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except such ambulance service as shall be maintained by the department of health.

Establish ambulance districts from time to time and alter the boundaries of such districts.

Enter into a contract in writing with any hospital corporation desiring to maintain an ambulance service, which contract shall define the obligations assumed by said hospital corporation, on condition that the ambulance district defined therein be assigned to it by the board, and reserving to the board the authority to terminate such contract, if, in their judgment, a satisfactory ambulance service is not maintained at all times by the said hospital.

Establish and maintain an ambulance service in any district which, in the judgment of the board, is inadequately provided with ambulance service, when means shall have been provided therefor by the board of estimate and apportionment.

Provide for the reception of all calls for ambulance service from any locality in the city of New York, notify the hospital maintaining an ambulance service in the district from which the call is received, and, in case said hospital has no available ambulance, notify the nearest hospital having an ambulance available. Said board shall keep a record of all such calls and of their assignment by it.

2. Subject to the control of the board of ambulance service, the commissioner of public charities and the board of trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals shall maintain an ambulance service in connection with each hospital under their respective jurisdictions whenever in their judgment it is desirable so to do.

Niagara Falls, Niagara County.

(Note. Overseer of the poor elected for a term of one year at a salary of $1,000, which includes rent and clerk hire.)

Chapter 300, Laws of 1904.

ARTICLE III.

§ 95. Overseer of the poor. It shall be the duty of the overseer of the poor to investigate the character, habits, location or residence, condition and necessities of all applicants for assistance

and relief, the result of which shall be recorded in a proper book to be kept for that purpose. He may employ two physicians to attend the poor; their compensation shall be fixed by the board of estimate and apportionment. The overseer of the poor at the first regular meeting of the common council in each month shall under oath report in detail to the common council all expenditures for temporary relief, medical attendance and allowances made by him as such overseer during the month preceding, which report shall specify the name and place of abode of each person relieved, the quantity and price per pound or otherwise, as the case may be, of each article furnished or ordered, and from whom the same was obtained; said report shall also contain the names and places of abode of all persons to whom meals or lodgings have been furnished, from whom obtained or by whom furnished, and the cost of the same. Said report shall be filed with the city clerk. The common council shall cause each of said reports of the overseer of the poor (except the names of the persons to whom orders for temporary relief were given) to be published in full, as part of the proceedings of the meeting. All charges and accounts against said city for services rendered, acts done, or meals, provisions, or supplies furnished under the direction of the overseer of the poor of said city under the provisions of this act, shall be made out in items, duly verified by the persons entitled to the payment thereof, and presented, with the duplicate order authorizing the same, to the common council at the first regular meeting of said council in each month for auditing bills. The common council shall audit all such claims, accounts and charges and when so audited the overseer of the poor is authorized to pay and discharge the same out of the moneys received by him in pursuance with section ninetyfour of this act; but no payment shall be made by said overseer for such purpose until the account therefor has been duly audited as aforesaid. Except as herein otherwise provided, said overseer shall have the same powers and duties, liabilities and responsibilities as overseers of the poor in the towns of Niagara county, in all matters pertaining to the support and maintenance of the poor of said city, and as to those matters the city shall be regarded as a town of said county. The affidavits annexed to said overseer's

report, or to any of said bills, accounts or vouchers, shall not be conclusive upon the said board in case it shall appear that any claim or item in said report is illegal, unjust or improper, in whole or in a part, but in such case such item or portion thereof shall be disallowed, and said overseer and his sureties shall be liable for the amount thereof. The city shall continue to be the owner of all articles or supplies furnished to any poor person or applicant until the same are consumed. If any person to whom the same shall be furnished shall sell or exchange the same for money, or intoxicating liquor, or in any way dispose of the same other than in the manner directed, such conduct shall be deemed a misdemeanor. (As amended by chapter 645 of the Laws of 1911.)

(Note.

North Tonawanda, Niagara County.

Commissioner of charities appointed by mayor for a

term of one year. Salary fixed by common council.)

