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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 4 - Certain Cities › 377 - Certain Cities; License Fees.

§  377.  Certain  cities;  license fees. No license or permit shall be
  issued to any person or for any purpose subject to the  jurisdiction  or
  control of the commissioner of health or health officer of a city having
  a  population  of less than one hundred seventy-five thousand, except on
  the written approval of the department of health of such  city  and  the
  payment  thereof  of  the fee to be fixed by such commissioner or health
  officer. The amount of such fee to be paid shall be fixed by  a  general
  regulation made by such commissioner or health officer for each class of
  licenses  or  permits issued. Such license or permit shall be issued and
  such license fee shall be received by the  official  designated  in  the
  ordinance creating the department of health.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 5 - State Park Health Districts › 380 - State Park Health District; Establishment.

§ 380. State park health district; establishment. The commissioner may
  in  his discretion, from time to time, create health districts comprised
  exclusively of lands lying within the boundaries  of  a  state  park  by
  filing  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state an order defining
  generally the boundaries of such district or districts.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 5 - State Park Health Districts › 381 - State Park Health District; Board of Health; Membership.

§  381. State park health district; board of health; membership.  Upon
  the making and filing of an  order  by  the  commissioner  creating  and
  establishing  a  state  park  health  district pursuant to section three
  hundred eighty of this chapter,  the  local  board  of  health  of  such
  district shall consist of the park commission, and ex officio, the state
  commissioner of health or his duly authorized representative.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 5 - State Park Health Districts › 382 - State Park Health District; Board of Health; Powers and Duties.

§ 382. State park health district; board of health; powers and duties.
  The  board  of health of a state park health district shall have all the
  powers and duties of local boards of health and shall appoint  a  health
  officer qualified as provided by the sanitary code.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 5 - State Park Health Districts › 383 - State Park Health District; Health Officer; Powers and Duties.

§  383. State park health district; health officer; powers and duties.
  The health officer of a state park health district shall  have  all  the
  powers and duties under the law of the state and the sanitary code which
  local  health  officers  now  have  or hereafter shall have within their
  respective localities.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 390 - Consolidated Health District; Establishment.

§  390. Consolidated health district; establishment. The commissioner,
  on the written request of the town board of any town and  the  board  of
  trustees  of  any village and the common council or other like authority
  of any city, may combine into one health district, hereinafter  referred
  to  as  a  consolidated  health district, any two or more of such towns,
  villages or cities and may on the written request of the town  board  of
  any  town,  board  of trustees of any village or common council or other
  like authority of any city at any time thereafter set apart  such  town,
  village or city as a separate health district.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 391 - Consolidated Health District; Board of Health; Organization.

§ 391. Consolidated health district; board of health; organization. 1.
  In  every  consolidated health district there shall be a board of health
  which shall consist of the supervisor of each town, the president of the
  board of trustees of each village, and the mayor and the supervisors  of
  each  city  included  in  each  district, provided that if the number of
  members so provided for is an even number less than seven, such  members
  shall within thirty days after such district shall have been established
  by  the commissioner choose an additional member of such board of health
  to be known as the elective member, and if  the  number  of  members  so
  provided  for  is  more  than  seven such members shall meet and elect a
  board of health of three members for such consolidated health district.
2. A member of the board, sitting ex-officio and not as one of  a  new
  board  of  three  elected  as  hereinbefore  provided, who is the lawful
  incumbent of more than one of the offices entitling  him  to  membership
  shall have as many votes in the board as there are municipalities of the
  district,  in  which he holds such offices, and in such a case the total
  number of votes on the board shall be regarded as the number of members,
  in applying the  provisions  hereof  relative  to  the  choosing  of  an
  additional member or reducing the membership to a board of three.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 392 - Consolidated Health District; Status of Existing Local Boards of Health.

§  392.  Consolidated health district; status of existing local boards
  of health. 1. When any consolidated health district is  established,  as
  provided in this article, the boards of health of the towns, villages or
  cities  included within such district, shall thereupon cease to exist as
  boards of health, and all their rights, powers, duties  and  obligations
  shall thereupon be transferred to the board of health of such district.
2.  When  the board of health of any such consolidated health district
  shall have appointed a health officer therefor, the terms of  office  of
  the  health  officers  of the towns, villages or cities included in such
  district  shall  cease,  and  all  their  rights,  powers,  duties   and
  obligations  shall  thereupon  be  transferred  to  and imposed upon the
  health officer appointed for such consolidated health district.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 393 - Consolidated Health District; Board of Health; Terms of Office.

