2006 New York Code - Discharge; Certain Cases.

 
  § 29.16 Discharge; certain cases.
    The director of a facility shall, with respect to any patient admitted
  to  such facility pursuant to section five hundred nine of the executive
  law or 353.4 of the family court act and article nine or fifteen of this
  chapter, give immediate written notice to the director of  the  division
  for  youth and to the mental hygiene legal service when any such patient
  leaves the facility without the consent of its  director.  Such  patient
  shall  not be discharged so long as there is a valid order of the family
  court placing such  person  with  the  division  for  youth,  except  in
  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section  five hundred nine of the
  executive law or section 353.4 of the family court act.