§ 543. City laboratories; board of managers; power to enter into
agreements with hospitals. The board of managers of a city laboratory
shall have the power to enter into an agreement annually with the
governing board of any charitable corporation or municipality operating
and maintaining a hospital to provide that the hospital collect fees for
laboratory services for the patients in such hospital in the same manner
that hospital charges are collected, and forward them to the laboratory,
and to provide that the cost of collecting such fees be paid by the city
to the hospital in an amount mutually acceptable and in lieu of actual
and necessary expenses. No agreement shall become effective unless and
until approved by the commissioner and by resolution of the common
council or other body exercising similar powers.