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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 12 - Community Centers and Services for Senior Citizens › 370 - Community Centers and Services for Senior Citizens; When Social Services Official to Furnish.

§  370.    Community  centers  and  services for senior citizens; when
  social services official to furnish. 1.  A social services official of a
  county, city or town  is  authorized,  provided  funds  have  been  made
  available  therefor,  to provide at public expense one or more community
  centers and services for senior citizens residing in his  territory  who
  are  eligible  therefor  pursuant to the provisions of this title.  Such
  centers and  services  may  be  provided  only  in  cases  where  it  is
  determined,  under criteria established by the department, that there is
  a need therefor.
2.  The furnishing of such centers and services is hereby declared  to
  be  proper  municipal  purpose for which the moneys of a county, city or
  town may be raised and expended.  A county, city or town may receive and
  expend  moneys  from  the  state,  the  federal  government  or  private
  individuals,  corporations  or  associations for furnishing such centers
  and services.
3.   Community centers and services for  senior  citizens  under  this
  title  may  be provided by a social services official either directly or
  through the purchase or rental of  such  centers  and  services  from  a
  private non-profit corporation, company or association provided they are
  operated and furnished in compliance with regulations of the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 12 - Community Centers and Services for Senior Citizens › 370-A - Federal Grants.

§  370-a.   Federal grants. 1.  The department of taxation and finance
  is authorized to accept and receive  from  the  federal  government  any
  moneys which the federal government shall offer to the state for or with
  respect  to  the  construction,  maintenance or operation of centers for
  senior citizens or for or with respect to the provision of services  for
  senior  citizens,  under  or  pursuant  to any federal law heretofore or
  hereafter enacted authorizing grants to the state for  such  purpose  or
  similar  purposes,  including payments to political subdivisions of, and
  any public agencies in the state.
2.   The department  of  social  services  is  hereby  designated  and
  empowered  to  act  as  the  agent  of  the  state  in  carrying out the
  provisions of any such federal law with  respect  to  such  centers  and
  services for senior citizens in this state.
3.   Any and all such grants and moneys awarded for assistance to this
  state under or pursuant  to  any  federal  law  shall  be  accepted  and
  received  by the department of taxation and finance as custodian thereof
  and such moneys, so received, shall be deposited by such  department  of
  taxation  and  finance  in  a  special  fund  or funds and shall be used
  exclusively for the purposes of any such federal law.  Such moneys shall
  be paid from such fund  or  funds  on  the  audit  and  warrant  of  the
  comptroller  upon  vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of
  social services.
4.  Any federal funds available to the  state  for  such  centers  and
  services for senior citizens shall be retained by the state.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 12 - Community Centers and Services for Senior Citizens › 370-B - State Reimbursement.

§  370-b.  State reimbursement. 1. (a)  Expenditures made by counties,
cities,  and  towns  for  services  for  senior   citizens   and   their
administration,  and  senior  citizens center projects, pursuant to this
title, shall, if approved by the department, be subject to reimbursement
by the state, in accordance with the regulations of the  department,  as
follows:    There  shall  be  paid  to each county, city or town (1) the
amount of federal funds, if any, properly received or to be received  on
account  of  such expenditures; (2) fifty per centum of its expenditures
for services for senior citizens and  their  administration  and  senior
citizens  center  projects,  after first deducting therefrom any federal
funds  received  or  to  be  received  on  account  thereof,   and   any
expenditures  defrayed  by  fees  paid  by  senior  citizens or by other
private contributions.
(b)  For the purposes of this title, expenditures  for  administration
of   services   for  senior  citizens  shall  include  expenditures  for
compensation of employees in connection  with  the  furnishing  of  such
services,  including  but  not  limited  to costs incurred for pensions,
federal old age and survivors insurance and health  insurance  for  such
employees;  training  programs for personnel, operation, maintenance and
service costs; and such other  expenditures  such  as  equipment  costs,
depreciation  and  charges  and  rental values as may be approved by the
department.  It shall not include expenditures for capital  costs.    In
the case of centers and services for senior citizens purchased or leased
from  a  non-profit  corporation,  company  or association, expenditures
shall include an allocable proportion of all  operating  costs  of  such
centers  as  may be approved by the department including but not limited
to the expenditures enumerated in this paragraph  (b)  and  expenditures
for  amortization,  interest  and  other financing costs of any mortgage
loan made to such non-profit corporation, company or association.
2. (a)  Claims for state reimbursement shall be made in such form  and
manner  and  at  such times and for such periods as the department shall
determine.
(b)  When certified by the department, state  reimbursement  shall  be
paid  from  the  state  treasury  upon  the  audit  and  warrant  of the
comptroller out of  funds made available therefor.
3.  The department is authorized in  its  discretion  to  approve  and
certify  to the comptroller for payment, advances to counties, cities or
towns in anticipation of the state reimbursement provided  for  in  this
section.
4.  Payment of state reimbursement and advances shall be made to local
fiscal  officers  as  in  the  case  of  state  reimbursement for public
assistance and care under other provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 12-A - Supports and Services for Youth Suffering From Adverse Childhood Experiences › 370-C - Supports and Services for Youth Suffering From Adverse Childhood Experiences.

