Section 2584. Children with physical disabilities; transportation

1. The
  department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the
  appropriations made therefor, such transportation for such children with
  physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner  is  needed
  to  such  places  wherein  the  medical services outlined in section two
  thousand five hundred eighty-one of this  chapter  are  administered  or
  provided to such children.
    2. When the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health
  district  or  the  medical  director  of  the  program for children with
  physical disabilities, or the department of health of the  city  of  New
  York,  in  pursuance  of section two thousand five hundred eighty-two of
  this chapter, shall issue an authorization for medical service  for  any
  child  with  physical disabilities, including among the expenses thereof
  transportation necessary to obtain such services, the  commissioner,  if
  he approves such order, shall issue a certificate to such effect, copies
  of  which  shall  be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors or
  other governing elective body of the county or chief fiscal  officer  of
  the city of New York and one in the office of the commissioner.