Section 2724. Commissioner; additional functions, powers and duties

In
  order to further the declared purposes of this title,  the  commissioner
  shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
    1.  to  develop  programs  for  screening, evaluation and treatment of
  hypertension;
    2.  to  enter  into  contracts  and  agreements  to  provide  for  the
  screening,  evaluation  and  treatment  of hypertension pursuant to this
  section by July first, nineteen hundred eighty-two;
    3. to require as the commissioner may determine to be appropriate that
  any facility established, incorporated, licensed or  regulated  pursuant
  to  the  provisions  of  article  twenty-eight  or  forty-seven  of this
  chapter, test for hypertension as part of  their  ordinary  and  regular
  care  or  treatment  of  patients  and  as  necessary  screen, treat and
  diagnose the incidence of hypertension;
    4. to apply for special grants from the  federal  government  and  any
  institution  making  grants  for  such  purposes  and  use any monies so
  obtained to supplement any other monies made available from  any  source
  for the purposes of this title;
    5.  to  require  persons  receiving  treatment for hypertension in any
  center providing  such  treatment  to  pay  a  fee  established  by  the
  commissioner  on  a sliding fee scale based on the treatment recipient's
  ability to pay after applying against the total cost of  such  treatment
  the amounts received from third party payors.