N.Y. Social Services Law § 462-b: Responsibility for enforcement

§ 462-b. Responsibility for enforcement. 1. The office of children and

family services shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in

section four hundred sixty-d of this article which may apply to secure

and non-secure detention facilities and to 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 exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred

sixty-d of this article which may apply to those facilities subject to

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

3. With respect to 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 establishing

circumstances under which the department will at the request of the

department of mental hygiene act to limit or modify the operating

certificate of any facility so as to preclude such facility from

accepting, caring for or continuing to care for mentally disabled

children.

4. The office of children and family services shall exercise the

enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred sixty-d of this

article with respect to all other child caring facilities subject to its

regulation either independently or at the request of the department of

mental hygiene.