N.Y. Facilities Development Corporation Act 359/68 § 6: Purposes of the corporation

§ 6. Purposes of the corporation. The purposes of the corporation are:

1. To facilitate the timely provision, acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of health facilities for

the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury,

deformity or physical condition, at a reasonable cost, in order to

reduce the time lag between the determination of the need for such

facilities and their actual availability for use.

2. To assist the department of health, which is the state agency

having the central, comprehensive responsibility for development and

administration of the state's policy with respect to hospital and

related services, in the discharge of its duties and responsibilities

under article twenty-eight of the public health law.

3. To provide mental hygiene facilities, other than community health

and developmental disabilities facilities, for the care, maintenance and

treatment of the mentally disabled, for research and training related

thereto, and for the members of the staff of state institutions in the

department and their families, to reduce the time lag between

determination of need for such facilities and actual occupancy thereof,

to expedite the construction, acquisition, reconstruction,

rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to assure that the

same are completed and ready for the purposes intended in the light of

foreseeable needs, to assure exclusive possession, jurisdiction, control

and supervision over all mental hygiene facilities in order to

effectuate the aforesaid purposes and to make such facilities available

to the appropriate commissioner of the department for use in the care,

maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled.

4. To provide community mental health and developmental disabilities

facilities for the mentally disabled, for out-patient care and

short-term in-patient care, including after care and diagnostic and

rehabilitative services and training and research, for and at the

request of cities and counties not wholly within a city, authorized to

provide community mental health services in accordance with the

provisions of article forty-one of title E of the mental hygiene law, to

reduce the time between determination of the need for such facilities

and actual occupancy thereof, to expedite the construction, acquisition,

reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to

assure that the same are completed and ready for the purposes intended

in the light of current and foreseeable needs, all as approved by the

appropriate commissioner of the department.

5. To provide mental hygiene facilities to be made available under

license or permit from the corporation to voluntary agencies at the

request of the appropriate commissioner of the department in accordance

with the provisions of this act for use in providing community mental

health and developmental disabilities services and services in a

residential care center for adults.

6. To provide office of alcoholism and substance abuse services

facilities to be made available under license or permit from the

corporation to voluntary agencies at the request of the office in

accordance with the provisions of this act for use in the conduct of an

alcoholism or substance abuse treatment program.

7. To provide facilities for the department of corrections and

community supervision.