§  370-c.  Supports  and  services  for  youth  suffering from adverse
  childhood experiences. 1. Youth suffering from or  at  risk  of  adverse
  childhood experiences, as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
  section  twenty-d  of  this  chapter,  may  be  eligible  for a range of
  appropriate services and supports that enhance  protective  factors,  or
  are  culturally  competent,  evidence  based  and  trauma  informed  and
  beneficial to the overall health and well-being of the youth,  including
  but  not  necessarily  limited  to available: (i) appropriate health and
  behavioral health services provided to youth who are otherwise  eligible
  under subdivision seven of section twenty-five hundred ten of the public
  health  law and subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-five-a of
  this article;  (ii)  preventive  services  provided  to  youth  who  are
  otherwise  eligible  pursuant  to  section  four  hundred nine-a of this
  article; (iii) services provided to youth  who  are  otherwise  eligible
  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of section four hundred fifty-eight-m of
  this chapter; or (iv) to the extent funds are specifically  appropriated
  therefor,  any  other  services  necessary to serve youth suffering from
  adverse childhood experiences.
2. The office of children and family services,  in  consultation  with
  the  office of temporary and disability assistance, the office of mental
  health, the office of addiction services and supports, the department of
  health and not-for-profit organizations that  have  expertise  providing
  services  to  individuals  suffering from adverse childhood experiences,
  shall develop or utilize existing educational materials to  be  used  to
  educate  parents,  guardians  and  other  authorized  individuals  about
  adverse childhood experiences including the  environmental  events  that
  may  impact  or lead to adverse childhood experiences, the importance of
  protective factors and the availability of services for children at risk
  of or suffering from adverse  childhood  experiences.  Such  information
  shall  be  made  available  electronically  and  shall be posted on each
  agency's website.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 371-A - Procedure.

§  371-a.    Procedure.   In any proceeding commenced pursuant to this
  chapter in which  the  family  court  has  exercised  jurisdiction,  the
  provisions of articles one, two and eleven of the family court act shall
  apply  to  the  extent  that  they  do  not  conflict  with the specific
  provisions of the social services law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 372-B - Adoption Services.

§  372-b. Adoption services. 1. a. A prospective adoptive parent shall
  have a right to a fair hearing pursuant to section  twenty-two  of  this
  chapter  concerning the failure of a social services official to provide
  adoption services authorized to be provided pursuant to this section and
  the state's consolidated services plan.  At the time a child  is  placed
  in a prospective adoptive home, the prospective adoptive parent shall be
  notified in writing of his or her right to such fair hearing.
b.  Each  social  services  official shall provide, either directly or
  through purchase of service, adoption services for each child  in  their
  care  who  is  freed for adoption.  Such adoption services shall include
  the evaluation of a child's placement needs and pre-placement  planning,
  recruitment  of and homestudy for prospective adoptive parents, training
  of adoptive parents, placement planning, supervision and  post  adoption
  services.
2.    The  department shall promulgate regulations which shall require
  that adoption services be made available to all children who are  listed
  with  the  New York state adoption service.  Such regulations shall also
  provide for cooperation between local social services commissioners, and
  for apportioning reimbursement for adoption services where more than one
  agency or social services district has  provided  such  services  for  a
  child.
2-a.   The  department  shall  promulgate  regulations  requiring  all
  adoption agencies to forward names and addresses of all persons who have
  applied for adoption of a hard-to-place or handicapped child, as defined
  in section four hundred fifty-one of this chapter. A list of such  names
  and  addresses shall be maintained by the department and made available,
  without charge, to every agency in the state to assist them  in  placing
  such children for adoption.
3.     The    department  shall  promulgate  regulations  to  maintain
  enlightened adoption policies and to establish  standards  and  criteria
  for adoption practices.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 372-C - Putative Father Registry.

