N.Y. Education Law § 606: County awards for professional education in nursing, medicine, dentistry, optometry or veterinary medicine

§ 606. County awards for professional education in nursing, medicine,

dentistry, optometry or veterinary medicine. Each county of the state

outside New York city is hereby authorized to establish awards in such

manner as the local legislative body of such county may determine, for

attendance by legal residents of this state, who meet the citizenship

requirements established by article fourteen of this chapter for the

professional study of nursing, medicine, dentistry, optometry or

veterinary medicine, at approved nursing, medical, dental, optometry or

veterinary medicine schools within the United States, conditioned upon

the promise of the scholarship holder to practice nursing, medicine,

dentistry, optometry or veterinary medicine in such county for such

period as such body may fix, following his licensing as a nurse,

physician, dentist, optometrist or veterinarian. Each such award shall

entitle the recipient to such sum of money as may be fixed by such body

while in attendance at approved nursing, medical, dental, optometry or

veterinary medicine schools in the United States during a period of not

to exceed four years of professional study and for physicians for a

further period of not to exceed two years while engaged in an internship

or as a resident physician in an accredited hospital in the United

States. Such awards may, as an alternative to awards hereinbefore

authorized, be granted by any such county to those already so licensed

to practice nursing, medicine, dentistry, optometry or veterinary

medicine upon the promise of such grantees to practice within the county

for a period of time and upon such terms and conditions as the county

may fix, provided such recipient did not receive a similar award while a

student. The county shall appropriate annually such sums of money as

may be necessary to defray the costs of such awards and moneys so

appropriated shall be deemed appropriated for a lawful county purpose

and shall be raised by the same method as moneys required for other

lawful county purposes.