§ 65-c. Tax levy. In addition to the sum or sums which may be raised for the purposes recited in section sixty-five-b of this chapter and under the methods therein provided, the common council shall add to the annual budget and levy of each fiscal year, such a sum as it deems needful to the maintenance of the said hospital system. § 65-d. Power to acquire. The board of hospital commissioners is vested with power and authority to acquire, on behalf of the city, for hospital purposes, the title to any lands situate within the said city, either by purchase, subject to the provisions of this act, or by proceedings in the name of the city to acquire title of said land pursuant to the condemnation law; but no action or suit under the condemnation law shall be brought without the express consent of the common council. § 65-e. Hospital funds. The sum thus raised by taxation or the issuance of bonds shall be retained in a separate fund to be expended by the board of hospital commissioners for the purposes herein defined; but the board shall enter into no contracts for the erection or construction of buildings or additions, whose cstimated cost shall involve an expenditure of more than five hundred dollars, without advertising for bids in the first instance; the board is vested with the power to undertake such work under its direct supervision should the bid or bids be unsatisfactory. § 65-f. Treasurer; custodian.- The city treasurer shall keep all moneys raised for hospital purposes, together with all moneys derived from gifts to the said city for hospital purposes, in a separate fund to be known as the hospital fund, to which shall be added once in each week all moneys received or charges made and paid to the exceutive officer of the hospital for the care of patients; no portion of this fund shall be paid out by the city treasurer, and no bill or claim against the said hospital system shall be paid, without a warrant of the board of hospital commissioners. § 65-g. Clerks and reports. The board of hospital commissioners may appoint a clerk, who shall keep a minute of the proceedings of the board, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the said hospital system, which he shall cer tify to the common council ten days before the first day of April in each year and at such other times as the common council or mayor may require; all reports shall be deemed to be public records. § 65-h. Donors and donations. In so far as existing bequests, devises and grants do not prohibit, the boards of trustees, boards of managers, and other officers of private, quasi-private and public hospitals or similar concerns within the city of Jamestown, are empowered to enter into agreements with the board of hospital commissioners, subject to the consent of the common council, for the sale, transfer or lease, management and control of their property or properties by the board of hospital commissioners, and in accordance with the general laws of the state of New York for the sale, transfer and lease of corporate, devised and trust properties. § 65-i. Officers and help.-The officers, employees, skilled and general help necessary to the conduct and maintenance of any public hospital erected under the provisions of this act, shall be appointed and selected by the board of hospital commissioners under such conditions as it may from time to time prescribe, and shall be removable at the pleasure of the said board without charges, nor shall any portion of the provisions of this charter requiring civil service examinations as a condition precedent to entering the employment of the city of Jamestown be applicable to the officers and help herein placed under the control of the board of hospital commissioners. § 65-j. Board of health. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to limit the jurisdiction or power of the board of health as provided by this charter and the general laws of the state of New York. CITY HOSPITAL, LOCKPORT. AN ACT to establish an hospital for the city of Lockport, to be known as the city hospital, and to provide for the erection, government and maintenance thereof, and to repeal chapter four hundred twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred. Chapter 568, Laws of 1901. Section 1. The common council of the city of Lockport is hereby authorized to issue bonds not to exceed ten thousand dollars, in amount, five thousand dollars of which shall be issued for the purpose of raising funds with which to defray the expense of constructing the city hospital for the city of Lockport, and not to exceed five thousand dollars of which bonds shall be issued during the year nineteen hundred and eight, for the purpose of providing funds for the support and maintenance of said hospital during the said year. Said bonds shall bear interest at not to exceed five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall not be sold at less than par, and one thousand dollars of the principal sum of said bonds shall become due and payable at the end of each period of one year from and after the issue thercof; and the principal and interest thereof shall be payable at the office of the city treasurer of said city, or at such place as the common council thereof shall des ignate. