy  in
  the  home,  unless such powers have been vested in some other purchasing
  agency,
5. classify the incarcerated individuals of the home, and provide  the
  type   of   care   best   fitted  to  their  needs  and  carry  out  the
  recommendations of the attending physician in regard to their care,
6. establish rules for the administration of the public home  and  for
  the  conduct and employment of the incarcerated individuals thereof; but
  such rules shall  not  be  valid  unless  approved  in  writing  by  the
  department,
7.   as  far  as  practicable  provide  suitable  employment  for  any
  incarcerated individual whom the attending physician pronounces able  to
  work,   assigning   such  incarcerated  individuals  to  such  labor  in
  connection with the farm and garden, or  the  care  and  upkeep  of  the
  buildings  or  other  suitable  tasks  in the public home as they may be
  deemed capable of  performing,  and  providing  occupational  and  other
  diversions  as  may  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the incarcerated
  individuals,
8. when  in  their  individual  judgment  and  discretion  it  appears
  advisable,   for   purposes  of  rehabilitation,  to  provide  incentive
  compensation to an incarcerated individual, in  any  amount  or  amounts
  totalling ten dollars or less per month, for work assigned and performed
  in  or  about  the  public home, farm and garden; but the payment of any
  such reward shall not be deemed, for the purposes of any  law,  to  make
  the incarcerated individual receiving the same an employee of the public
  home or of the county or city maintaining such home,
8-a.  deposit  as  prescribed in section eighty-seven of this chapter,
  any and all moneys received by him or her for the use  of  a  particular
  incarcerated individual or incarcerated individuals of the public home,
9.   when  an  appropriation  is  made  for  the  purpose,  appoint  a
  superintendent of the public home who shall reside thereat and  exercise
  such  of  the powers and carry out such of the duties above mentioned in
  connection  with  the  public  home  as  the  commissioner  may  direct;
  provided,  however,  that  the  legislative  body  of the county or city
  within which a public welfare  district  is  located  may,  if  adequate
  supervisory   personnel   are   on   duty   at  all  times,  permit  the
  superintendent to reside off the premises of the public home,
10. reside at  the  public  home  unless  a  superintendent  has  been
  appointed   as   above  provided;  provided,  however,  that  the  local
  legislative body of the county or city within  which  a  public  welfare
  district  is  located may, if adequate supervisory personnel are on duty
  at  all times, permit the commissioner to reside off the premises of the
  public home.