§ 41.13 Powers and duties of local governmental units.\n (a) Every local governmental unit shall:\n 1. review services and local facilities for the mentally disabled of\nthe area which it serves and their relationship to local need; determine\nneeds of the mentally disabled of such area; and encourage programs of\nprevention, diagnosis, care, treatment, social and vocational\nrehabilitation, special education and training, consultation, and public\neducation on mental disabilities.\n 2. develop the program of local services for the area which it serves,\nestablish long range goals of the local government in its programs for\nthe mentally disabled, and develop intermediate range plans and\nforecasts, listing priorities and estimated costs. The office of mental\nhealth shall be responsible for such program development relating to\ncommunity support services in areas where the responsible local\ngovernmental unit elects, pursuant to subdivision (c) of section 41.47\nof this article, not to receive state aid for community support\nservices. Local governmental units which elect not to receive such\nstate aid for community support services shall integrate information\nrelating to community support services into the comprehensive plan for\nservices, as otherwise required by this article.\n 3. direct and administer the development of a local comprehensive plan\nfor all services for mentally disabled residents of the area, which\nshall be submitted to the department and used in part to formulate a\nstatewide comprehensive plan for services.\n 4. seek to assure that under the goals and plans required pursuant to\nthis subdivision, all population groups are adequately covered,\nsufficient services are available for all the mentally disabled within\nits purview, that there is coordination and cooperation among local\nproviders of services, that the local program is integrated and\ncoordinated with the provision of community support services, that the\nlocal program is also integrated and coordinated with the programs of\nthe department, and that there is continuity of care among all providers\nof services.\n 5. submit annually to the department for its approval and subsequent\nstate aid, a report of long range goals and specific intermediate range\nplans as modified since the preceding report, along with a local\nservices plan for the next local fiscal year.\n 6. have the power, with the approval of local government, to enter\ninto contracts for the provision of services, including the provision of\ncommunity support services, and the construction of facilities.\n 7. establish procedures for execution of the local services plan as\napproved by the local government and the commissioner, including\nregulations to guide the provision of services by all organizations and\nindividuals within its program.\n 8. make policy for and exercise general supervisory authority over or\nadminister local services and facilities provided or supervised by it\nwhether directly or through agreements, including responsibility for the\nproper performance of the services provided by other facilities of local\ngovernment and by voluntary and private facilities which have been\nincorporated into its comprehensive program.\n 9. further programs for special education and training, including\ncareer incentive and manpower and development.\n 10. have the power to conduct or contract for such research as may be\nuseful for the discharge of its administrative duties and for the\npromotion of scientific knowledge of the mental disabilities.\n 11. serve as a center for the promotion of community and public\nunderstanding of mental disabilities and of the services necessary for\ntheir care and treatment.\n 12. seek the cooperation and cooperate with other aging, public health\nand social services agencies, public and private, in advancing the\nprogram of local services.\n 13. have the powers necessary and proper for the effective performance\nof its function
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