§ 393. Consolidated health district; board of health; terms of office.
  1.  Of  the  new  reduced three member board of health of a consolidated
  health district first elected, one member  shall  be  elected  to  serve
  until one year from the first day of January following his election, one
  to  serve two years, and one to serve three years from such first day of
  January, and until his successor has been elected and has qualified.
2.  Prior  to  December  first  each  year  the  village  mayors   and
  supervisors  of  the  municipalities included in the consolidated health
  district shall meet and elect one member of  the  board  of  health  who
  shall  serve  three years from the January first following and until his
  successor has been elected and has qualified.
3. An elective member shall serve for a term of  two  years  from  the
  first  day  of  January  preceding  his election and until his successor
  shall have been appointed, provided that if at any time  the  number  of
  members  of  the  board  of health, excluding the elective member, shall
  become an odd number, the term of office of the  elective  member  shall
  thereupon cease.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 394 - Consolidated Health District; Board of Health; Officers.

§  394.  Consolidated health district; board of health; officers.  The
  board of health of a consolidated health district  shall  from  time  to
  time  elect  a president from among its members. The health officer of a
  consolidated health district shall serve as the secretary of  the  board
  of health thereof without additional remuneration therefor.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 395 - Consolidated Health District; Board of Health; Health Officer; Powers and Duties.

§  395. Consolidated health district; board of health; health officer;
  powers and duties. Each board of health and each  health  officer  of  a
  consolidated  health  district shall have all the rights, powers, duties
  and obligations conferred and imposed by law upon boards of  health  and
  health officers respectively.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 395-A - Designation of Depository.

§  395-a.  Designation  of  depository.  The  board  of  health of any
  consolidated health district may designate by  resolution  one  or  more
  banks  or  trust  companies in which the moneys paid to the president of
  the board as provided herein shall  be  deposited.  Notwithstanding  the
  provisions  of  section  four  hundred  ten  of  the education law, in a
  consolidated health district in which there is but  one  bank  or  trust
  company,  the  bank  or trust company so designated as depository may be
  one of which members of such board of health are officers, directors  or
  stockholders.  Such designation and deposit of such moneys shall release
  the president of the board from any liability for loss of such moneys by
  reason of the default or insolvency of any such depository. The board of
  health may require  any  bank  or  trust  company  so  designated  as  a
  depository in which such moneys are on deposit or are to be deposited to
  deliver  to  such board a surety bond payable to the consolidated health
  district, executed by a surety company authorized to  transact  business
  in  this  state  and  securing  to  such  district  the  payment of such
  deposits; or in lieu of such a surety bond, such board may  require  any
  such bank or trust company to deposit with such board obligations of the
  United  States  of  America,  of the state of New York or of any county,
  town, city, village or school district of  the  state  of  New  York  as
  security  for  such  moneys  so deposited, but such obligations shall be
  subject to the approval of such board and shall be held for  safekeeping
  at such place and under such conditions as such board may determine.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 397 - Consolidated Health District; Appointment of Attorney.

§  397.  Consolidated  health  district; appointment of attorney.  The
  board of health of a consolidated health district may employ and fix the
  compensation of an attorney, which shall be audited and paid in the same
  manner as the other expenses of the district.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 3 - Local Health Organization › Title 6 - Consolidated Health Districts › 398 - Consolidated Health District; Compensation of Board Members.

§ 398. Consolidated health district; compensation of board members. 1.
  Members  of  the  board  of  health  of  a consolidated health district,
  whether or not members of a town board or a village board  of  trustees,
  shall  be  allowed  a per diem compensation of not more than ten dollars
  for each calendar day in actual attendance at a meeting of the board  of
  health  of  the  district,  to  be  fixed and determined by the board of
  health of the district and which compensation in the case of any  member
  shall  not  exceed  the  sum of one hundred and fifty dollars in any one
  year.
2. Members of the board of health of a  consolidated  health  district
  shall also be allowed their actual and necessary expenses.
3.  The compensation and expenses of members of the board of health of
  a consolidated health district shall be audited and  paid  in  the  same
  manner as the other expenses of the consolidated health district.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 403 - Hospitals; Property; Authority to Acquire and to Hold.

