Legislation

§ 199. Power of commissioner of public welfare to detain certain
incarcerated individuals. The commissioner of public welfare shall have
power to detain in the public home, pending a vacancy for such person in
a state institution, a person over the age of sixteen who has been
certified as an individual with a developmental disability in accordance
with the provisions of the mental hygiene law and for whom an
application for admission to a state institution has been made. Whenever
the commissioner shall so detain an incarcerated individual in the
public home he or she shall at once notify the state department of
mental hygiene.