§ 462-a. Responsibility for inspection and supervision. 1. The office
of children and family services shall inspect and supervise secure and
non-secure detention facilities and those office of children and family
services 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 inspect and supervise those facilities subject to articles
thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.

3. For those 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 for joint inspection
and supervision of such facilities, as appropriate.

4. The office of children and family services shall inspect and
supervise all other child care facilities subject to its regulation.