§  403.  Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold. 1. The
following state hospitals are hereby continued in the department for the
purposes for which they have been respectively established:
(a) The Helen Hayes hospital;
(b) Roswell Park Cancer Institute;
(c) The New York state home  for  veterans  and  their  dependents  at
Oxford;
(d) The New York state home for veterans in the city of New York;
(e) The New York state home for veterans in western New York;
(f) The New York state home for veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley.
2.   Notwithstanding   any   other  inconsistent  provisions  of  law,
including,  but  not  limited  to,  article  four-C  of   the   economic
development  law,  and  subject  to  the  provisions  of any lease, loan
agreement or other agreement with the dormitory authority of  the  state
of  New  York or any predecessor or successor agency or corporation, the
commissioner, with the approval of  the  director  of  the  budget,  may
contract  with  the  Roswell  Park Cancer Institute corporation, for the
transfer of the operations of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute  or  any
part  thereof,  practice  plan  or of any other program operated by such
hospital. Such contract shall include terms and conditions  under  which
the  Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation may issue bonds, notes or
other evidences  of  indebtedness.    Payments  made  pursuant  to  such
contract or any other contracts between the department of health and the
Roswell  Park  Cancer  Institute corporation shall be limited to amounts
made available pursuant to appropriations.   Upon the  transfer  of  the
operations  of  Roswell Park Cancer Institute to the Roswell Park Cancer
Institute corporation, the Roswell  Park  Cancer  Institute  corporation
shall  operate  the  Roswell Park Cancer Institute for the department in
accordance with the terms of any lease or other  agreement  between  the
department and the dormitory authority pertaining to the use, operation,
maintenance and replacement of Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 403-A - The New York State Home for Veterans and Their Dependents at Oxford.

§  403-a. The New York state home for veterans and their dependents at
  Oxford.  The New York state home for veterans and  their  dependents  at
  Oxford  shall  be  subject to the provisions of this article except when
  such  provisions  are  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of   article
  twenty-six-A of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 403-B - The New York State Home for Veterans in the City of New York.

§ 403-b. The New York state home for veterans in the city of New York.
  There  is  hereby  established  in the city of New York a New York state
  home for veterans. Such home  for  veterans  shall  be  subject  to  the
  provisions  of this article except when such provisions are inconsistent
  with the provisions of article twenty-six-A of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 403-C - The New York State Home for Veterans in Western New York.

§  403-c.  The  New  York state home for veterans in western New York.
  There is hereby established a state home for  veterans  in  western  New
  York.  Such home for veterans shall be subject to the provisions of this
  article except when such provisions are inconsistent with the provisions
  of article twenty-six-A of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 403-D - The New York State Home for Veterans in the Lower-Hudson Valley.

§  403-d.  The  New  York  state home for veterans in the lower-Hudson
  Valley. There is hereby established a state home  for  veterans  in  the
  lower-Hudson  Valley.  Such  home  for  veterans shall be subject to the
  provisions of this article except when such provisions are  inconsistent
  with the provisions of article twenty-six-A of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 404 - Hospitals; Property; Authority to Acquire and to Hold.

§  404. Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold. 1.  The
  board of visitors of each state hospital in the department, as the agent
  of the department, is hereby authorized to take and hold, in the name of
  and for the people of the state, by  grant,  gift,  devise  or  bequest,
  property to be applied, principal or income, or both, for the benefit of
  the  hospital,  institution  or of any patient or patients therein or to
  the maintenance and the general uses of the hospital or institution.
2. No property shall be taken or held as  provided  by  this  section,
  except  with  the  approval  of the commissioner unless the rules of the
  commissioner  otherwise  provide.  Utilization  and  administration   of
  property  so  taken  and  held  shall  be  subject  to  the rules of the
  commissioner.
3. Property taken and held  as  provided  by  this  section  shall  be
  applied  or  expended for the purpose specified by the donor, subject to
  the rules of the commissioner.
4. The expenditure of moneys derived from any source pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  this  section,  including  income,  shall  be  under the
  immediate direction of the hospital, or treasurer  of  the  institution,
  except as the rules of the commissioner may otherwise provide.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 405 - Hospitals; Visitors and Officers; Oaths and Bonds.

§  405.  Hospitals;  visitors  and officers; oaths and bonds. 1.  Each
  director, member of the board of visitors, and treasurer of the  several
  state  hospitals in the department shall take the constitutional oath of
  office.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 406 - Hospitals; Refunds, Waivers and Compromises of Bills.

