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2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › 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.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › 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.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › 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.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program › 527-M - Liability on Obligations.

§ 527-m. Liability  on  obligations.  Except for obligations which the
  division or New York state  urban  development  corporation  assumes  by
  contract  for the construction, rehabilitation and development period of
  any project, neither the division, the New York state urban  development
  corporation  nor the state shall have any responsibility or liability as
  to construction, rehabilitation, operation, maintenance, repair  or  use
  of  youth  center  facilities  unless otherwise specifically provided by
  law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 4 - Support and Reimbursement › 528 - Support of Children in the Division.

§ 528. Support  of  children  in the division. 1. The court placing or
referring a child  with  the  division  shall  ascertain  the  financial
condition  of his or her parents or other persons responsible for his or
her support and, if it shall be found that  any  such  parent  or  other
person  is able to pay any part of the cost of maintenance of such child
while in or being maintained at the expense of the division,  the  court
shall  make  an order directing such parent or other person to make such
payments as the court may decide to be fair  and  equitable,  and  shall
notify  the appropriate social services official and the division of the
making of such order and amount ordered to be paid.
2. Proceedings shall be had and payments shall be directed to be  made
and  shall  be  made,  in  accordance with the family court act or other
applicable statute, as in the case of orders for support  of  delinquent
children committed by the court to private institutions.
3.  In case of failure on the part of any person to whom such order is
directed to comply  with  such  order  and  make  the  payments  thereby
directed,  the court making such order shall proceed against such person
in accordance with the family court  act  or  other  statute  applicable
thereto.
4.  (a)  Record of amounts received as payment under such orders shall
be kept by the officer or person receiving the same and reports  thereof
shall  be  made  to  the  division in such form and at such times as the
division shall require.
(b) The amounts received and collected shall be  divided  between  the
social  services  district collecting the same and the state in the same
proportion as they bore the cost of maintaining the  children  affected.
The  manner  and  amounts  of payments to be made to the state by social
service districts shall be determined under regulations of the division.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 4 - Support and Reimbursement › 529-A - Payment of Costs for Medical and Dental Services.

§ 529-a. Payment   of  costs  for  medical  and  dental  services.  1.
  Diagnoses, tests, studies or analyses for the diagnosis of a disease  or
  disability,  and care and treatment by a hospital, as defined in article
  twenty-eight of the public health law,  or  by  a  physician,  or  by  a
  dentist to youths in division facilities shall be without cost or charge
  to the persons receiving such examinations, care or treatment.
2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  the division may  require  reimbursement  for  costs  paid  pursuant  to
  subdivision  one  of  this  section  from  any  third  party coverage or
  indemnification covering a youth placed with the  division.  Such  third
  party  coverage  or  indemnification  shall first be applied against the
  total  cost  to  the  hospital  or  other  provider  as  established  in
  accordance  with the provisions of section twenty-eight hundred seven of
  the public health law relating to rates of payment  of  an  individual's
  care and treatment, as provided therein.
3.   Nothing   in   this   section  shall  be  deemed  to  affect  the
  responsibility for support of children in  the  division  as  prescribed
  pursuant to section five hundred twenty-eight of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 4 - Support and Reimbursement › 531 - Reports.

§ 531. Reports.  1.  The  division  for youth shall annually publish a
report summarizing:
(a) the amount of reimbursement made by each social services  district
to  the state for each category of division facility pursuant to section
five hundred twenty-nine of  this  chapter,  including  the  numbers  of
youths maintained or supervised and the per diem rates charged;
(b)  expenditures made by each such social services district for care,
maintenance and supervision furnished alleged and  adjudicated  juvenile
delinquents and persons in need of supervision in facilities operated by
authorized  agencies  for  which  reimbursement  is approved pursuant to
section five hundred twenty-nine of this chapter, including the  numbers
of  such  youths  in  each  category  of facility and the per diem rates
charged; and
(c) expenditures made by each municipality for the  care,  maintenance
and  supervision  of youths in secure and non-secure detention for which
reimbursement is approved pursuant to section  five  hundred  thirty  of
this  title,  including  the  numbers of such youths in each category of
detention facility and the per diem rates charged.
2. Copies of such report shall be sent to  the  commissioner  of  each
social  services  district,  the chief executive officer of the locality
responsible for such  expenditures,  the  director  of  such  locality's
probation  department, and the director of such locality's youth bureau,
or if no such bureau exists,  the  chairman  of  such  locality's  youth
board.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-H - Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Eight › 532-C - Notice to Parent; Return of Runaway Youth to Parent; Alternative Living Arrangements.

