75.03 - Policy and purposes of article.

§ 75.03 Policy and purposes of article.    It is hereby declared that the provision of new and improved community  facilities  is  necessary  to  care for the increasing number of persons  afflicted with mental disability.  Such  facilities  should  be  located  close  to  the  people  they  serve in order to speed rehabilitation and  restoration and  to  provide  for  out-patient  care,  in-patient  care,  including   aftercare,   diagnostic  and  rehabilitative  services,  and  residential accommodations for operation  as  hostels.  Such  facilities  should  supplement  the  services  provided  by the commissioner and the  department of mental hygiene and  should  be  available  to  cities  and  counties  operating approved community services programs pursuant to the  provisions of article eleven of this chapter.    It is hereby further declared that non-profit corporations  should  be  created  to  construct,  acquire,  reconstruct,  rehabilitate,  own, and  operate such facilities and that provision should be made  for  mortgage  loan  participation  by  a  lending  institution  or  the New York state  housing finance agency in order to insure that the full resources of the  private enterprise sector of the economy may be made available for  this  purpose; that there is a need for public assistance to such corporations  by  the granting of tax exemption; that it is the policy of the state to  promote  the  provision  of  community  facilities  by  such   nonprofit  corporations; and that such provision is a public use and purpose.