Title SOS, Social Services

§ 462-b. Responsibility for enforcement. 1. The office of children and family services shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred sixty-d of this article which may apply to secure and non-secure detention facilities and to those office of children a…

§ 463. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following definitions shall apply: 1. "Community residential facility" means any facility operated or subject to licensure by the state which provides a supervised residence for mentally, emotionally, physically, or sociall…

§ 463-a. Statewide registry. 1. There shall be established in the department a statewide registry on community residential facilities. The department shall develop, in cooperation with the state agencies responsible for the planning, administration, licensing, regulation and ope…

§ 463-b. Powers and duties. The department shall have the following powers and duties: (a) to request and receive appropriate information as required by the provisions of this title from state agencies responsible for the planning, administration, licensing, regulation or operat…

§ 464. Short title. This article may be cited as the "rural human services networking program".

§ 464-a. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that: 1. In rural areas there is a necessity to promote different approaches to human services delivery if programs are to properly address diverse community and individual needs and such uniqu…

§ 464-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Rural area" shall mean a rural area as defined in section two thousand nine hundred fifty-one of the public health law. 2. "Advisory committee" shall mean the committee created in accordance with section four hundred si…

§ 464-c. Advisory committee created. 1. An advisory committee shall be created to assist the commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this article. Such advisory committee shall consist of seven members, with the commissioner or his or her designee serving as chairperson. …

§ 464-d. Program established. 1. The commissioner is authorized to establish within the department a rural human services networking program, for the purpose of assisting human services providers in rural areas who seek to participate in the program as hereinafter provided, to d…

§ 464-e. Distribution of reports. The commissioner, in conjunction with the advisory committee, shall prepare an interim report within thirty months after the effective date of this article, which shall include a preliminary review of each pilot project. The commissioner, in con…

§ 464-f. Funds not to be diminished. For the duration of the grant period, no local or regional human services provider shall lose any grants or funds to which it may be entitled if it were to operate separately, solely because it elects to participate in a pilot project program…

§ 465. Nutrition outreach and public education program; establishment. The nutrition outreach and public education program is established within the office of temporary and disability assistance. Such program is established to ensure maximum participation by eligible persons in …

§ 465-a. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "High risk areas" means any county or urban area where a significant percentage or number of those potentially eligible for food assistance programs are not participating in such programs. 2. "Food assistance programs" means prog…

§ 465-b. Responsibilities of the commissioner. The commissioner shall directly or through contract administer a program of nutrition outreach that shall include but not be limited to: 1. statewide coordination; 2. provision of information as to the availability of, eligibility c…

§ 465-c. Grants to community organizations. The commissioner shall make grants within the amount appropriated therefor to community-based organizations or consortia of community-based organizations in high risk areas for outreach activities. Such outreach activities shall includ…

§ 465-d. Criteria for high risk areas. In selecting those areas which would be determined to be high risk and therefore eligible for a grant, the commissioner may consider factors including, but not limited to: 1. fifty percent or more of those potentially eligible are not parti…

§ 466-a. Agreements. The department shall enter into memorandums of understanding with the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities. The memorandums with the office for people with developmental disabilities and the office of mental healt…

§ 466-b. Care provided by authorized agencies. An authorized agency as defined in section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter shall also be authorized to provide temporary care for persons over age twenty-one who meet the requirements of section 7.37-a or 13.37-a of the me…

§ 472-e. Institution continued; powers. The body corporate known prior to August twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, by the name of the "Burnham Industrial Farm," the name of which was, on that day, changed to "Berkshire Industrial Farm," which corporation was continu…

§ 472-f. Objects of corporation. The objects of this corporation shall be to receive and take charge of such children as may legally come into its custody and care, and to provide for their support, education and training.

§ 472-g. Board of directors. The property and concerns of the corporation shall be managed by a board of not over twenty-five and not less than ten directors, who shall receive no compensation. The number of directors to be chosen within the maximum and minimum limit shall be de…

§ 472-h. Election of directors. On the first day of May in each year at least four in number of the board of directors shall be elected by the corporation in such manner and place as the by-laws shall direct, but if no election is held on any such day the election may be held on…

§ 472-i. Quorum to do business. Five members of the board shall be a quorum provided however in the case where the then current board of directors is more than fifteen members then six members of the board shall be a quorum, and the board may delegate its powers, during the inte…

§ 472-j. Custody of children, how acquired; notice to corporation. The corporation shall be deemed to have acquired lawful care and custody of any child between the ages of six and eighteen years who shall have been surrendered to it by its parent or guardian; provided that such…

