N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 450

§ 450. Directors of hospitals; qualifications and appointment. 1.\nThere shall be a director of each state hospital in the department, who\nshall be in the competitive class of civil service, and who shall be\nappointed by the commissioner.\n 2. The director shall possess the qualifications prescribed by law,\nor, if no such qualifications be prescribed, such qualifications as may\nbe prescribed in the sanitary code.\n 3. Before making the appointment of a director of a hospital, the\ncommissioner shall give notice of his intended action to the members of\nthe board of visitors, by registered mail, naming the person whom he\nproposes to appoint and his place of residence, and shall specify a day,\nnot less than ten days from the mailing of the notice, before which the\nboard of visitors may submit to the commissioner the objections of the\nboard of visitors, if any, to such appointment; and the person named\nshall not be appointed before such day, except in the case of an express\napproval by the board of visitors.\n 4. Subject to removal in the manner provided by law, the director of\neach hospital in the department now in office is hereby continued in\noffice.\n