Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 456
Section 14 - Cooperation and assistance from other state agencies1.The departments of health, mental hygiene and law, the division of the budget, the office of general services, the state housing finance agency, the state medical care facilities finance agency, the state agency designated to implement an act of congress known as the comprehensive health planning and public health services amendments of nineteen hundred sixty-six ( Public Law 89-749) and all other state agencies shall cooperate with and assist the corporation in the fulfillment of its corporate purposes and in the exercise of its corporate powers under this act and may render such services to the corporation within their respective functions as the directors of the corporation may reasonably request.2.Subject to the approval of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and to the terms of any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing finance agency, the corporation, whether as principal or as agent for the state housing finance agency, is hereby authorized and empowered to provide facilities for the conduct of alcoholism or substance abuse treatment programs by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and as may be required by such office in the performance of its duties, powers and functions as specified in article nineteen of the mental hygiene law, including construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration and improvement of buildings, structures and appurtenances, the purchase and installation of furnishings and equipment, the acquisition of property by purchase, lease or transfer, engineering, architectural and consulting services. In the design, construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration and improvement of such facilities the corporation shall be guided by the provisions of this act relating to the design and construction of mental hygiene facilities, provided, however, that subject to the terms of any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing finance agency such facilities and the approvals to be given for the design and construction thereof shall be under the professional jurisdiction of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and the corporation shall make such facilities available to such office.3.Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision five of section nine of this act, the directors of the corporation, subject to the terms of any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing finance agency, shall make available to the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services for use as an alcoholism or substance abuse facility any real property or facility under the jurisdiction of the corporation as the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services shall request and the commissioner shall certify is no longer necessary for use in the care, maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled. Such real property or facility shall continue under the professional jurisdiction of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services until such office shall certify that such real property or facility is no longer necessary for use as an alcoholism or substance abuse facility, whereupon all of the provisions of subdivision five of section nine of this act shall govern. Responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of such real property or facility, for the maintenance and routine repair of such real property or facility and for the replacement of furnishings, equipment, apparatus and machinery shall, subject to the terms of any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing finance agency, be in the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services so long as such real property or facility is under the professional jurisdiction of such office. A copy of any certificate made pursuant to this subdivision shall be filed with the director of the budget.N.Y. Facilities Development Corporation Act Law § 14