N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 126
Establishment of public general hospitals


The governing board of any county, town, city or village may by resolution determine that there shall be in said county, town, city or village a public general hospital for the care and treatment of the sick and in any county not having a tuberculosis hospital established under sections forty-five to forty-nine-e, both inclusive, of the county law, said public general hospital may include a pavilion or other provision for the care of tuberculosis patients. In any city in which a board of estimate and apportionment or other board is required to approve appropriations for public purposes, the resolution of the governing board to establish a public general hospital shall be effective only after the necessary appropriation for lands and buildings for such public general hospital shall have been approved by said board of estimate and apportionment or other board, in the same manner and by the same vote by which it is required by law to approve other appropriations for public purposes. When the governing board of any county, town, city or village shall have voted to establish a public general hospital, such governing board shall have the following powers:

1.

To purchase and lease real property therefor, or acquire such real property and easements therein by condemnation proceedings in the manner prescribed in the condemnation law, in any locality within the jurisdiction of such governing board.

2.

To cause to be assessed, levied and collected such sums of money as shall have been approved as hereinabove provided for suitable lands and buildings, and as it shall deem necessary for equipment and improvements for said hospital, and for the maintenance thereof, and for all other necessary expenditures therefor; or such governing board 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, and may transfer such moneys so appropriated to the treasurer of such hospital, subject to such regulations as to audit thereof by such governing board as it may deem proper when such board of managers have appointed a treasurer as hereinafter provided for.

3.

To accept and hold in trust for the county, town, city or village of which it is the governing board, 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.

4.

Such governing board may also adopt a resolution authorizing the board of managers of such hospital to elect a treasurer, who shall be bonded, and who shall establish an account in a bank or banks in the name of such hospital and deposit in such account all money received or collected by such hospital and pay therefrom all bills, accounts, and salaries and wages, when approved by the board of managers of such hospital, within the budget limits, by resolution subject to such regulations as the governing board may deem proper; provided, however, that the proceeds, inclusive of premiums, from the sale of bonds, bond anticipation notes, capital notes or budget notes shall be deposited in a special account in a bank or trust company located and authorized to do business in this state, shall not be commingled with other funds, and shall be expended only for the object or purpose for which such obligations were issued.

Source: Section 126 — Establishment of public general hospitals, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/126 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

120
Contracts for purification of water and sewerage
120‑A
Contracts for sewerage disposal
120‑AA
Source separation and segregation of recyclable or reuseable materials
120‑B
Supervision of sewage system
120‑BB
Town of Huntington solid waste management resource recovery facility
120‑C
Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts
120‑CC
Enforcement of unpaid solid waste collection and/or disposal fee
120‑D
Officers of meeting
120‑E
By whom proposed district represented
120‑F
Contract
120‑G
Apportionment of cost
120‑H
Further provisions as to apportionment of cost
120‑I
Means of payment
120‑K
Payments
120‑L
Letting of contracts
120‑M
Application of other laws to procedure
120‑N
Maps and plans of sewers
120‑O
Definitions
120‑P
Referendum in cities and villages
120‑Q
Rules and regulations
120‑R
Cancellation of sewerage contracts for neglect
120‑S
Joint meeting for acquisition and operation of property
120‑T
Town and village may establish a joint water district
120‑U
Mutual aid for water service
120‑V
Contracts for disposal of sewage outside the state
120‑W
Contracts and agreements for solid waste management, collection and disposal
120‑X
Agreements for joint acquisition, construction and operation of public docks
120‑Z
Sewer hook-ups by private contractors
121
Establishment and maintenance of free public baths
121‑A
Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages
121‑B
Care of children admitted to certain places of amusement in certain cities, villages and towns under a local law or ordinance
122
Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited
122‑B
General ambulance services
122‑C
Transport of police work dogs injured in the line of duty
123
Erection and operation of life-saving apparatus
124
Inspection of building elevators in Nassau county
125
Issuance of building permits
125‑A
Posting signs on dead-end roads
126
Establishment of public general hospitals
126‑A
Joint hospitals for cities, towns or villages
126‑B
Public hospitals for chronically ill
126‑B*2
Establishment of Broome county nursing home
126‑C
Appointment to board of managers of county hospital
127
Appointment and terms of office of managers
128
General powers and duties of managers
128‑A
Petty cash fund
129
General powers and duties of superintendent
129‑A
Erie county
130
Admission and maintenance of patients
131
Training school for nurses
132
Room for detention and examination of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill
133
Visitation and inspection
134
Existing county, town, city or village public general hospitals
135
Application of preceding sections
135‑A
Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the aged
135‑B
Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria
135‑C
Prenatal and maternity care
136
Regulation of automobile junk yards
139‑C
Sheltered workshops
139‑D
Storage and display of firearms, ammunition and explosives
139‑E
Posting of sanitary inspection grade

Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 126’s source at nysenate​.gov

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