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New York Mental Hygiene - Article 7 - (7.01 - 7.43) Office of Mental Health

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  • New York Mental Hygiene - Article 7 - Office of Mental Health
    7.18 Secure treatment facilities in the office. 7.19 Personnel of the office. 7.21 Directors of facilities. 7.23 Education and training. 7.25 Safety. 7.27 Facility services....
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.01 - Declaration of Policy
    The state of New York and its local governments have a responsibility for the prevention and early detection of mental illness and for the comprehensively...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.03 - Definitions
    As used in this title: 1. "Office" means the office of mental health. 2. "Commissioner" means the head of the office of mental health.
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.05 - Mental Health Services Council
    for any act done, failure to act, or statement or opinion made, while discharging his duties as a member of the council, without leave from...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.07 - Office of Mental Health; Scope of Responsibilities
    (a) The office of mental health is charged with the responsibility for assuring the development of comprehensive plans, programs, and services in the areas of...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.09 - Powers of the Office and Commissioner; How Exercised
    (a) The commissioner shall exercise all powers vested in the office. He may delegate any function, power, or duty assigned to him or to the...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.11 - Organization and Administration of the Office of Mental Health and Its Facilities
    (a) The commissioner shall have the professional jurisdiction, supervision, and control of the office and all department facilities for the mentally ill. (b) The commissioner...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.13 - Local Services
    for the mentally ill shall be planned, financed and implemented in accordance with the provisions of article forty-one of this chapter.
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.15 - Programs of the Office of Mental Health
    (a) The commissioner shall plan, promote, establish, develop, coordinate, evaluate, and conduct programs and services of prevention, diagnosis, examination, care, treatment, rehabilitation, training, and research...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.17 - Programs, Services, and Operation of Facilities in the Office of Mental Health
    (a) The commissioner shall establish policy and procedures for the organization, administration, and operation of the facilities under his jurisdiction. He shall make provision for...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.18 - Secure Treatment Facilities in the Office
    (a) There shall be in the office secure treatment facilities, as defined in subdivision (o) of section 10.03 of this title, as designated by the...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.19 - Personnel of the Office
    (a) The commissioner may, within the amounts appropriated therefor, appoint and remove in accordance with law and applicable rules of the state civil service commission,...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.21 - Directors of Facilities
    (a) The director of a facility under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health shall be its chief executive officer. Each such director shall...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.23 - Education and Training
    in whole or in part. (c) The commissioner may grant leaves of absence to employees of the office of mental health for the purpose of...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.25 - Safety
    and security services for the facility.
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.27 - Facility Services
    (a) Chapels. The commissioner may permit any religious or missionary corporation or society or combination of such corporations and societies to erect a building on...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.29 - Gifts
    , devises, bequests, grants, powers, or trusts given to, received, or applied by the state, the commissioner, the office of mental health, or facilities thereof...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.31 - Disposition of Moneys and Securities
    (a) The commissioner, or the officer or employee of the office designated by him, shall: 1. Receive and turn over to the comptroller for liquidation...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.33 - Boards of Visitors
    The chairman of the commission on quality of care for the mentally disabled shall notify the governor and the appointed member of any such member's...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.35 - Actions Against Persons Rendering Professional Services At the Request of the Office; Defense and Indemnification
    The provisions of section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any physician, dentist, psychologist, nurse, optometrist, licensed master social worker, or licensed...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.37 - Powers of the Office and Commissioner in Relation to the Planning and Referral of Mentally Ill Children for Adult Services
    (a) As used in this section: 1. "report" means a report submitted to the office pursuant to subparagraph five of paragraph b of subdivision one...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.37-A - Transitional Care
    , in accordance with procedures established by the office, for any individual: 1. who has been offered an appropriate, available adult placement or adult services,...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.38 - Additional Duties of the Office With Respect to Persons Receiving Transitional Care
    (a) The office shall, in consultation with the department of social services, the education department, the office for people with developmental disabilities, and the council...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.39 - Registration and Notification of Boards of Directors or Trustees of Certain Voluntary Not-for-profit Facilities or Corporations
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation, the executive director, chairperson or president of a voluntary, not-for-profit corporation or facility which is subject to...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.41 - Geriatric Service Demonstration Program
    to provide grants, within appropriations therefor, to providers of mental health care to the elderly. Such program shall be administered by the office in cooperation...
  • New York Mental Hygiene - § 7.43 - The Children's Plan
    , developed pursuant to chapter six hundred sixty-seven of the laws of two thousand six, and shall assist such council with the development of future...