2010 New York Code
MHY - Mental Hygiene
Title E - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 41 - (41.01 - 41.57) LOCAL SERVICES
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  of  the  mentally
  disabled,  the  commissioners  of  the  offices  in the department shall
  consult and cooperate with one another and shall meet from time to  time
  with the New York state conference of local mental hygiene directors, to
  ensure  that  the procedural policies, forms, time frames for submission
  and approval of plans and rules and regulations governing the procedures
  for planning and financing of the care, treatment and rehabilitation  of
  the  mentally  disabled adopted by each of the offices in the department
  are consistent with one another.
    (b) Guidelines for the operation of local services plans and financing
  shall be adopted only by rule or regulation. Such rules and  regulations
  shall  be submitted at least twenty-one days prior to the effective date
  thereof to the  New  York  state  conference  of  local  mental  hygiene
  directors  for  comment  thereon;  provided,  however, if a commissioner
  finds that the public health, welfare  or  safety  requires  the  prompt
  adoption  of rules and regulations, he may dispense with such submission
  prior to the effective date thereof but, in such case, such commissioner
  shall submit such rules and regulations to the  conference  as  soon  as
  possible  for  their  review  within sixty days after the effective date
  thereof.