New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 16 - REGULATION AND QUALITY OF SERVICES

• 16.00 - Regulation and Quality Control of Services for Individuals With Developmental Disabilties.
  16.00 Regulation and quality control of services for individuals with developmental disabilities. This article sets forth provisions enabling the commissioner of the office for people...
• 16.01 - Evaluation of Services for Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  16.01 Evaluation of services for persons with developmental disabilities. (a) The commissioner shall ensure that all services provided under this chapter for persons with developmental...
• 16.03 - Operating Certificate Required.
  16.03 Operating certificate required. (a) No provider of services shall engage in any of the following activities without an operating certificate issued by the commissioner...
• 16.05 - Issuance of Operating Certificates.
  16.05 Issuance of operating certificates. (a)(1) Application for an operating certificate shall be made upon forms prescribed by the commissioner. (2) Application shall be made...
• 16.09 - Approval of New Construction.
  16.09 Approval of new construction. (a) As used or referred to in this section, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "Facility"...
• 16.11 - Oversight of Facilities and Services.
  16.11 Oversight of facilities and services. (a) The commissioner shall provide for the oversight of facilities and providers of services holding operating certificates pursuant to...
• 16.13 - Duties of Providers of Services.
  16.13 Duties of providers of services. It shall be the duty of every holder of an operating certificate issued pursuant to this article or organization...
• 16.17 - Suspension, Revocation, or Limitation of an Operating Certificate.
  16.17 Suspension, revocation, or limitation of an operating certificate. (a) The commissioner may revoke, suspend, or limit an operating certificate or impose the penalties described...
• 16.19 - Confinement, Care and Treatment of Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
  16.19 Confinement, care and treatment of persons with developmental disabilities. (a) No individual who is or appears to have a developmental disability shall be detained,...
• 16.21 - Injunctions.
  16.21 Injunctions. (a) The supreme court may, on application of the commissioner, enjoin violations or threatened violations of any provision of this article or violations...
• 16.23 - Family Care Homes.
  16.23 Family care homes. (a) Family care homes shall be subject to visitation and inspection of the office. (b) Operation of a family care home...
• 16.25 - Temporary Operator.
  * 16.25 Temporary operator. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Established operator" shall mean the provider of services that has been established and...
• 16.27 - Residential Facilities; Receivership.
  16.27 Residential facilities; receivership. (a) The operator of any facility may at any time request the office to take over the operation of such facility...
• 16.29 - Abuse, Neglect, and Significant Incidents Involving Vulnerable Persons.
  16.29 Abuse, neglect, and significant incidents involving vulnerable persons. (a) The commissioner, in consultation with the executive director of the justice center for the protection...
• 16.31 - Monthly Personal Allowances.
  16.31 Monthly personal allowances. (a) All persons residing in facilities for which an operating certificate is required pursuant to this article shall be entitled to...
• 16.32 - Improper Expenditure of Moneys.
  16.32 Improper expenditure of moneys. (a) No provider of services certified pursuant to this article shall make any charitable contribution of any state moneys, medical...
• 16.33 - Review of Criminal History Information Concerning Certain Prospective Employees.
  16.33 Review of criminal history information concerning certain prospective employees. (a) Every provider of services who contracts with or is approved or otherwise authorized by...
• 16.34 - Certain Information Regarding Persons Working With People With Developmental Disabilities.
  16.34 Certain information regarding persons working with people with developmental disabilities. (a) Upon a request to the justice center for criminal history information for a...
• 16.35 - Developmental Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Demonstration Program.
  16.35 Developmental disabilities services quality improvement demonstration program. (a) For purposes of this section "facility" means any not-for-profit or public agency regulated by the office...
• 16.37 - Autism Spectrum Disorder Booklet; First Responders.
  16.37 Autism spectrum disorder booklet; first responders. The commissioner, in consultation with other appropriate agency representatives, shall prepare for publication and cause to be distributed...

Last modified: February 3, 2019