N.Y. Facilities Development Corporation Act 359/68 § 14: Cooperation and assistance from other state agencies

§ 14. Cooperation and assistance from other state agencies. 1. The

departments of health, mental hygiene and law, the division of the

budget, the office of general services, the state housing finance

agency, the state medical care facilities finance agency, the state

agency designated to implement an act of congress known as the

comprehensive health planning and public health services amendments of

nineteen hundred sixty-six (Public Law 89-749) and all other state

agencies shall cooperate with and assist the corporation in the

fulfillment of its corporate purposes and in the exercise of its

corporate powers under this act and may render such services to the

corporation within their respective functions as the directors of the

corporation may reasonably request.

2. Subject to the approval of the office of alcoholism and substance

abuse services and to the terms of any lease, sublease or other

agreement with the state housing finance agency, the corporation,

whether as principal or as agent for the state housing finance agency,

is hereby authorized and empowered to provide facilities for the conduct

of alcoholism or substance abuse treatment programs by the office of

alcoholism and substance abuse services and as may be required by such

office in the performance of its duties, powers and functions as

specified in article nineteen of the mental hygiene law, including

construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration

and improvement of buildings, structures and appurtenances, the purchase

and installation of furnishings and equipment, the acquisition of

property by purchase, lease or transfer, engineering, architectural and

consulting services. In the design, construction, acquisition,

reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration and improvement of such

facilities the corporation shall be guided by the provisions of this act

relating to the design and construction of mental hygiene facilities,

provided, however, that subject to the terms of any lease, sublease or

other agreement with the state housing finance agency such facilities

and the approvals to be given for the design and construction thereof

shall be under the professional jurisdiction of the office of alcoholism

and substance abuse services and the corporation shall make such

facilities available to such office.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision five of section nine

of this act, the directors of the corporation, subject to the terms of

any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing finance

agency, shall make available to the office of alcoholism and substance

abuse services for use as an alcoholism or substance abuse facility any

real property or facility under the jurisdiction of the corporation as

the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services shall request and

the commissioner shall certify is no longer necessary for use in the

care, maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled. Such real

property or facility shall continue under the professional jurisdiction

of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services until such

office shall certify that such real property or facility is no longer

necessary for use as an alcoholism or substance abuse facility,

whereupon all of the provisions of subdivision five of section nine of

this act shall govern. Responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of

such real property or facility, for the maintenance and routine repair

of such real property or facility and for the replacement of

furnishings, equipment, apparatus and machinery shall, subject to the

terms of any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing

finance agency, be in the office of alcoholism and substance abuse

services so long as such real property or facility is under the

professional jurisdiction of such office. A copy of any certificate made

pursuant to this subdivision shall be filed with the director of the

budget.