N.Y. Public Health Law § 403: Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold

§ 403. Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold. 1. The

following state hospitals are hereby continued in the department for the

purposes for which they have been respectively established:

(a) The Helen Hayes hospital;

(b) Roswell Park Cancer Institute;

(c) The New York state home for veterans and their dependents at

Oxford;

(d) The New York state home for veterans in the city of New York;

(e) The New York state home for veterans in western New York;

(f) The New York state home for veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley.

2. Notwithstanding any other inconsistent provisions of law,

including, but not limited to, article four-C of the economic

development law, and subject to the provisions of any lease, loan

agreement or other agreement with the dormitory authority of the state

of New York or any predecessor or successor agency or corporation, the

commissioner, with the approval of the director of the budget, may

contract with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation, for the

transfer of the operations of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute or any

part thereof, practice plan or of any other program operated by such

hospital. Such contract shall include terms and conditions under which

the Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation may issue bonds, notes or

other evidences of indebtedness. Payments made pursuant to such

contract or any other contracts between the department of health and the

Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation shall be limited to amounts

made available pursuant to appropriations. Upon the transfer of the

operations of Roswell Park Cancer Institute to the Roswell Park Cancer

Institute corporation, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation

shall operate the Roswell Park Cancer Institute for the department in

accordance with the terms of any lease or other agreement between the

department and the dormitory authority pertaining to the use, operation,

maintenance and replacement of Roswell Park Cancer Institute.