Section 463. Definitions

For  the  purposes of this title, the following
  definitions shall apply:
    1. "Community residential facility" means  any  facility  operated  or
  subject  to licensure by the state which provides a supervised residence
  for mentally, emotionally, physically, or socially disabled  persons  or
  for  persons  in  need of supervision or juvenile delinquents. This term
  includes, but is not limited to, community residences for  the  mentally
  disabled  operated or licensed by the offices of mental health or mental
  retardation and developmental disabilities or by the  divisions  of  the
  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse,  agency operated boarding
  homes, group homes or private proprietary homes for adults  operated  or
  licensed  by the department of social services, group homes operated by,
  contracted for or licensed by the division for youth and half-way houses
  operated or licensed by the division of substance abuse services.
    2. "Sponsoring agency" means  an  agency  or  unit  of  government,  a
  voluntary  agency  as  defined  in  the  mental  hygiene  law  or  other
  organization  which  intends  to  establish  or  operate   a   community
  residential facility.
    3.   "Licensing   authority"  means  the  head  of  the  state  agency
  responsible for issuance of a license  or  operating  certificate  to  a
  proposed community residential facility.