§ 372-c. Putative father registry. 1. The department shall establish a
  putative  father registry which shall record the names and addresses of:
  (a) any person adjudicated by a court of this state to be the parent  of
  a  child  born  out  of  wedlock;  (b) any person who has filed with the
  registry before or after the birth of a child out of wedlock,  a  notice
  of intent to claim parentage of the child; (c) any person adjudicated by
  a  court  of  another  state or territory of the United States to be the
  father of an out of wedlock child, where a certified copy of  the  court
  order  has  been  filed  with  the  registry by such person or any other
  person; (d) any person who has filed with  the  registry  an  instrument
  acknowledging paternity pursuant to section 4-1.2 of the estates, powers
  and trusts law.
2. A person filing a notice of intent to claim parentage of a child or
  an  acknowledgement  of  paternity  shall  include  therein  his current
  address and shall notify the registry of any change of address  pursuant
  to procedures prescribed by regulations of the department.
3. A person who has filed a notice of intent to claim paternity may at
  any  time  revoke a notice of intent to claim paternity previously filed
  therewith and, upon receipt of such notification by  the  registry,  the
  revoked  notice  of  intent to claim paternity shall be deemed a nullity
  nunc pro tunc.
4. An unrevoked notice of intent to claim paternity of a child may  be
  introduced  in  evidence  by  any party, other than the person who filed
  such notice, in any proceeding in which such fact may be relevant.
5. The department shall, upon request, provide the names and addresses
  of persons listed with the registry to any court or  authorized  agency,
  and  such  information shall not be divulged to any other person, except
  upon order of a court for good cause shown.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 372-D - Adoption Services; Purchase by Department.

§  372-d.    Adoption  services;  purchase  by  department.   1.   The
  department may provide, through purchase  of  services  from  authorized
  agencies,  adoption  services for any child who has been referred to the
  statewide  adoption  service   pursuant   to   section   three   hundred
  seventy-two-c  and  who  has  not  been placed for adoption within three
  months after the date of such referral.
2.   As used in this section  "adoption  services"  shall  mean  those
  services  and  activities  set forth in subdivision one of section three
  hundred seventy-two-b of this chapter.
3.  In accordance with regulations  of  the  department,  expenditures
  made  by the department for the provision, through purchase, of adoption
  services for a child pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be  subject  to
  reimbursement  to the state by the social services district charged with
  the guardianship and custody of the child, as follows:  fifty percent of
  the amount expended for the provision of such  adoption  services  after
  first  deducting from such amount any federal funds properly received or
  to be received on account thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 372-E - Adoption Applications; Appeals.

§ 372-e. Adoption applications; appeals. 1. An authorized agency shall
keep  a  record  of applications received from persons seeking to become
adoptive parents, including all actions taken on such applications.
2.    The  department  shall  promulgate  regulations  setting   forth
standards  and  procedures  to  be  followed  by  authorized agencies in
evaluating persons who have applied to such agencies for the adoption of
a child.  Such regulations shall also restrict the evaluation process so
as not to unnecessarily duplicate previous investigations which may have
been made of the adoptive applicant in the context of a  prior  adoption
application  or  an  application for licensure or certification to board
children.
3. (a) Upon an authorized  agency's  denial  of  an  application,  the
authorized  agency  shall furnish the applicant with a written statement
setting forth its reason for the denial of the application. Such written
statement shall include a notice to the applicant, in bold face type, of
such applicant's right to request and be granted a hearing in accordance
with the provisions of subdivision four of this section.
(b) Upon an authorized agency's  failure  to  act  on  an  application
within  six  months  of  its submission, the authorized agency shall, on
such applicant's request, furnish the applicant with a written statement
setting forth its reason for its failure to act on the application. Such
written statement shall include a notice to the applicant, in bold  face
type,  of  such applicant's right to request and be granted a hearing in
accordance with the provisions of subdivision four of this section.
4.  Any person whose application has been denied or whose  application
has not been acted upon by an authorized agency within six months of its
submission may request and shall be granted a hearing in accordance with
the  provisions  of  section twenty-two of this chapter relating to fair
hearings.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 372-G - Abandoned Infant Protection Program.

