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NY Exec L § 504-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 504-A - Secure Facilities.

§ 504-a. Secure  facilities.  1.  As  used  in  this  article, "secure facility" means a residential facility in which  a  juvenile  delinquent may  be  placed under this article, which is characterized by physically restricting construction, hardware and procedures, and is designated  as a secure facility by the division under this section.   2.  Secure  facilities  shall  provide  appropriate  services  to  the residents, including but not limited to: residential  care,  educational and  vocational  training,  physical  and  mental  health  services, and employment counseling.   3. A youth shall be placed in or  transferred  to  a  secure  facility only:  (a)  by  order  of  the  family court pursuant to section 353.5 of the family court act; or  (b) after a hearing pursuant to regulations of the division, with  the written approval of the director of the division or his or her designee.   4.   The   division  shall  promulgate  regulations  governing  secure facilities of the division, including but not limited to:  (a) limitations as to capacity;  (b) services to be provided and conditions to be maintained;  (c) a grievance procedure for residents to be  run  by  the  division, with the use of personnel separate from that of the facility;  (d)  procedures  for  admission  to  and  release or transfer from the facility;  (e) periodic inspection by  the  division,  not  to  be  conducted  by personnel of the facility.   5.  A  juvenile delinquent residing in a facility operated pursuant to this title may be maintained in group confinement if  he  constitutes  a serious  and  evident  danger  to  himself  or  other  persons,  if such confinement is  clearly  necessary  to  prevent  escape,  if  the  child demonstrates  by  his  behavior  that  he is in need of special care and attention in a living unit separate from his normal surroundings, or  if such   confinement   is  necessary  for  purposes  of  the  child's  own protection. The division shall promulgate regulations  providing  for  a procedure  governing  transfers to group confinement and periodic review of such confinement.
NY Exec L § 504-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 504-B - Transport and Warrant Units.

§ 504-b. Transport  and  warrant  units. The division is authorized to   establish transport and warrant units  and  designate  employees  to  be   assigned   to   such  units.  Such  units  shall  have  the  powers  and   responsibilities specified in regulations promulgated by  the  division,   including  but  not  limited  to  the conveyance of youth placed with or   committed to the custody of the division to  and  from  its  facilities.   Employees  of  such unit who are specifically designated by the director   in writing, shall have the power and  authority  of  peace  officers  in   respect thereto.
NY Exec L § 505 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 505 - Directors of Facilities.

§ 505. Directors  of facilities. 1. There shall be a facility director of each office of children and family services operated  facility.  Such facility  director  shall be appointed by the commissioner of the office of children and family  services  and  the  position  shall  be  in  the noncompetitive  class  and  designated  as  confidential  as  defined by subdivision two-a of section forty-two of the  civil  service  law.  The facility director shall have such experience and other qualifications as may  be  prescribed  by  the director of classification and compensation within  the  department  of  civil  service  in  consultation  with  the commissioner  of  the  office  of  children and family services based on differences in duties, levels of responsibility, size and  character  of the  facility,  knowledge,  skills  and  abilities  required,  and other factors affecting the position. Such facility director  shall  serve  at the  pleasure  of  the commissioner of the office of children and family services.   2. Subject to regulations of the division, the facility director of  a state facility in the division shall:  (a) operate and manage the facility,  (b)  submit  a  monthly  report  on  such  matters as the division may specify.   3. Subject to the regulations of the division, the  facility  director may  authorize the use of the buildings and grounds of the facility by a municipality, special district or non-profit association, corporation or organization for educational, recreational, social  and  civic  purposes whenever such use may promote better relationships with the community in which the facility is located, provided, however, that such use does not interfere with the purposes and program of the facility.
NY Exec L § 506 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 506 - Claims for Damage to Employees' Personal Property.

§ 506. Claims  for  damage to employees' personal property. Claims for   damages to personal property of employees  of  the  division  for  youth   caused  by  youths in program may be examined, audited and certified for   payment by the state comptroller. Such claims must be  approved  by  the   director  of the division for youth prior to submission to the office of   the state comptroller.  The payment of any such claim shall  not  exceed   the sum of three hundred fifty dollars.
NY Exec L § 507-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 507-B - Placement and Commitment; Papers to Be Furnished.

