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 Jan. 10, 2026).

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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
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
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Jan. 10, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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