Title SOS, Social Services

§ 481-f. William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a separate and distinct account, to be known as the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family …

§ 482-a. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature finds that public policy experts and state and local agencies have been searching for a model of service delivery that will insure programmatically effective and cost-efficient delivery of services to inner-city families…

§ 482-b. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Settlement house" means an independent, voluntary, not-for-profit organization demonstrating affiliation with the New York state association for settlement houses and neighborhood centers engaged in community work and social ser…

§ 482-c. Statewide settlement house program; awarding of grants. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to issue grants for the purpose of enhancing and coordinating activities and programs, expanding programs to serve more individuals and families, and/or promoting inter-agen…

§ 483. Council on children and families. 1. Purpose. There shall be a council on children and families, hereinafter referred to in this article as the "council". The council shall act as a neutral, coordinating agency to promote the well-being of children and families by conveni…

§ 483-a. Utilization of other agency assistance. To effectuate the purposes of this article, any department, division, board, bureau, commission or agency of the state or of any political subdivision thereof shall, at the request of the executive director, provide to the council…

§ 483-aa. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this article: (a) "Human trafficking victim" means a person who is a victim of sex trafficking as defined in section 230.34 of the penal law or a victim of labor trafficking as defined in section 135.35 of the penal…

§ 483-b. Powers and duties of council. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the terms "care", "services", "programs", and "services programs" shall mean and include care, maintenance, services and programs provided to children of the state and their families by or under the …

§ 483-bb. Services for victims of human trafficking. (a) The office of temporary and disability assistance may coordinate with and assist law enforcement agencies and district attorney's offices to access appropriate services for human trafficking victims. (b) The office of temp…

§ 483-c. Coordinated children's services for children with emotional and/or behavioral disorders. 1. Purpose. The purpose of this section shall be to establish a coordinated system of care for children with emotional and behavioral disorders, and their families, who require assi…

§ 483-cc. Confirmation as a victim of human trafficking. (a) As soon as practicable after a first encounter with a person who reasonably appears to a law enforcement agency, district attorney's office, or an established provider of social or legal services designated by the offi…

§ 483-d. Out-of-state placement committee. 1. Committee established. There is hereby established within the council an out-of-state placement committee comprised of the commissioner of children and family services, the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the offic…

§ 483-dd. Law enforcement assistance with respect to immigration. Upon the request of a human trafficking victim or a representative of a human trafficking victim, the state or local law enforcement agency or district attorney's office shall provide the victim with the United St…

§ 483-e. Restraint and crisis intervention technique committee. 1. Committee established. There is hereby established within the council a restraint and crisis intervention technique committee comprised of the commissioner of children and family services, the commissioner of men…

* § 483-ee. Establishment of interagency task force on human trafficking. (a) There is established an interagency task force on trafficking in persons, which shall consist of the following members or their designees: (1) the commissioner of the division of criminal justice servi…

§ 483-f. The children's plan. 1. The council, in accordance with section 7.43 of the mental hygiene law, shall assist the commissioner of mental health with the implementation of the children's plan, developed pursuant to chapter six hundred sixty-seven of the laws of two thousa…

§ 483-ff. National human trafficking resource center hotline poster. (a) The commissioner of temporary and disability assistance shall make publicly available on its website an electronic version of the National Human Trafficking Resources Center (NHTRC) hotline poster, or creat…

§ 483-g. Early childhood advisory council. 1. There is hereby established within the council an early childhood advisory council to promote a comprehensive and high quality early childhood system. Members of the early childhood advisory council shall be appointed by the governor…

§ 483-h. Internet mapping resource of school age child care providers and afterschool and home visiting programs. 1. The council, in accordance with information made available to it by the office of children and family services pursuant to section seventeen of this chapter; info…

§ 488. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Reportable incident" shall mean the following conduct that a mandated reporter is required to report to the vulnerable persons' central register: (a) "Physical abuse," which s…

§ 489. Applicability. The provisions of this article shall apply to facilities and provider agencies provided, however, nothing in this article shall be deemed to relieve any facility or provider agency or custodian thereof covered by this article of its or their obligations to …

§ 49. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Homeless" shall mean an undomiciled household which is unable to secure permanent and habitable housing without special assistance, as determined by the commissioner, in…

§ 490. Incident management programs. 1. Each state oversight agency, as defined in this article, shall promulgate regulations approved by the justice center, that contain procedures and requirements consistent with guidelines and standards developed by the justice center, addres…

§ 491. Duty to report incidents. 1. (a) Mandated reporters shall report allegations of reportable incidents to the vulnerable persons' central register as established by section four hundred ninety-two of this article and in accordance with the requirements set forth therein. (b…

