2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 13 - (601 - 608-A) HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS
606 - County awards for professional education in nursing, medicine, dentistry, optometry or veterinary medicine.

 606. County  awards for professional education in nursing, medicine,
  dentistry, optometry or veterinary medicine.  Each county of  the  state
  outside  New York city is hereby authorized to establish  awards in such
  manner as the local legislative body of such county may  determine,  for
  attendance  by  legal  residents of this state, who meet the citizenship
  requirements established by article fourteen of  this  chapter  for  the
  professional   study  of  nursing,  medicine,  dentistry,  optometry  or
  veterinary medicine, at approved nursing, medical, dental, optometry  or
  veterinary  medicine  schools within the United States, conditioned upon
  the promise of the scholarship holder  to  practice  nursing,  medicine,
  dentistry,  optometry  or  veterinary  medicine  in such county for such
  period as such body  may  fix,  following  his  licensing  as  a  nurse,
  physician,  dentist, optometrist or veterinarian.  Each such award shall
  entitle the recipient to such sum of money as may be fixed by such  body
  while  in  attendance at approved nursing, medical, dental, optometry or
  veterinary medicine schools in the United States during a period of  not
  to  exceed  four  years  of  professional study and for physicians for a
  further period of not to exceed two years while engaged in an internship
  or as a resident physician in  an  accredited  hospital  in  the  United
  States.  Such  awards  may,  as  an  alternative  to awards hereinbefore
  authorized,  be granted by any such county to those already so  licensed
  to  practice  nursing,  medicine,  dentistry,  optometry  or  veterinary
  medicine upon the promise of such grantees to practice within the county
  for a period of time and upon such terms and conditions  as  the  county
  may fix, provided such recipient did not receive a similar award while a
  student.    The  county shall appropriate annually such sums of money as
  may be necessary to defray the  costs  of  such  awards  and  moneys  so
  appropriated  shall  be  deemed appropriated for a lawful county purpose
  and shall be raised by the same method  as  moneys  required  for  other
  lawful county purposes.