N.Y. Public Health Law § 353: Deputy county or part-county health commissioners; assistants and employees; appointment

§ 353. Deputy county or part-county health commissioners; assistants

and employees; appointment. 1. Local health officers who continue to

hold office after the establishment of a county or part-county health

district, pursuant to the provisions of this article, shall be deputies

of the county health commissioner, who may require any such local health

officer to perform within his jurisdiction any of the duties required of

local health officers.

2. The county health commissioner may appoint with the approval of the

board of health such additional deputies, assistant deputies and other

employees as may be required to fulfill the purposes of this article in

the health district and as may be authorized by the board of supervisors

pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred one of the county

law. Such deputies and assistant deputies and other employees shall have

the qualifications prescribed in the sanitary code.

3. The county health commissioner may designate in writing a deputy,

qualified in accordance with the provisions of the sanitary code, to

whom shall be delegated all the powers and duties of the county health

commissioner when such commissioner is unable to act by reason of

absence or disability.