Section 75.03. Policy and purposes of article  


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  • It is hereby declared that the provision of new and improved community
      facilities  is  necessary  to  care for the increasing number of persons
      afflicted with mental disability.  Such  facilities  should  be  located
      close  to  the  people  they  serve in order to speed rehabilitation and
      restoration and  to  provide  for  out-patient  care,  in-patient  care,
      including   aftercare,   diagnostic  and  rehabilitative  services,  and
      residential accommodations for operation  as  hostels.  Such  facilities
      should  supplement  the  services  provided  by the commissioner and the
      department of mental hygiene and  should  be  available  to  cities  and
      counties  operating approved community services programs pursuant to the
      provisions of article eleven of this chapter.
        It is hereby further declared that non-profit corporations  should  be
      created  to  construct,  acquire,  reconstruct,  rehabilitate,  own, and
      operate such facilities and that provision should be made  for  mortgage
      loan  participation  by  a  lending  institution  or  the New York state
      housing finance agency in order to insure that the full resources of the
      private enterprise sector of the economy may be made available for  this
      purpose; that there is a need for public assistance to such corporations
      by  the granting of tax exemption; that it is the policy of the state to
      promote  the  provision  of  community  facilities  by  such   nonprofit
      corporations; and that such provision is a public use and purpose.