Title SOS, Social Services

§ 370-a. Federal grants. 1. The department of taxation and finance is authorized to accept and receive from the federal government any moneys which the federal government shall offer to the state for or with respect to the construction, maintenance or operation of centers for se…

* § 370-aa. State heating fuel crisis assistance. 1. The commissioner\nshall establish a state program to provide heating fuel related crisis\nassistance to households whose total income from all sources is between\none hundred twenty-five percent and two hundred percent of the …

§ 370-b. State reimbursement. 1. (a) Expenditures made by counties, cities, and towns for services for senior citizens and their administration, and senior citizens center projects, pursuant to this title, shall, if approved by the department, be subject to reimbursement by the …

§ 370-c. Supports and services for youth suffering from adverse childhood experiences. 1. Youth suffering from or at risk of adverse childhood experiences, as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section twenty-d of this chapter, may be eligible for a range of appropri…

§ 371. Definitions\n Unless the context or the subject matter manifestly requires a\ndifferent interpretation, when used in this article or in any special\nact relating to children,\n 1. "Child" means a person actually or apparently under the age of\neighteen years;\n 2. "Abando…

§ 371-a. Procedure. In any proceeding commenced pursuant to this chapter in which the family court has exercised jurisdiction, the provisions of articles one, two and eleven of the family court act shall apply to the extent that they do not conflict with the specific provisions …

§ 371-b. Citizen review panels. 1. There shall be established at least three citizen review panels. At least one panel shall be established for the city of New York and at least two panels shall be established for social services districts or combinations of districts outside of…

§ 372. Records and reports. 1. Every court, and every public board, commission, institution, or officer having powers or charged with duties in relation to abandoned, delinquent, destitute, neglected or dependent children who shall receive, accept or commit any child shall provi…

§ 372-b. Adoption services. 1. a. A prospective adoptive parent shall have a right to a fair hearing pursuant to section twenty-two of this chapter concerning the failure of a social services official to provide adoption services authorized to be provided pursuant to this sectio…

§ 372-c. Putative father registry. 1. The department shall establish a putative father registry which shall record the names and addresses of: (a) any person adjudicated by a court of this state to be the parent of a child born out of wedlock; (b) any person who has filed with t…

§ 372-d. Adoption services; purchase by department. 1. The department may provide, through purchase of services from authorized agencies, adoption services for any child who has been referred to the statewide adoption service pursuant to section three hundred seventy-two-c and w…

§ 372-e. Adoption applications; appeals. 1. An authorized agency shall keep a record of applications received from persons seeking to become adoptive parents, including all actions taken on such applications. 2. The department shall promulgate regulations setting forth standards…

§ 372-f. Statewide adoption service. 1. There shall be established by the department either directly or through purchase a statewide adoption service which shall serve all authorized agencies in the state as a means of recruiting adoptive families for children who have been lega…

§ 372-g. Abandoned infant protection program. The office of children and family services shall develop and implement a public information program to inform the general public of the provisions of the abandoned infant protection act. The program may include but not be limited to …

§ 372-h. Reporting on post adoption services. 1. The office of children and family services shall place information on its website in English, French, Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of New…

§ 373. Religious faith. 1. Whenever a child is committed to any agency, association, corporation, institution or society, other than an institution supported and controlled by the state or a subdivision thereof, such commitment shall be made, when practicable, to an authorized a…

§ 373-a. Medical histories. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to the extent they are available, the medical histories of a child legally freed for adoption or of a child to be placed in foster care and of his or her birth parents, with information ident…

§ 374. Authority to place out or board out children. 1. An authorized agency is hereby empowered and permitted to place out and board out children. 1-a. In any agreement between an authorized agency and foster parents with whom a child or children are to be placed or boarded, th…

§ 374-a. Interstate compact on the placement of children. 1. The interstate compact on the placement of children is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT…

§ 374-b. Authority to operate agency boarding home. 1. An authorized agency which is not a court, public board, commission, or official, is hereby empowered and permitted to operate agency boarding homes in compliance with regulations of the department; and a social services off…

§ 374-c. Authority to operate group homes. 1. An authorized agency which is not a court, public board, commission or official is hereby empowered and permitted to operate group homes in compliance with regulations of the department. A social services official who is authorized t…

§ 374-d. Authority to operate public institutions for children. A social services official who is authorized to place children in family homes and institutions, pursuant to section three hundred ninety-eight, may be authorized by the department to operate public institutions for…

§ 374-e. Authority to place out or board out children with therapeutic foster parents. A social services official or agency who is authorized to place out or board out children pursuant to section three hundred ninety-eight or three hundred seventy-four of this article, is autho…

§ 374-f. Authority to enter into leases for dwelling units. Any inconsistent provisions of this chapter or any other law notwithstanding, a public welfare official authorized to operate agency boarding homes or group homes is hereby empowered to rent or lease dwelling units in h…

§ 375. Requirement of certificate or license to board children. Except for relatives within the second degree or third degree of the parents of a child or children, relatives within the second degree or third degree of the step-parent of a child or children, legally appointed gu…

