N.Y. Public Health Law § 356: Certain counties; legislative bodies constituted boards of health; county health directors; nurses designated as school nurses

§ 356. Certain counties; legislative bodies constituted boards of

health; county health directors; nurses designated as school nurses. 1.

The legislative body of each county having a population of less than one

hundred fifty thousand according to the nineteen hundred seventy federal

decennial census or the legislative body of any county whose population

shall be less than one hundred fifty thousand under any future federal

decennial census, except a county in which a county or part-county

health district has been established under this article or a county

having a county charter, optional or alternative form of government,

shall constitute the board of health of such county and shall have all

the powers and duties of a board of health of a county or part-county

health district including the power to appoint a full-time or part-time

county health director. The county health director may serve as director

of the children and youth with special health care needs support

services program and may employ such persons as shall be necessary to

enable the county health director to carry into effect the orders and

regulations of the board of health and the provisions of this chapter

and of the sanitary code, and fix their compensation within the limits

of the appropriation therefor. The members of a legislative body shall

not receive additional compensation by reason of serving as members of a

board of health. The county health director, so appointed, shall have

all the powers and duties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two

of this title.

2. (a) With the approval of the county health director, the trustee or

board of trustees of any common school district or the board of

education of any union free school district or central school district

within the county, may designate any nurse employed as provided in this

section as a school nurse to perform, in addition to her other duties,

the duties of a school nurse for any school or schools under such

respective trustee, board of trustees or board of education.

(b) Any nurse so designated shall perform her duties as school nurse

under the direction of the school medical inspector and the appropriate

school authorities and under the provisions of the education law and the

regulations prescribed pursuant thereto.