2803-H - Health related facility; pet therapy programs.

§   2803-h.   Health   related   facility;   pet   therapy   programs.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, rule or regulation to  the contrary, and subject to the approval  of  the  commissioner,  every  residential  health  care  facility,  as defined in section twenty-eight  hundred one of this article, may, at the discretion  of  such  facility,  board  animals  in  such  facility  where  such  boarding  would, in the  determination of the commissioner and such facility, tend to promote the  general well-being of the residents of such facility.  The  commissioner  shall  adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions  of this section.