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor, countersigned by the city clerk of said city, and be sealed with the city seal, and shall be sold by the city treasurer upon sealed proposals received by him, after public advertisement for not less than ten days, to he person or persons offering to pay par therefor, at the lowest rate of interest; but said bonds shall not be sold at less than the par value thereof. The common council of said city is authorized to raise by general tax levy in each and every year, after the issue of said bonds, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars in addition to the amount of principal and interest of said bonds due in each such year. The moneys received from the sale of said bonds. shall be placed by the city treasurer to the credit of a fund to be known as the city hospital fund, and shall only be used for the purposes of this act, and all drafts thereon shall be audited and approved by the common council thereof. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.) § 2. As soon as may be, after the passage of this act, the common council of said city shall procure plans for a new hospital building to be made with estimates of the cost thereof, and shall thereupon approve or reject the same. If the common council shall approve such plans, it shall at once advertise for sealed proposals for the erection and equipment of such hospital building. and the contract therefor shall be let to the lowest bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security for its faithful performance, unless the council reject all bids therefor, which it may do; but no portion of the moneys authorized to be raised by this act shall be expended for the purchase of a site for an hospital building. 3. The city of Lockport is hereby authorized to retain, for the purpose of a site for the said hospital, any real estate, which it may now own, or the title to which it may hereafter acquire through tax sale proceedings. § 4. After the construction of the said hospital building the control thereof shall vest in the board of health of said city, but said board shall not order the expenditure of any money or make any contract, with reference to said hospital, except by a majority vote of all its members, which vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered in the minutes. No expenditure or contract, amounting to one hundred dollars or more, shall be made without the consent of the common council, and before the board shall enter into a contract for the performance of any work or the furnishing of any supplies, the expense of which shall equal the sum of one hundred dollars, it shall, after having obtained the common coun cil's consent, cause a notice to be published in three successive numbers of the official paper, inviting proposals for the same, according to plans and specifications then on file in its office, and such contract shall be let to the lowest bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security for its faithful performance, unless the board rejects all bids therefor, which it may do. 5. The said board of health shall make rules and regulations. for the conduct of said hospital, and shall fix the terms for care and board upon which persons, who are able to pay therefor, shall be admitted thereto. But no person shall be refused admission to said hospital because of his or her inability to pay. They shall also appoint all necessary employes, nurses and servants, and fix their compensation. All rules and regulations made by said board, all appointments hereunder and the compensation of any employes shall be subject to the approval of the common council. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.) § 6. All moneys received for the board and care of patients. treated in said hospital shall be paid to the treasurer of the city of Lockport to the credit of the city hospital fund. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.) § 7. Chapter four hundred twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred is hereby repealed. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.) Chapter 198, Laws of 1908. 231. The common council shall have power in each year to cause a sum not exceeding the aggregate of the several sums hereinafter in this section specified, to be raised by general tax in said. city, whereof they may expend in each fiscal year for the several purposes hereinafter in this section specified, a sum not exceeding the amounts hereinafter severally designated therefor, namely: For the maintenance and repair of the city hospital, eight thousand dollars, to be known as the city hospital fund. (As amended by chapter 345 of the Laws of 1910.) * * * * Chapter 308, Laws of 1910. Section 1. For the year nineteen hundred and ten, the common council of the city of Lockport is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of three thousand dollars for the purpose of improving, operating and maintaining the city hospital in said city, and to issue bonds for the same. Said bonds shall bear interest at not. to exceed five per centum per annum, payable annually, and shall not be sold at less than par. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the city clerk of said city; and be sealed with the city seal, and the principal thereof shall be payable at the office of the city treasurer of said city, or at such other place as the common council thereof shall designate. The city treasurer shall invite sealed proposals for said bonds by public advertisement for not less than five days, and shall award the same to the highest bidder or bidders therefor, but no bonds authorized by this act shall be sold for less than the par value of the same. Said proposals shall be publicly opened by the city treasurer in the presence of the committee on finance of the common council, or such of them as shall attend, after one day's personal notice or a two day's notice by mail, and the time |