§ 532-c. Notice   to  parent;  return  of  runaway  youth  to  parent;
  alternative living arrangements. 1. The staff of a  residential  runaway
  and  homeless youth crisis services program shall, to the maximum extent
  possible, preferably within twenty-four hours but within  no  more  than
  seventy-two  hours  following  the  youth's  admission into the program,
  notify such runaway youth's parent, guardian or custodian of his or  her
  physical  and emotional condition, and the circumstances surrounding the
  runaway youth's presence at the program,  unless  there  are  compelling
  circumstances  why  the  parent,  guardian or custodian should not be so
  notified. Where such circumstances exist, the program director or his or
  her designee shall either file an appropriate  petition  in  the  family
  court,  refer  the  youth  to  the local social services district, or in
  instances where abuse or neglect is suspected, report such case pursuant
  to title six of article six of the social services law.
2. Where custody of the youth upon leaving the program is assumed by a
  relative or other person, other than the parent or guardian,  the  staff
  of  the  program  shall  so  notify  the  parent  or guardian as soon as
  practicable after the release of the youth. The officers,  directors  or
  employees  of  the  program  shall  be immune from any civil or criminal
  liability for or arising out of the release of  a  runaway  or  homeless
  youth  to  a relative or other responsible person other than a parent or
  guardian.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-H - Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Eight › 532-F - Required Certification for Residential Programs.

§    532-f.   Required   certification   for   residential   programs.
  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  any
  residential  program  established for the purpose of serving runaway and
  homeless youth that serves any youth under the age of eighteen  or  that
  is  contained  in  a municipality's approved comprehensive plan, must be
  certified by the office of children and  family  services  and  must  be
  operated  by an authorized agency as such term is defined in subdivision
  ten of section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act › 548-A - Legislative Findings and Intent.

§ 548-a. Legislative  findings  and  intent.  Many recent studies have
  pointed out that although New York has an array of  human  services  and
  programs   that  are  spread  across  numerous  state  programmatic  and
  regulatory agencies, there is no unified strategy for service  delivery.
  Although  problematic  statewide,  the absence of a service coordination
  and delivery strategy critically  impairs  the  ability  of  communities
  suffering from widespread poverty to fully benefit from such services.
The  legislature  hereby  finds  and  declares that there is a need to
  develop a strategy  for  distressed  neighborhoods  to  assist  them  in
  identifying  ways  to  expand  and  strengthen  the  services  in  their
  communities, to improve the delivery  of  such  services,  and  to  help
  identify and eliminate barriers to the effective delivery of services to
  their residents.
The legislature further finds that the provision of services is only a
  partial  solution  to  the complex problems of economically and socially
  distressed  areas.  Neighborhood  stabilization  and  improvement   also
  require an assessment of the long term housing and economic needs of the
  community  and a strategic plan for the stabilization and development of
  the community. Therefore,  it  is  the  intent  of  the  legislature  to
  establish neighborhood based initiatives to first provide integrated and
  coordinated  services for people in crisis or with a potential for being
  in crisis in selected distressed neighborhoods and then  to  assist  the
  neighborhoods in developing a long range plan so that such neighborhoods
  can take steps to improve their overall economic and social condition.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act › 548-B - Definitions.

