New York Mental Hygiene Law

Every section of the New York Mental Hygiene Law, in order — 520 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 25.13 — Office is authorized state agency
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 25.15 — Optimizing federal aid
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 25.17 — Fees for services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 25.18 — Statewide opioid settlements
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.01 — Regulations and forms
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.03 — Effect of court order authorizing retention of a patient
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.05 — Community agreements regarding admission procedures
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.07 — Commissioner's powers over admissions to department facilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.11 — Commissioner's power to transfer and discharge patients
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.13 — Treatment plans
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.15 — Discharge and conditional release of patients to the community
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.16 — Discharge; certain cases
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.17 — Clothing and money to be furnished patients discharged or released
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.18 — Client service report
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.19 — Powers and duties of peace officers acting pursuant to their special duties and police officers to apprehend, restrain, and transport per...
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.20 — In-patient nasogastric feeding procedures
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.21 — Care of children born to patients
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.23 — Powers with respect to property of persons receiving services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.25 — Sale or delivery of alcoholic beverages to patients prohibited
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.27 — Incarcerated individual-patients placed in the custody of the department
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.28 — Payment of costs for prosecution of incarcerated individual-patients
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 29.29 — Incident reporting procedures
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 30.01 — Legislative findings
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 30.02 — Definitions
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 30.03 — Comprehensive care centers for eating disorders; established
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 30.04 — Qualifying criteria
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 30.05 — State identification of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders; commissioner's written notice
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 30.06 — Restricted use of title
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.01 — Evaluation of services for the mentally disabled
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.02 — Operating certificate required
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.03 — Operating certificates for family care homes
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.04 — Regulatory powers of the commissioner
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.05 — Issuance of an operating certificate
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.06 — Child abuse prevention
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.07 — Investigations and inspections
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.08 — Compliance with operational standards by general hospitals
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.09 — Powers of the department regarding investigation and inspection
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.11 — Certain duties of providers of services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.13 — Powers of subpoena and examination
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.16 — Suspension, revocation, or limitation of an operating certificate and imposition of fines by the commissioner of mental health
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.17 — Formal hearings; procedure
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.19 — Confinement, care, and treatment of the mentally disabled
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.20 — Temporary operator
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.21 — Injunction and temporary restraining order
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.22 — Approval of certain certificates of incorporation or articles of organization; granting of operating certificates
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.23 — Approval of new construction
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.25 — Residential services for treatment of eating disorders
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.26 — Residential treatment facilities for children and youth
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.27 — Comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.28 — Facilities; receivership
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.29 — Monthly personal allowances
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.30 — Abuse, neglect, and significant incidents involving vulnerable persons
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.31 — Improper expenditure of moneys
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.33 — Mental health special needs plans
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.35 — Review of criminal history information concerning certain prospective employees
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.36 — Crisis stabilization services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 31.37 — Mental health incident review panels
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.01 — Regulation and quality control of chemical dependence services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.02 — Regulation and quality control of compulsive gambling services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.03 — Evaluation of chemical dependence services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.05 — Operating certificate required
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.05-a — Certified recovery residences
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.06 — Prohibited practices by providers of substance use disorder services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.07 — Regulatory powers of the commissioner
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.09 — Issuance of operating certificates
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.11 — Child abuse prevention
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.13 — Investigations and inspections
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.14 — Compliance with operational standards by providers of services in general hospitals
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.15 — Powers of the office regarding investigation and inspection
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.17 — Certain duties of providers of services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.17-a — Notification of emergency contact
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.19 — Powers of subpoena and examination
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.20 — Temporary operator
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.21 — Suspension, revocation, or limitation of operating certificates and imposition of fines
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.23 — Formal hearings; procedure
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.25 — Confinement, care, and treatment of persons suffering from chemical abuse or dependence
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.27 — Injunction and temporary restraining order
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.29 — Approval of new construction
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.31 — Establishment or incorporation of facilities for chemical dependence services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.33 — Improper expenditures of money
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.35 — Disclosure by members, officers and employees
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.36 — Crisis stabilization services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.37 — Registration and notification of boards of directors or trustees of certain voluntary not-for-profit facilities or corporations
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.38 — The recovery tax credit program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 32.39 — Fiscal year report
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.01 — Protection of patients' rights
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.02 — Notice of rights of individuals with mental disabilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.03 — Quality of care and treatment
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.04 — Restraint of patients
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.05 — Communications and visits
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.06 — Reports of abuse, neglect, and significant incidents
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.07 — Care and custody of the personal property of persons receiving services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.08 — Personal needs allowance for residents of state psychiatric centers and state operated alcoholism facilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.09 — Employment of patients
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.11 — Education for children with mental disabilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.12 — Hearing evaluation
