performed under the supervision of the commission, and in ac cordance with rules adopted by it. The commission may impose such other duties on such bureau as it may deem necessary and proper for carrying out the general purposes and intent of this section, and may also from time to time, when necessary, detail the medical examiner or a medical deputy of said bureau to perform the duties of the medical inspector. The medical examiner and deputies of such bureau shall be empowered to administer an oath when necessary to persons giving information relative to cases under investigation.

The chief examiner and examiner now members of the board. of alienists shall be continued as the medical examiner and a deputy examiner of the bureau of deportation, at the same salaries now received by such examiners.

(As amended by chapter 604 of the Laws of 1910, and chapter 121 of the Laws of 1912.)

§ 20. Powers of commission as to detention of insane or apparently insane persons prior to commitment. The commission is charged with the duty of seeing that the laws relating to the detention, care and treatment of insane or apparently insane persons who are under examination as to their sanity or who are detained or confined pending commitment and prior to their transfer to institutions for the insane, are executed. The commission shall:

1. Make recommendations to and advise with health officers and other officers having duties to perform in respect to the detention, care and treatment of such insane or apparently insane persons, as to the performance of such duties and as to the requirements of places in which such persons are to be detained, and relating generally to the protection and promotion of the physical and mental welfare of such persons.

2. Visit or cause to be visited and inspected buildings, rooms or other places permanently established in any city, village or town, as provided by law, for the detention or confinement of insane or apparently insane persons, pending an examination as to their sanity, and prior to their transfer to an institution for the insane.

3. Examine into the qualifications of persons employed as provided by law in the care of insane or apparently insane persons, pending their examination, commitment and transfer, and recommend the discharge, for reasons stated in writing, of persons so employed who are found by the commission to be incompetent.

4. Employ a medical inspector and such other persons as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this section.

If upon an inspection, made as authorized by this section, it shall be ascertained that any building, room or place established and regularly used in any city, town or village for the detention and confinement of insane or apparently insane persons pending examination and commitment, and prior to transfer, does not conform to the requirements of law, or if the care and treatment of persons confined therein are inadequate, the commission shall make a recommendation in writing to the board or officer of the town, village or city whose duty it is to establish and maintain such building, room or place, describing the defect or failure and stating how the same shall be remedied. It shall be the duty of such board or officer to cause such defect or failure to be remedied so as to conform to such recommendations. If such defect or failure is not so remedied within a reasonable time, the commission may apply to a justice of the supreme court at special term in the judicial district in which such building, room or place is situated for an order directing that such defect or failure shall be remedied as provided therein. At least ten days' notice of such application shall be given to the board or officer to whom such recommendation was made. If upon a hearing of such application it shall be ascertained that the recommendation of the commission is reasonable and in accordance with law, and has not been complied with, an order shall be granted directing such board or officer to make such alterations and provide such changes in the building, room, place, or methods of care and treatment complained of in the application, and describing specifically the alterations and changes directed to be made by such order. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this section, each commissioner, and any duly authorized agent of the commission, shall have free access to the buildings, rooms and places provided for the detention or confinement of insane or apparently insane per

sons, pending an examination as to their sanity and prior to their transfer to an institution for the insane. All persons connected with any such building, room or place shall give such information, and afford such facilities for examination and visitation thereof, as the commission may desire. If any health officer or superintendent of a state hospital has knowledge of any violation of the law relating to the detention or confinement, care and treatment of an insane or apparently insane person on the part of a police officer, or any other municipal officer, he shall report the same to the commission, who may take such action in respect thereto as it shall deem proper. Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to pavilion F of the Albany Hospital located in the city of Albany. (Added by chapter 306 of the Laws of 1914.)

ARTICLE III.

Institutions for the Care, Treatment and Custody of the Insane.

Section 40. State hospitals for the poor and indigent insane. 40-a. Mohansic state hospital; established.

41. Managers of state hospitals and their terms of office.

42. Appointment and removal of managers.

43. General powers and duties of boards of managers. 44. Officers.

45. General powers and duties of superintendent.

46. Special provisions relating to Long Island state hospital, Kings Park state hospital, Central Islip state hospital, and Manhattan state hospital.

47. Purchasing steward for Long Island state hospital, Kings Park state hospital, Manhattan state hospital, and Central Islip state hospital.

48. Meetings of superintendents.

49. Salaries of officers and wages of employees.

50. Salaries of certain officers and wages of certain em

ployees prescribed.

51. Quarterly estimates of expenses; emergency fund.

52. Powers and duties of superintendent as treasurer.

Section 53. Monthly statement of receipts and expenditures;

vouchers.

54. Action to recover moneys due the hospital.

55. General powers and duties of the steward.

56. Purchases and contracts.

57. Official oath.

58. Actions against commissioners in lunacy, manager or officers of state hospitals.

59. Private institutions for the insane.

60. Recommendations of commission.

61. Visitors to state hospitals.

62. Manhattan state hospital; lease of property.

63. Manhattan state hospital; docks, ferryboats, and removal of dead bodies.

64. Acquisition of property for use of state hospitals by condemnation and otherwise.

65. Erection, alteration, repairs and improvements of state hospital buildings.

66. Streets and railroads through hospital lands.

§ 40. State hospitals for the poor and indigent insane. There shall continue to be the following hospitals for the care and treatment of the poor and indigent insane of the state, who are citizens thereof, which are hereby declared to be corporations; but other insane persons, who are citizens of the state, may be admitted when there is room therein for them:

1. Utica State Hospital, in the city of Utica, in the county of Oneida.

2. Willard State Hospital, in the town of Ovid, in the county of Seneca.

3. Hudson River State Hospital, near the city of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess.

4. Buffalo State Hospital, in the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie.

5. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, in the city of Middletown, in the county of Orange.

6. Binghamton State Hospital, in the city of Binghamton, in the county of Broome.

7. Rochester State Hospital, in the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe.

8. Saint Lawrence State Hospital, in the city of Ogdensburg, in the county of Saint Lawrence.

9. Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital, in the town of Collins, in the county of Erie.

10. Long Island State Hospital, at Flatbush, in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York.

11. Manhattan State Hospital, on Ward's Island, in the city of New York.

12. Kings Park State Hospital, at Kings Park, in the county of Suffolk.

13. Central Islip State Hospital, at Central Islip, in the county

of Suffolk.

14. Mohansic State Hospital, at Yorktown Heights, in the county of Westchester. (Added by chapter 57 of the Laws of 1910.)

(As amended by chapter 310 of the Laws of 1910, and chapter 121 of the Laws of 1912.)

§ 40-a. The Mohansic State Hospital, at Yorktown in the county of Westchester, is hereby established. The governor shall appoint, within ten days after the taking effect of this section, a board of managers for such hospital, to consist of seven members, of whom not less than two shall be women. The managers first appointed hereunder shall serve for terms of one, two, three, four, five, six and seven years, respectively, from January first, nineteen hundred and ten, and their successors shall be appointed for full terms of seven years, as provided in the insanity law. The governor in making such first appointment shall designate the terms for which each manager is appointed. All the provisions of the insanity law relating to state hospitals for the insane shall apply to the hospital hereby established, except as herein otherwise provided, to the same effect and extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply to the other state hospitals for the insane. (Added by chapter 57 of the Laws of 1910.)