New York · statute · N.Y. New York City health and hospitals corporation act 1016/69 Law · 28 active provisions
Chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969 NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION ACT Section 1. Short title. 2. Declaration of policy and statement of purposes. 3. Definitions. 4. New York city health and hospitals corporation. 4-a. 5. General powers of the corporation. 6. Relationship to the city; agreements concerning…
Section 1. Short title. This act may be cited as the "New York city health and hospitals corporation act".
§ 2. Declaration of policy and statement of purposes. It is hereby found, declared and determined that the provision and delivery of comprehensive care and treatment of the ill and infirm, both physical and mental, are of vital and paramount concern and essential to the protection and promotion of the health, safety an…
§ 3. Definitions. As used or referred to in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the text: 1. "Administrator" or "Health service administrator" shall mean the administrator of health services of the city of New York. 2. "Administration" shall mean the health services administration of the city of N…
§ 4. New York city health and hospitals corporation. 1. A corporation, to be known as the "New York city health and hospitals corporation," is hereby created. Such corporation shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall be administered by a board of directors consisting of…
§ 4-a. For the purposes of sections one hundred seventy-five (a) and one hundred seventy-five (b) of the state finance law, the corporation shall be deemed to be a political subdivision.
§ 5. General powers of the corporation. The corporation shall have the following powers in addition to those specifically conferred elsewhere in this act: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and to alter the same at its pleasure; 3. To adopt, alter, amend or repeal by-laws or rules or regulations for the organizat…
§ 6. Relationship to the city; agreements concerning health facilities. 1. (a) The city shall on or before the first day of July nineteen hundred seventy enter into an agreement or agreements with the corporation, pursuant to this section and section seven herein, whereby the corporation shall operate the hospitals the…
§ 7. Conveyance of property by the city to the corporation; acquisition of property by the city. 1. The city, acting by the board of estimate thereof, may, by deed, lease or other instrument convey, lease or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property or any interest therein owned or held by the city, without pu…
§ 7-a. Relationship with the New York state and the housing finance agency health and mental hygiene facilities improvement corporation. Notwithstanding any provision of this act to the contrary: (a) The city shall not sell, assign, transfer or sublet to the corporation any health facility, as defined in section three…
§ 8. Contracts. 1. Any contract let by the corporation for the construction of a health facility shall be publicly let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner provided by, and in conformity with, the provisions of article five-a of the general municipal law, except that where the cost of such a contract does not…
§ 9. Personnel administration; collective bargaining; pension and retirement benefits; article fourteen civil service law; paragraph two hundred twenty labor law; personnel review board. 1. The corporation shall, upon ten days written notice appropriately posted in the health facilities, promulgate rules and regulation…
§ 10. Officers and employees not to be interested in transactions. It shall be a misdemeanor for a director of the corporation or an officer, agent, executive or other employee retained, employed or appointed by the corporation to be in any manner or way interested, directly or indirectly, as principal, surety or other…
§ 11. Moneys of the corporation. 1. Any moneys of the corporation, from whatever source derived, shall, except as otherwise provided in this act, be deposited as soon as practicable in banks or trust companies organized under the laws of the state or national banking association doing business in the city designated by…
§ 12. Issuance of bonds and notes by the corporation. 1. Subject to the provisions of section thirteen, the corporation shall have the power and is hereby authorized, from time to time, to issue negotiable bonds and notes in such aggregate principal amounts as shall, in the opinion of the corporation, be necessary toge…
§ 13. Reserve fund. 1. The corporation shall create and establish a special fund (herein referred to as the capital reserve fund), and shall pay into such capital reserve fund (a) any moneys appropriated and made available by the state or city for the purpose of such capital reserve fund, (b) any proceeds of sale of bo…
§ 14. Agreement of the state. The state of New York does pledge to and agree with the holders of any and all bonds and notes of the corporation that the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the corporation to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the said holders, or in any way impair the r…
§ 15. State and city not liable on bonds and notes. The bonds, notes or other obligations of the corporation shall not be a debt of either the state of New York or of the city of New York, and neither the state nor the city shall be liable thereon, nor shall they be payable out of any funds other than those of the corp…
§ 16. City's right to require redemption of bonds. Notwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption of bonds which may be contained in any contract with the holders of the bonds, the city may, upon furnishing sufficient funds therefor, require the corporation to redeem, prior to maturity, as a whole…
§ 17. Remedies of holders of bonds and notes. 1. In the event that the corporation shall default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any issue of bonds or notes after the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and such default shall continue for a period of thirty days, or…
§ 18. Assistance to the corporation. The state or city shall be empowered to make grants of money or property to the corporation for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its corporate purposes and for the exercise of its powers, including, but not limited to, deposits to the capital reserve fund to assist the corpor…
§ 19. Exemption from taxation. 1. The moneys and property of the corporation and any property under its jurisdiction, control or supervision, and all of its activities and operations shall be exempt from taxation. 2. The state of New York covenants with the purchasers of and with all subsequent holders and transferees…
§ 20. Actions by and against the corporation. 1. In every action against the corporation for damages for injuries to real or personal property, or for the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries or death, the complaint shall contain an allegation that at least thirty days have elapsed since the demand, claim or c…
§ 21. Bonds and notes as legal investments. The bonds and notes of the corporation are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks,…
§ 22. Annual and special reports. 1. Within one hundred twenty days after the end of the fiscal year of the corporation, the directors thereof shall submit to the mayor, the comptroller, the city council of the city of New York and the state comptroller a complete and detailed report setting forth: (a) its operations a…