§ 548-b. Definitions. As used in this article:
1. "Committee" shall mean the neighborhood based initiatives oversight
  committee   established   in   accordance   with  section  five  hundred
  forty-eight-e of this article.
2. "Eligible applicant" shall mean a not-for-profit private or  public
  agency, a school district, a local governmental agency, or a combination
  of such entities.
3. "Project"  shall  mean  a  neighborhood  based  initiatives project
  established in accordance with section  five  hundred  forty-eight-c  of
  this article.
4. "Department" shall mean the department of social services.
5. "Neighborhood  based  initiatives  unified  contract" or "contract"
  shall mean  the  sole  written  agreement  for  a  project  between  the
  department,  as  representative  of  the  committee,  and  the  approved
  applicant, providing for the terms under which  funds  may  be  used  to
  finance  allowable  project  costs  as  defined  in section five hundred
  forty-eight-f of this article.
6. "Neighborhood based  initiatives  advisory  council"  or  "council"
  shall  mean  a  voluntary  group  representing,  to  the greatest extent
  possible, the following:  neighborhood residents, local government,  the
  business   and   economic   development  community,  service  providers,
  charitable  organizations,  the   legal   community,   and   educational
  institutions,  who  shall  be  responsible  for  development of the plan
  required in section five hundred forty-eight-c of this article.
7. "Action plan" shall mean the strategic neighborhood action plan  as
  described  in subdivision three of section five hundred forty-eight-c of
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act › 548-C - Neighborhood Based Initiatives Project; Services and Activities.

§ 548-c. Neighborhood   based   initiatives   project;   services  and
  activities. 1.  Project  establishment.  Neighborhood  based  initiative
  projects  shall  be  established pursuant to this article. Each approved
  project shall have  as  its  primary  components  an  action  plan,  the
  creation  of  a  council,  and the provision of programs and services as
  described in this section.
2. Programs and services. a. Projects shall provide  for  coordinated,
  accessible services, which shall include:
i.   comprehensive  crisis  intervention  services  on  a  twenty-four
  hour-a-day basis  which  shall  provide  for  information  and  referral
  services and case management services, and may provide for mental health
  services,  alcohol  and  substance  abuse services, child care services,
  preventive services, and other services as identified by the project, to
  individuals and families  who  are  experiencing  an  emergency  due  to
  homelessness,  eviction, domestic violence, child abuse, alcohol or drug
  abuse, mental illness, or other emergency situations identified  by  the
  project; and/or
ii.  comprehensive  case  management  services  to  assist  clients in
  accessing quality services and to expedite and  ensure  the  receipt  of
  such services. In addition, two or more needed services as determined by
  the  applicant and approved in the project application, such as services
  listed in paragraph b of this subdivision, shall be provided.
b. Projects also may include  any  other  specific  local  initiatives
  which  may  be  necessary  to  assist  in  stabilizing and improving the
  neighborhood such as early intervention services, education,  employment
  and   training  services,  intensive  home  based  prevention  services,
  parenting education, comprehensive prenatal care, alcohol and  substance
  abuse prevention, treatment, and aftercare services.
3.  Strategic  neighborhood action plan. The council for each approved
  project shall identify and quantify neighborhood needs on both  a  short
  and  long  range basis. Such plan shall include the council's assessment
  of  the  neighborhood's  present  and  long  range  needs  for  economic
  development,  job  development, housing, and such other improvements and
  needs as may be identified by the project. Such plan also shall  include
  a  description  of the actions and resources necessary to meet the needs
  as identified in the plan over the next five  year  period.    The  plan
  subsequently  shall  be  submitted  to  the committee for review and the
  committee shall provide assistance as prescribed in section five hundred
  forty-eight-e of this article to the council to help enable the  project
  to achieve its goals.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act › 548-D - Application for Funding.

