N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 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.