Title SOS, Social Services

§ 74. Administration of assistance by or on behalf of certain cities. 1. Each city, other than the city of New York, which is responsible for one or more types of public assistance and care on the date this section becomes effective shall function under section seventy-four-a of…

§ 74-a. Administration of assistance by county for city; reimbursements and advances; cost to county to be raised by tax on taxable property of city and to be included in county tax levy. 1. The county shall administer in and for the city the public assistance and care for the a…

§ 74-h. Appeals and reviews. 1. A social services official responsible in an individual case for either the authorization of assistance or the investigation of the application for assistance and the making of a recommendation relative to such application shall have the right to …

§ 74-i. Transfer of personnel; county, city and town. 1. When, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or of any other law, the functions, powers and duties exercised by a city or town in the administration of public assistance and care, are transferred or assigned, in whole …

§ 77. City commissioners of public welfare; appointment of staff. 1. There shall be a city commissioner of public welfare in each city public welfare district, who shall administer the public assistance and care for which the city public welfare district is responsible. 2. The o…

§ 78. Citizens advisory committees. In accordance with federal and state regulations, each city social services commissioner shall appoint a citizens advisory committee or committees to exercise and perform such functions, powers and duties as the regulations of the department m…

§ 79. Plan for the homeless. The mayor of New York city shall submit to the legislature and the governor a copy of the revised and updated five-year plan for housing the homeless in New York city which is required under section 21-121 of the administrative code of the city of Ne…

§ 80. Records. All social services officials shall keep the records required by this chapter and the department.

§ 81. Reports. 1. The county commissioner shall make: (a) Such reports and furnish such information to the department with respect to the work of the county social services district as is required by this chapter and the department. (b) An annual report to the board of superviso…

§ 82. Accounts. All social services officials shall keep such accounts regarding the receipt and disbursements of the social services funds, and of any trust funds, as may be required by law or directed by the department.

§ 83. County social services funds. 1. The county treasurer shall be the treasurer of the county social services district. 2. Except as hereinafter provided, disbursements for administration and public assistance and care from county social services funds shall be made only on w…

§ 84. County commissioner's revolving fund. A board of supervisors may authorize the county treasurer to furnish the county commissioner with an emergency revolving fund. Moneys from this fund shall be used only where it would be a hardship on the applicant or recipient to wait …

§ 85. Monthly reports of county commissioner to county treasurer. The county commissioner shall pay over to the county treasurer on or before the tenth day of each month all money received by him in connection with the work of his public welfare district and make a report giving…

§ 86. Town public welfare funds. 1. The taxes levied for public assistance and care in a town shall be paid to the town supervisor, who, without prior audit, shall disburse them on written order of the town public welfare officer for the payment of bills and claims submitted in …

§ 86-a. City public welfare funds. The taxes levied for public assistance and care in a city, or in a city public welfare district, shall be paid to the city treasurer, or the commissioner of finance in the city of New York, and disbursed in accordance with the provisions of law…

§ 87. Special funds. 1. When a county commissioner shall receive any money as guardian of a minor or to be used for some particular person or purpose, he shall deposit it with the county treasurer, who shall keep such money in a special account to be drawn on by the county commi…

§ 88. Responsibility for adequate appropriations. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of a county, the town board of a town and the appropriating body of a city to make adequate appropriations and to take such action as may be necessary to provide the public assista…

§ 89. Estimates in county public welfare districts. 1. The county commissioner shall submit annually, in the manner prescribed by and on or before the date fixed by or pursuant to law, an itemized estimate of revenues and the amount of money needed for the ensuing fiscal year fo…

§ 90. Appropriations in county public welfare districts. 1. (a) The board of supervisors shall appoint a committee of its members to consider the estimates presented by the town boards in the county public welfare district. If any town shall fail to submit an estimate as provide…

§ 90-a. Taxes for county public welfare districts. Taxes for each form of assistance or care administered by the county public welfare district shall be levied only in the territory in which the county public welfare district is responsible for the administration of such form th…

§ 91. Estimates and appropriations in city public welfare districts. The city commissioner of public welfare shall present to the mayor or other authority provided by law in such city an itemized estimate of the amount of money needed for the ensuing year for the administration …

§ 92. Deficiency appropriations. 1. (a) Should the sums appropriated for medical assistance for needy persons, family assistance, or care and protection of children pursuant to article six of this chapter and their administration be expended or contracted or become exhausted dur…

§ 93. Provisions for financing home relief. 1. Definitions. When used in this section: (a) Home relief means home relief as defined in section one hundred fifty-seven and also includes all administrative expenses of home relief. (b) Local share of home relief means the total cos…

§ 94. Federal donated commodities. 1. (a) Until his social services district has been included in the food stamp distribution program or programs under section ninety-five, each commissioner of social services is authorized and required, in accordance with regulations of the dep…

§ 95. Supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP). 1. (a) The office is authorized to submit any plan required by the federal government to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) to the secretary of the United States department of agriculture fo…

§ 95-a. State food stamp outreach program. 1. In accordance with federal requirements and to the extent that federal matching funds are available, the department shall develop and implement an outreach plan to inform low-income households potentially eligible to receive food sta…

§ 96. Use of subprofessional staff. Any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local notwithstanding, a local social services district shall provide for the training and use of subprofessional staff, with particular emphasis on the use of public assistance recipients…

§ 97. Low-income home energy assistance program. 1. The department is authorized to develop and submit to the governor the application and plan required by title twenty-six of the federal omnibus budget reconciliation act of nineteen hundred eighty-one, and to amend and to take …