Referred to: The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee (Chairwoman

Maio and Legislators Collins, Eckert, Fabiano, and Haynes)

Chairwoman of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee, Mary Beth

Maio, and Deputy Chair Julius Collins offer the following:

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office is from time to time

responsible for the custody and care of prisoners who require treatment and

hospitalization for certain mental illnesses; and

WHEREAS, prisoners who require treatment and hospitalization for certain

mental illnesses are placed in psychiatric facilities outside of Ulster County; and

WHEREAS, Section 508 of the New York State Correction Law and 14

NYCRR 18.7 require prisoners to remain in the custody of and under sufficient guard

of the warden of the jail from which they came, unless custody is transferred to the

New York State Office of Mental Health (“NYSOMH”) pursuant to an agreement

between the warden and the Commissioner of Health; and

WHEREAS, the Ulster County Sheriff requests the Chairman of the Ulster

County Legislature and the Warden of the Ulster County Jail be authorized to

execute an agreement(s), and any amendments thereto, with the New York State

Office of Mental Health, for the transfer of the custody of prisoners to NYSOMH;

now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature and the

Warden of the Ulster County Jail are hereby authorized to execute an agreement(s),

and any amendments thereto, with NYSOMH for the transfer of the custody of

prisoners who require treatment and hospitalization for certain mental illnesses, in the

form as

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 21 NOES: 0

(1 Abstention: Legislator Woltman)

(Absent: Legislator Roberts)

Passed Committee: Law Enforcement and Public Safety on October 3, 2018

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE

STATE OF NEW YORK

 ss:

COUNTY OF ULSTER

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is

the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 16th Day of October in the year Two Thousand and

Eighteen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 17th Day of October

in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this

17th Day of October, 2018. 23rd Day of October, 2018.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella |s| Michael P. Hein

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Michael P. Hein, County Executive

Ulster County Legislature