Little Falls Hospital, Little Falls. * Chapter 565, Laws of 1895. * The common council * * § 57. * may contract with an incorporated hospital located within the city for the nursing and support of such class or classes of injured or sick persons, as may be stated in such contract, and who are received and retained in such hospital pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, and appropriate and pay therefor to such hospital an annual sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars; (As amended by chapter 12 of the Laws of 1903.) * Municipal Hospital, Buffalo. AN ACT authorizing the city of Buffalo to construct, equip and maintain a municipal hospital or hospitals for the exclusive care and treatment of persons affected with infectious or contagious diseases, except tuberculosis, to acquire lands therefor, and authorizing said city to borrow money for such purposes by the issue of bonds. Chapter 116, Laws of 1909. Section 1. The city of Buffalo is hereby authorized to construct, equip and maintain a municipal hospital or hospitals for the exclusive care and treatment of persons affected with infectious or contagious diseases, except tuberculosis, and to acquire by purchase, by gift, or by proceedings in eminent domain in the manner prescribed by the charter of said city the fee of lands necessary for the purposes aforesaid. $ 2. For the purpose of providing the moneys necessary to acquire title to lands and to construct and equip suitable buildings for said municipal hospital or hospitals it shall be lawful for the city of Buffalo to issue its bonds in a sum not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually at the office of the comptroller of the city of Buffalo, or at the Gallatin National Bank in the city of New York, as the purchaser may elect, the principal to be payable at the same place twenty years after the date of said bonds. Such bonds shall be issued from time to time by the mayor and comptroller, under the city seal, as may be ordered by the common council, and shall be sold or awarded in the manner provided in section four hundred and ninety-two of chapter one hundred and five of the laws of the state of New York of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, being the charter of said city as amended by chapter forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and six. The common council shall make provision in the general fund estimates of said city for the payment of the interest on and the principal of said bonds as the same shall become due, and may appropriate in the annual estimates such sums as shall be deemed necessary by the common council and mayor for the maintenance and improvement of such hospital or hospitals. AN ACT creating a commission for the government and control of the municipal hospital for the city of Buffalo for the care and treatment of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis, and defining the powers and prescribing the duties of said commission. Chapter 26, Laws of 1910. Section 1. There is hereby created a commission for the government and control of a municipal hospital for the city of Buffalo for the care and treatment of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis. Such hospital shall be known as the J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital for the treatment of incipient tuberculosis. Such commission shall consist of the persons named in this section who shall serve for the length of time herein specified, and their successors, inhabitants of Buffalo, who shall be appointed as provided in this act, namely: Doctor John H. Pryor, president, six years; Irving S. Underhill, secretary, five years; William A. Douglas, four years; Henry Schaefer, three years; Maria M. Love, two years; Doctor Emil S. Tobie, one year. The mayor of the city of Buffalo, its health commissioner, the president of its common. council and its commissioner of public works shall also be members of said commission by virtue of their respective offices. The respective terms of office of the commissioners herein before named. shall begin on the day when this act becomes of force. Their successors shall be appointed by the mayor and shall hold office for the term of six years each. There shall always be at least one woman upon said commission. There shall also be at all times upon said commission two physicians, in addition to the health commissioner. Vacancies in said commission whether by death, resignation or disability, shall be filled by the mayor. Vacancies caused by death, resignation or disability shall be filled for the unexpired term. Each of said commissioners shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to receive his actual disbursements for expenses in visiting said hospital or in discharging any of the necessary duties devolving upon him as such commissioner. Said commission shall be designated the board of trustees of the J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital for the care and treatment of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis. (As amended by chapter 405 of the Laws of 1910, and chapter 553 of the Laws of 1912.) § 2. Within thirty days after this act takes effect, each of the members of said commission shall take the constitutional oath of office, to be administered by the city clerk of Buffalo. Five of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The said commission shall have full and exclusive power to make rules and by-laws for the orderly transaction of its business; to govern, manage and control, subject to the provisions of law relating to hospitals for the care and treatment