New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 7 - OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH

• 7.01 - Declaration of Policy.
  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...
• 7.03 - Definitions.
  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
• 7.07 - Office of Mental Health; Scope of Responsibilities.
  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...
• 7.09 - Powers of the Office and Commissioner; How Exercised.
  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,...
• 7.11 - Organization and Administration of the Office of Mental Health and Its Facilities.
  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...
• 7.13 - Local Services.
  7.13 Local services. Local services for the mentally ill shall be planned, financed and implemented in accordance with the provisions of article forty-one of this
• 7.15 - Programs of the Office of Mental Health.
  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,...
• 7.17 - Programs, Services, and Operation of Facilities in the Office of Mental Health.
  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,...
• 7.18 - Secure Treatment Facilities in the Office.
  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...
• 7.19 - Personnel of the Office.
  7.19 Personnel of the office. (a) The commissioner or his or her designee may, within the amounts appropriated therefor, appoint and remove in accordance with...
• 7.21 - Directors of Facilities.
  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....
• 7.23 - Education and Training.
  7.23 Education and training. (a) The commissioner shall have the power to establish such programs of training and education related to mental illness as he...
• 7.25 - Safety.
  7.25 Safety. (a) The commissioner and the directors of in-patient facilities in the office of mental health may designate safety officers to act as special...
• 7.27 - Facility Services.
  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...
• 7.29 - Gifts.
  7.29 Gifts. (a) The commissioner, on behalf of the state and if in the public interest, shall accept, hold in trust, administer, apply, execute, or...
• 7.31 - Disposition of Moneys and Securities.
  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...
• 7.33 - Boards of Visitors.
  7.33 Boards of visitors. (a) Each hospital in the department shall have a board of visitors consisting of seven members; provided, however, that a hospital...
• 7.35 - Actions Against Persons Rendering Professional Services At the Request of the Office; Defense and Indemnification.
  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...
• 7.37 - Powers of the Office and Commissioner in Relation to the Planning and Referral of Mentally Ill Children for Adult Services.
  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...
• 7.37-a - Transitional Care.
  7.37-a Transitional care. (a) For purposes of this section, "transitional care" shall mean care and maintenance of persons: 1. who were placed in foster care...
• 7.38 - Additional Duties of the Office With Respect to Persons Receiving Transitional Care.
  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,...
• 7.39 - Registration and Notification of Boards of Directors or Trustees of Certain Voluntary Not-For-Profit Facilities or Corporations.
  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,...
• 7.41 - Geriatric Service Demonstration Program.
  7.41 Geriatric service demonstration program. (a) The office shall establish a geriatric service demonstration program to provide grants, within appropriations therefor, to providers of mental...
• 7.43 - The Children's Plan.
  7.43 The children's plan. The commissioner of mental health, in consultation with the state council on children and families pursuant to section four hundred eighty-three-f...
• 7.45 - Retaliatory Personnel Actions.
  7.45 Retaliatory personnel actions. Employees of facilities, programs and providers operated, licensed, certified, authorized or funded by the office shall have protection from retaliatory action...
• 7.47 - Mental Illness Anti-Stigma Grants.
  7.47 Mental illness anti-stigma grants. (a) The office shall develop and implement a program which provides grants to organizations engaged in activities which eliminate the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019