§  406.  Hospitals;  refunds,  waivers  and  compromises  of bills. 1.
  Moneys heretofore or  hereafter  received  by  the  department  for  the
  accounts  of  any of the hospitals or institutions of the department may
  be refunded to the person or party for whose account same were received,
  and within six years thereafter upon satisfactory proof being  submitted
  to the commissioner that:
a.  such moneys were in excess of the charges imposed upon or incurred
  by the party, pursuant to law; or,
b. such moneys were received as reimbursement  for  care,  maintenance
  and  treatment of patients, and such care, maintenance and treatment has
  not been rendered or furnished; or,
c. such moneys were received from the funds of patients not  available
  for payment for the care, maintenance and treatment of patients.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred twenty-one of
  the  state  finance  law,  such  refunds  shall,  upon  approval  by the
  commissioner and after audit by the comptroller, be paid from any moneys
  in the custody of the department received as reimbursement for the care,
  maintenance and treatment of patients in the several  hospitals  in  the
  department.
3.  The  commissioner  may  in  his discretion, in proper cases, where
  substantial justice will best be served thereby,  waive  bills  for  the
  maintenance, care and treatment received or furnished to patients in any
  of  the  hospitals  or  institutions of the department or compromise any
  portion of such bills. Such waiver or compromise shall be made only upon
  prior approval of the comptroller and the  attorney  general  when  they
  deem it to be for the best interest of the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 407 - Hospitals; Privileges to Students.

§  407.  Hospitals;  privileges to students. 1. Whenever the person or
  persons having lawful control and management over any public hospital in
  any city or county in this state, shall grant to  matriculated  students
  of  any  legally  incorporated  medical  college in said city or county,
  privileges  of  admission  to  such  hospital  for  hearing  clinics  or
  lectures, or receiving medical or surgical instruction therein, the like
  privileges  and advantages shall be granted to the matriculated students
  in each and all legally incorporated medical colleges in said  city  and
  county  who  may desire the same, without distinction or preference, and
  upon equal terms and conditions as to all.
2. Nothing in  this  section  shall  prevent  the  directors  of  such
  hospitals  from limiting the attendance of students in such hospitals to
  a number compatible with the welfare of patients. But in such limitation
  they shall receive  students  from  such  legally  incorporated  medical
  colleges  applying  for  such  admission  in proportion to the number of
  students in attendance upon such college.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 408 - Hospitals; Admission of Patients; in General.

§  408.  Hospitals;  admission  of  patients; in general. 1. If in the
  judgment of the director of a hospital in the department the  number  of
  patients  of the hospital at any time so far exceeds its proper capacity
  that suitable care, training or discipline cannot be given to additional
  patients, or for other reasons the admission of such additional patients
  is impracticable, the commissioner in his discretion,  may  suspend  the
  admission  of  patients  to  such  hospital  until such time as they may
  properly be admitted.
2. The commissioner shall promptly  notify  courts  and  other  public
  officers  empowered  to  commit  persons  to  such  hospital of any such
  suspension of admission and of its termination. A  person  committed  to
  such  hospital before the court receives notice of such a suspension may
  be recommitted to another hospital to which he might have been  lawfully
  committed in the first instance.
3.  In the admission of patients to such hospital the several counties
  and the city of New York shall, so far as practicable,  be  entitled  to
  have  in  such  hospital,  patients  in the ratio which their respective
  populations bear to the population of the state as  ascertained  by  the
  latest federal census or state enumeration.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 409-B - Distribution of Surplus Revenue.

§  409-b.  Distribution  of  surplus revenue. 1.   Notwithstanding any
  inconsistent provisions of section four hundred nine  of  this  article,
  the  commissioner  shall  establish  a  plan for distribution of surplus
  revenue to the institutional program in accordance with  the  provisions
  of this section.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  annually  certify to the director of the
  budget when there are sufficient receipts deposited to the department of
  health income fund to meet the  department's  revenue  target  for  debt
  service  and  institutional operations established in the budget for the
  fiscal year.
3. The commissioner shall allocate the full  amount  of  the  receipts
  received  from  state  hospitals  within the department which exceed the
  amount certified to the director of the division of the budget  pursuant
  to  subdivision two of this section to be paid over and deposited in the
  surplus revenue account established pursuant to subdivision four of this
  section  to  be  allocated  to  such  facilities  in   accordance   with
  subdivision five of this section.
4. There shall be established within the special revenue funds - other
  a  department  of  health  facility surplus revenue account. All surplus
  revenues allocated pursuant to subdivision three of this  section  shall
  be  paid over and deposited to the department of health facility surplus
  revenue account.
5. The  commissioner  shall  segregate  any  funds  available  in  the
  department  of  health  facility  surplus  revenue  account  pursuant to
  subdivision four of this section  to  the  state  hospitals  within  the
  department  based  on  consideration  of  the following factors: (i) the
  proportion of funds that  each  facility  contributes  to  such  surplus
  revenue;   and  (ii)  the  amounts  each  facility  contributed  to  the
  department of health income fund under section four hundred nine of this
  article. The amounts shall be allocated to each facility  in  accordance
  with  a  plan, subject to the approval of the commissioner, submitted by
  each facility to ensure that  such  funds  are  used  for  non-recurring
  expenses  including personal services contracts and equipment leases and
  rentals that are  for  no  more  than  one  year,  but  are  potentially
  renewable and meet all applicable state purchasing requirements.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 410 - Hospitals; Reimbursement.