§ 548-d. Application  for funding. 1. Application process. In response
  to a  request  for  proposals,  an  eligible  applicant  may  submit  an
  application  for  funding  for  a project to the department, which shall
  receive all such applications on behalf of the committee. The department
  shall forward all such applications for funding  to  the  committee  for
  review and approval.
2.  Components  of  application.  Each  application  for funding shall
  include, but not be limited to:
a.  a  description  of  the  geographic  boundaries  and   demographic
  characteristics  of  the  neighborhood  in  which  the  proposed project
  services will be targeted and an explanation of  why  that  neighborhood
  was selected;
b.  a description of the services that currently exist in the targeted
  neighborhood, any gaps  in  or  barriers  to  such  services,  including
  identification  of  any  known statutory or regulatory barriers, and the
  resources available within the community to support such services;
c. a description of how existing services will be made more accessible
  to residents of the targeted neighborhoods, whether or not any  existing
  services  will be expanded, what new services will be provided, how both
  the new and existing services will be coordinated, and what  links  will
  be established among the providers of services in the community;
d.  a  statement  of the project's goals and objectives, including the
  intended outcome for each specific service or activity contained in  the
  action  plan provided, however, that such outcomes may include, but need
  not  be  limited  to,  appropriate  measurable   factors   relating   to
  employment, health, education, substance abuse, and alcoholism;
e.  a description of the process and criteria that will be used by the
  applicant to select members of the council;
f. a description of the method that will be used to develop the action
  plan. Such description shall address the process to be  used  to  engage
  the community residents in developing such action plan; and
g.  a description of the community's involvement in the development of
  the  application  including  the  involvement  of   local   governmental
  agencies,   voluntary   agencies,   businesses,  foundations,  community
  organizations, and community residents, and the  methods  by  which  the
  applicant will assure continued community involvement in the delivery of
  services and long range planning efforts.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act › 548-G - Evaluation.

§ 548-g. Evaluation. 1. The committee shall conduct two evaluations of
  the  implementation  and effectiveness of this article: a compilation of
  individual project  evaluations  to  be  conducted  in  accordance  with
  criteria  established  in paragraph d of subdivision one of section five
  hundred forty-eight-f of this article; and a comprehensive  neighborhood
  based initiatives evaluation.
a.  Individual  project evaluations shall be conducted pursuant to the
  requirements of this article and submitted to the committee for  review.
  The  committee shall forward its comments and criticisms to the approved
  projects with recommendations of strategies for remediation  of  project
  deficiencies.  Further,  the committee shall compile the evaluations and
  the required comments and recommendations into  a  single  document  and
  shall  submit  such  compilation  to the governor and the legislature by
  January first, nineteen hundred ninety-two.
b.  The  committee  shall  cause  to  be  prepared   a   comprehensive
  neighborhood  based  initiatives  evaluation,  which  shall  assess  the
  efficacy and impact of the unified contract, the authorization  relating
  to  waiver  of regulations, and the statutory exemptions on the delivery
  of services enacted by the legislature. In addition, the committee shall
  assess the extent to which the initiative has:
i. accomplished the  goals  and  objectives  to  be  reported  to  the
  legislature;
ii.  improved  the  coordination  of  program  development and service
  provision by the agencies participating on the committee; and
iii. reduced or eliminated duplicative and conflicting regulations.
2. The committee shall submit to the governor and the  legislature  an
  interim  report,  which  shall  include  a  compilation of the goals and
  objectives  of  the  approved  projects,  and  shall   supplement   such
  compilation  with  a  statement  of  goals  and  objectives  that relate
  specifically to the state's role in policy development,  administration,
  and  delivery  of  services  to  the targeted communities not later than
  January first, nineteen hundred ninety-two.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-L - New York State Neighborhood Based Initiatives Act › 548-H - Reports.

§ 548-h. Reports.  The committee shall submit a report to the governor
  and the legislature on or before the first day of  March  of  each  year
  subsequent to a year in which funds have been awarded under this article
  to implement neighborhood based initiatives regarding the activities and
  actions  of  the committee, the criteria used to evaluate project goals,
  objectives, and outcomes, and based on these factors, the  effectiveness
  of  such projects in reaching the goals and objectives of the individual
  projects. The report shall address the appropriateness of continuing the
  provisions of this article  and  the  feasibility  of  replicating  such
  projects  in  other  areas  of  the  state.  The  report  shall  include
  recommendations, based on the experience gained under the provisions  of
  this  article,  for  modifying  statewide  policies that direct publicly
  funded programs.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 550 - Definitions.

