Section 462-B. Responsibility for enforcement


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  • 1. The division for youth
      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  division  for  youth  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  twenty-three,  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 department of social 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 or the division for youth.