New York Laws
Title 2 - Local Health Officers
327 - Local Health Officer; Nurses; Appointment.

ยง 327. Local health officer; nurses; appointment. Every health
officer or other official exercising similar duties, by whatever
official designation he may be known, with the approval and consent of
the local board of health of his district, shall have power to employ
such number of public health nurses, qualified as provided by the
sanitary code, as in his judgment may be necessary within the limits of
the appropriation made therefor by the municipality.