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N.Y. SOS Law § 462-A

This is the official text of N.Y. SOS Law § 462-A, part of New York’s SOS Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "SOS Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.

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Responsibility for inspection and supervision

Official statutory text

§ 462-a. Responsibility for inspection and supervision. 1. The office\nof children and family services shall inspect and supervise secure and\nnon-secure detention facilities and those office of children and family\nservices residential facilities authorized by article nineteen-G of the\nexecutive law and those residential facilities operated as approved\nrunaway programs or transitional independent living support programs\npursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law.\n 2. The appropriate offices of the state department of mental hygiene\nshall inspect and supervise those facilities subject to articles\nthirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.\n 3. For those facilities which care for a significant number of\nmentally disabled children, the department shall enter into written\ncooperative agreements no later than October first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-seven with the department of mental hygiene for joint inspection\nand supervision of such facilities, as appropriate.\n 4. The office of children and family services shall inspect and\nsupervise all other child care facilities subject to its regulation.\n

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