§ 14. Cooperation and assistance from other state agencies. 1. The
departments of health, mental hygiene and law, the division of the
budget, the office of general services, the state housing finance
agency, the state medical care facilities finance agency, the state
agency designated to implement an act of congress known as the
comprehensive health planning and public health services amendments of
nineteen hundred sixty-six (Public Law 89-749) and all other state
agencies shall cooperate with and assist the corporation in the
fulfillment of its corporate purposes and in the exercise of its
corporate powers under this act and may render such services to the
corporation within their respective functions as the directors of the
corporation may reasonably request.

2. Subject to the approval of the office of alcoholism and substance
abuse services and to the terms of any lease, sublease or other
agreement with the state housing finance agency, the corporation,
whether as principal or as agent for the state housing finance agency,
is hereby authorized and empowered to provide facilities for the conduct
of alcoholism or substance abuse treatment programs by the office of
alcoholism and substance abuse services and as may be required by such
office in the performance of its duties, powers and functions as
specified in article nineteen of the mental hygiene law, including
construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration
and improvement of buildings, structures and appurtenances, the purchase
and installation of furnishings and equipment, the acquisition of
property by purchase, lease or transfer, engineering, architectural and
consulting services. In the design, construction, acquisition,
reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration and improvement of such
facilities the corporation shall be guided by the provisions of this act
relating to the design and construction of mental hygiene facilities,
provided, however, that subject to the terms of any lease, sublease or
other agreement with the state housing finance agency such facilities
and the approvals to be given for the design and construction thereof
shall be under the professional jurisdiction of the office of alcoholism
and substance abuse services and the corporation shall make such
facilities available to such office.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision five of section nine
of this act, the directors of the corporation, subject to the terms of
any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing finance
agency, shall make available to the office of alcoholism and substance
abuse services for use as an alcoholism or substance abuse facility any
real property or facility under the jurisdiction of the corporation as
the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services shall request and
the commissioner shall certify is no longer necessary for use in the
care, maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled. Such real
property or facility shall continue under the professional jurisdiction
of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services until such
office shall certify that such real property or facility is no longer
necessary for use as an alcoholism or substance abuse facility,
whereupon all of the provisions of subdivision five of section nine of
this act shall govern. Responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of
such real property or facility, for the maintenance and routine repair
of such real property or facility and for the replacement of
furnishings, equipment, apparatus and machinery shall, subject to the
terms of any lease, sublease or other agreement with the state housing
finance agency, be in the office of alcoholism and substance abuse
services so long as such real property or facility is under the
professional jurisdiction of such office. A copy of any certificate made
pursuant to this subdivision shall be filed with the director of the
budget.