§  372-g.  Abandoned infant protection program. The office of children
  and family services shall develop and  implement  a  public  information
  program  to inform the general public of the provisions of the abandoned
  infant protection act. The program may include but not be limited to the
  following elements:
1. educational and informational materials  in  print,  audio,  video,
  electronic, or other media;
2. public service announcements and advertisements; and
3.   establishment   of   toll-free   telephone  hotlines  to  provide
  information.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 373-A - Medical Histories.

§ 373-a. Medical histories. Notwithstanding any other provision of law
  to the contrary, to the extent they are available, the medical histories
  of  a  child  legally  freed  for adoption or of a child to be placed in
  foster  care  and  of  his  or  her  birth  parents,  with   information
  identifying  such  birth  parents  eliminated,  shall  be provided by an
  authorized agency to such child's prospective adoptive parent or  foster
  parent  and  upon  request  to the adoptive parent or foster parent when
  such child has been adopted or placed in foster care. To the extent they
  are available, the medical histories of a child in foster  care  and  of
  his  or  her  birth parents shall be provided by an authorized agency to
  such child when discharged to his or her own care and  upon  request  to
  any adopted former foster child; provided, however, medical histories of
  birth   parents  shall  be  provided  to  an  adoptee  with  information
  identifying such birth parents eliminated. Such medical histories  shall
  include  all  available information setting forth conditions or diseases
  believed  to  be  hereditary,  any  drugs  or  medication  taken  during
  pregnancy  by  the  child's  birth  mother  and  any  other information,
  including any psychological information in the case of a  child  legally
  freed  for  adoption or when such child has been adopted, or in the case
  of a child to be placed in foster care or placed in  foster  care  which
  may  be  a  factor influencing the child's present or future health. The
  department shall promulgate and may alter or amend regulations governing
  the release of medical histories pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 374-B - Authority to Operate Agency Boarding Home.

§  374-b.  Authority to operate agency boarding home. 1. An authorized
agency which is not a court, public board, commission, or  official,  is
hereby  empowered  and  permitted  to  operate  agency boarding homes in
compliance with regulations of the department;  and  a  social  services
official  who  is  authorized  to  place  children  in  family homes and
institutions, pursuant to section three  hundred  ninety-eight,  may  be
authorized  by  the  department  to  operate  agency  boarding homes, in
compliance with such regulations, if  such  official  applies  for  such
authority  and demonstrates to the department his need therefor and that
suitable care is not otherwise  available  for  children  and/or  minors
under  the  care of such official through an authorized agency under the
control of persons of the same religious  faith  as  such  children.  No
agency  boarding  home  shall  care for more than six children or minors
except that such a home may provide care for more than six brothers  and
sisters  of the same family. Such homes shall be subject to supervision,
visitation and inspection by the department and shall also be subject to
visitation and inspection by the board.
2. (a) If an authorized agency plans to establish one or more boarding
homes within a municipality, it shall notify the chief executive officer
of the municipality in writing of its intentions  and  include  in  such
notice  a  description  of  the  nature,  size and the community support
requirements of the program.
(b)  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision,  "municipality"  means   an
incorporated village, if a facility is to be located therein; a town, if
the  facility is to be located therein, and not simultaneously within an
incorporated village; or a city, except that in the city  of  New  York,
the  community  board  with  jurisdiction  over the area in which such a
facility is to be located shall be considered the municipality.
3. An authorized agency that has received approval from the office  of
children and family services may operate a supervised independent living
program,  as defined in section three hundred seventy-one of this title.
The office of children and family services shall promulgate  regulations
establishing  the  standards  for  approval  and operation of supervised
independent living programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 374-C - Authority to Operate Group Homes.

§  374-c.   Authority to operate group homes. 1.  An authorized agency
which is not a court, public board, commission  or  official  is  hereby
empowered  and  permitted  to  operate  group  homes  in compliance with
regulations of the department.    A  social  services  official  who  is
authorized  to place children in family homes and institutions, pursuant
to  section  three  hundred  ninety-eight,  may  be  authorized  by  the
department  to  operate group homes in compliance with such regulations,
provided that such official demonstrates  to  the  satisfaction  of  the
department  the  need  therefor  and that suitable care is not otherwise
available for children under  the  care  of  such  official  through  an
authorized  agency  under  the  control of persons of the same religious
faith as such children.   Such homes shall be  subject  to  supervision,
visitation and inspection by the department and shall also be subject to
visitation and inspection by the board.
2.  (a)  If  an authorized agency plans to establish one or more group
homes within a municipality, it shall notify the chief executive officer
of the municipality in writing of its intentions  and  include  in  such
notice  a  description  of  the  nature,  size and the community support
requirements of the program.
(b)  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision,  "municipality"  means   an
incorporated village, if a facility is to be located therein; a town, if
the  facility is to be located therein, and not simultaneously within an
incorporated village; or a city, except that in the city  of  New  York,
the  community  board  with  jurisdiction  over the area in which such a
facility is to be located shall be considered the municipality.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 374-D - Authority to Operate Public Institutions for Children.

