N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 41.40: Small community residential facilities

* § 41.40 Small community residential facilities.

The commissioner of the office for people with developmental

disabilities is directed to submit to the governor and the legislature

no later than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, a report and

recommendations of actions necessary to encourage the development of

small community residential programs including programs of ten beds or

less. Such report and recommendations shall consider:

1. adequate operating costs associated with such facilities for each

geographic region of the state;

2. a capital reimbursement methodology to promote and facilitate the

development of small community residential facilities;

3. the need for individuals who are severely disabled to live in small

community residential facilities; and

4. the need of local providers of service to make determinations

regarding the size, structure and character of new community residential

facilities in order to make such facilities compatible with the

character of local neighborhoods.

* NB There are 2 § 41.40