Section 420. Boards of visitors; appointment

1.  (a) Subject to the
  provisions of this  chapter,  each  hospital  in  the  department  shall
  continue  to  have  a  board  of  seven visitors, to be appointed by the
  governor by and with the advice and  consent  of  the  senate;  provided
  however  that  in  the  case  of  the  state  institute for the study of
  malignant diseases one of the seven members of  the  board  of  visitors
  shall be the commissioner, ex-officio.
    (b)  At  least two members of the board of visitors of the Helen Hayes
  hospital shall be duly licensed physicians  and  at  least  two  members
  shall  be  women.  This  provision  shall  not affect the offices of the
  present members; but appointments hereafter  shall  be  so  made  as  to
  comply herewith as soon as practicable.
    (c)  At least two of the members of the board of visitors of the state
  institute for the study of malignant diseases shall be residents of  the
  city  of  Buffalo  or  vicinity  and one member of the board of visitors
  shall be a member of the medical  faculty  or  of  the  council  of  the
  University of Buffalo.
    2.  (a)  The terms of office of the members of the boards of visitors,
  other than the members of the board of visitors of the  state  institute
  for  the  study  of  malignant  diseases, shall be seven years, and they
  shall be so appointed that the term of at least one of  the  members  of
  the  board  of visitors shall expire on the thirty-first day of December
  of each year.
    (b) The terms of office of the members of the board of visitors of the
  state institute for the study of malignant diseases shall be five  years
  and  they  shall  be  so  appointed that the term of at least one of the
  members shall expire on the thirty-first of December of each year.
    3. All vacancies on the several boards of visitors of hospitals in the
  department shall be filled  by  the  governor  in  the  same  manner  as
  original appointments, and the person appointed to fill a vacancy in the
  board  of visitors of a hospital in the department shall hold office for
  the remainder of the term of the person whom he succeeds.
    4. The governor may remove  any  member  or  members  of  a  board  of
  visitors for cause after an opportunity to be heard.
    5.  This  section shall not affect the terms of the present members of
  such board.
    6. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section  or  any
  other provision of law to the contrary, upon the transfer to the Roswell
  Park  Cancer Institute corporation of the operations of the Roswell Park
  Cancer Institute, the board of visitors of Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  shall cease to operate and the terms of the current members of the board
  of visitors shall terminate. In the event that  the  operations  of  the
  Roswell  Park  Cancer  Institute revert to the department of health, the
  board of visitors shall be reconstituted and the governor shall make new
  appointments pursuant to this section.