2022 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 5 - Laboratories
Title 2 - County Laboratories
523 - County Laboratories; Boards of Managers; Appointment; Term.

§  523. County laboratories; boards of managers; appointment; term. 1.
The board of supervisors of a county establishing a laboratory  pursuant
to  this  article  shall  appoint a board of managers for the laboratory
which shall consist of at least five  members,  two  of  whom  shall  be
physicians duly licensed to practice in the state of New York.
  2.  The county medical society may present to the board of supervisors
a list of physicians residing in the county from  which  the  board  may
choose the medical members of the board of managers.
  3.  In  counties  having  a county board of health and a county health
commissioner, the president of the county board of health and the county
health  commissioner  shall  be  members  of  the  board   of   managers
ex-officio.
  4.  The  members  of  the board of managers, with the exception of the
members ex-officio, shall first be appointed, so that the  term  of  one
member shall expire within one year from the first day of January of the
year  in  which he shall have been appointed, the term of another member
shall expire within two years of the first day of January of the year in
which he shall have been appointed, the term  of  another  member  shall
expire  within  three  years  of the first day of January of the year in
which he shall have been appointed, the term  of  another  member  shall
expire  within  four  years  of  the first day of January of the year in
which he shall have been appointed, and the term of another member shall
expire within five years of the first day of  January  of  the  year  in
which  he  shall have been appointed. Thereafter the terms of membership
shall be made for five years from the first day of January of  the  year
in which the appointment is made.
  5.  In  any  county  in  which a county health district has been or is
hereafter established, the boundaries of which are coterminous with  the
county,  the  board of supervisors shall have power to abolish the board
of managers of the county laboratory, and  confer  all  the  powers  and
duties of such board of managers upon the county board of health.
  6.  The  members  of  boards of managers in existence at the time when
this  chapter  takes  effect  shall  continue  in  office  until   their
respective  terms  have  expired  and  their  respective  successors are
appointed and have qualified.
  7. (a) The county laboratory board of managers in any  county  wherein
an alternative form of government shall have established a county health
district  coterminous  with  the  county  is  hereby  abolished  and the
laboratory transferred and reestablished as a  division  of  the  county
health department.
  (b)  The county may thereafter apply for state aid for such laboratory
and shall be entitled to such state aid as would be provided under  this
section  if  the  amount  expended for maintenance and operation of such
laboratory were expended for maintenance and operation of  a  laboratory
established in accordance with other provisions of this chapter.