2023 New York Laws › MHY - Mental Hygiene › Title E - General Provisions › Article 41 - 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.