N.Y. Public Health Law § 2903: Designation as agency to administer federal hospital program in New York

§ 2903. Designation as agency to administer federal hospital program

in New York. The department of health is hereby designated, and

empowered to act, as the sole agency of the state, to carry out the

purposes of any such federal law or laws heretofore or hereafter

enacted. Such department is authorized to submit an inventory and survey

in accordance with federal law, containing all information required by

the surgeon general and a state plan providing for constructoin of

adequate hospital facilities for the people residing within the state,

regardless of their ability to pay therefor, without discrimination on

account of race, creed or color, as may be required by such federal law

or laws relating thereto, and to administer or supervise the

administration of any plan or plans or otherwise act thereunder.

Application for funds, authorized to be received and accepted by the

department of taxation and finance under section twenty-nine hundred two

of this article, shall be made by the department of health to the

surgeon general of the United States public health service or other

appropriate agency.