§  374-d.    Authority  to operate public institutions for children. A
  social services official who is authorized to place children  in  family
  homes  and institutions, pursuant to section three hundred ninety-eight,
  may be authorized by the department to operate public  institutions  for
  children in compliance with regulations of the department, provided that
  such  official  demonstrates  to  the satisfaction of the department the
  need therefor and that suitable care  is  not  otherwise  available  for
  children  under  the  care of such official.  Such institutions shall be
  subject to supervision, visitation and inspection by the department  and
  shall also be subject to visitation and inspection by the board.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 374-E - Authority to Place Out or Board Out Children With Therapeutic Foster Parents.

§ 374-e. Authority to place out or board out children with therapeutic
  foster  parents.  A social services official or agency who is authorized
  to place out or board out children pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
  ninety-eight   or   three  hundred  seventy-four  of  this  article,  is
  authorized by the department to place out or board out  children  having
  special  needs  with  therapeutic foster parents pursuant to subdivision
  fifteen of section three hundred ninety-eight of  this  article  and  in
  compliance with regulations of the department. Such placement shall only
  be  made,  however,  when  the  official  or  agency demonstrates to the
  satisfaction of the  department  that  state  expenditures  incurred  in
  placing  a  child  with  a therapeutic foster parent are less than those
  that would be incurred if the children were placed in an institution.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 374-F - Authority to Enter Into Leases for Dwelling Units.

§  374-f.  Authority  to  enter  into  leases  for dwelling units. Any
  inconsistent   provisions   of   this   chapter   or   any   other   law
  notwithstanding,  a public welfare official authorized to operate agency
  boarding homes or group homes is  hereby  empowered  to  rent  or  lease
  dwelling  units in his capacity as a public welfare official, as lessee,
  in any federal project, state project or municipal project,  as  defined
  in  the  public  housing  law,  or  in  any municipally-aided project or
  state-aided project, or other project, as defined in the private housing
  finance law, or elsewhere, for the purpose  of  operating  therein  such
  agency  boarding  homes  or  group  homes,  and  is  hereby empowered to
  contract, in his capacity as a public welfare official,  as  contractor,
  with  individuals for their services in conducting such homes and caring
  for children or minors placed in such homes.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 375 - Requirement of Certificate or License to Board Children.

§  375.    Requirement  of  certificate  or license to board children.
  Except for relatives within the second degree or  third  degree  of  the
  parents  of  a  child or children, relatives within the second degree or
  third degree  of  the  step-parent  of  a  child  or  children,  legally
  appointed  guardians,  schools and academies meeting the requirements of
  the education law as to compulsory education, camps operated for  profit
  for  the  accommodation  of  school  age children during school vacation
  periods under permits issued by  health  officers  pursuant  to  chapter
  seven  of  the  state  sanitary  code,  and persons with whom a child or
  children are placed out, no person shall  receive,  board  or  keep  any
  child under the age of eighteen years unless certified or licensed to do
  so as provided in this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 376 - Certificate to Board Children And/or Minors Under Age of Eighteen Years.

