[HISTORY: Comes from L.L.
No. 61-1982, adopted 6-15-1982, effective 6-30-1982.]
The State of New York Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities, or any state agencies, has and continues to establish
community residential facilities within the Town of Hempstead pursuant
to § 41.34 of the Mental Hygiene Law of the State of New
York. The Town of Hempstead is desirous of establishing a uniform
procedure within the town so that persons living within the area contemplated
for a proposed site are insured of an expeditious notification thereof.
A.
The Town of Hempstead, within 10 days after receipt of the official
notice from the State of New York Office of Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities that a community residence site is being
proposed within the town, outside of an incorporated
village, shall notify by letter those persons residing within a three-hundred-foot
radius in all directions of the proposed community residential facility.
B.
The Town of Hempstead shall publish for two consecutive weeks in
a newspaper having a general circulation within the town and a newspaper
having a general circulation in the community in which the proposed
community residential facility is proposed a legal notice containing
site address, description of property, agency sponsor, client characteristics,
total number of residents and support programs, as well as the terms
and provisions of § 41.34 of the Mental Hygiene Law of the
State of New York. In addition, the town shall give said notice to
the local school board or boards within 15 days after receipt of the
official notice from the State of New York.
