* § 2904-a. Contracts between the commissioner of health and health
systems agencies. 1. The commissioner of health is authorized to
contract with a health systems agency to the extent of any appropriation
therefor for such health systems agency to provide assistance to the
state in implementing state health planning and development functions
and priorities.

2. Any such contracts shall be for a period of no more than one year
and shall include a provision providing for termination of the contract
on notice by either party.

3. No health systems agency shall receive more than the sum of fifty
thousand dollars annually, or so much thereof as is necessary, to
effectuate the purposes of this section.

4. The commissioner of health shall submit a written report to the
legislature no later than the first day of March, nineteen hundred
eighty-two as to the number of such contracts entered into, the support
to the state provided by the health systems agencies under such
contracts and an assessment of the program.

* NB Expired September 30, 1982