New York Laws
Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town
17-1714 - Establishment and Maintenance of Hospitals.

§ 17-1714 Establishment and maintenance of hospitals. 1. For the
purpose of enabling such villages to procure federal aid under the
provisions of the national industrial recovery act in the establishment
of hospitals, the board of trustees of any village which has been or may
hereafter be incorporated or which has annexed territory to embrace the
entire territory of a town, and which is adjacent to a city or town in
which a hospital is maintained by a duly incorporated membership
corporation, may acquire by gift or purchase title to lands in such city
or town in trust for hospital purposes. If such land is to be acquired
by gift, the acquisition shall be subject to a permissive referendum or
if such land is to be acquired by purchase, the acquisition shall be
subject to a permissive referendum if it is to be paid from taxes levied
for the fiscal year in which such expenditure is made. The board may
construct and maintain on such land suitable buildings and equip the
same for hospital purposes and, from time to time, enter into one or
more agreements with such membership hospital corporation for the
control and operation thereof, and such board of trustees may accept on
such terms as the president of the United States shall prescribe, any
grants made by him pursuant to the provisions of the said national
industrial recovery act in aid of the establishment of the said
hospital.

2. There shall be levied and assessed annually upon the taxable
property in the said village in the manner prescribed by law a sum
sufficient to defray the cost of the operation and maintenance of the
said hospital in each year, as estimated by the board of trustees of
such village.

3. Hospital corporations duly incorporated under the provisions of the
membership corporation law are hereby empowered to dedicate, grant and
release to any such village lands for said purposes, upon terms and
conditions to be approved by its board of governors, and to enter into
agreements with the board of trustees of any such village for the
control, operation and maintenance of any hospital or hospitals to be
constructed as hereinbefore provided.

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