N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 3555: Special powers of the corporation

§ 3555. Special powers of the corporation. In order to effectuate the

purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following

additional powers:

1. to contract with the state to operate, manage, superintend and

control the Roswell Park Cancer Institute; and to establish, collect and

adjust fees, rentals, and other charges for the lease or sublease of

such health facility, subject to the terms and conditions of any

contract, lease, sublease or other agreement with the state;

2. to provide health and medical services for the public directly or

by agreement or lease with any person, firm or private or public

corporation or association through or in the facilities of the

corporation or in other health care facilities and to make internal

policies governing admissions and health and medical services;

3. to provide and maintain training programs for resident physicians,

post-graduate clinical fellows, graduate students and other allied

health professionals;

4. to sponsor and conduct research, educational and training programs;

5. to participate in managed care networks, fee-for-service, and other

joint and cooperative arrangements for the provision of general

comprehensive and specialty health care services, directly or through

contract with other service providers or entities including employees or

entities of the state;

6. to establish subsidiary corporations or other entities in

accordance with subdivision ten of this section:

(a) to meet the demands of health care delivery changes; and

(b) to market, manufacture or develop products or services developed

by the corporation's clinical and research activities;

7. to affiliate with a medical college or colleges;

8. to contract to use employees, agents, consultants and facilities of

the state, paying the state its agreed proportion of the compensation or

costs pursuant to an agreement with the state;

9. to determine the conditions under which a physician may be extended

the privilege of practicing within a health facility under the

jurisdiction of the corporation, to promulgate internal policies for the

conduct of all persons, physicians and allied health practitioners

within such facility, and to appoint and grant privileges to qualified

and competent clinical practitioners;

10. except as provided in this subdivision or as expressly limited by

any applicable state law or regulation, and in support of the powers

granted by subdivisions five and six of this section, to form and to

participate in the formation of one or more corporations, and to

exercise and perform such purposes, powers, duties, functions or

activities through one or more subsidiary corporations or other entities

owned or controlled wholly or in part by the corporation, which shall be

formed pursuant to the business corporation law, the limited liability

company law, the not-for-profit corporation law, or the partnership law;

any such subsidiary may be authorized to act as a general or limited

partner in a partnership or as a member of a limited liability company,

and enter into an arrangement calling for an initial and subsequent

payment or payments or contributions to capital by such subsidiary in

consideration of an interest in revenues or other contractual rights. An

entity shall be deemed a subsidiary corporation whenever and so long as

(a) more than half of any voting shares or other membership interest of

such subsidiary are owned or held by the corporation or (b) a majority

of the directors, trustees or members of such subsidiary are designees

of the corporation;

11. to take all necessary and appropriate steps and arrangements to

develop a plan and, on or before January first, two thousand fourteen,

seek the necessary approvals to execute such plan which may include but

are not limited to entering into arrangements, mergers or other

affiliations with one or more health care, academic or other entities

for the purposes of protecting and promoting the health of the patients

served by its health facilities, advancing the corporation's mission of

conducting innovative research into the causes and treatment of cancer,

securing its financial viability and achieving operational and fiscal

independence from the state, and to the extent possible, contributing to

the economic revitalization of the region; provided that the

commissioner of health shall monitor such steps and arrangements and

participate with the corporation in establishment of goals and

benchmarks for the achievement of such independence, and the corporation

shall make requests for assistance and approvals needed to execute such

steps and arrangements.

12. No subsidiary of the corporation shall own, operate, manage or

control the existing research, education, acute inpatient or outpatient

facilities and services now operated by the Roswell Park Cancer

Institute.