§   410.   Hospitals;  reimbursement.  No  corporation  organized  and
  operating in accordance with article forty-three of the  insurance  law,
  organization  operating  in  accordance  with  the provisions of article
  forty-four of this chapter, commercial insurer licensed to  do  business
  in  this  state and authorized to write accident and health insurance or
  payor responsible for payments pursuant  to  the  workers'  compensation
  law,  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law, the volunteer ambulance
  workers' benefit  law  or  the  comprehensive  motor  vehicle  insurance
  reparations  act  shall  decline  or  refuse to make payments to a state
  hospital in the department as enumerated in section four  hundred  three
  of  this  chapter,  in  accordance with rates of payment established for
  such payor pursuant to article twenty-eight of  this  chapter  for  such
  hospital  or  hospital  charges  for  services  not  covered by rates of
  payment,  for  hospital   or   health-related   services   provided   to
  subscribers,  beneficiaries, or enrolled members that would be a covered
  service for which such  payor  would  make  payment  if  provided  at  a
  voluntary  non-profit  hospital issued an operating certificate pursuant
  to section twenty-eight hundred five of this chapter, or,  for  a  payor
  that  provides  for  participating  provider agreements, to enter into a
  participating provider agreement with such state hospital.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 2 - Hospitals: Boards of Visitors › 420 - Boards of Visitors; Appointment.

§  420.  Boards  of  visitors;  appointment.    1.  (a) Subject to the
provisions of this  chapter,  each  hospital  in  the  department  shall
continue  to  have  a  board  of  seven visitors, to be appointed by the
governor by and with the advice and  consent  of  the  senate;  provided
however  that  in  the  case  of  the  state  institute for the study of
malignant diseases one of the seven members of  the  board  of  visitors
shall be the commissioner, ex-officio.
(b)  At  least two members of the board of visitors of the Helen Hayes
hospital shall be duly licensed physicians  and  at  least  two  members
shall  be  women.  This  provision  shall  not affect the offices of the
present members; but appointments hereafter  shall  be  so  made  as  to
comply herewith as soon as practicable.
(c)  At least two of the members of the board of visitors of the state
institute for the study of malignant diseases shall be residents of  the
city  of  Buffalo  or  vicinity  and one member of the board of visitors
shall be a member of the medical  faculty  or  of  the  council  of  the
University of Buffalo.
2.  (a)  The terms of office of the members of the boards of visitors,
other than the members of the board of visitors of the  state  institute
for  the  study  of  malignant  diseases, shall be seven years, and they
shall be so appointed that the term of at least one of  the  members  of
the  board  of visitors shall expire on the thirty-first day of December
of each year.
(b) The terms of office of the members of the board of visitors of the
state institute for the study of malignant diseases shall be five  years
and  they  shall  be  so  appointed that the term of at least one of the
members shall expire on the thirty-first of December of each year.
3. All vacancies on the several boards of visitors of hospitals in the
department shall be filled  by  the  governor  in  the  same  manner  as
original appointments, and the person appointed to fill a vacancy in the
board  of visitors of a hospital in the department shall hold office for
the remainder of the term of the person whom he succeeds.
4. The governor may remove  any  member  or  members  of  a  board  of
visitors for cause after an opportunity to be heard.
5.  This  section shall not affect the terms of the present members of
such board.
6. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section  or  any
other provision of law to the contrary, upon the transfer to the Roswell
Park  Cancer Institute corporation of the operations of the Roswell Park
Cancer Institute, the board of visitors of Roswell Park Cancer Institute
shall cease to operate and the terms of the current members of the board
of visitors shall terminate. In the event that  the  operations  of  the
Roswell  Park  Cancer  Institute revert to the department of health, the
board of visitors shall be reconstituted and the governor shall make new
appointments pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 2 - Hospitals: Boards of Visitors › 421 - Boards of Visitors; Officers; Meetings.

