2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 5 - LABORATORIES
Title 2 - (520 - 528) COUNTY LABORATORIES
525 - County laboratories; boards of managers; powers and duties.

 
    § 525. County laboratories; boards of managers; powers and duties. The
  board  of  managers of each laboratory, or the county board of health in
  any  county  wherein  an  alternative  form  of  government  shall  have
  established  a  county  health  district  coterminous  with  the county,
  subject to the provisions of the county government law of  such  county,
  or  a  county  board of health which has been vested with the powers and
  duties of a board of managers pursuant to subdivision  five  of  section
  five  hundred  twenty-three  of  this  chapter, shall have the following
  powers and duties:
    (a) to appoint a director or other person in charge of the  laboratory
  who  shall  have  such qualifications as may be prescribed by the public
  health council;
    (b) to exercise general management and control of the  laboratory,  of
  the  grounds,  buildings,  rooms,  employees  and  of  all other matters
  relating to the government, discipline, contracts  and  fiscal  concerns
  thereof;
    (c) to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary in relation
  to  the  administration of the laboratory and the fees to be charged for
  laboratory  service,  not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter;
    (d)  notwithstanding  any other general or special law, to cause to be
  erected all additional buildings found necessary  after  the  laboratory
  has  been  placed  in  operation  and  to cause to be made all necessary
  improvements and repairs within the limits of  the  appropriations  made
  therefor; and,
    (e)  to  establish branch laboratories if the area to be served by the
  laboratory is so large, if its topography is such as to make  access  to
  the  laboratory  difficult, or if for any other reason such action seems
  reasonable or desirable.
    (f) to enter into an agreement annually with the  governing  board  of
  any  charitable  corporation or municipality operating and maintaining a
  hospital to provide  that  the  hospital  collect  fees  for  laboratory
  services  for  the  patients  in  such  hospital in the same manner that
  hospital charges are collected, and forward them to the laboratory,  and
  to  provide  that  the  cost  of  collecting such fees to be paid by the
  county to the hospital in an amount mutually acceptable and in  lieu  of
  actual  and  necessary  expenses.  No  agreement  shall become effective
  unless and until approved by the commissioner and by resolution  of  the
  board of supervisors.