§ 541 — City laboratories; operation and control

§ 541. City laboratories; operation and control. 1. Upon the\nestablishment or continuation of a laboratory by a city as provided in\nsection five hundred forty of this chapter, all the powers and duties of\nthe board of supervisors of a county in relation to laboratories\nprovided in sections five hundred twenty and five hundred twenty-two of\nthis chapter, shall devolve upon the common council or other authority\nexercising similar powers of such city.\n 2. The salaries of the director and other employees of the laboratory,\nand contracts to be made for, by or on behalf of the laboratory and\nappropriations for the acquisition of sites and buildings and for\nmaintenance, shall all be under the control of the same officials as now\nhave control of similar items and shall be governed by the same\nprovisions of law.\n