The Board of Estimate and Apportionment is hereby
authorized, pursuant to § 20, Subdivision 29, of the General
City Law and pursuant to § 92-a, Subdivision 2, of the General
Municipal Law, to contract with a nonprofit membership corporation,
organized under Article 9-C of the Insurance Law[1] and approved by the Superintendent of Insurance and the
State Board of Social Welfare, for the purpose of furnishing medical
and surgical services and hospital service as defined in such Article
9-C to persons who contract with such corporation. Any such contract
so entered into by the City of Albany shall permit any officer, employee
or group of employees of an agency or department who is paid out of
the City treasury voluntarily to submit to a plan or plans providing
for medical and surgical services and hospital service to such employees
and their families. The Comptroller of the City of Albany is authorized
to deduct from the wages or salary paid by the City of Albany to such
officers and employees, with the prior consent of such contracting
or subscribing officer and employee, the sums required to be paid
by such officer and employee to such corporation. The Board of Estimate
and Apportionment, if such contract or plan provides that the employer
shall contribute a share of such medical and surgical services and
hospital service, is authorized to appropriate a sum required to be
paid under such contract by the City of Albany as employer. The sum
to be paid under such contract, in the discretion of such Board of
Estimate and Apportionment, may be a payment equal to the sum of the
contributions of individual officers and employees who have subscribed
to the plan or plans of such corporation. The sum so appropriated
shall be included in the budget of the City of Albany for the next
ensuing fiscal year. The City of Albany shall be authorized to pay
directly to such corporation the total of such appropriation and of
such officer and employee deductions.
[1]
Editor's Note: See now Article 43 of the Insurance
Law.
