§ 462-b. Responsibility for enforcement. 1. The office of children and
family services shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in
section four hundred sixty-d of this article which may apply to secure
and non-secure detention facilities and to 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 exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred
sixty-d of this article which may apply to those facilities subject to
articles thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.

3. With respect to 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 establishing
circumstances under which the department will at the request of the
department of mental hygiene act to limit or modify the operating
certificate of any facility so as to preclude such facility from
accepting, caring for or continuing to care for mentally disabled
children.

4. The office of children and family services shall exercise the
enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred sixty-d of this
article with respect to all other child caring facilities subject to its
regulation either independently or at the request of the department of
mental hygiene.