N.Y. Social Services Law § 462-a: Responsibility for inspection and supervision

§ 462-a. Responsibility for inspection and supervision. 1. The office

of children and family services shall inspect and supervise secure and

non-secure detention facilities and those office of children and family

services residential facilities authorized by article nineteen-G of the

executive law and those residential facilities operated as approved

runaway programs or transitional independent living support programs

pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law.

2. The appropriate offices of the state department of mental hygiene

shall inspect and supervise those facilities subject to articles

thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.

3. For those facilities which care for a significant number of

mentally disabled children, the department shall enter into written

cooperative agreements no later than October first, nineteen hundred

seventy-seven with the department of mental hygiene for joint inspection

and supervision of such facilities, as appropriate.

4. The office of children and family services shall inspect and

supervise all other child care facilities subject to its regulation.