Title SOS, Social Services

§ 390-b. Criminal history review and background clearances of child care providers, generally. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and subject to rules and regulations of the office of children and family services and, where applicable, the division of…

* § 390-c. Notice of pesticide applications. 1. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: (a) "Pesticide" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision thirty-five of section 33-0101 of the environmental conservation law. (b) "…

* § 390-c. Additional powers and duties of the office of children and family services. 1. The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and directed to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to ensure that, whenever a child day care provider is licensed or r…

§ 390-d. Requiring barriers to be placed around swimming pools and bodies of water on the grounds of family day care homes or group family day care homes. 1. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: (a) "Grounds of a family da…

§ 390-e. Criminal history review; mentoring programs. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (a) "Prospective employee" shall mean a person being considered for employment by a mentoring program. (b) "Prospective mentor" shall…

§ 390-f. Report on child care insurance. The commissioner of the office of children and family services in consultation with the superintendent of financial services, shall undertake a study of the availability, accessibility, and affordability of insurance policies to child car…

§ 390-g. Pesticide alternatives. 1. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: (a) "Day care" shall apply to all child day care centers or head start day care centers, as defined in section three hundred ninety of this title. (b) "P…

§ 390-h. Notice requirement before closing certain day care centers. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Child day care center" shall mean a child day care center as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of secti…

§ 390-i. Notice of inspection report. In every child day care program that is licensed or registered pursuant to section three hundred ninety of this title, the child day care provider shall post and maintain in a prominent place, a notice, to be provided by the office of childr…

§ 390-j. Performance summary card in a city having a population of one million or more. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Child care service" shall mean any person who provides child day care in a city h…

§ 390-l. Securing of furniture. 1. This section shall apply to any child day care center as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section three hundred ninety of this title, or any authorized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section three hundred…

§ 390-m. Window coverings. 1. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: (a) "Beaded chain" means a cord with a series of small spheres, typically made of metal or plastic. (b) "Cord loop" means a loop formed by an inner cord that d…

§ 390-n. Child care support center; operating certificate required. 1. For purposes of this section, "child care support center" shall mean an entity operating as a child care resource and referral program as defined in title five-B of this article that is certified by the offic…

§ 390-o. Prohibit the use of infant walkers in child care facilities. 1. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Infant walker" shall mean a mobile unit that enables a child to move on a horizontal surface when propelled by the child sitting or standing within the walker. (b) "Ch…

§ 391. Violation; injunction. Violations of any provision of this title may be prohibited by injunction. Whenever the commissioner has reason to believe that any provision of this title is being violated, or is about to be violated, he may maintain and prosecute, in the name of …

§ 392. Services for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when a local social services district is in contact with a relative or non-relative kinship caregiver or a suitable person who the district has approa…

* § 393. Court review of placement in a qualified residential treatment program. 1. The provisions of this section shall apply when a child is placed on or after September twenty-ninth, two thousand twenty-one and resides in a qualified residential treatment program, as defined …

* § 393. Consideration of blindness during guardianship, custody or adoption proceedings. 1. The department may not deny, decide or oppose a petition or request for guardianship, custody or visitation under this article solely on the basis that the petitioner, parent, guardian o…

§ 394. Short title. This title shall be known and may be cited as the "child care creation and expansion tax credit program act".

§ 394-a. Definitions. For the purposes of this title: 1. "Certificate of tax credit" shall mean the document issued to a business entity by the office after the office has verified that the business entity has met all applicable eligibility criteria in this title. The certificat…

§ 394-b. Eligibility criteria. 1. To be eligible for a tax credit under the child care creation and expansion tax credit program, a business entity must: (a) be a business entity that is required to file a tax return pursuant to article nine-A, twenty-two or thirty-three of the …

§ 394-c. Application and approval process. 1. A business entity must submit a complete application as prescribed by the commissioner by the thirty-first of January after the end of the service year. 2. The commissioner shall establish procedures for a business entity to submit a…

§ 394-d. Child care creation and expansion tax credit. 1. A business entity in the child care creation and expansion tax credit program that meets the eligibility requirements of section three hundred ninety-four-b of this title may be eligible to claim a credit for the portion …

§ 394-e. Allocation of credit. The aggregate amount of tax credits allowed under this title, subdivision fifty-nine of section two hundred ten-B, subsection (ooo) of section six hundred six and subdivision (ee) of section fifteen hundred eleven of the tax law shall be twenty-fiv…

§ 394-f. Powers and duties of the commissioner. 1. The commissioner may promulgate regulations establishing an application process and eligibility criteria, which will be applied consistent with the purposes of this title so as not to exceed the annual cap on tax credits set for…

§ 394-g. Maintenance of records. Each business entity participating in the program shall keep all relevant records for the duration of their participation in the program for at least three years.

