New York Laws
Article 7-A - County Tuberculosis Hospitals
385 - Establishment of County Tuberculosis Hospitals.

(a) Purchase or lease real property therefor, or acquire such real
property, and easements therein, by appropriate proceedings, in the
manner prescribed by the eminent domain procedure law, in any town, city
or village in the county.
(b) Erect all necessary buildings and alter any buildings, on the
property when acquired for the use of said hospital, provided that the
location of the buildings and the plans and such part of the
specifications as shall be required by the state commissioner of health
for such erection or alteration together with the initial equipment
shall first be approved by the state commissioner of health. Any
changes in such location or plans shall also be first approved by the
state commissioner of health and the state commissioner of health and
his duly authorized representatives shall have the power to inspect such

county hospitals during the course of their construction for the purpose
of seeing that such plans are complied with.
(c) Cause to be assessed, levied and collected such sums of money as
it shall deem necessary for suitable lands, buildings and improvements
for said hospital, and for the maintenance thereof, and for all other
necessary expenditures therefor; or may finance expenditures for the
erection of such hospital and for the purchase of a site therefor
pursuant to the provisions of the local finance law.
(d) Appoint a board of managers for said hospital as hereinafter
provided.
(e) Accept and hold in trust for the county, any grant or devise of
land, or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property, or any
donation to be applied, principal or income, or both, for the benefit of
said hospital, and apply the same in accordance with the terms of the
gift.
(f) Whenever it shall deem it in the public interest so to do, and
notwithstanding the provisions of any other general or special act,
change the location of such hospital and acquire a new site by purchase,
lease or condemnation, as provided in this section, and establish the
hospital thereon.