Section 450. Directors of hospitals; qualifications and appointment

1.
  There shall be a director of each state hospital in the department,  who
  shall  be  in  the  competitive class of civil service, and who shall be
  appointed by the commissioner.
    2. The director shall possess the qualifications  prescribed  by  law,
  or,  if no such qualifications be prescribed, such qualifications as may
  be prescribed in the sanitary code.
    3. Before making the appointment of a  director  of  a  hospital,  the
  commissioner  shall give notice of his intended action to the members of
  the board of visitors, by registered mail, naming  the  person  whom  he
  proposes to appoint and his place of residence, and shall specify a day,
  not  less than ten days from the mailing of the notice, before which the
  board of visitors may submit to the commissioner the objections  of  the
  board  of  visitors,  if  any, to such appointment; and the person named
  shall not be appointed before such day, except in the case of an express
  approval by the board of visitors.
    4. Subject to removal in the manner provided by law, the  director  of
  each  hospital  in  the  department now in office is hereby continued in
  office.