New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 41 - LOCAL SERVICES
- 41.01 - Declaration of Purpose.
41.01 Declaration of purpose. This article is designed to enable and encourage local governments to develop in the community preventive, rehabilitative, and treatment services offering...
- 41.03 - Definitions.
41.03 Definitions. When used in this article: 1. "local government" means a county, except a county within the city of New York, and the city...
- 41.04 - Responsibilities of Commissioners of the Offices.
41.04 Responsibilities of commissioners of the offices. (a) In order to prevent unnecessary fragmentation in the planning and financing of the care, treatment and rehabilitation...
- 41.05 - Local Governmental Unit.
41.05 Local governmental unit. (a) To be eligible for state aid pursuant to this chapter, a local government shall establish a local governmental unit, which...
- 41.07 - Provision of Services by the Local Governmental Unit.
41.07 Provision of services by the local governmental unit. (a) Local governmental units may provide local services and facilities directly or may contract for the...
- 41.09 - Director.
41.09 Director. (a) Charter governments may provide for appointment and removal of directors in a manner authorized by such governments. In all other local governments,...
- 41.10 - State Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors.
41.10 State conference of local mental hygiene directors. (a) There is hereby created the New York state conference of local mental hygiene directors, hereinafter referred...
- 41.11 - Composition of Boards.
41.11 Composition of boards. * (a) In all local governments with a population less than one hundred thousand, community services boards, at the option of...
- 41.13 - Powers and Duties of Local Governmental Units.
41.13 Powers and duties of local governmental units. (a) Every local governmental unit shall: 1. review services and local facilities for the mentally disabled of...
- 41.15 - Approved Plans and State Aid.
41.15 Approved plans and state aid. (a) Net operating costs of programs incurred pursuant to an approved local services plan in accordance with the regulations...
- 41.16 - Local Planning; State and Local Responsibilities.
41.16 Local planning; state and local responsibilities. (a) Each of the offices of the department shall guide and facilitate the process of local planning so...
- 41.17 - State and Local Coordination.
41.17 State and local coordination. Each commissioner of an office in the department, consistent with the goals and objectives established by the advisory council of...
- 41.18 - Local Services Plan; State Aid.
41.18 Local services plan; state aid. (a) A local services plan is a plan for the rendition of local services. Such a plan must have...
- 41.24 - Study on Alternative to Net Deficit Funding.
41.24 Study on alternative to net deficit funding. On or before April fifteenth, nineteen hundred ninety, the commissioner shall submit to the legislature a study...
- 41.25 - Fees.
41.25 Fees. (a) As a prerequisite for state aid, local governmental units and voluntary agencies shall establish fee or payment schedules for clinical services and...
- 41.27 - State Aid Procedures.
41.27 State aid procedures. (a) State aid shall not be granted for capital costs unless: 1. appropriations authorizing them have been requested by the commissioner;...
- 41.29 - Liability of Local Government.
41.29 Liability of local government. Any local government which has established a local governmental unit shall save harmless and protect the members of the board...
- 41.31 - Publication of Records.
41.31 Publication of records. Every local governmental unit shall make available in its office, as a public record, copies of its state-approved plans and proposals,...
- 41.32 - Transitional Provisions for Local Assistance Funding of Federally Funded Demonstration Projects for Treatment of Alcoholics.
41.32 Transitional provisions for local assistance funding of federally funded demonstration projects for treatment of alcoholics. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, whenever demonstration projects...
- 41.33 - Community Residences for the Mentally Disabled.
41.33 Community residences for the mentally disabled. The commissioner shall have the power to operate or cause to be operated community residential facilities for the...
- 41.34 - Site Selection of Community Residential Facilities.
41.34 Site selection of community residential facilities. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Community residential facility for the...
- 41.35 - Demonstration Programs.
41.35 Demonstration programs. * (a) The commissioners of the offices in the department shall cause to be developed plans for three or more time-limited demonstration...
- 41.36 - Community Residential Facilities.
41.36 Community residential facilities. The commissioner of developmental disabilities shall establish a procedure, subject to the approval of the state comptroller, whereby payments in addition...
- 41.37 - Community Residence and Residential Treatment Facility for Children and Youth Development Grants.
