§ 522. County laboratories; boards of supervisors; powers and duties.
1. The board of supervisors, when it shall have determined to establish
a county laboratory, shall have the power:

(a) to acquire by purchase, exchange or otherwise, necessary real
property, building or rooms or to erect necessary buildings;

(b) to cause to be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner
as other charges against the county, such sums of money as it shall deem
necessary for laboratory purposes; provided, however, that where a
laboratory is intended to serve less than a whole county the
expenditures made in connection therewith shall be assessed only against
the area served by the laboratory; and

(c) to accept and hold in trust for the county any grant or devise of
land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property or any
donation to be applied, principal or income, or both, for the benefit of
said laboratory.

2. Nothing in this article shall be construed to repeal or amend any
provision of law not inconsistent herewith relating to laboratories in
counties or to abrogate any powers of boards of supervisors relating
thereto.