N.Y. County Law § 225-b: Contracts for visiting nursing services

§ 225-b. Contracts for visiting nursing services. The board of

supervisors of any county may, upon recommendation of the county board

of health, contract with any nonprofit institution or agency, wholly or

partly under private control, organized to furnish visiting nursing and

public health services and agree to pay fees specified in the said

contract for such services furnished to inhabitants of the county. Any

fees for services collected by the institution or agency for services

rendered under such contract shall be credited against the amount

payable by the county under the terms of the contract. Such contracts

shall be effective only upon approval of the state commissioner of

health and the state comptroller. Such contracts shall provide that the

contracting institution or agency will comply with all rules promulgated

by the county health commissioner. Such boards of supervisors are

authorized and empowered to appropriate the sums required to be paid to

such institutions and agencies under the terms of such contracts and to

raise the amount thereof by taxation.