§  376.  Certificate  to  board  children  and/or  minors under age of
  eighteen years. 1. An authorized agency which shall board out any  child
  and/or  minor  under the age of eighteen years shall issue to the person
  receiving such child and/or minor for board a  certificate  to  receive,
  board  or  keep  a  child  and/or minor under the age of eighteen years.
  Prior to issuing such certificate, the  agency  shall  require  that  an
  applicant set forth: his or her employment history, provide personal and
  employment  references and sign a sworn statement indicating whether the
  applicant, to the best of his or her knowledge, has ever been  convicted
  of  a  crime in this state or any other jurisdiction. In accordance with
  the regulations of the  office  of  children  and  family  services,  in
  addition  to  the  requirements  set forth in subdivision two of section
  three hundred  seventy-eight-a  of  this  title  and  paragraph  (a)  of
  subdivision  one  of section four hundred twenty-four-a of this article,
  the agency shall review information available in the statewide automated
  child welfare information system  to  determine  whether  the  applicant
  previously held such a certificate, or a license or approval as a foster
  parent  and,  if  so,  whether such certificate, license or approval was
  revoked, not renewed, or a foster child was removed from his or her home
  for health or safety reasons and  shall  consider  such  information  in
  determining  whether  a  certificate should be issued to such applicant.
  Not until all inquiries are completed and  evaluated  shall  the  agency
  cause such certificate to be issued.
2. The agency issuing or renewing any such certificate shall forthwith
  transmit a copy or report thereof to the board.
3. No person shall be certified by more than one authorized agency but
  any  person  so  certified  may receive for care at board or otherwise a
  child and/or minor under the age of eighteen years  from  other  sources
  upon  the  written  consent  and approval of the certifying agency as to
  each such child and/or minor.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 377 - License to Board Children.

§  377.  License  to  board  children. 1. Application for a license to
  receive, board or keep any  child  shall  be  made  in  writing  to  the
  commissioner  of social services in and for the social services district
  wherein the premises to be licensed are located, in the form and  manner
  prescribed  by  the  office  of children and family services. The office
  shall require that  an  applicant  set  forth:  his  or  her  employment
  history,  provide  personal  and  employment references and sign a sworn
  statement indicating whether, to the best of his or her knowledge, he or
  she has ever been convicted of a  crime  in  this  state  or  any  other
  jurisdiction.  In  accordance  with  the  regulations  of  the office of
  children and family services, in addition to the requirements set  forth
  in  subdivision  two  of  section  three hundred seventy-eight-a of this
  title and paragraph (a) of  subdivision  one  of  section  four  hundred
  twenty-four-a  of  this  article,  such  commissioner of social services
  shall review information available  in  the  statewide  automated  child
  welfare information system to determine whether the applicant previously
  held  such  a  license, or a certificate or approval as a foster parent,
  and, if so, whether such license, certificate or approval  was  revoked,
  not  renewed,  or  a  foster  child was removed from his or her home for
  health  or  safety  reasons  and  shall  consider  such  information  in
  determining  whether  a  license should be issued to such applicant. Not
  until all inquiries are completed and evaluated shall  the  commissioner
  of social services cause such license to be issued.
2.  Before  any  such  license  shall be issued an authorized agent or
  employee of the social services district shall  visit  and  inspect  the
  premises  for which such license is requested, make such further inquiry
  and investigation as  may  be  required  to  ascertain  compliance  with
  applicable requirements.
3.  If  it  appears  from  such  inquiry  and  investigation  that the
  applicant maintains  a  home  suitable  for  the  care  of  children  in
  accordance  with  the regulations of the department, the commissioner of
  social services shall cause such license to be issued in such manner  as
  the department may provide.
4.  The  commissioner of social services, issuing or renewing any such
  license, shall in accordance with  the  directions  of  the  department,
  transmit a copy or report thereof to the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 379 - Revocation of Certificates and Licenses.

§  379.  Revocation of certificates and licenses. 1.  A certificate or
  license to receive, board or keep any child and/or minor under  the  age
  of  eighteen  years may be revoked for cause by the authorized agency or
  the commissioner of social services by which it was issued and any  such
  certificate  or  license  to  receive,  board  or  keep any child may be
  revoked for cause by the commissioner.
2.  An agency revoking any such  certificate  and  a  commissioner  of
  social services revoking any such license shall notify the department of
  such revocation at once.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 380 - Boarding and Free Homes; Records.

§  380.  Boarding and free homes; records.  Every person who receives,
  boards or keeps a child and/or minor  under  a  license  or  certificate
  shall  keep  a  record  in  a  register to be provided by the department
  showing the name, date of birth and religious faith of each child and/or
  minor received, the names and addresses of his parents or guardian or of
  the authorized agency from whom received  and  of  the  person  by  whom
  placed  and by whom removed, the dates of reception and removal and such
  other information as may be required by the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 381 - Maternity Homes; Records and Reports.