§ 507-b. Placement  and  commitment;  papers  to be furnished. 1.   No   placement or commitment order to the division which  recites  the  facts   upon  which it was based shall be deemed or held to be invalid by reason   of any imperfection or defect in form.2. The court shall immediately notify the division of the placement or   commitment of any youth therewith.  The orders of the court  and  copies   of the probation report and all other relevant evaluative records in the   possession  of  the  court, detention facility, and probation department   related to such youth, including but  not  limited  to  any  diagnostic,   educational,    medical,    psychological   and   psychiatric   records,   fingerprints, photographs, a certified copy  of  the  sentence  and  any   pre-sentence  memoranda  filed  with  the  court,  where applicable, and   reports relating to assaults or other violent acts, attempts at  suicide   or  escape  by  the  youth shall be delivered together with the youth or   earlier to a person authorized by the director  to  receive  the  child,   notwithstanding any contrary provision of law.3.  The  court  shall,  before  placing  or committing any such youth,   inquire into and determine the age of the youth at the time of placement   or commitment, and the youth's age as so determined shall be  stated  in   the  order.   The statement of the age of such youth in such order shall   be conclusive evidence as to such age in any action to  recover  damages   for  allegedly  unlawful  detention  under  such  order,  and  shall  be   presumptive evidence thereof in any other inquiry, action or  proceeding   relating to such detention.4.  Notwithstanding  the  time  frames  provided  in  paragraph (b) of   subdivision four of section five hundred seven-a of  this  article,  the   division  may  delay  acceptance  of  a youth placed or committed to the   division in accordance with division regulations  promulgated  prior  to   the effective date of this subdivision.
NY Exec L § 507-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 507-C - Restrictive Placements.

§ 507-c. Restrictive  placements.  1.  The  division  shall promulgate   regulations governing restrictive placements of juveniles under  section   353.5 of the family court act, not inconsistent with such act.2.  The  regulations shall establish within the division a restrictive   placement committee. The division shall make and revise as needed a plan   for the care, treatment, services and supervision of  each  youth  under   restrictive  placement,  which plan shall be reviewed and may be revised   by the committee. The youth may not be released or  transferred  from  a   facility  without the approval of the committee, except by written order   of the director.3. For youths placed with  the  division  pursuant  to  a  restrictive   placement  under  section  353.5  of  the family court act, the division   shall (a) report in writing to the court not less than  once  every  six   months  during  the  placement on the status, adjustment and progress of   the respondent, unless otherwise provided in the order  of  disposition;   and (b) provide intensive supervision of the youth whenever he or she is   not in a secure or residential facility of the division.
NY Exec L § 507-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 2 - Facilities 507-D - Confinement of Juvenile Delinquents Under Sentence of the Courts of the United States.

§ 507-d. Confinement  of  juvenile  delinquents  under sentence of the   courts of the United States. The directors of secure and limited  secure   facilities  shall receive and safely keep in such facilities, subject to   the provisions of this article, any person not over the age  of  sixteen   years  convicted of any offense against the United States, and sentenced   to imprisonment by any court of the United States, sitting  within  this   state,  until such sentences be executed, or until such delinquent shall   be discharged by due course of law, conditioned upon the  United  States   supporting  such  delinquent  and paying the expenses attendant upon the   execution of such sentence.
NY Exec L § 527-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-A - Definitions.

§ 527-a. Definitions.  1.  For  purposes  of this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings:  (a) "Youth center" means any area,  building,  structure  or  facility owned  or  operated  by  a  not-for-profit  corporation  or  by or for a municipality for use by the youth of the community  which  promotes  the health,  safety  or  general  welfare  of  the youth community and which advances the physical,  mental  and  social  well-being  of  such  youth community,  including all necessary and attendant and related facilities and equipment.  (b) "Facility rehabilitation grants" or "rehabilitation grants"  means an  award  to  a  not-for-profit  corporation  or a municipality for the purpose  of   renovation,   rehabilitation,   repair,   remodeling,   or improvement  of  areas, buildings, structures or facilities intended for use as a youth center.  (c) "New facility project grant" means an award to a municipality or a municipality acting jointly with a not-for-profit  corporation  for  the purpose of construction, demolition, or acquisition of areas, buildings, structures, or facilities intended to be owned by a municipality for use as a youth center.  (d)  "Project  costs"  means  the  reasonable  and necessary costs for planning, demolition, acquisition of land or buildings and  construction of  new  buildings  or  the  reconstruction,  rehabilitation,  repair or remodeling of existing buildings to be used  as  a  youth  center.  Such costs  shall  also  include all or any portion of the cost necessary for the creation of a reserve fund required pursuant to section five hundred twenty-seven-h of this title.  (e) "New facility  operation  agreements"  or  "operation  agreements" means  the  award  of a contract to which the state and a not-for-profit corporation  or  a  municipality  are  parties,  for  the   purpose   of maintenance  and operation of areas, buildings, structures or facilities intended for use as a youth center and for which the state has  provided financing   of   acquisition,   demolition  or  construction  under  the provisions of this title and to which the state will hold title.  (f) "Not-for-profit corporation" means a  corporation  as  defined  in subparagraph  five  of  paragraph  (a) of section one hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law which is engaged in one or  more  of  the youth center program activities specified in this title.  (g) "Municipality" means a county, city, town or village.  (h) "Program" means the youth center facility program.  (i) "Division" means the division for youth.  (j)   "Eligible   applicant"  means  (i)  a  municipality  or  (ii)  a not-for-profit corporation or (iii) a municipality and a  not-for-profit corporation applying jointly.
NY Exec L § 527-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-B - Youth Center Facility Program Established.

