ARTICLE V. State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women. Section 80. Established as a corporation. 81. Board of managers. 82. Officers 83. Treasurer to give undertaking. Section 80. Established as a corporation.- The asylum established at Newark, Wayne county, for feeble-minded women is hereby continued as a body corporate and shall be known as the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women. [L. 1885, ch. 281, § 1; R. S., 8th ed., p. 2145, § 81. Board of managers.- Such asylums shall continue to have a board of nine managers, three of whom shall be women, and shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, for six years, except appointments to fill vacancies, which shall be for the unexpired term. The board of managers shall have the custody and control of all property and power to make all rules for the management and control of the effects of the asylum. [L. 1885, ch. 281, § 2; R. S., 8th ed., p. 2145, § 82. Officers. The board of managers shall appoint, of their number, a president, a secretary and a treasurer. They shall appoint a superintendent, a matron, and employ all assistants that may be necessary for the proper management of the asylum. [L. 1885, ch. 281, § 2 (next to last sentence) 3; R. S., 8th ed., p. 2145, without change in substance.] § 83. Treasurer to give undertaking. The treasurer shall, before he receives any money, give an undertaking to the people of the state, with such sureties and in such amount as the board of managers shall require and to be approved by the comptroller, to the effect that he faithfully perform his trust as such treasurer. [L. 1885, ch. 281, last sentence of § 2; R. S., 8th ed., p. 2146, without change in substance.] ARTICLE VI. Rome State Custodial Asylum. Section 90. Asylum for unteachable idiots. 91. Appointment of managers. 92. Powers and duties of managers. 93. Superintendent, qualifications, powers and duties. 94. Commitments to asylum, maintenance. Section 90. Asylum for unteachable idiots.-The asylum established at Rome for the support, maintenance and custody of unteachable idiots is hereby continued and shall be known as the Rome State Custodial Asylum. [L. 1895, ch. 59, § 1, without change in substance.] § 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 and another as secretary. [L. 1895, ch. 59, § 2, without material change, It is provided that the managers of the asylum be removed by the governor, upon charges preferred in writing and after an opportunity to be heard. The present law provides for removal by the senate upon the recommendation of the governor.] § 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 purpose, a majority of the managers shall visit the asylum at least once in every three 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 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 interest, and furnish copies, abstracts and reports whenever required by them. 4. Annually report to the legislature for the preceding fiscal year, the affairs and conditions of the asylum, with full and detailed estimates of the next appropriation 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. [L. 1895, ch. 59, §§ 2, 3, 4, 5. Under the present law the power to make by-laws is implied. By the revision they are expressly given such power. The provision for inspection by the board of managers is new.] § 93. Superintendent, qualifications, powers and duties.-The superintendent shall be a resident of this state, a well educated physician and a graduate of an incorporated medical college, of at least five years actual experience in an institution for the cure and treatment of the 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 employes and he may discharge them, when, in his judgment, it may be necessary to do so, for the good of the institution. § 94. Commitments to asylum; maintenance. The superintendents of the poor of the various counties of the state, may commit to such asylum, if vacancies exist therein, such unteachable idiots residing in their respective counties, who are indigent or inmates of county alms-houses, according to the by-laws 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. Unteachable 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 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. [L. 1895, ch. 59, §§ 6, 7, without change in substance.] ARTICLE VII. The Craig Colony for Epileptics. Section 100. Establishment and objects of colony. 101. Managers of the colony. 102. Buildings and improvements. 103. Powers and duties of managers. Section 104. Annual report; state board of charities. 105. Donations in trust. 106. Officers of the colony. 107. Duties of the superintendent. 108. Duties of treasurer. 109. Designation and admission of patients. 110. Support of state patients. 111. Apportionment of state patients. 112. The support of private patients. 114. Notice of opening of colony. Section 100. Establishment and objects of colony.- The colony for epileptics established at Sonyea, Livingston county, is hereby continued, and shall be known as the Craig Colony for Epileptics, in honor of the late Oscar Craig, of Rochester, New York, whose efficient and gratuitous public services in behalf of epileptics and other dependent unfortunates, the state desires to commemorate. The objects of such colony shall be to secure the humane, curative, scientific and economical care and treatment of epileptics, exclusive of insane epileptics. [L. 1894, ch. 363, §§ 1 and 2, in part, § 101. Managers of the colony.- There shall be a board of twelve managers of the Craig colony, all of whom shall be citi. zens of the state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one from each judicial district and one additional member from each of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth judicial districts. The term of office of each manager hereafter appointed to succeed a manager whose term has expired shall be three years, and the term of office of four of such managers shall expire annually. The managers in office when this chapter takes effect shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which they were appointed and until their successors are appointed and have qualified. Appointments to fill |