§ 472-k. Placement of children in care of corporation; effect of placement. The family court may commit or place in said corporation, with its consent, any child adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent or a person in need of supervision. Such commitment or placement in said corp…

§ 472-l. Transfer of certain children by agencies. The corporate authorities of any agency now or hereafter having the lawful custody and care of any child not less than six years of age, and not awaiting trial nor under sentence for a term of years for crime, may, with the cons…

§ 472-m. Power of corporation as to children in its care; corporation to act as guardian. Said corporation shall have the custody and control of all children surrendered, committed, placed or transferred to it under sections four hundred seventy-two-j to four hundred seventy-two…

§ 472-n. Statements as to age. In all cases under this article where children shall come under the care, custody or control of said corporation, the age of such children shall, so far as said corporation is concerned, be prima facie deemed and taken to be correct as stated in th…

§ 472-o. Reports. The said corporation shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of January, report to the legislature the number and names of the children in its custody or under its guardianship, their age, residence, occupation, state of education, together with the chan…

§ 472-p. Property exempt from taxation. So long as the property of said corporation shall be used for charitable purposes only, such property, both real and personal, shall be exempt from taxation.

§ 472-q. Powers and liabilities. Said corporation shall possess the general powers and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities of incorporated charitable institutions.

§ 473. Protective services. 1. In addition to services provided by social services officials pursuant to other provisions of this chapter, such officials shall provide protective services in accordance with federal and state regulations to or for individuals without regard to in…

§ 473-a. Short-term involuntary protective services orders. 1. Definitions. When used in this section unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context or subject matter requires a different interpretation: (a) "endangered adult" means a person, age eighteen or over who is…

§ 473-b. Reporting of endangered adults; persons in need of protective services. Any person who in good faith believes that a person eighteen years of age or older may be an endangered adult or in need of protective or other services, pursuant to this article, and who, based on …

§ 473-c. An order to gain access to persons believed to be in need of protective services for adults. 1. A social services official may apply to the supreme court or county court for an order to gain access to a person to assess whether such person is in need of protective servi…

§ 473-d. Community guardianship. 1. Definitions. When used in this section unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context or subject matter requires a different interpretation: (a) "Community guardian program" means a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the la…

§ 473-e. Confidentiality of protective services for adults' records. 1. Definitions. When used in this section unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context or subject matter requires a different interpretation: (a) "Subject of a report" means a person who is the subje…

§ 474. Reports to supervisors of appointments and committals to charitable institutions. 1. Every judge, justice, superintendent or public welfare official or other person who is authorized by law to make appointments or commitments to any state charitable institution, in which …

§ 475. Reports by officers of certain institutions to clerks of supervisors and cities. 1. The keeper, superintendent, secretary, director or other proper officer of a state charitable institution to which any person is committed or appointed, whose board, care, instruction, tui…

§ 476. Verified accounts against counties, cities and towns. 1. The officers mentioned in the last section shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of October, present to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, …

§ 477. Dutchess county. 1. All mentally ill, developmentally disabled, blind and deaf and mute persons, the expense of whose support and maintenance now is, or, under the laws of the state of New York, may become a charge upon the city of Poughkeepsie, or the county of Dutchess,…

§ 478. Investigation of complaints by boards of managers. Whenever the managers, directors or trustees of any asylum, hospital or other charitable institution, the managers, directors or trustees of which are appointed by the governor and senate, or by the legislature, shall dee…

§ 479. Designation of depository of funds. 1. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees or managers of each charitable or benevolent institution in this state, supported in whole or in part by moneys received from the state, or by any county, city or town thereof, to designa…

§ 48. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that there are a significant number of homeless and at-risk households living in temporary and unstable conditions which would benefit from the provision of a comprehensive assistance program. The legislature further finds that the…

§ 480. Labor of children not to be hired out. It shall be unlawful for the trustees or managers of any house of refuge, reformatory or other correctional institution, to contract, hire, or let by the day, week or month, or any longer period, the services or labor of any child or…

§ 481-a. Legislative findings and purpose. For the past decade, society has witnessed broad changes in family structure. These changes have created unique stresses on our children as well as on those who care for them. Among the most dire results of family stresses is the increa…

§ 481-b. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund act".

§ 481-c. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Domestic violence" shall mean any crime or violation, as defined in the penal law, which has been alleged to have been committed by any family or household member against any member of the same family or household. 2. "Family or…

§ 481-d. William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund advisory board. 1. There is hereby established in the department, a William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund advisory board. The board shall meet regularly for the purpose of advising and making reco…

§ 481-e. William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund; awarding of grants. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to issue grants from funds credited to the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund as provided in section four hundred eighty-one-f of t…