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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » PBH - Public Health » Article 3 - Local Health Organization » Title 4 - Certain Cities » 360 – Certain Cities; Department of Public Health; Establishment.

§ 360. Certain cities; department of public health; establishment. 1. The common council or similar legislative body of each city having a population of less than one hundred seventy-five thousand which has not by special law established a department of health, is hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance to abolish its board of health and in its place to create, establish and maintain a department of public health.

2. The commissioner of health in cities having a population of fifty thousand to one hundred seventy-five thousand, and the health officer in cities having a population of less than fifty thousand shall be the head of such department.