§  381.  Maternity  homes;  records  and  reports.  Every  hospital or
  lying-in asylum whether incorporated or unincorporated  where  women  or
  girls  may  be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy or during
  or after delivery and every person licensed to carry on like work  under
  the  provisions  of  article twenty-eight of the public health law shall
  keep a record showing the full  and  true  name  and  address  including
  street and number, if any, of every such woman or girl and of each child
  of  such  woman  or girl received, admitted or born on the premises, the
  full and true names and addresses and the religious faith of the parents
  of every such child, the dates of reception, admission or birth  and  of
  discharge  or  departure of each such woman, girl or child, the full and
  true names and addresses of the person or persons by whom any such child
  is removed or taken away, the amount paid  for  the  care  of  any  such
  woman,  girl  or  child and the full and true names and addresses of the
  person or persons making such payment or payments; and shall  keep  such
  further  record as may be required by regulations of the department. The
  department may, through its authorized  agents  and  employees,  at  all
  reasonable  times, inspect and examine such records and may require from
  such licensed person or from such hospital and its directors,  officers,
  trustees,  employees,  manager,  superintendent,  owner  or other person
  responsible for its operation, all information in their possession  with
  reference to any such child not taken away or removed from such hospital
  by his parents or parent.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 383-B - Medical Treatment for Abused, Neglected and Destitute Children; Consent of Commissioners.

§  383-b.  Medical  treatment  for  abused,  neglected  and  destitute
  children; consent of commissioners. The  local  commissioner  of  social
  services  or the local commissioner of health may give effective consent
  for medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child who  has
  been  found  by the family court to be an abused, neglected or destitute
  child, or who has been taken into  or  kept  in  protective  custody  or
  removed  from  the  place  where  he or she is residing, or who has been
  placed in the custody of such commissioner,  pursuant  to  section  four
  hundred  seventeen  of  this article or section one thousand twenty-two,
  section one thousand twenty-four,  section  one  thousand  twenty-seven,
  section  one thousand ninety-four or section one thousand ninety-five of
  the family court act.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 385 - Orders; Prohibiting Placing Out or Boarding Out; Removal.

§  385.  Orders; prohibiting placing out or boarding out; removal.  1.
Prohibiting placing out or boarding  out.    Whenever  the  commissioner
shall  decide  that any disposition of a child under this title has been
made for purposes of gain, or without due inquiry as  to  the  character
and  reputation of the person with whom such child is placed, or in such
manner that such child is subjected to cruel or  improper  treatment  or
neglect  or  immoral  surroundings, or in such manner that the religious
faith of the child is not preserved and protected as  provided  by  this
title,   the  commissioner  may  issue  an  order  prohibiting  such  an
authorized agency, association,  corporation,  institution,  society  or
other  organization  from  thereafter  placing  out  or boarding out any
child.  No such order shall be issued until after an opportunity  to  be
heard  before  the  commissioner  or  his  designee and after reasonable
notice has been given, with a copy of the charge.  A full record of  the
proceedings   and  decision  on  such  hearing  shall  be  kept  by  the
department.  Any such order issued by the commissioner may be revoked by
the commissioner.
2.  Whenever the commissioner shall find a minor
(a)  placed out or boarded out in a home which is unsuitable or has no
license or certificate, or
(b)  cared for under a certificate or license but neglected or without
suitable care or protection, he may order its removal within thirty days
by the agency which placed it and if such order cannot  be  served  upon
such  agency,  it  may  be addressed to the public board, commission, or
officer of the county charged with the care of  such  child.    If  such
child  is  not  removed  within  the  specified  time, the matter may be
brought before the children's court or other court having  jurisdiction,
for adjudication and disposition.
3.    Review of orders.  Any person, agency, association, corporation,
institution, society or other organization, aggrieved by the decision of
the commissioner in making any order pursuant to the provisions of  this
title,  may  institute,  in the judicial district in which the applicant
resides  or  has  its  chief  office,   a   proceeding   under   article
seventy-eight  of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules  in  which  the
reasonableness of such decision shall be subject to review.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 386 - Visitation; Inspection and Supervision.

§  386.  Visitation;  inspection  and supervision. 1. The board or the
  department is authorized to visit, in its discretion,  any  minor  under
  the age of twenty-one years committed, placed out or boarded out and not
  legally adopted or in the custody of a legal guardian.
2.  The  board  or  the  department  is  authorized  to  visit, in its
  discretion, any home or place where a child or  children  are  received,
  boarded  or  kept  under  a  license  or certificate whether or not such
  children are maintained as public charges. Every licensed home shall, if
  practicable, be visited by the department at least four  times  in  each
  year.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 389 - Penalty for Violations.