§  421.  Boards  of  visitors;  officers;  meetings.   1. The board of
visitors of a hospital in the department shall  elect  a  chairman  from
among its members.
2. (a) The board of visitors of each hospital in the department, other
than  the  institute  for  the  study  of malignant diseases, shall hold
regular meetings at least once every three months throughout  the  year,
and cause to be typewritten within ten days after each such meeting, the
minutes and proceedings of such meeting, and cause a copy thereof, to be
sent  forthwith  to  each  member  of  the  board  of  visitors,  to the
commissioner and to the governor.
(b) The board of visitors of the state  institute  for  the  study  of
malignant  diseases  shall meet quarterly to consider the affairs of the
institute and at the last quarterly meeting in  a  calendar  year  shall
prepare  and  transmit  to the commissioner, a report of the work of the
institute for the twelve months preceding such meeting.
(c) The board of visitors of each hospital in the department may  meet
at any time on call of the chairman.
3.  Members  of a board of visitors who fail to attend meetings of the
board at least twice in each calendar  year  shall  be  deemed  to  have
vacated  their  membership  in  such  board  of  visitors, whereupon the
governor shall fill  the  vacancies  so  created  as  provided  by  this
chapter,  unless  the  absence  of such visitors shall be excused by the
governor.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 2 - Hospitals: Boards of Visitors › 422 - Boards of Visitors; Compensation and Expenses of Members.

§  422.  Boards  of  visitors;  compensation  and expenses of members.
  Members of the board of visitors of  each  hospital  in  the  department
  shall receive no compensation, but each shall be entitled to receive his
  expenses  actually  and  necessarily  incurred in the performance of his
  duties.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 2 - Hospitals: Boards of Visitors › 423 - Boards of Visitors; General Powers and Duties.

§ 423. Boards of visitors; general powers and duties.  1. The board of
visitors  of  each  hospital in the department shall have the powers and
duties expressly conferred or imposed on it by  this  chapter  and  such
other  powers and duties, not inconsistent with law as may be prescribed
by rules of the commissioner.
2. Each board of visitors shall:
(a)  subject  to  such  rules  and  the  statutory   powers   of   the
commissioner,  take  care of the general interest of the institution and
see that its objective is carried into effect;
(b) maintain an effective inspection of  the  institution,  for  which
purpose the board, or a majority of its members, shall visit and inspect
the institution at least once every three months;
(c)  keep  in a book provided for that purpose, a fair and full record
of its activities, which shall be open at all times  to  the  inspection
and  examination  of  the  governor  or  of  any person appointed by the
governor or by either house of the legislature, or to  the  commissioner
or his authorized representatives;
(d)  enter  in  a  book, kept at the institution for that purpose, the
date of each visit of each visitor;
(e) investigate, hear and ascertain the  truth  of  all  charges  made
against  the  director  or other officer or employee of the institution,
issue subpoenas, take and hear testimony in respect to such charges  and
make  its  recommendations  thereon to the authority having the power to
discharge or remove. A witness attending  before  such  board  shall  be
entitled  to  the  same  fees  as  a witness attending before a court of
record or a judge thereof, which shall be paid  as  other  institutional
charges.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 2 - Hospitals: Boards of Visitors › 424 - Boards of Visitors; Access to Hospital; Books, Records and Accounts.

§  424.  Boards  of  visitors;  access to hospital; books, records and
  accounts. The resident officers of each hospital in the department shall
  admit the members of the board of visitors of  the  respective  hospital
  into  every  part of the hospital and its buildings, and exhibit to them
  on demand all the books, papers, accounts and writings belonging to  the
  hospital,  or  pertaining  to  its  business,  management, discipline or
  government, and furnish copies, abstracts and reports whenever  required
  by them.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 2 - Hospitals: Boards of Visitors › 425 - Boards of Visitors; Reports to Commissioner and Governor.

