§ 7.27 Facility services.

(a) Chapels. The commissioner may permit any religious or missionary
corporation or society or combination of such corporations and societies
to erect a building on the grounds of any in-patient facility in the
office of mental health for the holding of religious service, to be used
exclusively for the benefit of the patients and employees of such
facility, subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the
commissioner.

(b) Fire mutual aid. In cooperation with the development and operation
of plans for mutual aid in cases of fire and other public emergencies,
the director of an in-patient facility in the office of mental health,
with the approval of the commissioner of mental health, may authorize
the fire department of the facility to furnish aid to such territory
surrounding the facility as may be practical in cases of fire and such
emergencies, having due regard to the safety of the patients and
property of the facility and to engage in practice and training programs
in connection with the development and operation of such mutual aid
plans.

(c) Community stores. The commissioner may authorize the director of
any facility in the office of mental health to operate a community store
or to lease space in any of its buildings not inconsistent with the
requirements of the facility for the operation of a community store for
the use and benefit of the patients, visitors, and personnel of such
facility. The moneys received by the director of such facility under or
pursuant to any such operation shall be deposited in a special fund to
be known as the community store fund and shall be used for the general
purposes of the facility, subject to the provisions of section
fifty-three of the state finance law.

(d) Laboratory services. Subject to the regulations of the
commissioner, the director of a facility in the office of mental health
may agree to make the laboratory service of such facility available to
adjacent local governments and may receive, apply, and spend money for
the extension of laboratory service according to the terms of the
agreement as approved by such commissioner.

(e) Special employment programs. The director of any facility operated
by the office of mental health may purchase goods and services produced
by special employment programs, sheltered workshop programs or supported
work programs, which are operated by any facility within such office,
subject to the provisions of section one hundred seventy-five-c of the
state finance law.