§ 6. Purposes of the corporation. The purposes of the corporation are:

1. To facilitate the timely provision, acquisition, construction,
reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of health facilities for
the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury,
deformity or physical condition, at a reasonable cost, in order to
reduce the time lag between the determination of the need for such
facilities and their actual availability for use.

2. To assist the department of health, which is the state agency
having the central, comprehensive responsibility for development and
administration of the state's policy with respect to hospital and
related services, in the discharge of its duties and responsibilities
under article twenty-eight of the public health law.

3. To provide mental hygiene facilities, other than community health
and developmental disabilities facilities, for the care, maintenance and
treatment of the mentally disabled, for research and training related
thereto, and for the members of the staff of state institutions in the
department and their families, to reduce the time lag between
determination of need for such facilities and actual occupancy thereof,
to expedite the construction, acquisition, reconstruction,
rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to assure that the
same are completed and ready for the purposes intended in the light of
foreseeable needs, to assure exclusive possession, jurisdiction, control
and supervision over all mental hygiene facilities in order to
effectuate the aforesaid purposes and to make such facilities available
to the appropriate commissioner of the department for use in the care,
maintenance and treatment of the mentally disabled.

4. To provide community mental health and developmental disabilities
facilities for the mentally disabled, for out-patient care and
short-term in-patient care, including after care and diagnostic and
rehabilitative services and training and research, for and at the
request of cities and counties not wholly within a city, authorized to
provide community mental health services in accordance with the
provisions of article forty-one of title E of the mental hygiene law, to
reduce the time between determination of the need for such facilities
and actual occupancy thereof, to expedite the construction, acquisition,
reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities, to
assure that the same are completed and ready for the purposes intended
in the light of current and foreseeable needs, all as approved by the
appropriate commissioner of the department.

5. To provide mental hygiene facilities to be made available under
license or permit from the corporation to voluntary agencies at the
request of the appropriate commissioner of the department in accordance
with the provisions of this act for use in providing community mental
health and developmental disabilities services and services in a
residential care center for adults.

6. To provide office of alcoholism and substance abuse services
facilities to be made available under license or permit from the
corporation to voluntary agencies at the request of the office in
accordance with the provisions of this act for use in the conduct of an
alcoholism or substance abuse treatment program.

7. To provide facilities for the department of corrections and
community supervision.