Section 41.15. Approved plans and state aid

(a)  Net  operating  costs  of programs incurred pursuant to either an
  approved local services plan or an approved  unified  services  plan  in
  accordance  with the regulations of the commissioner or commissioners of
  the office or offices of  the  department  having  jurisdiction  of  the
  services and approved by the commissioner or commissioners of the office
  or  offices  of the department having jurisdiction of the services shall
  be eligible for state aid.
    (b) Long range goals, intermediate range plans, and annual plans shall
  meet  requirements  for  comprehensive  services  set  for  each   local
  government  by  the commissioners of the offices of the department after
  taking into consideration local needs  and  available  resources.  These
  services  shall be concerned with diagnosis, care, treatment, social and
  vocational rehabilitation, community residential  services  licensed  by
  the  department  of  mental  hygiene,  research, consultation and public
  education, education and training of personnel, control  and  prevention
  of mental disabilities, and the general furtherance of mental capability
  and  health.  As  part  of  the local services or unified services plans
  required to establish eligibility for state aid in accordance  with  the
  provisions herein, each local governmental unit shall submit a five-year
  plan  and  annual  implementation  plans and budgets which shall reflect
  local needs and resources, including the needs and  resources  available
  for  the  provision  of  community  support  services,  and  the role of
  facilities in the department in the provision of required  services.  If
  the  local  government  has developed community services assessments and
  plans pursuant to subdivision four of section four  hundred  nine-d  and
  paragraph  (b) of subdivision three of section four hundred twenty-three
  of the social services law covering the same time period covered by  the
  five  year  plan and annual implementation plans and budgets required by
  this subdivision, then the five  year  plan  and  annual  implementation
  plans  and budget shall include those portions of the community services
  assessments and plans  relating  to  the  provision  of  mental  health,
  alcoholism  and  substance abuse services and an estimate of funds to be
  made available by the social services  district  for  the  provision  or
  purchase of these services.
    (c) Subject to regulations for special circumstances as established by
  the  commissioner  or  commissioners  of  the  office  or offices of the
  department having jurisdiction  of  the  services,  no  annual  plan  or
  intermediate range plan of the local governmental unit shall be approved
  unless  it indicates that reasonable efforts are being made to extend or
  improve local or unified services in each succeeding local  fiscal  year
  in  accordance with the statewide long range goals and objectives of the
  department for the development and integration of state,  regional,  and
  local services for the mentally disabled.
    (d)  Beginning  the first day of July, nineteen hundred seventy-eight,
  allocations of state aid for operating costs shall be made  to  eligible
  local  governental  units  in  advance  no  more than ten days after the
  beginning of each quarter. Such quarterly payments  shall  be  adjusted,
  when   necessary,  to  reflect  actual  eligible  net  operating  costs,
  projected eligible net operating costs and appropriations available  and
  shall be subject to audit and readjustment to comply with all applicable
  provisions of this article.
    (e)  Capital  costs  incurred  by a local government or by a voluntary
  agency, pursuant to  either  an  approved  local  services  plan  or  an
  approved unified services plan and in accordance with the regulations of
  the  commissioner  or  commissioners  of  the  office  or offices of the
  department having jurisdiction of the services and with the approval  of
  the  commissioner  or commissioners having jurisdiction of the services,

  shall be eligible for state aid  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  article.  Capital costs incurred by a voluntary agency shall be eligible
  for  state  aid  only  if  incurred pursuant to an agreement between the
  voluntary  agency and the local governmental unit where the construction
  is located.   Such agreement shall contain the  approval  by  the  local
  governmental  unit of such construction and an agreement by such unit to
  include the program of the voluntary agency in its plans and proposals.
    (f) Services made available to  or  provided  for  children  attending
  public  schools, for which aid is sought pursuant to this chapter, shall
  be made available to or provided to all school children upon request  by
  the authorities of their schools.