§ 527-b. Youth  center  facility  program established. There is hereby   established within the division a youth center  facility  program.  Such   program   shall   provide   financing  through  the  award  of  facility   rehabilitation grants or new facility project grants  and  new  facility   operation agreements for the construction, reconstruction, renovation or   demolition  of  any area, building, structure or facility, including all   necessary and attendant and related facilities and equipment, for use by   the youth of the community which promotes the health, safety or  general   welfare  of  the youth community and which advances the physical, mental   and social well-being of the youth of the  community.  Nothing  in  this   title shall authorize any expenditure of funds for operating costs.
NY Exec L § 527-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-C - Facility Rehabilitation Grants.

§ 527-c. Facility  rehabilitation  grants.  Within  the limit of funds   made available by appropriation from the youth centers facility fund, as   established by section ninety-seven-ff of the  state  finance  law,  the   division is hereby authorized to award facility rehabilitation grants to   eligible   applicants   for  all  or  a  portion  of  project  costs  to   rehabilitate youth centers subject to the terms and conditions  of  this   title.
NY Exec L § 527-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-D - New Facility Project Grants.

§ 527-d. New  facility  project  grants.  1. Within the limit of funds   made available by appropriation from the youth centers facility fund  as   established  by  section  ninety-seven-ff  the  state  finance  law, the   division is hereby authorized to make awards to municipalities  for  the   acquisition,  demolition,  design  and construction of areas, buildings,   structures or facilities owned or to be owned by a municipality and used   as a youth center. A municipality or a municipality acting jointly  with   a not-for-profit corporation may be awarded a new facility project grant   pursuant  to  this  title  provided  that  title  to  any  of such area,   building, structure  or  facilities  is  acquired  and/or  held  by  the   municipality.2. No new facility project grant shall be awarded to a municipality or   a  municipality  and  a not-for-profit corporation acting jointly unless   the agreement as provided for in section five hundred twenty-seven-g  of   this  title also contains provisions which provide that in the event the   municipality discontinues use  of  the  facility  financed  by  the  new   facility  project  grant  as  a  youth center facility during the period   specified in the agreement as provided for in such section five  hundred   twenty-seven-g, the project cost shall become due and owing to the state   and  shall  be  payable  from  any  amounts  of  state  aid to which the   municipality would be entitled.3. No municipality which receives a new facility project  grant  shall   be  required  to  establish  a reserve fund and no reserve fund shall be   considered part of the project cost for such project.
NY Exec L § 527-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-E - New Facility Operation Agreements.

§ 527-e. New  facility operation agreements. 1. The division is hereby   authorized  to  enter  into  new  facility  operation  agreements   with   not-for-profit  corporations.  Such  agreements  shall  provide  for the   operation of a program by a not-for-profit corporation at a youth center   constructed by or on behalf of the division and to which the state holds   title. Any not-for-profit corporation which  seeks  to  operate  such  a   program  shall  submit  an  application  to  the  division in the manner   provided for in this  title.  In  addition  to  any  other  requirements   imposed  pursuant  to section five hundred twenty-seven-g of this title,   any such agreement shall provide that the lease from the  state  to  the   not-for-profit  corporation  shall provide that, in lieu of any periodic   rental or lease payment for use  of  the  facility,  the  not-for-profit   corporation  shall  continue  to  operate  the program as approved for a   period of time as approved by the division (not exceeding thirty  years)   and that the responsibility for the general maintenance and operation of   the   facility   shall  be  the  responsibility  of  the  not-for-profit   corporation.2. At the request of a municipality, the division may enter into a new   facility operation agreement wherein the municipality operates a program   at a youth center constructed by or on behalf of  the  division  and  to   which  the  state  holds  title,  or  such  program  is  operated  by  a   not-for-profit corporation, pursuant to a contract with the division  or   a municipality.
NY Exec L § 527-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-G - Agreement Requirements.

