N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 135-B
Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria


Any municipal corporation maintaining a public general hospital or a hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis under the provisions of any general or special law may establish, equip and maintain, in connection therewith, a department of occupational therapy. For the purpose of this section occupational therapy is defined as any activity, mental or physical, prescribed, guided or supervised for any patient for the purpose of contributing to and hastening his recovery from disease or injury. The appropriate municipal authorities may appropriate or provide funds for the establishment, equipment and operation of such occupational therapy departments in the same manner as for the establishment, equipment and operation of such public general hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria. Such occupational therapy department shall be under the general superintendence, management and control of the municipal authority, board of managers, or other agency having general superintendence, management and control of the public general hospital, tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium to which it may be attached. The chief medical officer of such public general hospital, tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium shall have authority to employ one or more occupational therapists to carry on the work of such department under his supervision. The qualifications of occupational therapists so employed shall be defined by the public health and health planning council. The chief medical officer of the institution may sell any article made or manufactured by any patient in his prescribed curative work carried on in such occupational therapy department to such patient upon payment by such patient to such chief medical officer of a sum not less than the cost of the material or materials from which such article was made or manufactured. Such chief medical officer may, in behalf of any patient, dispose of any article, made or manufactured by him, at public or private sale, and from moneys derived from the sale of such article he may pay to the patient such portion thereof that the residue shall at least equal the cost of the material or materials. Except in the case of hospitals or sanatoria maintained by counties having a county purchasing agent, the municipal authority, board of managers, or other agency having general superintendence, management and control of such public general hospital, tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, may place the moneys accruing to the occupational therapy department, from the two sources hereinabove mentioned, in a fund, to be known as “The Occupational Therapy Fund. ” The moneys in such fund at any time shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. All receipts in excess of such sum, or all receipts, if such fund be not established, shall be paid into the treasury of the municipal corporation operating such hospital or sanatorium. The chief medical officer of the institution may directly purchase with moneys from “The Occupational Therapy Fund,” if such a fund shall have been established, such materials, in addition to those provided for the operation of such occupational therapy department as hereinabove authorized, as are necessary to the proper functioning of such department. The chief medical officer may, in his discretion and if he deems such course to be in the best interest of any patient, temporarily withhold any or all moneys earned by such patient and shall give such moneys to such patient upon discharge.

Source: Section 135-B — Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/135-B (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

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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
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120‑I
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120‑K
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120‑L
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120‑M
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120‑N
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120‑Q
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120‑R
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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

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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