N.Y. Public Health Law § 543: City laboratories; board of managers; power to enter into agreements with hospitals

§ 543. City laboratories; board of managers; power to enter into

agreements with hospitals. The board of managers of a city laboratory

shall have the power to enter into an agreement annually with the

governing board of any charitable corporation or municipality operating

and maintaining a hospital to provide that the hospital collect fees for

laboratory services for the patients in such hospital in the same manner

that hospital charges are collected, and forward them to the laboratory,

and to provide that the cost of collecting such fees be paid by the city

to the hospital in an amount mutually acceptable and in lieu of actual

and necessary expenses. No agreement shall become effective unless and

until approved by the commissioner and by resolution of the common

council or other body exercising similar powers.