N.Y. Public Health Law § 450: Directors of hospitals; qualifications and appointment

§ 450. Directors of hospitals; qualifications and appointment. 1.

There shall be a director of each state hospital in the department, who

shall be in the competitive class of civil service, and who shall be

appointed by the commissioner.

2. The director shall possess the qualifications prescribed by law,

or, if no such qualifications be prescribed, such qualifications as may

be prescribed in the sanitary code.

3. Before making the appointment of a director of a hospital, the

commissioner shall give notice of his intended action to the members of

the board of visitors, by registered mail, naming the person whom he

proposes to appoint and his place of residence, and shall specify a day,

not less than ten days from the mailing of the notice, before which the

board of visitors may submit to the commissioner the objections of the

board of visitors, if any, to such appointment; and the person named

shall not be appointed before such day, except in the case of an express

approval by the board of visitors.

4. Subject to removal in the manner provided by law, the director of

each hospital in the department now in office is hereby continued in

office.