2023 New York Laws › NPC - Not-For-Profit Corporation › Article 14 - Special Not-for-Profit Corporations › 1406 - Medical Societies.

§ 1406. Medical societies.
(a) Medical societies heretofore formed.
Any  medical  society now existing in any of the counties of the state
set apart prior to or since the passage of the act entitled "An  act  to
incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice
of  physic  and  surgery  in  this  state," passed April tenth, eighteen
hundred and thirteen, and not heretofore  duly  incorporated  under  the
provisions of said act shall, upon complying with the provisions of this
section  enjoy  the  same  privileges and possess the same powers as the
societies incorporated by virtue of such act now enjoy and possess,  but
subject,  nevertheless,  to  the provisions of any acts or parts of acts
heretofore passed in relation to medical societies or  to  regulate  the
practice of physic and surgery in this state.
(b) Type of corporation.
A medical society is a non-charitable corporation under this chapter.
(c) Certificate of incorporation, additional contents.
In  addition  to  the  requirements of section 402, the certificate of
incorporation of a medical society shall state: (1)  the  name  of  such
society;  (2) the date of its organization; (3) the names and residences
of its members; and (4) that such society, by a  majority  vote  of  its
members,  has  elected  to  become  and be a body corporate under and by
virtue of the Act described in paragraph (a),  and  be  subject  to  the
provisions  of  any  acts or parts of acts heretofore enacted and now in
force, in relation to such societies or  the  practice  of  medicine  or
surgery in this state.
(d) Regulations for county medical societies.
It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  county medical society in this state,
entitled to representation in the medical society of the  state  of  New
York, or in the homeopathic medical society of the state of New York, to
establish  such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of
the state, for the government of its members as such county society  may
deem  fit,  provided  such  action  receives  the  sanction of the state
medical society in which such county  medical  society  is  represented.
Such  county  medical  society may fix the amount of the annual dues and
assessments to be collected from its members.
(e) Enforcement of discipline; appeal.
Every county medical society shall have full power  and  authority  to
enforce  discipline  among  its  members  and obedience to its rules and
regulations and to expel or otherwise discipline its members as  it  may
deem for the best interests of the society. Any member of such a society
who has been disciplined or an applicant for membership therein, who has
been refused membership, feeling aggrieved at the action of the society,
shall  have  the  right to appeal to the medical society of the state of
New York, in which such county medical society is represented.
(f) Power to acquire property.
It shall be lawful  for  any  county  medical  society  heretofore  or
hereafter  incorporated  and for the medical society of the state of New
York and for the homeopathic medical society of the state of New York to
acquire and hold for its corporate purposes real and  personal  property
without  limitation  of  amount or value, notwithstanding any limitation
heretofore existing.