Chapter 752, Laws of 1907.

TITLE XIV.

Commissioner of Public Charities.

Section 1. Qualifications. No member of the common council shall be a commissioner of public charities. Neither shall any person be appointed to such office who, at the time of such appointment, shall be engaged or interested in business as a grocer, a saloon keeper, or hotel keeper, or in any wise concerned in the manufacture or sale of spirituous or malt liquors, ale or beer, and in case any person appointed to the office shall during his term become engaged or interested in either of the occupations above specified, his term of office shall thereupon cease, and the office become vacant, and the mayor shall forthwith appoint another in his place.

§ 2. Duties and powers. The commissioner of public charities is hereby invested with all the powers and duties now or hereafter to be prescribed and provided by the general statutes of the state of New York, relating to overseers of the poor in towns, so far as the same are applicable to and not inconsistent with this act. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to visit the poor of the

city at their several places of abode and examine into their circumstances, and ascertain to what extent they are or may be in need and entitled to permanent or temporary relief. The said commissioner shall require all persons making application for relief to make such application in writing, which shall be preserved by said commissioner, and at the end of each month all such applications made during the month shall be filed with the city clerk. The commissioner of charities shall have power to administer oaths to and examine under oath any person applying to him for relief, and false swearing during such examination shall be deemed wilful perjury. The commissioner shall issue written orders for all means, provisions and supplies furnished to the poor of the city. He shail not employ any physician. The city shall continue to be the owner of all articles or supplies furnished to any poor person or applicant until the same are consumed. If any person to whom the same shall be furnished shall sell or exchange the same for money, or intoxicating liquor, or in any way dispose of the same other than in the manner directed, such conduct shall be deemed a misdemeanor.

§ 3. Monthly reports. The commissioner shall, at the first regular meeting of the common council in each month, report to the common council under oath in detail, all appropriations, expenditures, temporary relief and allowances made by him as such. .commissioner during the month preceding, which report shall specify the name and place of abode of each person relieved, the quality, quantity and price per pound, or otherwise, as the case may be, of each article ordered or furnished, and from whom ob tained; said report shall also contain the names and places of abode of all persons to whom meals or lodgings have been furnished, the number of such meals or lodgings, from whom obtained, or by whom furnished, and the cost of the same. Said report shall be filed with the city clerk.

§ 4. Accounts to be audited. All charges and accounts against said city for services rendered, acts done, or means, provisions or supplies furnished under the direction of the commissioner of charities of said city under the provisions of this act, or

otherwise, shall be audited by the common council, and paid from the poor fund of said city.

§ 5. No profit from supplies. The commissioner of charities shall not, directly or indirectly, furnish to any person any groceries, provisions, fuel, medicines or property belonging to himself, or in which he shall have an interest or be interested, nor shall he be interested in any contract for such purchase of groceries, provisions, fuel, medicines or property; nor shall he receive any commissions upon or for any goods or articles of relief furnished, or on any orders given by him for any such goods, articles or relief. For any violation of any provision of this section said commissioner shall be removed from office by the mayor, and he shall forfeit to said city a penalty of one hundred dollars for every such violation.

§ 6. To be sealer of weights and measures. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of charities, as sealer of weights and measures, to inspect and examine weights, measures, scale beams, measures of scale beams, measures of extension with weighing apparatus in said city, at the times and in the manner prescribed by the common council.

Norwich, Chenango County.

(Note.-Commissioner of Charities appointed by Common Council for a term of two years. Compensation same as for overseers of the poor in towns. Powers and duties subject to general Poor Law, and such as may be prescribed by Common Council.) Chapter 34, Laws of 1914.

Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County.

(Note. Superintendents of the poor elected for six years. No compensation.)

AN ACT for the support of the poor of the town of Oswegatchie, in the county of St. Lawrence.

Chapter 28, Laws of 1882.

Section 1. The town of Oswegatchie shall not hereafter be subject to taxation for the support or maintenance of the town poor

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