N.Y. Social Services Law § 199: Power of commissioner of public welfare to detain certain incarcerated individuals

§ 199. Power of commissioner of public welfare to detain certain

incarcerated individuals. The commissioner of public welfare shall have

power to detain in the public home, pending a vacancy for such person in

a state institution, a person over the age of sixteen who has been

certified as an individual with a developmental disability in accordance

with the provisions of the mental hygiene law and for whom an

application for admission to a state institution has been made. Whenever

the commissioner shall so detain an incarcerated individual in the

public home he or she shall at once notify the state department of

mental hygiene.