Section 356. Certain counties; legislative bodies constituted boards of health; county health directors; nurses designated as school nurses

1.
  The legislative body of each county having a population of less than one
  hundred fifty thousand according to the nineteen hundred seventy federal
  decennial  census or the legislative body of any county whose population
  shall be less than one hundred fifty thousand under any  future  federal
  decennial  census,  except  a  county  in  which a county or part-county
  health district has been established under  this  article  or  a  county
  having  a  county  charter,  optional or alternative form of government,
  shall constitute the board of health of such county and shall  have  all
  the  powers  and  duties of a board of health of a county or part-county
  health district including the power to appoint a full-time or  part-time
  county  health  director.    The  county  health  director  may serve as
  director of the physically handicapped children's program and may employ
  such persons as shall be necessary to enable him to  carry  into  effect
  the  orders and regulations of the board of health and the provisions of
  this chapter and of the sanitary code, and fix their compensation within
  the limits of the appropriation therefor. The members  of  a  legsiative
  body  shall  not receive additional compensation by reason of serving as
  members of a board of health. The county health director, so  appointed,
  shall have all the powers and duties prescribed in section three hundred
  fifty-two of this article.
    2. (a) With the approval of the county health director, the trustee or
  board  of  trustees  of  any  common  school  district  or  the board of
  education of any union free school district or central  school  district
  within  the county, may designate any nurse employed as provided in this
  section as a school nurse to perform, in addition to her  other  duties,
  the  duties  of  a  school  nurse  for  any school or schools under such
  respective trustee, board of trustees or board of education.
    (b) Any nurse so designated shall perform her duties as  school  nurse
  under  the direction of the school medical inspector and the appropriate
  school authorities and under the provisions of the education law and the
  regulations prescribed pursuant thereto.