N.Y. Village Law § 17-1714: Establishment and maintenance of hospitals

§ 17-1714 Establishment and maintenance of hospitals. 1. For the

purpose of enabling such villages to procure federal aid under the

provisions of the national industrial recovery act in the establishment

of hospitals, the board of trustees of any village which has been or may

hereafter be incorporated or which has annexed territory to embrace the

entire territory of a town, and which is adjacent to a city or town in

which a hospital is maintained by a duly incorporated membership

corporation, may acquire by gift or purchase title to lands in such city

or town in trust for hospital purposes. If such land is to be acquired

by gift, the acquisition shall be subject to a permissive referendum or

if such land is to be acquired by purchase, the acquisition shall be

subject to a permissive referendum if it is to be paid from taxes levied

for the fiscal year in which such expenditure is made. The board may

construct and maintain on such land suitable buildings and equip the

same for hospital purposes and, from time to time, enter into one or

more agreements with such membership hospital corporation for the

control and operation thereof, and such board of trustees may accept on

such terms as the president of the United States shall prescribe, any

grants made by him pursuant to the provisions of the said national

industrial recovery act in aid of the establishment of the said

hospital.

2. There shall be levied and assessed annually upon the taxable

property in the said village in the manner prescribed by law a sum

sufficient to defray the cost of the operation and maintenance of the

said hospital in each year, as estimated by the board of trustees of

such village.

3. Hospital corporations duly incorporated under the provisions of the

membership corporation law are hereby empowered to dedicate, grant and

release to any such village lands for said purposes, upon terms and

conditions to be approved by its board of governors, and to enter into

agreements with the board of trustees of any such village for the

control, operation and maintenance of any hospital or hospitals to be

constructed as hereinbefore provided.