N.Y. Public Health Law Section 604
Supervision of public health programs

In order to be eligible for state aid, under this title, each municipality shall employ a full-time local commissioner of health or public health director to supervise the provision of public health services for that municipality, subject to the following exceptions:

1.

such person may serve as the head of a merged agency or multiple agencies, if the approval of the commissioner is obtained; and

2.

such person may serve as the local commissioner of health or public health director of additional counties, when authorized pursuant to § 351 (County or part-county health commissioner, public health director or county health director)section three hundred fifty-one of this chapter.

Source: Section 604 — Supervision of public health programs, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBH/604 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 24, 2026).

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