N.Y. Public Health Law § 541: City laboratories; operation and control

§ 541. City laboratories; operation and control. 1. Upon the

establishment or continuation of a laboratory by a city as provided in

section five hundred forty of this chapter, all the powers and duties of

the board of supervisors of a county in relation to laboratories

provided in sections five hundred twenty and five hundred twenty-two of

this chapter, shall devolve upon the common council or other authority

exercising similar powers of such city.

2. The salaries of the director and other employees of the laboratory,

and contracts to be made for, by or on behalf of the laboratory and

appropriations for the acquisition of sites and buildings and for

maintenance, shall all be under the control of the same officials as now

have control of similar items and shall be governed by the same

provisions of law.