Section 462-B - Responsibility for enforcement1. The office of children and family services shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred sixty-d of this article which may apply to secure and non-secure detention facilities and to those office of children and family services residential facilities authorized by article nineteen-G of the executive law and those residential facilities operated as approved runaway programs or transitional independent living support programs pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law. 2. The appropriate offices of the state department of mental hygiene shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred sixty-d of this article which may apply to those facilities subject to articles thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law. 3.With respect to facilities which care for a significant number of mentally disabled children, the department shall enter into written cooperative agreements no later than October first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven with the department of mental hygiene establishing circumstances under which the department will at the request of the department of mental hygiene act to limit or modify the operating certificate of any facility so as to preclude such facility from accepting, caring for or continuing to care for mentally disabled children. 4.The office of children and family services shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred sixty-d of this article with respect to all other child caring facilities subject to its regulation either independently or at the request of the department of mental hygiene . N.Y. Soc. Serv. Law § 462-B
Amended by New York Laws 2012, ch. 501,Sec. D-16-b, eff. 6/30/2013.