of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis, the said tuberculosis hospital of Buffalo; to appoint and employ, and at pleasure remove, subject at all times to the civil service law and the rules and regulations of the municipal civil service commission of the city of Buffalo, such physicians, nurses, attendants, clerks and other employees, and at such compensation as shall be authorized and provided by ordinance duly enacted by the common council of said city, and to define the duties of such employees. Said commissioners shall visit and inspect such hospital at least once every month, and shall from time to time appoint a committee of their members who shall visit and inspect said hospital as often as may be necessary. With the authority of the commission, any member thereof may expend such money as may be necessary to the efficient discharge of the duties of the commission and the conduct. and government of the hospital, provided that in no case shall the disbursements in any fiscal year exceed the sums appropriated by the city for such year for the government and maintenance of said hospital, unless and until such excess of funds shall have been provided by the common council in the form and manner prescribed by the charter of said city. No contract creating a liability in excess of five hundred dollars shall be authorized or entered into by said commission without the authority of the common council expressed by resolution. All applications for admission to said hospital, made by or on behalf of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis, who are not able to pay for treatment therein, shall be filed in the office of the health department of said city, and upon the certificate of the health commissioner of said city that the applicant is in need of such treatment and is unable to pay therefor, such applicant shall be received in such hospital for treatment, provided that it is not at the time occupied to its full capacity. The expense of the care and treatment of all such applicants, or such part of the expense as such applicants are not able to pay, shall be a charge against said city. Such applicants shall be admitted to the hospital, so far as practicable, in the order in which their applications are filed in the office of the health department, except in cases where the president of the board of trustees of said hospital shall certify in writing to the health commissioner, pursuant to the rules and regulations of said board of trustees, that the public health, in any case, requires admission in a different way, designating by name the applicant or applicants who shall be entitled to preference. Other admissions to the hospital shall be allowed and regulated in the manner prescribed by the rules of said board of trustees. (As amended by chapter 553 of the Laws of 1912.) § 3. The common council of the city of Buffalo shall every year grant to the said commission for specifically stated purposes, such sum of money as to the common council shall appear reasonable and just for the government, maintenance or improvement of the said hospital or hospitals, and the money granted pursuant to this section shall be paid out of the general fund of the city. At least thirty days prior to the granting of such money each year, the said commission shall submit to the common council a statement showing in detail the specific purposes for which money will be required by the commission during the next year, and a duplicate of said statement shall be filed with the comptroller at the same time; and the money granted by the common council shall be used only for the specifically stated purposes for which it shall be granted. And no expenditure shall be made, indebtedness incurred, contract entered into or order given which will cause to be overdrawn any amount so granted for a specifically stated purpose; but by vote of the common council any money or a part thereof granted for one specific purpose may be transferred for use by the commission for a different purpose. Any indebtedness incurred, contract entered into or order given which overdraws the money granted by the common council for any specific purpose, contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be absolutely void and ineffectual against the city. $ 4. The said commissioners shall hold their first meeting within thirty days after this act takes effect, at the mayor's office in said city, and shall hold regular meetings at least once a month, at such time as may be fixed by their rules. § 5. Said commission shall, in the month of January every year, make to the common council of said city a full report of its proceedings and work and a detailed statement of all its receipts and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year, and such report and statement shall be entered in the journal of the board of aldermen and printed in its minutes. § 6. The office of any one of said commissioners who shall fail to attend the meetings of the commission for three successive months, without reason therefor satisfactory to the mayor or without leave of absence from the commission, shall be deemed vacant and the vacancy shall be filled by the mayor. § 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, but no provision of any statute shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by this act except so far as such provision shall be in conflict herewith. Nassau Hospital Association, Nassau. AN ACT authorizing the raising and appropriating by the town of North Hempstead of moneys to support inmates of the hospital of the Nassau Hospital association, at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead. |