§  425.  Boards of visitors; reports to commissioner and governor.  1.
  The board of visitors of each hospital in the department  shall  make  a
  written  report  to the commissioner and to the governor within ten days
  after each inspection, such report to be signed by  each  member  making
  the  inspection.  Such report shall state in detail the condition of the
  hospital and of its patients, and such other matters pertaining  to  the
  management  and  affairs  thereof  as  in  the  opinion  of the board of
  visitors should be brought to the attention of the commissioner  or  the
  governor,  and  may  contain recommendations as to needed improvement in
  the hospital or in its management.
2. Each board of visitors shall make to the commissioner in January of
  each  year  a  detailed  report  of  the  results  of  its  visits   and
  inspections,  with suitable suggestions and such other matters as may be
  required  of  it  by  the  commissioner  for  the  year  ending  on  the
  thirty-first  day  of  December  preceding  the day of such report. Such
  report shall be prepared by  a  committee  of  the  board  of  visitors,
  subject to the approval of the board.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 4 - Hospitals: Officers and Employees › 450 - Directors of Hospitals; Qualifications and Appointment.

§  450.  Directors  of  hospitals;  qualifications and appointment. 1.
  There shall be a director of each state hospital in the department,  who
  shall  be  in  the  competitive class of civil service, and who shall be
  appointed by the commissioner.
2. The director shall possess the qualifications  prescribed  by  law,
  or,  if no such qualifications be prescribed, such qualifications as may
  be prescribed in the sanitary code.
3. Before making the appointment of a  director  of  a  hospital,  the
  commissioner  shall give notice of his intended action to the members of
  the board of visitors, by registered mail, naming  the  person  whom  he
  proposes to appoint and his place of residence, and shall specify a day,
  not  less than ten days from the mailing of the notice, before which the
  board of visitors may submit to the commissioner the objections  of  the
  board  of  visitors,  if  any, to such appointment; and the person named
  shall not be appointed before such day, except in the case of an express
  approval by the board of visitors.
4. Subject to removal in the manner provided by law, the  director  of
  each  hospital  in  the  department now in office is hereby continued in
  office.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 4 - Hospitals: Officers and Employees › 451 - Directors of Hospitals; Removal and Suspension.

§ 451. Directors of hospitals; removal and suspension. 1. The director
  of  a  hospital in the department may be removed by the commissioner for
  cause stated in  writing,  after  an  opportunity  has  been  given  the
  director  to  be heard thereon. Such action by the commissioner shall be
  final. The board of visitors of the hospital, however, shall be notified
  of any such hearing and its members be given an opportunity to be  heard
  thereat.  Pending  the  investigation  by  the  commissioner or board of
  visitors of any charges against a director, the commissioner may suspend
  such director.
2. The commissioner may prefer charges of misconduct  or  incompetency
  against  the  director  of a hospital in the department, to the board of
  visitors, and the board of  visitors  shall  thereupon  investigate  the
  truth  of  such  charges  and  make  its  recommendations thereon to the
  commissioner, or the commissioner or his duly authorized  representative
  may  investigate  any  charges  of like nature made to the commissioner.
  The investigating authority may subpoena witnesses, and  take  and  hear
  testimony.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 4 - Hospitals: Officers and Employees › 452 - Directors of Hospitals; General Powers and Duties.

§  452.  Directors  of  hospitals;  general  powers and duties. 1. The
director of each hospital in  the  department  shall  be  the  executive
officer of the hospital and shall:
(a)  be  in  immediate  charge of the activities and management of the
hospital, subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner;
(b) except as otherwise provided with respect to  the  treasurer,  and
subject  to  the  approval  of  the commissioner, appoint and remove all
members of the staff and all other employees of the hospital;
(c) annually, in the month of January, report to the  commissioner  of
the  activities  of  the  hospital for the calendar year ending with the
preceding thirty-first day of December;
(d) submit at each meeting of the board of visitors, a report  showing
changes  in  population,  health  of  patients,  officers and employees;
accidents, suicides, unusual sickness, communicable diseases;  important
occurrences  relating  to  the  welfare  of  the  patients  and  to  the
management and discipline of the employees, and such  other  matters  as
the board of visitors may specify; and,
(e) perform such other duties as the commissioner may require.
2. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the adoption, by any director
of  a  hospital  in  the  department,  of  rules pertaining to duties of
officers and employees of the hospital under his charge or for  internal
government,  discipline  and management of the hospital, consistent with
the provisions of the civil service law, the rules promulgated  pursuant
thereto  and the rules of the commissioner, but any rule of the director
shall be subject to revocation or suspenison by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 4 - Hospitals: Officers and Employees › 453 - Treasurers of Hospitals; Appointment.

