N.Y. Public Health Law § 420: Boards of visitors; appointment

§ 420. Boards of visitors; appointment. 1. (a) Subject to the

provisions of this chapter, each hospital in the department shall

continue to have a board of seven visitors, to be appointed by the

governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate; provided

however that in the case of the state institute for the study of

malignant diseases one of the seven members of the board of visitors

shall be the commissioner, ex-officio.

(b) At least two members of the board of visitors of the Helen Hayes

hospital shall be duly licensed physicians and at least two members

shall be women. This provision shall not affect the offices of the

present members; but appointments hereafter shall be so made as to

comply herewith as soon as practicable.

(c) At least two of the members of the board of visitors of the state

institute for the study of malignant diseases shall be residents of the

city of Buffalo or vicinity and one member of the board of visitors

shall be a member of the medical faculty or of the council of the

University of Buffalo.

2. (a) The terms of office of the members of the boards of visitors,

other than the members of the board of visitors of the state institute

for the study of malignant diseases, shall be seven years, and they

shall be so appointed that the term of at least one of the members of

the board of visitors shall expire on the thirty-first day of December

of each year.

(b) The terms of office of the members of the board of visitors of the

state institute for the study of malignant diseases shall be five years

and they shall be so appointed that the term of at least one of the

members shall expire on the thirty-first of December of each year.

3. All vacancies on the several boards of visitors of hospitals in the

department shall be filled by the governor in the same manner as

original appointments, and the person appointed to fill a vacancy in the

board of visitors of a hospital in the department shall hold office for

the remainder of the term of the person whom he succeeds.

4. The governor may remove any member or members of a board of

visitors for cause after an opportunity to be heard.

5. This section shall not affect the terms of the present members of

such board.

6. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section or any

other provision of law to the contrary, upon the transfer to the Roswell

Park Cancer Institute corporation of the operations of the Roswell Park

Cancer Institute, the board of visitors of Roswell Park Cancer Institute

shall cease to operate and the terms of the current members of the board

of visitors shall terminate. In the event that the operations of the

Roswell Park Cancer Institute revert to the department of health, the

board of visitors shall be reconstituted and the governor shall make new

appointments pursuant to this section.