§ 747. Functions, powers and duties of the board. In order to\neffectuate the purposes of the board as set forth in the state\nconstitution and as described in this article, the board shall have and\nperform the following specific functions, powers and duties:\n 1. (a) To visit and inspect, or cause members of its staff to visit\nand inspect, at such times as the board may consider to be necessary or\nappropriate to help insure adequate supervision, public and private\nfacilities or agencies, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated\nor not incorporated which are in receipt of public funds and which are\nof a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character,\nincluding all reformatories for juveniles and facilities or agencies\nexercising custody of dependent, neglected, abused, maltreated,\nabandoned or delinquent children or persons in need of supervision,\nagencies engaged in the placing out or boarding out of children as\ndefined in section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law,\nor in operating homes for unmarried mothers or special care homes, and\nfacilities providing residential care for convalescent, invalid, aged,\nor indigent persons, but excepting state institutions for the education\nand support of the blind, the deaf and the dumb, and excepting also such\ninstitutions as are subject to the visitation and inspection of the\nstate department of mental hygiene or the state commission of\ncorrection. As to institutions, whether incorporated or not\nincorporated, having incarcerated individuals, but not in receipt of\npublic funds, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or\nreformatory character, and agencies, whether incorporated or not\nincorporated, not in receipt of public funds, which exercise custody of\nabandoned, destitute, dependent, neglected, abused, maltreated or\ndelinquent children or persons in need of supervision, the board shall\nmake inspections, or cause inspections to be made by members of its\nstaff, but solely as to matters directly affecting the health, safety,\ntreatment and training of their incarcerated individuals, or of the\nchildren under their custody. Visiting and inspecting as herein\nauthorized shall not be exclusive of other visiting and inspecting now\nor hereafter authorized by law.\n (b) To have full access to the grounds, buildings, records, documents,\nbooks and papers relating to any facility or agency subject to being\nvisited and inspected by the board, including all case records of\nincarcerated individuals and children under their custody and all\nfinancial records.\n (c) Upon visiting or inspecting any facility or agency under this\narticle, inquiry may be made to ascertain the quality of supervision\nexercised by state and local agencies responsible for supervising such\nfacilities and agencies, and the quality of program and operating\nstandards established by such state and local agencies, and to ascertain\nthe adequacy of such state and local agency supervision to determine the\nfollowing:\n (i) whether the objects of the facility or agency are being\naccomplished;\n (ii) whether the applicable laws, rules and regulations governing its\noperation are fully complied with;\n (iii) its methods of and equipment for vocational and scholastic\neducation, and whether the same are best suited to the needs of its\nincarcerated individuals or children under their custody;\n (iv) its methods of administration; and of providing care, medical\nattention, treatment and discipline of its residents and beneficiaries,\nand whether the same are best adapted to the needs of the residents and\nbeneficiaries;\n (v) the qualifications and general conduct of its officers and\nemployees;\n (vi) the condition of its grounds, buildings and other property;\n (vii) the sources of public moneys received by any institution in\nreceipt of public funds and the management and condition of its finances\ngenerally; and\n (viii) any other matte
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