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State Charities Law (L. 1896, ch. 546), §§ 51, 52.

tutions, of the New York State School for the Blind and of the Elmira Reformatory, in addition to their other duties now required by law, shall, by a majority of its members, visit and inspect the institution for which it is appointed at least monthly, and shall make a written report to the governor, the state board of charities and the fiscal supervisor within ten days after each visitation, to be signed by each member making such visitation. Such reports shall state in detail the condition of the institution visited and of its inmates, and such other matters pertaining to the management and affairs thereof as in the opinion of the board should be brought to the attention of the governor, the state board of charities or the fiscal supervisor of state charities, and may contain recommendations as to needed improvements in the institution or its management. (Added by L. 1902, ch. 252, and amended by L. 1903, ch. 473, in effect May 7, 1903.)

§ 51. Reports to supervisors of appointments and committals to charitable institutions. Every judge, justice, superintendent or overseer of the poor, supervisor or other person who is authorized by law to make appointments or commitments to any state charitable institution, except almshouses, in which the board, instruction, care or clothing is a charge against any county, town or city, shall make a written report to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which any town is situated, or to the city clerk of any city, which are liable for any such board, instruction, care or clothing, within ten days after such appointment or commitment, and shall therein state, when known, the nationality, age, sex and residence of each person so appointed or committed and the length of time of such appointment or commitment. (Renumbered by L. 1902, ch. 252, in effect April 1, 1902.)

$ 52. Reports by officers of certain institutions to clerks of supervisors and cities. The keeper, superintendent, secretary, director or other proper officer of a state charitable institution to which any person is committed or appointed, whose board, care, instruction, tuition or clothing shall be chargeable to any city, town or county, shall make a written report to the clerk of such city or to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, within ten days after receiving such person therein. Such report shall state when such

State Charities Law (L. 1896, ch. 546), § 53.

person was received into the institution, and, when known, the name, age, sex, nationality, residence, length of time of commitment or appointment, the name of the officer making the same, and the sum chargeable per week, month or year for such person. If any person so appointed or committed to any such institution shall die, be removed or discharged, such officers shall immediately report to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, or to the city clerk of the city from which such person was committed or appointed, the date of such death, removal or discharge. (Renumbered by L. 1902, ch. 252, in effect April 1, 1902.)

§ 53. Verified accounts against counties, cities and towns.-The officers mentioned in the last section shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of October, present to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, or to the city clerk of a city from which any such person is committed and appointed, a verified report and statement of the account of such institution with such county, town or city, up to the first day of October, and in case of a claim for clothing, an itemized statement of the same; and if a part of the board, care, tuition or clothing has been paid by any person or persons, the account shall show what sum has been so paid; and the report shall show the name, age, sex, nationality and residence of each person mentioned in the account, the name of the officer who made the appointment or commitment, and the date and length of the same, and the time to which the account has been paid, and the amount claimed to such first day of October, the sum per week or per annum charged, and if no part of such account has been paid, the report shall show such fact. Any officer who shall refuse or neglect to make such report shall not be entitled to receive any compensation or pay for any services, salary or otherwise, from any town, city or county affected thereby. The clerk of the board of supervisors who shall receive any such report or account shall file and present the same to the board of supervisors of his county on the second day of the annual meeting of the board next after the receipt of the same. (Renumbered by L. 1902, ch. 252, in effect

April 1, 1902.)

State Charities Law (L. 1896, ch. 546), §§ 90-92.

ARTICLE VI.

ROME STATE CUSTODIAL ASYLUM.

(Article amended by L. 1904, ch. 462, in effect April 28, 1904.)

Section 90. Asylum for the feeble-minded and idiots.

91. Appointment of managers.

92. Powers and duties of managers.

93. Superintendent, qualifications, powers and duties.
94. Commitment to asylum; maintenance.

§ 90. Asylum for feeble-minded persons and idiots. The asylum established at Rome for the custody, maintenance, training and treatment of the custodial class of feeble-minded persons and idiots is hereby continued and shall be known as the Rome state custodial asylum. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 462, in effect April 28, 1904.)

§ 91. Appointment of managers.- Such asylum shall be under the control and management of a board of eleven managers, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate and whose term of office shall be six years. The managers now in office shall hold their offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were respectively appointed, or until their successors are appointed and have qualified. They may be removed by the governor upon charges preferred against them in writing, after an opportunity given them to be heard thereon. They shall appoint one of their number as president, another as vice-president and another as secretary. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 462, in effect April 28, 1904.)

