Section 3555. Special powers of the corporation  


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  • In order to effectuate the
      purposes of  this  title,  the  corporation  shall  have  the  following
      additional powers:
        1.  to  contract  with  the  state to operate, manage, superintend and
      control the Roswell Park Cancer Institute; and to establish, collect and
      adjust fees, rentals, and other charges for the  lease  or  sublease  of
      such  health  facility,  subject  to  the  terms  and  conditions of any
      contract, lease, sublease or other agreement with the state;
        2. to provide health and medical services for the public  directly  or
      by  agreement  or  lease  with  any  person,  firm  or private or public
      corporation  or  association  through  or  in  the  facilities  of   the
      corporation  or  in  other  health  care facilities and to make internal
      policies governing admissions and health and medical services;
        3. to provide and maintain training programs for resident  physicians,
      post-graduate  clinical  fellows,  graduate  students  and  other allied
      health professionals;
        4. to sponsor and conduct research, educational and training programs;
        5. to participate in managed care networks, fee-for-service, and other
      joint  and  cooperative  arrangements  for  the  provision  of   general
      comprehensive  and  specialty  health care services, directly or through
      contract with other service providers or entities including employees or
      entities of the state;
        6.  to  establish  subsidiary  corporations  or  other   entities   in
      accordance with subdivision ten of this section:
        (a) to meet the demands of health care delivery changes; and
        (b)  to  market, manufacture or develop products or services developed
      by the corporation's clinical and research activities;
        7. to affiliate with a medical college or colleges;
        8. to contract to use employees, agents, consultants and facilities of
      the state, paying the state its agreed proportion of the compensation or
      costs pursuant to an agreement with the state;
        9. to determine the conditions under which a physician may be extended
      the  privilege  of  practicing  within  a  health  facility  under   the
      jurisdiction of the corporation, to promulgate internal policies for the
      conduct  of  all  persons,  physicians  and  allied health practitioners
      within such facility, and to appoint and grant privileges  to  qualified
      and competent clinical practitioners; and
        10.  except as provided in this subdivision or as expressly limited by
      any applicable state law or regulation, and in  support  of  the  powers
      granted  by  subdivisions  five  and six of this section, to form and to
      participate in the  formation  of  one  or  more  corporations,  and  to
      exercise  and  perform  such  purposes,  powers,  duties,  functions  or
      activities through one or more subsidiary corporations or other entities
      owned or controlled wholly or in part by the corporation, which shall be
      formed pursuant to the business corporation law, the  limited  liability
      company law, the not-for-profit corporation law, or the partnership law;
      any  such  subsidiary  may  be authorized to act as a general or limited
      partner in a partnership or as a member of a limited liability  company,
      and  enter  into  an  arrangement  calling for an initial and subsequent
      payment or payments or contributions to capital by  such  subsidiary  in
      consideration  of  an  interest in revenues or other contractual rights.
      An entity shall be deemed a subsidiary corporation whenever and so  long
      as  (a) more than half of any voting shares or other membership interest
      of such subsidiary are owned  or  held  by  the  corporation  or  (b)  a
      majority  of  the  directors, trustees or members of such subsidiary are
      designees of the corporation.
        11. No subsidiary of the corporation shall  own,  operate,  manage  or
      control  the existing research, education, acute inpatient or outpatient
    
      facilities  and  services  now  operated  by  the  Roswell  Park  Cancer
      Institute.