2010 New York Code
MHY - Mental Hygiene
Title E - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 41 - (41.01 - 41.57) LOCAL SERVICES
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   of   the
  commissioner or commissioners of the office or offices of the department
  having  jurisdiction of the services and approved by the commissioner or
  commissioners  of  the  office  or  offices  of  the  department  having
  jurisdiction of the services shall be eligible for state aid.
    (b) Long range goals, intermediate range plans, and annual plans shall
  meet   requirements  for  comprehensive  services  set  for  each  local
  government by the commissioners of the offices of the  department  after
  taking  into  consideration  local  needs and available resources. These
  services shall be concerned with diagnosis, care, treatment, social  and
  vocational  rehabilitation,  community  residential services licensed by
  the department of mental  hygiene,  research,  consultation  and  public
  education,  education  and training of personnel, control and prevention
  of mental disabilities, and the general furtherance of mental capability
  and health. As part of the local services  plan  required  to  establish
  eligibility for state aid in accordance with the provisions herein, each
  local  governmental  unit  shall  submit  a  five-year  plan  and annual
  implementation plans and budgets which shall  reflect  local  needs  and
  resources, including the needs and resources available for the provision
  of  community  support  services,  and  the  role  of  facilities in the
  department in the provision of required services.
    (c) Subject to regulations for special circumstances as established by
  the commissioner or commissioners  of  the  office  or  offices  of  the
  department  having  jurisdiction  of  the  services,  no  annual plan or
  intermediate range plan of the local governmental unit shall be approved
  unless it indicates that reasonable efforts are being made to extend  or
  improve   local  services  in  each  succeeding  local  fiscal  year  in
  accordance with the statewide long range goals  and  objectives  of  the
  department  for  the development and integration of state, regional, and
  local services for the mentally disabled.
    (d) Beginning the first day of July, nineteen  hundred  seventy-eight,
  allocations  of  state aid for operating costs shall be made to eligible
  local governental units in advance no  more  than  ten  days  after  the
  beginning  of  each  quarter. Such quarterly payments shall be adjusted,
  when  necessary,  to  reflect  actual  eligible  net  operating   costs,
  projected  eligible net operating costs and appropriations available and
  shall be subject to audit and readjustment to comply with all applicable
  provisions of this article.
    (e) Capital costs incurred by a local government  or  by  a  voluntary
  agency,  pursuant  to  an approved local services plan and in accordance
  with the regulations of the commissioner or commissioners of the  office
  or  offices  of  the  department having jurisdiction of the services and
  with  the  approval  of  the  commissioner   or   commissioners   having
  jurisdiction  of  the services, shall be eligible for state aid pursuant
  to the provisions of this article. Capital costs incurred by a voluntary
  agency shall be eligible for state aid only if incurred pursuant  to  an
  agreement  between  the voluntary agency and the local governmental unit
  where the construction is located.  Such  agreement  shall  contain  the
  approval  by  the  local  governmental  unit of such construction and an
  agreement by such unit to include the program of the voluntary agency in
  its plans and proposals.
    (f) Services made available to  or  provided  for  children  attending
  public  schools, for which aid is sought pursuant to this chapter, shall
  be made available to or provided to all school children upon request  by
  the authorities of their schools.