2021 New York Laws
MHY - Mental Hygiene
Title E - General Provisions
Article 75 - Community Mental Health Services and Mental Retardation Services Companies
75.03 - Policy and Purposes of Article.

§ 75.03 Policy and purposes of article.
It is hereby declared that the provision of new and improved community
  facilities  is  necessary  to  care for the increasing number of persons
  afflicted with mental disability.  Such  facilities  should  be  located
  close  to  the  people  they  serve in order to speed rehabilitation and
  restoration and  to  provide  for  out-patient  care,  in-patient  care,
  including  after  care,  diagnostic  and  rehabilitative  services,  and
  residential accommodations for operation  as  hostels.  Such  facilities
  should  supplement  the  services  provided  by the commissioner and the
  department of mental hygiene and  should  be  available  to  cities  and
  counties  operating approved community services programs pursuant to the
  provisions of article eleven of this chapter.
It is hereby further declared that non-profit corporations  should  be
  created  to  construct,  acquire,  reconstruct,  rehabilitate,  own, and
  operate such facilities and that provision should be made  for  mortgage
  loan  participation  by  a  lending  institution  or  the New York state
  housing finance agency in order to insure that the full resources of the
  private enterprise sector of the economy may be made available for  this
  purpose; that there is a need for public assistance to such corporations
  by  the granting of tax exemption; that it is the policy of the state to
  promote  the  provision  of  community  facilities  by  such   nonprofit
  corporations; and that such provision is a public use and purpose.