2015 New York Laws
GCT - General City
Article 8 - (General City) DRUG CONTROL AUTHORITIES
121 - Powers of the authority.

 121. Powers  of  the  authority.  The  authority, by and through its
  board, shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
1. To coordinate and assist in activities in the city relating to drug
  control;
2. To establish in-patient and out-patient  treatment  facilities  for
  persons  addicted  to the use of drugs and drug abusers. Such facilities
  shall include, but shall not be limited to:
a. detoxification centers and clinics for the out-patient treatment of
  drug abusers and addicts;
b. a treatment center where addicts may obtain professional counseling
  from physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and where possible, former
  drug abusers and addicts;
c. half-way houses to provide continuing treatment  for  drug  abusers
  and addicts.
3.  To  create  a  referral  program whereby drug abusers, addicts and
  persons and agencies concerned with their treatment will make use of the
  aforementioned treatment facilities;
4. To encourage and, when so  requested,  assist  cooperative  efforts
  among  state  and  city  agencies  in  developing  solutions to the drug
  problem;
5. To establish one or more treatment districts within the city  based
  on  geography and population density; and to employ a referral counselor
  in each treatment district;
6. To encourage and foster,  if  possible,  the  use  of  former  drug
  abusers and persons formerly addicted to drugs as staff personnel;
7. To develop preventative educational programs and in the city of New
  York,  to  assist  narcotic guidance councils of community boards in the
  development of such programs;
8. Outside the city of New York, to act  as  agent  for  the  city  in
  accepting any public or private funds which may be made available to the
  city to combat the problems of drug abuse;
9.  To  make  a  continuing evaluation of the preventative educational
  techniques and pharmacological and psychiatric treatment procedures used
  in the city;
10. To utilize former  drug  abusers  and  ex-addicts  in  educational
  counseling and make periodic evaluations of their effectiveness;
11. To establish youth centers to provide individual and group therapy
  and develop constructive work habits;
12.  To develop a program designed to educate and enlighten parents on
  detection, prevention and treatment of problems relating to drug use and
  in the city  of  New  York  to  assist  narcotic  guidance  councils  of
  community boards in the development of such programs.