§ 550. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have the following meanings:
1.  "Executive  director"  shall  mean  the  executive director of the
  justice center for the protection of people with special needs.
2. "Mental hygiene facility" shall  mean  a  facility  as  defined  in
  subdivision six of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law and facilities
  for the operation of which an operating certificate is required pursuant
  to article sixteen or thirty-one of the mental hygiene law and including
  family  care  homes.  "Mental  hygiene  facility"  also  means  a secure
  treatment facility as defined by article ten of the mental hygiene  law.
  This  term  shall  not  include services defined in subparagraph four of
  subdivision (a) of section 16.03 of the mental hygiene law.
3. "Reportable incident" shall have the same  meaning  as  defined  in
  subdivision  one  of  section  four  hundred  eighty-eight of the social
  services law.
4. "State oversight agency" shall mean the state agency that operates,
  licenses or certifies an  applicable  facility  or  provider  agency  as
  defined  in subdivision four of section four hundred eighty-eight of the
  social services law; provided however that such term shall only  include
  the  following  entities:  the  office  of mental health, the office for
  people with developmental disabilities, the  office  of  alcoholism  and
  substance  abuse  services,  the office of children and family services,
  the department of health and  the  state  education  department.  "State
  oversight  agency"  does  not  include  agencies  that are certification
  agencies pursuant to federal law or regulation.  For  purposes  of  this
  article,  "state  oversight agency" shall include the justice center for
  the protection of people with special needs.
5. "Vulnerable person" shall mean a person who,  due  to  physical  or
  cognitive  disabilities,  or  the  need  for  services  or placement, is
  receiving services from a facility or  provider  agency  as  defined  in
  subdivision  four  of  section  four  hundred eighty-eight of the social
  services law.
6. "Individual with a disability," except as used in  subdivision  (b)
  of section five hundred fifty-eight of this article, shall mean a person
  with  a  disability  as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two
  hundred ninety-two of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 551 - The Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs.

§  551.  The  justice center for the protection of people with special
  needs. 1. There is hereby created  within  the  executive  department  a
  justice center for the protection of people with special needs ("justice
  center"  or  "center").  Such  justice  center  shall  be  headed  by an
  executive director, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and  with
  the advice and consent of the senate. The executive director may appoint
  staff  and  perform  such other functions for the efficient operation of
  the justice  center  within  the  amounts  made  available  therefor  by
  appropriation.
2.  The  executive director shall recommend policies and procedures to
  the state oversight agency for the  protection  of  vulnerable  persons,
  including  but  not  limited  to  policies  and  procedures: (a) for the
  protection of vulnerable persons who reside in or receive services  from
  facilities  or  provider  agencies  as  set forth in subdivision four of
  section four hundred  eighty-eight  of  the  social  services  law;  (b)
  relating  to  assuring,  on behalf of the state, that vulnerable persons
  are afforded care that is of a uniformly high standard; (c) relating  to
  assuring,  on  behalf of the state, that vulnerable persons are afforded
  the opportunity to exercise  all  of  the  rights  and  responsibilities
  accorded to residents of the state; and (d) to harmonize and improve the
  procedures  for  and  quality  of investigations of reportable incidents
  involving vulnerable persons within the different systems of care in the
  state.
3. The executive director  may,  in  consultation  with  the  advisory
  council,  promulgate,  adopt,  amend  or  rescind  rules and regulations
  necessary to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  article;  provided,
  however,  that  such  rules and regulations shall be strictly limited in
  their application to the  means  and  methods  of  compliance  with  the
  provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 554 - Codes of Conduct.