§ 395. Responsibility of public welfare districts for the welfare of children. A public welfare district shall be responsible for the welfare of children who are in need of public assistance and care, support and protection, residing or found in its territory, insofar as not inc…

§ 396. Health and welfare services to all children. All public welfare districts and towns, shall provide children who attend schools other than public with all or any of the health and welfare services and facilities, including but not limited to health, surgical, medical, dent…

§ 397. Powers and duties of social services officials in relation to children. All social services officials responsible for the administration of safety net assistance to families shall, in relation to all children in such families other than delinquent children, persons in nee…

§ 398. Additional powers and duties of commissioners of public welfare\nand certain city public welfare officers in relation to children.\nCommissioners of public welfare and city public welfare officers\nresponsible under the provisions of a special or local law for the\nchildr…

§ 398-a. Standards of payment for foster care. (1) For purposes of\nthis section, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the term\nfoster child shall mean a person who is cared for away from his or her\nhome under conditions prescribed by regulations of the department and\…

§ 398-b. Transition to managed care. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary and subject to the availability of federal financial participation, the commissioner is authorized to make grants up to a gross amount of five million dollars for state fisc…

§ 398-c. Powers and duties of the commissioner in relation to\nchildren. 1. The commissioner shall determine whether a child, whose\nreport is submitted to the department pursuant to subparagraph five of\nparagraph b of subdivision one of section forty-four hundred two of the\ne…

§ 398-d. Child welfare services community demonstration projects. 1. The legislature finds that the centralized delivery of child protective services, preventive services, adoption services and foster care services in a social service district with a population of more than two …

§ 398-e. Eligibility for protective services, foster care services, and residential services for victims of domestic violence. A noncitizen, including a non-qualified alien, as determined by applicable federal statute and regulation, is eligible for protective services for adult…

§ 398-f. Duty to provide luggage to children in foster care. 1. For the purposes of this section, "luggage" means a durable suitcase, duffel bag, backpack, or similar reusable container that is new or is in new-like condition, and is designed to hold an individual's personal bel…

§ 399. Children discharged from state institutions. The commissioner of social services shall co-operate with the state institutions for delinquent, mentally disabled and physically handicapped children to ascertain the conditions of the home and the character and habits of the …

§ 40. Real property; purchase or acquisition. 1. The commissioner, when an appropriation therefor has been made by the legislature, may acquire any real property which he may deem necessary for any departmental purpose by purchase or, in the manner provided in the eminent domain…

§ 400. Removal of children. 1. When any child shall have been placed in an institution or in a family home by a social services official, the social services official may remove such child from such institution or family home and make such disposition of such child as is provide…

§ 401. Births to inmates of public homes. No commissioner of public welfare shall provide care in a public home for any pregnant woman during confinement unless such public home has adequate hospital or infirmary facilities, is equipped to give the necessary medical and nursing …

§ 402. Children forbidden in public homes. No public welfare official shall send a child to be cared for in a public home, and no commissioner of public welfare and no superintendent of a public home shall receive a child in a public home, except that a child under the age of tw…

§ 403. The religious faith of children and minors. The religious faith of children and minors between sixteen and eighteen years of age coming under the jurisdiction of public welfare officials shall be preserved and protected in accordance with section three hundred seventy-thr…

* § 404. Juvenile justice services close to home initiative. 1. A social services district in a city with a population in excess of one million may implement a close to home initiative to provide juvenile justice services to all adjudicated juvenile delinquents determined by a f…

§ 406. Department of social welfare designated as state agency. The department is hereby designated as the agency of the state to administer and expend any and all grants of moneys allocated or made available to the state under the provisions of the federal social security act f…

§ 407. Powers of department of social welfare. The department is hereby authorized and required: 1. to prepare a plan or plans for such child welfare services and upon their approval by such federal authority to execute the same. Such plans shall make provision for coordination …

§ 408. Custodian of funds. The department of taxation and finance is hereby authorized to accept and receive on behalf of the state any and all grants or allotments of money made available to the state by or pursuant to the federal social security act for such child welfare serv…

§ 409. Preventive services; definition. As used in this title, "preventive services" shall mean supportive and rehabilitative services provided, in accordance with the provisions of this title and regulations of the department, to children and their families for the purpose of: …

§ 409-a. Preventive services; provision by social services officials. 1. (a) A social services official shall provide preventive services to a child and his or her family, in accordance with the family's service plan as required by section four hundred nine-e of this chapter and…

§ 409-d. District-wide child welfare services plan. 1. Each social services district shall prepare and submit to the department, in such form and manner and times as the department shall by regulation require, a district-wide child welfare services plan which shall be a componen…

§ 409-e. Family service plan. 1. With respect to each child who is identified by a local social services district as being considered for placement in foster care as defined in section one thousand eighty-seven of the family court act by a social services district, such district…