Title SOS, Social Services

§ 74. Administration of assistance by or on behalf of certain cities.\n1. Each city, other than the city of New York, which is responsible for\none or more types of public assistance and care on the date this section\nbecomes effective shall function under section seventy-four-a…

§ 74-a. Administration of assistance by county for city;\nreimbursements and advances; cost to county to be raised by tax on\ntaxable property of city and to be included in county tax levy. 1. The\ncounty shall administer in and for the city the public assistance and\ncare for t…

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

§ 74-i. Transfer of personnel; county, city and town. 1. When,\npursuant to the provisions of this chapter or of any other law, the\nfunctions, powers and duties exercised by a city or town in the\nadministration of public assistance and care, are transferred or\nassigned, in wh…

§ 77. City commissioners of public welfare; appointment of staff. 1.\nThere shall be a city commissioner of public welfare in each city public\nwelfare district, who shall administer the public assistance and care\nfor which the city public welfare district is responsible.\n 2. …

§ 78. Citizens advisory committees. In accordance with federal and\nstate regulations, each city social services commissioner shall appoint\na citizens advisory committee or committees to exercise and perform such\nfunctions, powers and duties as the regulations of the departmen…

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 85. Monthly reports of county commissioner to county treasurer.\nThe county commissioner shall pay over to the county treasurer on or\nbefore the tenth day of each month all money received by him in\nconnection with the work of his public welfare district and make a\nreport gi…

§ 86. Town public welfare funds. 1. The taxes levied for public\nassistance and care in a town shall be paid to the town supervisor, who,\nwithout prior audit, shall disburse them on written order of the town\npublic welfare officer for the payment of bills and claims submitted …

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

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

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

§ 89. Estimates in county public welfare districts. 1. The county\ncommissioner shall submit annually, in the manner prescribed by and on\nor before the date fixed by or pursuant to law, an itemized estimate of\nrevenues and the amount of money needed for the ensuing fiscal year…

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

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

§ 91. Estimates and appropriations in city public welfare districts.\nThe city commissioner of public welfare shall present to the mayor or\nother authority provided by law in such city an itemized estimate of the\namount of money needed for the ensuing year for the administrati…

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

§ 93. Provisions for financing home relief. 1. Definitions. When\nused in this section:\n (a) Home relief means home relief as defined in section one hundred\nfifty-seven and also includes all administrative expenses of home\nrelief.\n (b) Local share of home relief means the to…

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

§ 95. Supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP). 1. (a) The\noffice is authorized to submit any plan required by the federal\ngovernment to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance\nprogram (SNAP) to the secretary of the United States department of\nagricultur…

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

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

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