$92. Powers and duties of managers. The board of managers shall,

1. Have the general direction and control of all the property and concerns of the asylum, take charge of its general interests and see that its design is carried into effect, according to law and its by-laws, rules and regulations.

2. Establish by-laws, rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the state board of charities, for the internal government, discipline and management of the asylum.

3. Maintain an effective inspection of the asylum for which

State Charities Law (L. 1896, ch. 546), §§ 93, 94.

purpose, a majority of the managers shall visit the asylum at least once in every two months and at such other times as may be prescribed in the by-laws. The superintendent or other officer in charge shall admit such managers or manager into every part of the asylum and its buildings and exhibit to them on demand all the books, accounts and writings belonging to the asylum and pertaining to its interests, and furnish copies, abstracts and reports whenever required by them.

4. Annually report to the legislature for the preceding fiscal year the affairs and condition of the asylum with full and detailed estimates of the next appropriations required for maintenance and ordinary uses and repairs, and of special appropriations, if any, needed for extraordinary repairs, renewals, extensions, improvements, betterments or other necessary objects.

5. If lands are required for the use of the asylum, acquire the same by purchase, gift or condemnation. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 462, in effect April 28, 1904.)

$93. Superintendent, qualifications, powers and duties.The superintendent shall be appointed by the board of managers in accordance with the laws of this state after a civil service examination which shall be held upon the lines of qualification, experience and training herein provided within two months after the passage of this act. He shall be a resident of this state, a well-educated physician and graduate of a legally incorporated medical college, and shall have had a suitable experience and training of not less than three years in the care and treatment of the mentally defective classes, epileptic or insane. He shall be the chief executive officer of the asylum, and shall manage the institution in conformity to rules and regulations adopted by the board of managers. He shall appoint the assistant physicians, steward, clerk, a bookkeeper, matron and all subordinate employees, and he shall discharge them, when in his judgment, it may be necessary to do so for the good of the institution. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 462, in effect April 28, 1904.)

The superin

$94. Commitments to asylum; maintenance. tendent of the poor of the various counties of the state may commit to such asylum, if vacancies exist therein, such feeble-minded persons and idiots residing in their respective counties, who are indigent or inmates of county almshouses, according to the by-laws

State Charities Law (L. 1896, ch. 546), 107.

and regulations of the asylum. All commitments shall be in the form prescribed by the board of managers. Insane idiots or epileptics shall not be committed to such asylum. Feeble-minded persons and idiots other than the poor and indigent may be admitted to the asylum, if vacancies exist, after providing for the care and custody of the poor and indigent feeble-minded persons and idiots, at a rate which shall not exceed the weekly per capita cost of maintaining all inmates as determined yearly by the board of managers. The maintenance of the institution and the poor and indigent inmates thereof shall be a charge upon the state. (Amended by L. 1904, ch. 462, in effect April 28, 1904.)

ARTICLE VII.

THE CRAIG COLONY FOR EPILEPTICS.

§ 107. Duties of superintendent, Craig Colony; autopsies.Section amended by L. 1904, ch. 545, in effect May 3, 1904, by adding the following subdivision:

11. Have power, subject to the supervision and control of the board of managers, in case of the death of any patient at such institution who shall have been maintained therein wholly at public. expense, to make or cause to be made an autopsy on the body of such patient. No autopsy shall be held as allowed by this subdivision if the body shall be desired for interment by relatives or by friends who will bear the expense of its interment, within fortyeight hours after death, or if known to have relatives or friends. whose places of residence are also known without the assent of such relatives or friends; or of a person who shall have expressed a desire in his or her last illness that his or her body shall be interred. Any person claiming any corpse for interment as provided for in this section may be required by the persons having charge of said Craig colony to present an affidavit stating that the person so claiming such corpse is such relative or friend and the facts and circumstances upon which the claim of such relationship or friendship is based, the expense of which affidavit shall be paid by the persons requiring the same. If such person shall refuse to make such affidavit such corpse shall not be delivered to such person, but such person shall forfeit the claim or right to the same. (Subdivision added by L. 1904, ch. 545, in effect May 3, 1904.)

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