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.13 — Clinical records; confidentiality
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.14 — Sealing of records pertaining to treatment for mental illness
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.15 — Habeas corpus
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.16 — Access to clinical records
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.17 — Transportation of individuals
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.21 — Consent for mental health treatment of minors
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.23 — Incident notifications and reports
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.25 — Release of records pertaining to allegations and investigations of abuse and mistreatment
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.27 — Independent substance use disorder and mental health ombudsman
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 33.28 — Independent developmental disability ombudsman program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.01 — Crisis stabilization centers
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.02 — Referral to crisis stabilization centers
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.03 — 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline system
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.04 — Certified community behavioral health clinics
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.05 — Certified community behavioral health clinics indigent care program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.06 — Review of criminal history information
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.07 — Behavioral health crisis technical assistance center
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 36.08 — Integrated behavioral health services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.01 — Declaration of purpose
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.03 — Definitions
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.04 — Responsibilities of commissioners of the offices
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.05 — Local governmental unit
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.07 — Provision of services by the local governmental unit
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.09 — Director
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.10 — State conference of local mental hygiene directors
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.11 — Composition of boards
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.13 — Powers and duties of local governmental units
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.15 — Approved plans and state aid
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.16 — Local planning; state and local responsibilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.17 — State and local coordination
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.18 — Local services plan; state aid
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.24 — Study on alternative to net deficit funding
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.25 — Fees
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.27 — State aid procedures
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.29 — Liability of local government
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.31 — Publication of records
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.32 — Transitional provisions for local assistance funding of federally funded demonstration projects for treatment of alcoholics
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.33 — Community residences for the mentally disabled
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.34 — Site selection of community residential facilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.35 — Demonstration programs
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.36 — Community residential facilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.37 — Community residence and residential treatment facility for children and youth development grants
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.38 — Rental and mortgage payments of community residential facilities for the mentally ill
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.39 — Vocational programs; sheltered workshop industrial contract income
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.40 — Respite services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.40 — Small community residential facilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.41 — Rights of persons with developmental disabilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.42 — Family support programs
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.43 — Family support services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.44 — Community residential services for the mentally ill
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.45 — Development grants for residential care centers for adults
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.46 — Disclosure by members, officers and employees
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.47 — Community support services program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.48 — Real property acquisition options
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.49 — Adolescent suicide prevention program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.49 — Community based mental health services for seriously emotionally disturbed children
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.50 — Development grants for comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.51 — State aid for costs of comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.52 — Community residential services for alcoholism
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.53 — Community residence development grants for alcoholism services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.54 — Employee assistance programs
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.54 — Roles and responsibilities of certain board members
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.55 — Community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 41.57 — Compulsive gambling education and treatment program
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.01 — Fees and rates for department services
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.02 — Rates or methods of payment for services at facilities subject to licensure or certification by the office of mental health, the office f...
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.03 — Liability for fees
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.04 — Provider of services assessments
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.05 — Securing financial information
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.06 — Assessments
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.07 — Bill collection procedures
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.09 — Certain transactions void
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.11 — Refunds
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 43.12 — Electronic submission of periodic cost reports to the office for people with developmental disabilities
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 47.01 — Mental hygiene legal service
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 47.03 — Functions, powers and duties of the service
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 61.01 — Receipt and disbursement of federal funds
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 61.03 — Department is authorized state agency
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 61.05 — Advancement of state mental health and developmental disabilities programs through intergovernmental cooperation
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 67.01 — Report of noncitizens
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 67.03 — Residents
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 67.05 — Nonresidents
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 67.07 — Interstate compact
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 67.08 — Patient transfer to foreign nation
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 67.09 — Medicaid home and community based services eligibility for dependents of certain military service members
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 71.01 — Acquisition of real property
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.01 — Short title
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.03 — Policy and purposes of article
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.05 — Definitions
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.07 — Companies; how created
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.09 — Approval of commissioner
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.13 — Powers and limitations of a company
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.15 — Members, officers, and directors
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.17 — Mortgage loans
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.19 — Conditions and security for loans
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.21 — Rates and fees
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.23 — Transfer of real property
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.25 — Supervision and regulation
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.27 — Voluntary dissolution
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.29 — Foreclosures and judgments
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.33 — Fees and charges
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 75.35 — Separability
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 79.01 — Definitions
• N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 79.03 — Application