§ 492. Vulnerable persons' central register. 1. There shall be established in the justice center a statewide vulnerable persons' central register. The register shall: (a) receive reports of allegations of reportable incidents involving persons receiving services in facilities or…

§ 493. Abuse and neglect findings; consequences. 1. Within sixty days of the vulnerable persons' central register accepting a report of an allegation of abuse or neglect, the justice center shall cause the findings of the investigation to be entered into the vulnerable persons' …

§ 494. Amendments to and appeals of substantiated reports of abuse or neglect. 1. (a) At any time subsequent to the completion of an investigation of an allegation of abuse or neglect, but in no event later than thirty days after the subject of the report is notified that the re…

§ 495. Register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect. 1. The justice center shall develop and maintain a register of subjects of reports who have been found to have a substantiated category one case of abuse or neglect, in accordance with paragraph (a) of subd…

§ 496. Confidentiality. 1. Unless an investigation of a report conducted pursuant to this article has been substantiated, all information, including information identifying the subject of the report and other persons named in the report, shall be sealed forthwith by the vulnerab…

§ 497. Immunity from liability. Any person participating reasonably and in good faith in making a report, taking photographs, conducting or overseeing an investigation, operating the vulnerable persons' central register or disclosing information in compliance with this article s…

§ 5. Department of social welfare. The state department of social\nwelfare, provided for in the constitution, is hereby continued.\n

§ 50. Homeless intervention contracts. 1. The commissioner shall, within the amounts appropriated therefor, select through a competitive request-for-proposal process, local social services districts and not-for-profit corporations serving homeless and at-risk households to provi…

§ 51. Regulations. The office of temporary and disability assistance shall, in consultation with other agencies deemed appropriate by the commissioner, promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.

§ 52. Reports. On or before February first, nineteen hundred eighty-nine and on or before February first of each year thereafter in which contracts under this article are in force, the commissioner shall submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speak…

§ 550. Constitutionality. If any provisions of this chapter shall be held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this chapter.

§ 551. Construction. 1. The provisions of this chapter so far as they are substantially the same as those existing at the time they shall take effect, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended, according to the language employed in this chapter, and …

§ 552. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.

§ 56. City social services districts. The city of New York shall have all the powers and duties of a social services district insofar as consistent with the provisions of the special and local laws relating to such city. The officers thereof charged with the administration of pu…

§ 57. Cities in county social services districts. Each city, other than the city of New York, shall form part of the county social services district of the county in which it is situated and shall not assume any powers and responsibilities for the administration or expense of pu…

§ 58. Application. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to take away the jurisdiction or any power or duty of the family court, the department, the state department of education or the state department of health.

§ 61. Social services districts. For the purpose of administration\nof public assistance and care the state shall be divided into county and\ncity social services districts as follows:\n 1. The city of New York is hereby constituted a city social services\ndistrict.\n 2. Each of…

§ 62. Responsibility for public assistance and care. 1. Subject to reimbursement in the cases hereinafter provided for, each public welfare district shall be responsible for the assistance and care of any person who resides or is found in its territory and who is in need of publ…

§ 64. Separation of social services from eligibility and assistance payments functions. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation every social services district shall be organized to effect a separation of social services from eligibility and assistance payments f…

§ 65. County commissioners of public welfare. 1. There shall be a county commissioner of public welfare in each county public welfare district who shall administer the public assistance and care for which the county public welfare district is responsible and shall have general s…

§ 66. County appointments and bonds. 1. The legislative body of the county may authorize the appointment of any number of deputy commissioners of social services, physicians to care for sick persons in their homes, other assistants and employees, including attorneys to perform d…

§ 67. Town public welfare officers; appointment of staff. 1. The town board of each town responsible for the expense of providing safety net assistance for persons residing or found in such town shall appoint a social services official or authorize a supervisor of the town to ac…

§ 69. Responsibility for public assistance and care in a county social services district. The responsibility for the administration of public assistance and care in a county social services district and the expense thereof may either be borne by the county social services distri…

§ 71. Commitments. Commitments to a county home may be made by such town and city public welfare officers as are authorized by the county commissioner. All other commitments to hospitals or other institutions at the expense of the county public welfare district shall be made by …

§ 72. Power of the board of supervisors to assume responsibility for assistance and care. 1. The board of supervisors of the county may, by resolution adopted by a majority vote, direct that the cost of all or any part of the assistance and care for which the towns and cities ar…

§ 73. Power of the board of supervisors to change the administrative system of the county social services district. When pursuant to section seventy-two, the board of supervisors has adopted a resolution directing that the cost of all public assistance and care shall be a charge…