§  554. Codes of conduct. 1. The justice center shall adopt and amend,
  as appropriate, codes of  conduct  for  all  custodians  as  defined  in
  subdivision  two  of  section  four  hundred  eighty-eight of the social
  services law who have or will  have  regular  and  direct  contact  with
  vulnerable   persons  who  reside  in  or  receive  services  from  such
  facilities or provider agencies. Such codes shall govern the conduct  of
  such  custodians  with  respect  to  the  safety, dignity and welfare of
  vulnerable persons to whom they provide care. The justice  center  shall
  establish  a  process by which each custodian is provided with a copy of
  the applicable code of conduct and is required, at the time  of  his  or
  her initial employment, and at least annually thereafter, to acknowledge
  that  he  or  she  has  read  and understands such code of conduct. Such
  process shall also provide for the enforcement of such codes  consistent
  with appropriate collective bargaining agreements.
2.  Minimum  requirements  for codes of conduct. Such codes of conduct
  shall include, at a minimum: a. Provisions regarding the  responsibility
  of  such  custodians  to  support  the  emotional, physical and personal
  well-being  of  the  vulnerable  persons  they  serve,  including  their
  protection  from  abuse  and neglect, and to seek guidance and advice to
  resolve issues as needed when making decisions relating to  the  persons
  they serve.
b.  Provisions  regarding  the  responsibility  of  such custodians to
  assist the vulnerable persons they support to direct the course of their
  own lives, honoring, where appropriate, their right to assume risk in  a
  safe  manner  and  recognizing their potential for lifelong learning and
  growth.
c.  Provisions  regarding  the   responsibility   of   custodians   to
  participate   in  available,  appropriate  training  to  maintain  their
  competency and skill-level, and to model and shape the behavior of their
  co-workers.
d. Provisions regarding  the  responsibility  of  such  custodians  to
  promote  and  practice  justice,  fairness and equity for the vulnerable
  persons they support, uphold and respect their human  and  civil  rights
  and respect their human dignity and uniqueness.
e.  Provisions  regarding  the  responsibility  of  such custodians to
  assist, where  appropriate,  the  vulnerable  persons  they  support  in
  developing  and maintaining relationships with families, friends and the
  community-at-large.
f. Provisions regarding  the  responsibility  of  such  custodians  to
  advocate  with  and/or  on behalf of the vulnerable persons they support
  for  their  needs,  interest,  justice,  inclusion  and  full  community
  participation.
g. Provisions requiring such custodians to report reportable incidents
  as  required  in  section four hundred ninety-one of the social services
  law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 555 - Justice Center Medical Review Board; Organization.

§ 555. Justice  center  medical  review board; organization. (a) There
shall be within the justice center a medical  review  board.  The  board
shall  be  composed  of  up to fifteen members, including specialists in
forensic pathology, psychiatry, internal medicine and addiction medicine
to be appointed by the governor. The governor shall designate one of the
members to serve as chair of the board. Members shall be  appointed  for
terms  of  three years, provided, however, that one-third of the members
first appointed shall be appointed for a one year term and one-third for
two year terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as original
appointments for the remainder of  any  unexpired  term.  Members  shall
continue  in  office  after  the  expiration  of their terms until their
successors have been appointed and qualified. The  governor  may  remove
any  member  of  the  board  whenever  in his or her judgment the public
interest may require such removal. In case of such removal, the governor
shall file with the department of state a statement indicating the cause
for such removal. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the  contrary,
the chair of the board may appoint committees of five or more members of
the board and delegate in writing to any such committee the authority to
perform  the  functions,  powers  and  duties  of  the board pursuant to
section five hundred fifty-six of this article.
(b) The members of the board shall receive no compensation  for  their
services but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses
incurred in the performance of their duties.
(c)  The board shall have an executive secretary and such officers and
employees as the executive director shall assign  upon  request  of  the
chair of the board, to assist it in the performance of its duties.
(d)  All  records  of  the  proceedings  and  the deliberations of the
justice center medical review board shall not be subject  to  disclosure
under article thirty-one of the civil practice law and rules.
(e)  The  board  or  any committee appointed by the chair of the board
shall meet at the request of its chair or the executive director of  the
justice  center.  Any  member  of  the  board  who fails to attend three
consecutive meetings of the board or the committee to which such  member
is  assigned  by  the chair of the board, unless excused by the chair of
the board, shall be considered to have vacated his or her office  unless
otherwise ordered by the governor. The term of any such person appointed
by the governor to fill such vacancy shall be governed by the provisions
of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 556 - Functions, Powers and Duties of the Board.