§  453.  Treasurers of hospitals; appointment. 1. Each hospital in the
department shall have a treasurer.
2. (a) The commissioner may appoint such an officer for each hospital.
(b) In the event that the commissioner fails to appoint a treasurer as
provided by this section, or in the event of a vacancy occurring in  the
office  of  treasurer  or  pending  the  appointment of a treasurer, the
director of the hospital shall be the treasurer.
(c) During the absence or disability of the treasurer of  a  hospital,
the director thereof shall perform the duties of a treasurer.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 4 - Hospitals: Officers and Employees › 454 - Treasurers of Hospitals; Powers and Duties.

§  454.  Treasurers  of hospitals; powers and duties. Subject to rules
and regulations of the commissioner, the treasurer of each  hospital  in
the department shall:
(a)  receive  and have the custody of all moneys and securities of the
hospital from whatever sources derived, except as otherwise provided  by
law  and  keep  an accurate record thereof and of all obligations of the
hospital;
(b) deposit in his name, as treasurer, in a bank approved by the state
comptroller, all such moneys and transmit each month to the comptroller,
and to the commissioner, a statement showing  the  amount  received  and
deposited,  from  whom and for what received and when such deposits were
made. Such statement of  deposits  shall  be  certified  by  the  proper
officer of the bank receiving such deposits. The treasurer shall make an
affidavit  to  the  effect  that  the  sum so deposited is all the money
received by him from any source of hospital income to the  date  of  the
last deposit appearing on such statement;
(c)  pay  out  the money deposited for the proper uses of the hospital
upon the voucher of the steward or business manager. Where the treasurer
is a person other than the director, said voucher shall be countersigned
by the director;
(d) keep full and accurate account of all receipts and payments in the
manner and according to books and forms prescribed by the commissioner;
(e) balance all accounts on his  books  annually,  for  the  preceding
fiscal  year,  and  make  a  statement  thereof  and  an abstract of the
receipts and payments for  such  year  and  transmit  the  same  to  the
commissioner on or before the following fifteenth day of August;
(f)  render  an account of the state of the books and of the funds and
property in his custody, whenever required by the commissioner; and,
(g) perform such other duties as the commissioner may require.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4 - Property and Hospitals in the Department of Health › Title 4 - Hospitals: Officers and Employees › 455 - Hospitals; Special Police Officers; Powers and Duties.

§  455.  Hospitals; special police officers; powers and duties. 1. The
  director of each hospital in the department may designate attendants  or
  other employees to act as special police officers whose duty it shall be
  under  the  orders of the director to protect the grounds, buildings and
  patients of the hospital and to eject therefrom disorderly persons. Such
  attendants and employees,  acting  as  special  police  officers,  shall
  possess  all  the powers of peace officers, as set forth in section 2.20
  of the criminal procedure law, on the grounds and premises.
2. The designation of such attendants and employees as special  police
  officers  in  pursuance hereof, shall not be deemed to supersede, on the
  grounds and premises of such hospital, the authority of peace or  police
  officers of the jurisdiction within which such hospital is located.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 4-A - Regulation of Body Piercing and Tattooing. › 460 - Definitions.

§  460.  Definitions.  As  used  in  this  article, unless the context
  requires otherwise:
1. "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of health.
2. "Body piercing" shall mean the piercing of any part  of  the  body,
  except the ear. Such term shall not include tongue-splitting, as defined
  in section four hundred seventy of this chapter.
3.  "Tattoo"  shall  mean  a  mark  on  the body of a person made with
  indelible ink or pigments injected beneath the outer layer of the skin.
4. "Body piercing specialist" shall mean any person who performs  body
  piercing on the body of any other person.
5.  "Tattooist" shall mean any person who applies a tattoo to the body
  of any other person.
6. "Body piercing studio" shall mean any premises in  which  the  body
  piercing specialist conducts such practice.
7.  "Tattoo  studio"  shall  mean  any premises in which the tattooist
  conducts such practice.
8.  "Officer"  shall   mean   the   public   official   with   primary
  responsibility  for  the enforcement of the state sanitary code within a
  county, or within a city with  a  population  of  one  million  or  more
  persons.  For purposes of this title an officer shall have the powers of
  a presiding officer under the state administrative procedure act  within
  a county and shall have the powers of a presiding officer under the city
  administrative  procedures  act  within  a city with a population of one
  million or more persons.
9. "Department" shall mean the department of health.
10. "Approved ink handling procedure" shall mean  tattoo  ink  storage
  and  use  procedures  that  are  approved  and  deemed protective by the
  department.
11. "Single use needle" shall mean a needle that is sterile  and  that
  has never been used on another person.