Section 403. Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold

1. The
  following state hospitals are hereby continued in the department for the
  purposes for which they have been respectively established:
    (a) The Helen Hayes hospital;
    (b) Roswell Park Cancer Institute;
    (c) The New York state home  for  veterans  and  their  dependents  at
  Oxford;
    (d) The New York state home for veterans in the city of New York;
    (e) The New York state home for veterans in western New York;
    (f) The New York state home for veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley.
    2.   Notwithstanding   any   other  inconsistent  provisions  of  law,
  including,  but  not  limited  to,  article  four-C  of   the   economic
  development  law,  and  subject  to  the  provisions  of any lease, loan
  agreement or other agreement with the dormitory authority of  the  state
  of  New  York or any predecessor or successor agency or corporation, the
  commissioner, with the approval of  the  director  of  the  budget,  may
  contract  with  the  Roswell  Park Cancer Institute corporation, for the
  transfer of the operations of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute  or  any
  part  thereof,  practice  plan  or of any other program operated by such
  hospital. Such contract shall include terms and conditions  under  which
  the  Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation may issue bonds, notes or
  other evidences  of  indebtedness.    Payments  made  pursuant  to  such
  contract or any other contracts between the department of health and the
  Roswell  Park  Cancer  Institute corporation shall be limited to amounts
  made available pursuant to appropriations.   Upon the  transfer  of  the
  operations  of  Roswell Park Cancer Institute to the Roswell Park Cancer
  Institute corporation, the Roswell  Park  Cancer  Institute  corporation
  shall  operate  the  Roswell Park Cancer Institute for the department in
  accordance with the terms of any lease or other  agreement  between  the
  department and the dormitory authority pertaining to the use, operation,
  maintenance and replacement of Roswell Park Cancer Institute.