§ 556. Functions,  powers  and duties of the board. The justice center
medical review board shall have  the  following  functions,  powers  and
duties:
(a) make a preliminary determination whether the death of a patient or
resident  in  a  residential  facility within the meaning of subdivision
four of section four hundred eighty-eight of  the  social  services  law
that  is  operated, licensed or certified by an office of the department
of mental hygiene or the office of children and family  services,  which
has  been  brought  to  its  attention  is unusual or whether such death
reasonably appears to have resulted from other than natural  causes  and
warrants investigation;
(b)  investigate  the  causes  of  and  circumstances surrounding such
unusual death or deaths from other than natural causes  of  patients  or
residents in such facilities;
(c) visit and inspect any facility in which such a death has occurred;
(d)  cause  the  body  of  the  deceased  to undergo such examinations
including an autopsy as in the opinion of the  board  are  necessary  to
determine  the  cause of death, irrespective of whether such examination
or autopsy shall have been previously performed;
(e) upon review of the cause  of  and  circumstances  surrounding  the
death  of  any  patient  or  resident,  submit its report thereon to the
executive director  and,  where  appropriate,  make  recommendations  to
prevent  the  recurrence  of same to the appropriate commissioner of the
department of mental hygiene or the commissioner of children and  family
services and to the director of the facility; and
(f)  advise  the  executive director on medical issues relevant to the
functions,  powers,  and  duties  of  the   justice   center   including
allegations of abuse or neglect of a patient or resident referred to it.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 557 - Reports to the Justice Center.

§ 557. Reports  to  the justice center. Every director or other person
  in charge of a residential facility within the  meaning  of  subdivision
  four  of  section  four  hundred eighty-eight of the social services law
  operated, licensed or certified by an office of the department of mental
  hygiene or the office of children  and  family  services,  shall  report
  immediately  to  the  executive  director and the justice center medical
  review board the death of a patient or resident of any such facility  in
  such  manner  and  such  form  as  the  justice  center shall prescribe,
  together with an autopsy report, if any.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 560 - Annual Report.

§  560.  Annual report. The justice center shall make an annual report
  to the governor and legislature concerning its work during the preceding
  year. Such report shall be posted on the justice  center's  website  and
  shall  be  provided  to  the  independent  agency designated pursuant to
  subdivision (b) of section five hundred fifty-eight of this article.  It
  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to, data regarding the number of
  reports received by the vulnerable persons' central register, results of
  investigations by types of facilities and programs, types of  corrective
  actions  taken,  results  of  its  review  of patterns and trends in the
  reporting  of   and   response   to   reportable   incidents   and   its
  recommendations  for  appropriate preventive and corrective actions, and
  efforts undertaken by such justice center to provide  training  pursuant
  to subdivision four of section five hundred fifty-three of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs › 562 - Abuse and Neglect Notification.