§ 389. Penalty for violations.  1. Except as hereinafter provided, any
person, corporation, agency, society, institution or other organization,
wilfully violating this title, other than section three hundred ninety-g
of  this title, or failing to comply with any order which the department
is  authorized  under  this  title  to  make,  shall  be  guilty  of   a
misdemeanor.
2.   (a)  Any  person,  corporation,  society,  institution  or  other
organization who or which violates the provisions of subdivision six  of
section  three hundred seventy-four of this chapter shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, for  the  first  such  offense.  Any  person,  corporation,
society,  institution  or  other  organization who or which violates the
provisions of subdivision six of section three hundred  seventy-four  of
this  chapter,  after  having  been  once  convicted  of  violating such
provisions, shall be guilty of a felony.
(b)  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  paragraph   (a)   of   this
subdivision,  any  person,  corporation,  society,  institution or other
organization who or which violates  subdivision  six  of  section  three
hundred  seventy-four of this title, where such unlawful compensation or
thing of value accepted or received exceeds  five  thousand  dollars  in
value,  shall be guilty of a class E felony as defined in the penal law.
Any person, corporation, society, institution, or other organization who
or which violates subdivision six of section three hundred  seventy-four
of  this  title,  where  such  unlawful  compensation  or thing of value
accepted or received exceeds  five  thousand  dollars  in  value,  after
having been previously convicted of violating subdivision six of section
three  hundred  seventy-four of this title, shall be guilty of a class D
felony as defined in the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 390-C*2 - Additional Powers and Duties of the Office of Children and Family Services.

* §  390-c. Additional powers and duties of the office of children and
  family services. 1. The commissioner of children and family services  is
  authorized and directed to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to
  ensure  that,  whenever  a  child  day  care  provider  is  licensed  or
  registered pursuant to section three hundred ninety of this article, the
  police department and fire department of the municipality  wherein  such
  licensee  or  registrant  is  authorized to operate and the state police
  shall be notified of the existence of the child  day  care  center,  its
  location and the fact that children are likely to be at that location in
  the  event  of an emergency. In those cases where the local municipality
  does not have a police department or a fire department, the  sheriff  of
  the appropriate county shall be notified in lieu thereof.
2.  The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and
  directed to conduct a study to determine the best method of compiling an
  accurate and accessible central record of information regarding the safe
  operation of each day care center  licensed  or  registered  within  the
  state.  Such  record  should include but not be limited to complaints by
  parents or guardians, internal incident reports, reports  by  police  or
  fire  departments, local or state building code violations, any relevant
  information gathered from utility providers or other visitors to the day
  care center and any additional information  held  by  another  state  or
  local agency regarding a day care provider or a day care center location
  which could affect safe operation of a day care center.
3.  On or before the thirtieth day of June in the year next succeeding
  the year in  which  this  section  takes  effect,  the  commissioner  of
  children and family services shall report to the governor, the temporary
  president  of  the  senate and the speaker of the assembly regarding the
  results of the study undertaken pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  this
  section.
4.  The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and
  directed, no later than  one  year  from  the  effective  date  of  this
  subdivision,  to  promulgate rules and regulations to require that local
  social services districts offer child day care providers, as defined  in
  section  three  hundred  ninety of this title, the option to be paid any
  monies owed for providing subsidized child care by  a  deposit  directly
  into  a bank account of the child day care provider. Such direct deposit
  shall only be made at the express written consent of  the  provider  and
  shall  be  requested  on  forms  provided  by  the local social services
  district and duly filled in by the provider. Such written consent can be
  revoked at any time by the provider in writing on forms provided by  the
  local social services district.
* NB There are 2 § 390-c's
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 390-F - Report on Child Care Insurance.

§ 390-f.  Report  on  child  care  insurance.  The commissioner of the
  office  of  children  and  family  services  in  consultation  with  the
  superintendent  of  financial  services,  shall undertake a study of the
  availability, accessibility, and affordability of insurance policies  to
  child  care providers. The study shall include, but not be limited to, a
  review of homeowner insurance policies and  health  insurance  policies.
  The  study  shall  be  completed  and  a  report submitted no later than
  January first, two thousand nine, to the governor, the  commissioner  of
  the  office  of children and family services, the temporary president of
  the senate and the speaker of the assembly.