N.Y. PBH Law § 356

§ 356. Certain counties; legislative bodies constituted boards of\nhealth; county health directors; nurses designated as school nurses. 1.\nThe legislative body of each county having a population of less than one\nhundred fifty thousand according to the nineteen hundred seventy federal\ndecennial census or the legislative body of any county whose population\nshall be less than one hundred fifty thousand under any future federal\ndecennial census, except a county in which a county or part-county\nhealth district has been established under this article or a county\nhaving a county charter, optional or alternative form of government,\nshall constitute the board of health of such county and shall have all\nthe powers and duties of a board of health of a county or part-county\nhealth district including the power to appoint a full-time or part-time\ncounty health director. The county health director may serve as director\nof the children and youth with special health care needs support\nservices program and may employ such persons as shall be necessary to\nenable the county health director to carry into effect the orders and\nregulations of the board of health and the provisions of this chapter\nand of the sanitary code, and fix their compensation within the limits\nof the appropriation therefor. The members of a legislative body shall\nnot receive additional compensation by reason of serving as members of a\nboard of health. The county health director, so appointed, shall have\nall the powers and duties prescribed in section three hundred fifty-two\nof this title.\n 2. (a) With the approval of the county health director, the trustee or\nboard of trustees of any common school district or the board of\neducation of any union free school district or central school district\nwithin the county, may designate any nurse employed as provided in this\nsection as a school nurse to perform, in addition to her other duties,\nthe duties of a school nurse for any school or schools under such\nrespective trustee, board of trustees or board of education.\n (b) Any nurse so designated shall perform her duties as school nurse\nunder the direction of the school medical inspector and the appropriate\nschool authorities and under the provisions of the education law and the\nregulations prescribed pursuant thereto.\n