§ 7.15 Programs of the office of mental health.

(a) The commissioner shall plan, promote, establish, develop,
coordinate, evaluate, and conduct programs and services of prevention,
diagnosis, examination, care, treatment, rehabilitation, training, and
research for the benefit of the mentally ill. Such programs shall
include but not be limited to in-patient, out-patient, partial
hospitalization, day care, emergency, rehabilitative, and other
appropriate treatments and services. He or she shall take all actions
that are necessary, desirable, or proper to implement the purposes of
this chapter and to carry out the purposes and objectives of the
department within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation,
grant, gift, devise, bequest, or allocation from the mental health
services fund established under section ninety-seven-f of the state
finance law.

(b) The activities described in subdivision (a) of this section may be
undertaken in cooperation and agreement with other offices of the
department and with other departments or agencies of the state, local or
federal government, or with other organizations and individuals.