2006 New York Code - Department To Cooperate With Department Of Health And Mental Hygiene.

 
    §  14-119 Department to cooperate with department of health and mental
  hygiene. a. It shall be the duty of the department, and of its  officers
  and  members of the force, as the commissioner shall direct, to promptly
  advise the department of health and mental  hygiene  of  all  threatened
  danger  to  human  life and health, and of all matters thought to demand
  its attention, and to regularly report to the department of  health  and
  mental  hygiene  all  violations of its rules and ordinances, and of the
  health laws, and all useful sanitary information.
    b. It shall be the duty of the department, by and through  its  proper
  officers,  members  and  agents,  to  faithfully  and at the proper time
  enforce and execute the sanitary rules and regulations, and  the  orders
  of  the  department  of  health and mental hygiene, made pursuant to the
  power of the department of health and  mental  hygiene,  upon  the  same
  being received in writing and duly authenticated.
    c. In and about the execution of any order of the department of health
  and  mental hygiene, or of the department made pursuant thereto, members
  of the force shall have power and authority as when obeying any order of
  or law applicable to the department; but for their conduct they shall be
  responsible to the department and not to the department  of  health  and
  mental  hygiene.  The  department of health and mental hygiene may, with
  the consent of the department, impose  any  portion  of  the  duties  of
  subordinates in such department upon subordinates in the department.
    d.  The  department  is  authorized  to employ and use the appropriate
  persons and means, and  to  make  the  necessary  expenditures  for  the
  execution  and  enforcement  of the rules, orders and regulations of the
  department of health and mental hygiene, and such expenditures,  so  far
  as  the  same  may  not  be  refunded or compensated by the means herein
  elsewhere  provided,  shall  be  paid  as  the  other  expenses  of  the
  department of health and mental hygiene are paid.