§ 562. Abuse and neglect notification. 1. (a) Upon receiving a request
for  criminal  history  information,  pursuant  to section eight hundred
forty-five-b of this chapter, for a prospective employee or volunteer of
a facility or provider licensed, operated, or certified  by  the  office
for  people  with  developmental  disabilities, the justice center shall
furnish a  summary  of  any  substantiated  reports  in  its  possession
regarding  a  final  finding of category two conduct pursuant to section
four hundred ninety-three of the social services law, by  a  prospective
employee  or  volunteer.  The  justice center shall provide such summary
report  to  the  authorized  person  as  defined  in  paragraph  (b)  of
subdivision  one  of  section eight hundred forty-five-b of this chapter
and at that same time furnish such documents to the prospective employee
or volunteer at the address for such person listed on the request.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, a  facility  or
provider  licensed,  operated or certified by the office for people with
developmental disabilities shall be provided  a  summary  of  any  final
finding  of  category  two  conduct  pursuant  to  section  four hundred
ninety-three of the social services  law,  for  a  current  employee  or
volunteer,  where the substantiated category two conduct in such summary
occurred at another facility or  provider  agency.  The  justice  center
shall  additionally provide such summary to the employee or volunteer if
such summary has not previously been provided.
(c) For the purposes of this subdivision, a final finding of  category
two  conduct  shall  mean  a finding for which all relevant hearings and
appeals have been exhausted and has not been sealed in  accordance  with
section four hundred ninety-three of the social services law.
2.  The summary report provided by the justice center to a provider of
services pursuant to subdivision one of this section shall  be  received
by the provider subject to the confidentiality provisions of subdivision
seven of section eight hundred forty-five-b of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21 - New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence › 576 - Informational Materials on Economic Abuse.

§ 576. Informational materials on economic abuse. 1. In furtherance of
  the  activities  required  in  subdivision three of section five hundred
  seventy-five of this article,  the  office  shall  create  informational
  materials  on  economic  abuse and describe how it is a form of domestic
  violence. Such materials shall provide  information  on  the  impact  of
  economic abuse, how to identify and prevent economic abuse including but
  not  limited to coerced debt, and the resources available to individuals
  suffering from economic abuse.
2. The informational materials required pursuant to subdivision one of
  this section shall be provided  to  domestic  violence  shelters,  local
  social services districts, local police departments, and local childcare
  facilities to be distributed to potential victims of domestic violence.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 602 - Certification Required.

§  602.  Certification  required.  1.  On  and  after  July first, two
  thousand six, no person or business entity shall manufacture,  including
  the manufacture outside the state of New York for sale into the state of
  New York, sell, install or service any manufactured home in the state of
  New  York,  unless  such  person  or  business  entity  has obtained the
  appropriate certification from the department pursuant to this article.
2. On and after July first, two thousand  six,  no  manufactured  home
  shall  be  installed or serviced unless at least one person certified by
  the department to perform such work is present at the home  site  during
  the installation or service.
3.  a.  Each  manufacturing  plant that delivers or sells manufactured
  homes in this state, each retail sales location and each business entity
  selling, installing or performing service on manufactured homes must  be
  separately certified.
b. Each manufacturer, retailer, installer and mechanic shall employ at
  least one person who has been certified by the department.
4.  Manufacturers  approved  to  construct  manufactured  homes by the
  United States department of  housing  and  urban  development  shall  be
  required  to  apply  for,  and  obtain,  certification  pursuant to this
  article. Any such manufacturer shall be deemed to meet the  requirements
  for  certification  under  this article, except that the department may,
  after a hearing, suspend or revoke the certification of any manufacturer
  as provided in subdivision seven of section six  hundred  four  of  this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 21-B - Manufactured Homes › Title 1 - General Provisions › 603 - Warranty Seals; Notice to the Department.

§  603.  Warranty  seals;  notice  to  the  department.  1.  Before  a
  manufactured home may be installed in this state, the manufacturer shall
  obtain from the department a New York state manufacturer's warranty seal
  and attach the seal to  the  manufactured  home  in  the  manner  to  be
  prescribed by the department.
2.  Before  a  manufactured  home  may be installed in this state, the
  installer shall obtain from the department a New York state  installer's
  warranty seal and attach the seal to the manufactured home in the manner
  prescribed by the department.
3.  On  a  quarterly  basis,  every  installer  shall  report  to  the
  department all installations completed by that person or business entity
  during the designated reporting period. The report shall be  on  a  form
  provided by the department and must include the location of each unit of
  manufactured   housing,   the   owner  of  each  unit  at  the  time  of
  installation, the type or model of the unit,  the  manufacturer  of  the
  unit, written certification that the installation meets the standards of
  the  New  York  state  uniform fire prevention and building code and the
  name and address of the manufacturer, retailer,  mechanic  or  installer
  completing the notice.