New York Consolidated Laws, Mental Hygiene Law - MHY § 41.50 Development grants for comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs

The commissioner of mental health may, subject to the approval of the director of the budget, make grants to local governmental units, voluntary agencies, and general hospitals licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight of the public health law, for up to one hundred percent of the reasonable preoperational costs associated with efforts to establish comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs, including reasonable professional fees, reasonable and necessary fees paid to secure financing, other fees for services which are necessary for project development, initial staffing, furniture, equipment, reasonable rehabilitation costs, and other reasonable development costs approved by the commissioner of mental health.