N.Y. Social Services Law § 477: Dutchess county

§ 477. Dutchess county. 1. All mentally ill, developmentally disabled,

blind and deaf and mute persons, the expense of whose support and

maintenance now is, or, under the laws of the state of New York, may

become a charge upon the city of Poughkeepsie, or the county of

Dutchess, exclusive of said city, or both, and who are maintained, or

shall be maintained, in any of the institutions of the state of New

York, shall be supported by said county of Dutchess as one district.

2. All institutions in the state of New York maintaining any such

person whose support is properly chargeable, or shall be properly

chargeable, to said city or county, are hereby required to render to the

county treasurer of said county all bills for the support of such

persons without any distinction between those persons from the different

parts of said county.

3. This section shall not be held to affect chapter two hundred and

eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, an act for

the better support of the poor in the city of Poughkeepsie, except as to

the class of persons herein named.