N.Y. Public Health Law § 2161: Poliomyelitis; persons twenty-one years of age and over; care and maintenance

§ 2161. Poliomyelitis; persons twenty-one years of age and over; care

and maintenance. Every county or part-county health commissioner, city

health officer in cities having more than fifty thousand population, and

state district health officer shall, within their respective areas and

after approval by the commissioner, provide at the remediable stages of

the disease known as poliomyelitis, suitable surgical, medical or

therapeutic treatment or hospital care, and necessary appliances and

devices for all persons twenty-one years of age or over including

Indians residing on reservations, so infected or exposed who cannot

otherwise be provided for. In a county the determination as to what

persons cannot otherwise be provided for and relevant matters shall be

made by the board of supervisors of such county against which the same

is to be a charge and an investigation and report thereon to such board

upon which to make its determination shall be made by the public welfare

commissioner or such other county officer, or committee of the board as

the board of supervisors may designate by resolution. The charges

approved for such treatment shall be in full payment thereof and shall

be accepted by the person or corporation furnishing such treatment as

full payment and no such person or corporation shall ask or receive

directly or indirectly any other or additional compensation.