41.40 - Small community residential facilities. - New York Statutes

* § 41.40 Small community residential facilities. The commissioner of the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities is directed to submit to the governor and the legislature no later than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, a report and recommendations of actions necessary to encourage the development of small community residential programs including programs of ten beds or less. Such report and recommendations shall consider: 1. adequate operating costs associated with such facilities for each geographic region of the state; 2. a capital reimbursement methodology to promote and facilitate the development of small community residential facilities; 3. the need for individuals who are severely disabled to live in small community residential facilities; and 4. the need of local providers of service to make determinations regarding the size, structure and character of new community residential facilities in order to make such facilities compatible with the character of local neighborhoods. * NB There are 2 § 41.40