2006 New York Code - Power Of Commissioner Of Public Welfare To Detain Certain Inmates.

 
    §  199.  Power  of  commissioner  of  public welfare to detain certain
  inmates. The commissioner of public welfare shall have power  to  detain
  in  the  public  home,  pending  a  vacancy  for  such person in a state
  institution, a person over the age of sixteen who has been certified  as
  mentally  retarded or epileptic in accordance with the provisions of the
  mental hygiene law and for whom an application for admission to a  state
  institution  has been made. Whenever the commissioner shall so detain an
  inmate in the public home he shall at once notify the  state  department
  of mental hygiene.