§ 376. Certificate to board children and/or minors under age of eighteen years. 1. An authorized agency which shall board out any child and/or minor under the age of eighteen years shall issue to the person receiving such child and/or minor for board a certificate to receive, bo…

§ 377. License to board children. 1. Application for a license to receive, board or keep any child shall be made in writing to the commissioner of social services in and for the social services district wherein the premises to be licensed are located, in the form and manner pres…

§ 378. Form, duration and limitation of certificates and licenses. 1. Certificates or licenses to receive, board or keep any child and/or minor shall be in the form prescribed and provided by the department to the effect that such person is regarded by the issuing authorized age…

§ 378-a. Access to conviction records by authorized agencies. 1.\nEvery authorized agency which operates a residential program for\nchildren licensed or certified by the office of children and family\nservices, and the office of children and family services in relation to\nany j…

§ 379. Revocation of certificates and licenses. 1. A certificate or license to receive, board or keep any child and/or minor under the age of eighteen years may be revoked for cause by the authorized agency or the commissioner of social services by which it was issued and any su…

§ 38. Commission for the blind. The New York state commission for the blind shall continue to exercise and perform its duties, as prescribed by law, and the regulations of the office of children and family services subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner; and …

§ 380. Boarding and free homes; records. Every person who receives, boards or keeps a child and/or minor under a license or certificate shall keep a record in a register to be provided by the department showing the name, date of birth and religious faith of each child and/or min…

§ 381. Maternity homes; records and reports. Every hospital or lying-in asylum whether incorporated or unincorporated where women or girls may be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy or during or after delivery and every person licensed to carry on like work under the…

§ 382. Responsibility for children without state residence; license and board. 1. Any person, institution, corporation or agency which shall bring, or cause to be brought, into the state of New York any child not having a state residence, or which shall receive or accept any chi…

§ 383. Care and custody of children. 1. The parent of a child remanded or committed to an authorized agency shall not be entitled to the custody thereof, except upon consent of the court, public board, commission, or official responsible for the commitment of such child, or in p…

§ 383-a. Immunity from liability for application of the reasonable and prudent parent standard. 1. Legislative intent. It is the intent of the legislature to promote a safe and nurturing environment for children in foster care that, among other things, allows them to engage in a…

§ 383-b. Medical treatment for abused, neglected and destitute children; consent of commissioners. The local commissioner of social services or the local commissioner of health may give effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child who has bee…

§ 383-c. Guardianship and custody of children in foster care. 1. Method. For the purposes of this section, a child in foster care shall mean a child in the care and custody of an authorized agency pursuant to section three hundred eighty-four-a of this title or article three, se…

§ 384. Guardianship and custody of children not in foster care. 1. Method. The guardianship of the person and the custody of a child who is not in foster care under the age of eighteen years may be committed to an authorized agency by a written instrument which shall be known as…

§ 384-a. Transfer of care and custody of children. 1. Method. The care and custody of a child may be transferred by a parent or guardian, and the care of a child may be transferred by any person to whom a parent has entrusted the care of the child, to an authorized agency by a w…

§ 384-b. Guardianship and custody of destitute or dependent children;\ncommitment by court order; modification of commitment and restoration of\nparental rights.\n 1. Statement of legislative findings and intent.\n (a) The legislature recognizes that the health and safety of chi…

§ 384-c. Notice in certain proceedings to fathers of children born out-of-wedlock. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this or any other law, and in addition to the notice requirements of any law pertaining to persons other than those specified in subdivision two of…

§ 385. Orders; prohibiting placing out or boarding out; removal. 1. Prohibiting placing out or boarding out. Whenever the commissioner shall decide that any disposition of a child under this title has been made for purposes of gain, or without due inquiry as to the character and…

§ 386. Visitation; inspection and supervision. 1. The board or the department is authorized to visit, in its discretion, any minor under the age of twenty-one years committed, placed out or boarded out and not legally adopted or in the custody of a legal guardian. 2. The board o…

§ 387. * Ineligibility for public foster care funds; fiscal penalties. * NB Effective until June 30, 2027 * Public foster care funds; ineligibility. * NB Effective June 30, 2027 * 1. The office of children and family services shall, by regulation, promulgate standards to determi…

§ 388. Special charters. The power and authority given to agencies, associations, corporations, institutions and societies in their charters shall not be abrogated or nullified, except as the same are in conflict with this title.

§ 389. Penalty for violations. 1. Except as hereinafter provided, any person, corporation, agency, society, institution or other organization, wilfully violating this title, other than section three hundred ninety-g of this title, or failing to comply with any order which the de…

§ 39. Indian affairs. 1. Powers and duties, if any, conferred or imposed, in terms, by laws now in force, on the governor, commissioners of the land office and the superintendent of purchase or fiscal supervisor of state charities, so far only as they relate to affairs of Indian…

§ 390. Child day care; license or registration required. 1. Definitions. (a) (i) "Child day care" shall mean child care where a license or registration pursuant to this section is required and shall include care for a child on a regular basis provided away from the child's resid…

§ 390-a. Standards and training for child day care. 1. All office of\nchildren and family services and municipal staff employed to accept\nregistrations, issue licenses or conduct inspections of child day care\nhomes, programs or facilities, subject to the amounts appropriated\n…