This volume contains the constitutional provisions and laws which have relation to the work of the State Board of Charities,

and the rules and by-laws of the Board.

TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE FEBRUARY 15, 1915

ALBANY
J. B, LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS

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THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.......

Commissioners and officers of the Board..............................

Provisions of the Constitution relating to the Board.................

STATE CHARITIES LAW :

Article 1. Short title : definitions (8$ 1-2).....

2. State Board of Charities (8$ 3-20).........................

3. State Charities Aid Association (88 30-32).................

4. Regulation of State charitable institutions (88 40-32)........

5. Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (88 60-

71)

...............

6. State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women (8$ 80-83)..

7. Rome State Custodial Asylum (88 90–95).........

8. Craig Colony for Epileptics ($$ 100-115, 117)............. 10.

9. New York State Hospital for the Care of Crippled and Deformed

Children (88 130–138)..................

142

10. New York State Hospital for the Treatment of Incipient Pul-

monary Tuberculosis ($8 150–103)......... ......... 146

11. Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents ($8 180-214)........... 15.1

12. House of Refuge and Reformatory for Women (88 220-233)... 182

13. New York State Woman's Relief Corps Home ($8 250–257)..... 198

14. Thomas Indian School (88 270-276).......

207

15. Licensing dispensaries (8$ 290–296).....

211

16. Licenses for placing out destitute children (88 300-308)... 220

17. Aged, decrepit and mentally enfeebled persons (8$ 320–324).. 223

18. Care of inebriate women ($$ 340–348)...

224

19. Burnham Industrial Farm (8$ 360–372)..

229

20. Shelter for Unprotected Girls ($$ 380-391)...

23:3

21. Anchorage at Elmira ($$ 400-419).....

239

22. General provisions applicable to charitable institutions ($$ 450–

461) .................................................. 246

23. Laws repealed; when to take effect (88 470–471)............. 252

AGRICULTURAL LAW :

Examination of food products at State institutions.

257

Almshouse farms .......

ANTI-BUTTERINE LAW .......

258

COMMISSION ON SITES, GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS...

COMMISSION TO MAKE INQUIRY:

Relief for widowed mothers.....

262

COMMITTEES FOR INCOMPETENT PERSONS............

261

257

26.5

273

LETCHWORTH VILLAGE ........

NEW YORK CITY REFORMATORY OF MISDEMEANANTS............

NEW YORK STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN, BEDFORD:

Commitments .....

NEW YORK STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BOYS:

Management of, control of inmates of.......

. 273

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274

24701

278

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PUBLIC BUILDINGS LAW: ..

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New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home......

Public buildings generally - Fire protection of public buildings.......... 281

NORTHERN NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR DEAF-MUTES :

May receive pupils......

STATE COMMISSION FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE BLIND. 284

STATE INDUSTRIAL FARM COLONY..

WESTERN NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR DEAF-MUTES

283

STATE REFORMATORY FOR MISDEMEANANTS....

336

EDUCATION LAW:

Medical inspection

293

Compulsory education ..

297

Physiology and hygiene ......

.. 308

Fire drills ....................

.. 310

Orphan schools .........

.... 311

Instruction of deaf-mutes and of the blind

.. 312

New York State School for the Blind.........

. 319

Retirement fund for teachers in State institutions..............

327

LIQUOR TAX LAW...

. 330

STATE FINANCE LAW:

Fiscal year .................

332

Deposit of moneys by State officers .........

cers .........................

332

Deposit of moneys by charitable and benevolent institutions....

333

Proofs required upon audit by the comptroller........

333

Regulations for the transmission of public moneys...

334

Accounts and contracts...........................

... 334

Itemized and monthly accounts of public officers........................

Inspection of supplies and entry in books. .....

... 342

Deposit in banks of moneys received by State institutions.....

Annual inventory and report of institutions.........

..........

· 343

Rendition of accounts....

. 343

Statements, of accounts not rendered, of accounts rendered.... .. 344

Indebtedness not to be contracted without appropriation....

.. 343

Specific appropriation not to be used for other purposes...

.. 345

Payments to State treasurer..................

... 34.5

Contracts in pursuance of appropriations...

345

Estimates for purchases of staple articles of supplies..................

346

State raised products to be preferred...............

State contracts not to be assigned without consent; penalties if done....

Annual reports to Legislature by institutions entitled to receive money

from State ..................................................... 347

Statement of desired appropriations to be filed with comptroller........ 317

Duty of comptroller as to tabulation of statements.....................

348

Separate specifications for contract work for the State................ SAS

POOR LAW:

Article 1. Short title ; definitions ($$ 1, 2).........

349

County superintendents of the poor (88 3–14, .

350

3. Overseers of the poor (88 20-30)..........

364

4. Settlement and place of relief of poor persons (88 40–57) 379

5. Support of bastards ($$ 60-75)........

402

6. Soldiers, sailors and marines (8$ 80-85)....

409

6a. Relief for women nurses (8$ 86, 87)......

418

7. State poor (&$ 90-104)..........................

421

8. Duties of State Board of Charities; powers of State Charities

Aid Association (88 115-121).........

.. 428

9. Miscellaneous provisions (88 130–148)................

10. Laws repealed; when to take effect (&$ 160, 161)........... 441

.. 346