Bill Text: NY A04191 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to input from municipalities relating to the establishment or incorporation of facilities providing chemical dependence services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [A04191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04191-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4191
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to input from  muni-
          cipalities  relating  to the establishment or incorporation of facili-
          ties providing chemical dependence services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of  subdivision (b) of section 32.31 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 529 of the laws  of  2004,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. An application for approval of the proposed certificate of incorpo-
     5  ration  or articles of organization shall be filed with the commissioner
     6  together with such other forms and information as  shall  be  prescribed
     7  by,  or  acceptable  to,  him or her. Thereafter, the commissioner shall
     8  forward a copy of the proposed certificate or articles [or] of organiza-
     9  tion and application for establishment and  accompanying  documents,  to
    10  the  local governmental unit of the area in which such facility is to be
    11  located. The commissioner shall not act upon such application until  the
    12  local governmental unit has had a reasonable time to submit their recom-
    13  mendations.    The  local governmental unit shall solicit and include in
    14  its recommendations input received from an incorporated village if  such
    15  facility  is  to  be  located  therein, a town if such facility is to be
    16  located therein and not simultaneously within an incorporated village or
    17  a city if such facility is to be located therein except that in the city
    18  of New York, such input shall be provided by the  community  board  with
    19  jurisdiction over the area where such facility is to be located.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06468-01-7
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