Section 6 - Purposes of the corporationThe purposes of the corporation are:
1.To facilitate the timely provision, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of health facilities for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, at a reasonable cost, in order to reduce the time lag between the determination of the need for such facilities and their actual availability for use.2.To assist the department of health, which is the state agency having the central, comprehensive responsibility for development and administration of the state's policy with respect to hospital and related services, in the discharge of its duties and responsibilities under article twenty-eight of the public health law.3. To provide mental hygiene facilities, other than community health and developmental disabilities facilities, for the care, maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled, for research and training related thereto, and for the members of the staff of state institutions in the department and their families, to reduce the time lag between determination of need for such facilities and actual occupancy thereof, to expedite the construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to assure that the same are completed and ready for the purposes intended in the light of foreseeable needs, to assure exclusive possession, jurisdiction, control and supervision over all mental hygiene facilities in order to effectuate the aforesaid purposes and to make such facilities available to the appropriate commissioner of the department for use in the care, maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled. 4. To provide community mental health and developmental disabilities facilities for the mentally disabled, for out-patient care and short-term in-patient care, including after care and diagnostic and rehabilitative services and training and research, for and at the request of cities and counties not wholly within a city, authorized to provide community mental health services in accordance with the provisions of article forty-one of title E of the mental hygiene law, to reduce the time between determination of the need for such facilities and actual occupancy thereof, to expedite the construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to assure that the same are completed and ready for the purposes intended in the light of current and foreseeable needs, all as approved by the appropriate commissioner of the department.5. To provide mental hygiene facilities to be made available under license or permit from the corporation to voluntary agencies at the request of the appropriate commissioner of the department in accordance with the provisions of this act for use in providing community mental health and developmental disabilities services and services in a residential care center for adults.6.To provide office of alcoholism and substance abuse services facilities to be made available under license or permit from the corporation to voluntary agencies at the request of the office in accordance with the provisions of this act for use in the conduct of an alcoholism or substance abuse treatment program.7.To provide facilities for the department of corrections and community supervision.N.Y. Facilities Development Corporation Act Law § 6
Amended by New York Laws 2022, ch. 479,Sec. 49, eff. 7/26/2022.