Section 609. State aid; laboratories

1. Where a laboratory shall have been
  or is hereafter established pursuant to article five  of  this  chapter,
  the  state,  through  the  legislature  and  within  the  limits  to  be
  prescribed by the commissioner, shall  provide  aid  at  a  per  centum,
  determined  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  paragraph  (b) of
  subdivision two of section six hundred five  of  this  article,  of  the
  actual cost of installation, equipment and maintenance of the laboratory
  or  laboratories.  Such  cost  shall  be  the  excess,  if  any, of such
  expenditures over available revenues of all  types,  including  adequate
  and  reasonable fees, derived from or attributable to the performance of
  laboratory services.
    2. Where a  county  or  city  provides  or  shall  have  provided  for
  laboratory  service  by contracting with an established laboratory, with
  the approval of the commissioner, it shall be entitled to state aid at a
  per centum, determined in accordance with the  provisions  of  paragraph
  (b)  of  subdivision two of section six hundred five of this article, of
  the cost of the contracts. State aid shall be available for  a  district
  laboratory  supply  station  maintained  and operated in accordance with
  article five of this chapter in the same manner and to the  same  extent
  as for laboratory services.
    3.  The  work  of  all  laboratories  except  the  laboratories in the
  department of health in the city of New York established  or  for  which
  aid  is received in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall
  be inspected and standardized by the commissioner and no state aid shall
  be given to any county or city unless the area of  the  district,  site,
  design and construction of the buildings, equipment, work and conduct of
  the  laboratory shall be first approved in writing, after inspection, by
  the commissioner or his representative.
    4. The governing body of any county or city which has established  and
  is maintaining a laboratory or which is providing laboratory services by
  contract  with another laboratory and which desires to make applications
  for state aid under this title shall annually on such dates  as  may  be
  fixed  by the commissioner submit the request of such county or city for
  such state aid and shall support such request with such  information  as
  the  commissioner may require. The commissioner shall prescribe the form
  in which such information shall be submitted.