§ 41.18 Local services plan; state aid.\n (a) A local services plan is a plan for the rendition of local\nservices. Such a plan must have been developed by the local\ngovernmental unit with the involvement of consumers, consumer groups,\nvoluntary agencies and other providers of services, in accordance with\nthe regulations of the commissioner and must be approved by the\ncommissioner in order to be eligible for state aid. A local services\nplan shall contain a comprehensive proposal for annual and intermediate\nrange plans and expenditures by the local governmental unit and by\nvoluntary agencies pursuant to contract with such local governmental\nunit. A local services plan shall contain provisions to assure that\nthere is planning and coordination with the delivery of community\nsupport services to mentally ill persons, in accordance with section\n41.47 of this article. An annual plan must be supported by specific\nbudgets.\n (b) (i) Local governments shall be granted state aid, in accordance\nwith the provisions of this subdivision, for approved net operating\ncosts pursuant to an approved local services plan at the rate of fifty\npercent of the amount incurred during the local fiscal year by such\nlocal governments and by voluntary agencies pursuant to contract with\nsuch local governments; provided, however, that a local government\nhaving a population of less than two hundred thousand shall be granted\nstate aid at the rate of seventy-five percent for the first one hundred\nthousand dollars of its approved net operating costs. Notwithstanding\nthe foregoing, local governments shall be granted state aid of one\nhundred percent of the net operating costs expended by such local\ngovernments and by voluntary agencies pursuant to contract with such\nlocal governments for services to people with developmental disabilities\nwho were patients in a state facility for a continuous period of five or\nmore years following the first day of January, nineteen hundred\nsixty-nine, provided that such services are rendered in accordance with\nan approved local services plan. Such one hundred percent state aid for\nservices to such persons shall be also provided to a voluntary agency\npursuant to a direct contract between such agency and an office of the\ndepartment whenever such services provided pursuant to such direct\ncontract are rendered in accordance with an approved local services plan\nfor servicing such clients. For purposes of determining whether a person\nhas been a patient in such a facility for a continuous period of five\nyears or more, if a person who has been discharged or released from such\na facility is thereafter returned to such a facility within ninety days\nof the discharge or release, the period of time between such discharge\nor release and such return shall not constitute an interruption of, and\nshall be counted as part of, the continuous period.\n (ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, local governments shall be granted\nstate aid of one hundred percent of the net operating costs expended by\nsuch localities and by voluntary agencies pursuant to contract with such\nlocal governments for approved demonstration projects, not to exceed\nthree years, for the purpose of conducting alcoholism and alcohol abuse\npreventive, rehabilitative and treatment services; provided, however,\nthat the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services may\nextend the demonstration project for one additional year if it is\ndetermined that such extension is necessary and would serve the public\ninterest.\n (iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, local governments and voluntary\nagencies shall be granted state aid of one hundred percent of the net\noperating costs expended by such localities and by voluntary agencies\npursuant to contracts with such local governments or with the office of\nalcoholism and substance abuse services for alcohol crisis centers,\nchemical dependency programs for youth, residential services for\nrecov
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