§ 527-g. Agreement  requirements.  1. The division shall enter into an agreement with an approved  applicant  which  shall  require  that  such applicant as owner and/or operator of such facility shall:  (a)  operate and manage or provide for the management of such facility in a manner consistent with the terms of its approved application  as  a youth  center  facility at all times during the period of time specified (not to exceed thirty years in the case of a new facility project  grant or  fifteen  years in the case of a facility rehabilitation grant). Such agreement shall also require the repayment of project costs  other  than the  costs necessary for the creation of the reserve fund if the site of such youth facility center  project  ceases  to  be  utilized  for  such purpose  at  any  time during the period specified and shall specify the procedures for such repayment; and  (b) execute such other agreements and provide such  other  information as  the  division  may  determine  to  be  necessary  to  carry  out the provisions of this title.   2. The agreement shall also  contain  provisions  which  prohibit  any municipality  or not-for-profit corporation receiving awards pursuant to this title from (i) engaging in any activities promoting  any  political candidate  or  party;  or  (ii)  expending  funds received from any such awards in activities the purpose of which is to influence legislation.
NY Exec L § 527-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-H - Reserve Fund Requirement.

§ 527-h. Reserve  fund requirement. 1. The division shall require that   a reserve fund shall be established  for  each  facility  rehabilitation   grant  or  new  facility operation agreement awarded to a not-for-profit   corporation pursuant to this title. In no event shall such reserve  fund   be  in  an  amount which is less than five percent of the project costs.   Such reserve fund shall be provided by the division from funds available   to it.2. Such moneys shall be deposited to the custody of  the  comptroller,   who  shall  maintain  a  separate account for each such grant awarded or   agreement  funded  pursuant  to  this  article.  Upon  application,  the   comptroller  shall  make  moneys  in  the  reserve fund available to the   not-for-profit corporation only for  purposes  of  making  extraordinary   repairs,  other  than  ordinary  and  regular maintenance and repair, to   either new facility project property or the areas, buildings, structures   or facilities for which a facility rehabilitation grant was awarded, and   only after the commissioner of the office of general  services  approves   of,  the need for such repair and certifies to the comptroller such need   and the amount approved  for  withdrawal  from  the  reserve  fund.  Any   interest  earned on the moneys in a reserve fund shall be applied to pay   debt service on such bonds except for any amount which must  be  rebated   to  the  United  States  in  order  to provide for continued federal tax   exempt status for the bonds and notes. Unless expended  earlier,  moneys   shall  be  maintained  in  a  reserve  fund created for a not-for-profit   corporation to which a facility rehabilitation grant was awarded  for  a   period  of  fifteen  years  from the date of commencement of renovation,   rehabilitation, repair, remodeling or improvement, and for a  period  of   thirty  years  from  the  date  of commencement of construction on a new   facility project. At the end of such fifteen or  thirty  years,  as  the   case may be, any moneys then still to the credit of a reserve fund shall   be transferred to the state's general fund.
NY Exec L § 527-I (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-I - General and Administrative Provisions.

§ 527-i. General  and administrative provisions. 1. The division shall   provide for the  review,  at  least  annually,  of  the  performance  of   approved  eligible applicants pursuant to this title. Such review shall,   among other things, be for the purposes of  ascertaining  conformity  to   contractual  provisions  and the financial condition of the youth center   as it relates to its ability to comply with  the  requirements  of  this   title.2.  No  youth  center  shall  be  sited,  constructed,  reconstructed,   rehabilitated, altered or improved pursuant to a  grant  or  award  made   pursuant  to  this  title, except in compliance with the requirements of   local laws, ordinances, codes, charters  or  regulations  applicable  to   such siting, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or   improvement.
NY Exec L § 527-J (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-J - Rules and Regulations.

§ 527-j. Rules   and   regulations.   The  division  shall  issue  and   promulgate  such  rules   and   regulations   as   are   necessary   for   implementation of this title.
NY Exec L § 527-K (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program 527-K - Technical Services and Assistance.

§ 527-k. Technical  services  and assistance. The division may provide   technical services and  assistance  or  contract  to  provide  technical   services  and  assistance  to  eligible  applicants  to  comply with the   provisions and intent of this title.