§ 2584. Children with physical disabilities; transportation. 1. The
department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the
appropriations made therefor, such transportation for such children with
physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner is needed
to such places wherein the medical services outlined in section two
thousand five hundred eighty-one of this chapter are administered or
provided to such children.

2. When the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health
district or the medical director of the program for children with
physical disabilities, or the department of health of the city of New
York, in pursuance of section two thousand five hundred eighty-two of
this chapter, shall issue an authorization for medical service for any
child with physical disabilities, including among the expenses thereof
transportation necessary to obtain such services, the commissioner, if
he approves such order, shall issue a certificate to such effect, copies
of which shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors or
other governing elective body of the county or chief fiscal officer of
the city of New York and one in the office of the commissioner.