§ 541. City laboratories; operation and control. 1. Upon the
establishment or continuation of a laboratory by a city as provided in
section five hundred forty of this chapter, all the powers and duties of
the board of supervisors of a county in relation to laboratories
provided in sections five hundred twenty and five hundred twenty-two of
this chapter, shall devolve upon the common council or other authority
exercising similar powers of such city.

2. The salaries of the director and other employees of the laboratory,
and contracts to be made for, by or on behalf of the laboratory and
appropriations for the acquisition of sites and buildings and for
maintenance, shall all be under the control of the same officials as now
have control of similar items and shall be governed by the same
provisions of law.