Section 2796. Special programs with respect to diabetes

The commissioner
  shall establish within the department a program to promote research  and
  patient  education regarding diabetes. To carry out the purposes of this
  section, the commissioner shall have the following powers and duties:
    1. to promote scientific investigations with respect  to  the  causes,
  prevention and treatment of diabetes;
    2. to promote patient education programs designed to reduce or prevent
  the incidence and severity of diabetes;
    3.  to  accept  and  expend  any  grants,  awards  or  other  funds or
  appropriations as  may  be  available  for  these  purposes  subject  to
  limitations  as  to the approval of expenditures and audit as prescribed
  for state funds by the state finance law; and
    4. to enter into contracts within the amounts  available  therefor  as
  may be necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
    * NB There are 2 § 2796's