New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE
Chapter XIV - Office for People With Developmental Disabilities
Part 686 - Operation of Community Residences
Section 686.5 - Governance
Universal Citation: 14 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 686.5
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Principles of compliance.
(1)
Each agency operating one or more community residences shall have a governing
body (see glossary, section
686.99 of
this Part).
(2) Unless a governing
body is broadly representative of the community (see glossary, section
686.99 of
this Part) in which a community residence is located, the agency shall have a
community advisory board composed of at least residents of the neighborhood in
which the residences are located and persons from the community residences. As
a matter of State policy, all OPWDD-operated community residences shall have at
least an agency-wide community advisory board. A community advisory board shall
have at least the following functions:
(i) to
organize itself, elect officers and direct its activities;
(ii) to advise the residence managers and the
governing body with regard to the operation of the community
residences;
(iii) to assist persons
living in the community residences to be integrated into the community in which
the facilities are located;
(iv) to
assist neighborhoods to accept the persons living in the community residences
as neighbors; and
(v) to have
advisory responsibilities during at least the first full year of operation of
the community residence.
(b) Standards of certification.
(1) When a community advisory board is
required, there is verification (see glossary, section
686.99 of
this Part) that the membership includes at least one party who is a resident of
a neighborhood in which a facility is located and one person who lives in a
community residence.
(2) There is
evidence that, if applicable, there is either an agency-wide or site specific
community advisory board in operation during at least the facility's first year
of operation.
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