Section 1766 - Election by the city of Salamanca to become a participating municipality and transfers by the city of Salamanca to the authority1.The city of Salamanca by a majority of its qualified voters voting at the general election to be held on the fourth day of November, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, may elect to become a participating municipality in the hospital district and a part of the authority, and to make the transfers as hereinafter provided. Such proposition shall be voted upon at said election. In the event that the city of Salamanca does not vote to participate in the district and authority at such election, its voters may vote on the same proposition at other general elections or special elections during the following two years as provided in this statute.2.Pursuant to this section, and as soon as convenient and necessary for the organization and operation of the authority after said majority vote, the city of Salamanca by action of its common council and mayor shall take all necessary and appropriate actions to effectuate the transfer without consideration to the authority of the present Salamanca district hospital and its grounds and equipment and fixtures which it owns, and the lands included in the Fillmore avenue site which are intended to be used as the site for the new district hospital to be constructed by the authority.3.The authority is empowered to receive the deeds to said properties and to take possession, jurisdiction, and control of said properties for its uses and purposes subject, however, to the following conditions which are hereby imposed upon the authority.(a)That at such time as the authority shall abandon the use of the present Salamanca district hospital after receiving title thereto, the authority shall reconvey the same without consideration to the city of Salamanca.(b)That in the event that a new hospital is not constructed at the Fillmore avenue site and the authority has no need of the same, the authority shall reconvey said property without consideration to the city of Salamanca.4.That the proposition to be voted upon by the city of Salamanca and by any of the towns desiring to participate in the hospital district shall appear upon the ballot as follows: "Shall the city of Salamanca (or town of) participate with neighboring municipalities in the formation, financing, management and operation of a joint, public general hospital under the Salamanca hospital district authority, and share in the cost thereof, including the building of a new hospital, as may be determined by agreement of the participants?"
N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1766