41.37 Community residence and residential treatment facility for children and youth development grants. (a) The commissioner of the office of mental health or the commissioner...
- 41.38 - Rental and Mortgage Payments of Community Residential Facilities for the Mentally Ill.
41.38 Rental and mortgage payments of community residential facilities for the mentally ill. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article, the commissioner may reimburse voluntary...
- 41.39 - Vocational Programs; Sheltered Workshop Industrial Contract Income.
41.39 Vocational programs; sheltered workshop industrial contract income. (a) The commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of developmental disabilities shall, consistent with the state...
- 41.40 - Small Community Residential Facilities.
* 41.40 Small community residential facilities. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities is directed to submit to the governor and the...
- 41.40*2 - Respite Services.
* 41.40 Respite services. (a) Definitions. When read in this article: 1. "Respite" shall mean the provision of intermittent temporary substitute care of mentally retarded...
- 41.41 - Rights of Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
41.41 Rights of persons with developmental disabilities. 1. Each person who resides in a community residence has the same basic and legal rights as all...
- 41.42 - Family Support Programs.
41.42 Family support programs. The commissioner of mental health, directly or through contract, and within amounts made available therefor, shall establish a family support program....
- 41.43 - Family Support Services.
41.43 Family support services. (a) The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, directly or through contract, and within amounts made available therefor,...
- 41.44 - Community Residential Services for the Mentally Ill.
41.44 Community residential services for the mentally ill. (a) The commissioner of mental health is authorized, within appropriations made therefor, to establish a continuum of...
- 41.45 - Development Grants for Residential Care Centers for Adults.
41.45 Development grants for residential care centers for adults. The commissioner of mental health is authorized, within appropriations made therefor, to make grants to local...
- 41.46 - Disclosure by Members, Officers and Employees.
41.46 Disclosure by members, officers and employees. In the event that an agency licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities, the office of...
- 41.47 - Community Support Services Program.
41.47 Community support services program. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Approved reimbursable rate" means the maximum rate of payment per unit of service...
- 41.48 - Real Property Acquisition Options.
41.48 Real property acquisition options. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article and within appropriations made therefor, the commissioners of the office of mental...
- 41.49 - Adolescent Suicide Prevention Program.
* 41.49 Adolescent suicide prevention program. 1. Within amounts appropriated, the office of mental health is hereby authorized and directed to establish and conduct, in...
- 41.49*2 - Community Based Mental Health Services for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Children.
* 41.49 Community based mental health services for seriously emotionally disturbed children. 1. As used in this section: "Seriously emotionally disturbed children" shall mean persons...
- 41.50 - Development Grants for Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs.
* 41.50 Development grants for comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs. The commissioner of mental health may, subject to the approval of the director of the budget,...
- 41.51 - State Aid for Costs of Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs.
* 41.51 State aid for costs of comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article, local governments may be granted state...
- 41.52 - Community Residential Services for Alcoholism.
41.52 Community residential services for alcoholism. (a) The commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services is authorized, within appropriations made therefor, to establish a continuum...
- 41.53 - Community Residence Development Grants for Alcoholism Services.
41.53 Community residence development grants for alcoholism services. (a) The commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services is authorized, within appropriations made therefor, to make...
- 41.54 - Roles and Responsibilities of Certain Board Members.
* 41.54 Roles and responsibilities of certain board members. Within appropriations made therefor, the commissioner of the appropriate office within the department of mental hygiene...
- 41.54*2 - Employee Assistance Programs.
* 41.54 Employee assistance programs. (a) The director of the division of alcoholism and alcohol abuse may, within appropriations made therefor, provide assistance in establishing...
- 41.55 - Community Mental Health Support and Workforce Reinvestment Program.
* 41.55 Community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program. (a) Community mental health support and workforce reinvestment funds shall be annually allocated by the...
- 41.56 - Adolescent Suicide Prevention Advisory Council.
* 41.56 Adolescent suicide prevention advisory council. (a) There shall be established within the office of mental health, a council on adolescent suicide prevention to...
- 41.57 - Compulsive Gambling Education and Treatment Program.
41.57 Compulsive gambling education and treatment program. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this article and within amounts made available therefor by appropriation, the commissioner is...
Last modified: February 3, 2019