ARTICLE 3 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 dutics of boards of managers. 45. General powers and duties of superintendent. 48. Meetings of superintendents. 49. Salaries of officers and wages of employees. 51. Quarterly estimates of expenses; emergency fund. 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, managers 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, ferry-boats, and re moval of dead bodies. Section 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. There 40. State hospitals for the poor and indigent insane. shall continue to be the following hospitals for the care and treatment of the poor and indigent insane of the state which are hereby declared to be corporations; but other insane persons, who are residents 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 Sencca. 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.) § 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.) 8 41. Managers of state hospitals and their terms of office.Each state hospital shall be under the control and management of a board of managers, subject to the statutory powers of the commission. The governor shall appoint such board to consist of seven members, of whom not less than two shall be women, for each state hospital. The terms of office of the members of the several boards as now constituted, of one, two, three, four, five, six and seven years, shall respectively expire on the thirty-first day of December in each year, dating from the year nineteen hundred and five. After the expiration of such terms managers shall be appointed for terms of seven years. If a vacancy occur otherwise than by expiration of term, the appointment of a manager to fill such vacancy shall be for the unexpired term of the manager whose office became vacant. $42. Appointment and removal of managers. The members of the boards of managers shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, as often as a vacancy shall occur by expiration of term, or otherwise, and they may severally continue in office until their successors are appointed and have qualified; and they shall be subject to removal by the governor after having been notified in writing of the reasons for the proposed removal, and having been given an opportunity to be heard. All managers shall reside in the hospital district in which the hospital is situated for which they are respectively appointed. At least a majority of the managers of the Central Islip state hospital, and of the Kings Park state hospital, shall be residents of the city of New York. No person shall be eligible to the office of manager who is either an elective state officer or a member of the legislature, and if any such manager shall become a member of the legislature or an elective state officer, his office as manager shall thereupon be vacant. The managers of the Middletown state homeopathic hospital and of the Gowanda state homeopathic hospital may be appointed from any portion of the state, and shall be adherents of homeopathy. If any manager fails for a period of six months to attend the regular meetings of the board of which he is a member, the secretary of the board shall notify the governor of such absence, with any explanation thereof which may be submitted by such manager, and unless the governor shall, within thirty days thereafter, notify the secretary that he has excused such manager for such absence, the office of such manager shall thereupon be deemed to be vacant; and if any manager fails for one year to attend such regular meetings, his office shall become vacant. When any such vacancy shall occur, the board by resolution shall so declare, and a certified copy of such resolution shall forthwith be transmitted by the board to the commission and to the governor. In the month of January of each year the secretary of the board of managers shall transmit to the governor a statement showing the record of attendance of each manager at meetings of the board, the number and dates of visits to the hospital, with a statement of any other work for the hospital, performed by such manager, which such manager may request to have transmitted to the governor. 43. General powers and duties of boards of managers.Subject to the statutory powers of the commission, boards of managers shall have the general direction and control of all the property and internal affairs of the institutions for which they are re spectively appointed, except as otherwise provided by law. A committee consisting of one member of each board of managers, or other representative designated by such board, shall establish by-laws, rules and regulations governing the appointment and duties of officers and employees of all the state hospitals, and for the internal government, discipline and management of the same, subject to the approval of the commission. Such by-laws, rules and regulations shall be uniform for all the state hospitals, and shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter nor with the provisions of the civil service law and the rules and regulations established thereunder. The by-laws, rules and regulations established by the state commission in lunacy and in force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five, shall continue in force except as they may hereafter be modified, amended or repealed as provided by this chapter. The managers shall not receive any compensation for their services, but shall receive actual and necessary traveling and other expenses, to be paid after audit as other current expenditures of the hospital. Each board shall, in October of each year, elect from among its members a president and a secretary. The superintendent shall personally submit at each monthly meeting of the board of managers a report showing changes in population, health of patients, officers and employees; accidents, suicides, unusual sickness, infectious diseases; important occurrences relating to the welfare of the patients and to the management and discipline of the employees, and such other matters as the board may specify. Each board shall: 1. Take care of the general interests of the hospital and see that its design is carried into effect, according to law, and the by-lawe, rules and regulations, made as above provided. 2. Maintain an effective inspection of the hospital, for which purpose the board, or a majority of its members, shall visit and inspect the hospital at least once each month. Each board shall make a written report to the commission and to the governor within ten days after each inspection, such report to be signed by each member making the inspection. Such report shall state in detail the condition of the hospital and of its inmates, and such other matters pertaining to the management and affairs thereof as in the opinion of the board should be brought to the attention of |