§ 2796. Special programs with respect to diabetes. The commissioner
shall establish within the department a program to promote research and
patient education regarding diabetes. To carry out the purposes of this
section, the commissioner shall have the following powers and duties:

1. to promote scientific investigations with respect to the causes,
prevention and treatment of diabetes;

2. to promote patient education programs designed to reduce or prevent
the incidence and severity of diabetes;

3. to accept and expend any grants, awards or other funds or
appropriations as may be available for these purposes subject to
limitations as to the approval of expenditures and audit as prescribed
for state funds by the state finance law; and

4. to enter into contracts within the amounts available therefor as
may be necessary to implement the provisions of this section.