If the Department of the Treasury seeks to lease any property included on the lists prepared by the Commissioner of Children and Families pursuant to section 1 of P.L. 2007, c. 76(C.9:3A-7.2) or the Commissioner of Human Services pursuant to section 2 of P.L. 2007, c. 76(C.30:1A-13)and no State agency has indicated a current need for the property, the department shall give priority first to nonprofit and for-profit agencies and organizations that provide residential mental health services to children, and then to nonprofit and for-profit agencies and organizations that provide housing to adults with mental illness or persons with developmental disabilities, to lease the property from the State in order to establish a residential treatment facility or housing, as provided in sections 1 and 2 of P.L. 2007, c. 76(C. 9:3A-7.2 and C. 30:1A-13). The lease to a nonprofit or for-profit agency shall be at the fair market rate, as established by the Department of the Treasury, and shall be subject to approval by the State House Commission.
N.J.S. § 52:18A-18.2