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2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19 - Display and Use of the Flag of the United States of America in Parks and on Public Buildings › 401 - Definitions.

§ 401. Definitions.  As  used  in  this  article,  unless  a different
  meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall have
  the following meanings:
1. "Flag" shall mean the flag of the United States of America.
2. "Public building" shall mean all buildings  including  grounds  and
  premises  adjacent or appurtenant thereto or connected thereto belonging
  to the state, county,  town,  village,  school  district  or  any  other
  political or civil subdivision of state or local government.
3.  "Local  agency"  shall  include all county, city, town and village
  governing bodies, all other public corporations, special  districts  and
  school districts in the state.
4.  "State  agencies"  shall  include any department, division, board,
  bureau, commission, office, agency, authority or public  corporation  of
  the state.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19 - Display and Use of the Flag of the United States of America in Parks and on Public Buildings › 402 - Application.

§ 402. Application.  The  rules  and procedures for display and use of
  the flag set forth in this article shall govern the display of the  flag
  on  all  public  buildings  within  the  state  and  shall supersede any
  contrary rule or custom of state or  local  agencies  governing  display
  provided,  however, a school district may promulgate its own regulations
  to allow the flag to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death  of
  a  present  or  former board member, present employee, teacher, student,
  clerk or custodian.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19 - Display and Use of the Flag of the United States of America in Parks and on Public Buildings › 403-A - Display of Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Flag.

§  403-a.  Display  of  prisoner of war and missing in action flag. 1.
  Every county outside the city of New York, city, town,  and  village  is
  encouraged  to display the prisoner of war and missing in action flag at
  the building housing its local legislative body on all days on which the
  flag of the United States of America is displayed. Every county  outside
  the  city  of  New  York, and every city, town, and village shall fly an
  official National League of Families POW/MIA flag, as designated  by  36
  U.S.C.  902  at  the  building  housing  its local legislative body if a
  congressionally chartered  veterans  organization  including  any  post,
  chapter,  detachment  unit,  auxiliary  unit or society of such veterans
  organization has provided the county, city, town, or village  with  such
  flag and, upon such municipality's request, any necessary attachments or
  fasteners  required  to  enable the flag to be visible to the public, on
  the following days:  Armed  Forces  Day,  the  third  Saturday  in  May;
  Memorial  Day,  the  last  Monday in May; Flag Day, the second Sunday in
  June; Independence Day, July 4; National POW/MIA  Recognition  Day,  the
  third Friday in September except if such date of commemoration cannot be
  observed  due  to  a  religious  holiday, such observances shall then be
  conducted on the second Friday in September and Veterans  Day,  November
  11.
2.  Every  state  police  facility,  including  but not limited to the
  headquarters,  substations,  and  training  academy,  is  encouraged  to
  display  the  prisoner  of war and missing in action flag on all days on
  which the flag of the United States of America is displayed.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19 - Display and Use of the Flag of the United States of America in Parks and on Public Buildings › 403-B - Display of Flag in Certain Parks.

§  403-b.  Display  of  flag  in certain parks. Any state park of this
  state with developed facilities for public use shall  display  the  flag
  daily in an area where it is viewed by the public. Such display shall be
  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and  customs deemed proper for display
  pursuant to section four hundred three of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 411 - Purpose of Article.

§  411. Purpose of article. The purpose of this article is to put into
  effect  those  measures  most  suitable  to  supplement   and   aid   in
  coordinating  the work of existing religious and social institutions for
  the prevention of delinquency and youth crime, and  the  advancement  of
  the  moral,  physical, mental and social well-being of the youth of this
  state, and to encourage the municipalities of this  state  to  undertake
  increased  activities  in  this field by assistance and financial aid as
  provided in this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 412 - Definitions.

§ 412. Definitions. As used in this article,
1.  "Office"  shall  mean  the  office of children and family services
  established in the department  of  family  assistance  by  chapter  four
  hundred thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven.
2.  "Commissioner"  shall mean the commissioner of children and family
  services, designated as the head of the office of  children  and  family
  services  by  chapter  four  hundred  thirty-six of the laws of nineteen
  hundred ninety-seven.
3. "Youth" shall mean any person under twenty-one years of age.
4. "Municipality" shall mean a county, or a city having  a  population
  of one million or more.
5.  "Youth development program" shall mean a local program designed to
  accomplish the broad purposes of this article subject to the  rules  and
  regulations of the office; provided however, the term "youth development
  program"  shall  not  include  approved runaway programs or transitional
  independent living support programs as such terms are defined in section
  five hundred thirty-two-a of this chapter.
6. "State aid" shall mean payments by the state to a municipality  for
  or  toward  the  cost  of establishment, operation and/or maintenance of
  approved youth programs  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this
  article.
7. "Youth board" shall mean the citizen board of a youth bureau.
8. "Municipal youth bureau" shall mean either:
a.  In a city having a population of one million or more, the New York
  City department of youth  and  community  development,  or  a  successor
  entity;
b.  A  youth  bureau  that  engages  in activities, including, but not
  limited  to,  the  operation,  administration  or  monitoring  of  youth
  development programs, throughout a particular county; or
c.  A  youth  bureau  that  engages  in activities, including, but not
  limited  to,  the  operation,  administration  or  monitoring  of  youth
  development  programs,  throughout  two  or more particular counties, in
  accordance with subdivision five of section four hundred  twenty-two  of
  this article.
9. "Local youth bureau" shall mean a youth bureau, not included within
  the  definition  of municipal youth bureau pursuant to subdivision eight
  of this section, that engages in activities, including, but not  limited
  to,  the  operation,  administration  or monitoring of youth development
  programs, throughout a particular village, town or city.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 419 - Rules and Regulations.

§  419.  Rules and regulations. The office may adopt, amend or rescind
  all rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of  this
  article,  including  the  objective  that  state  aid hereunder shall be
  granted uniformly  throughout  the  state,  having  regard  for  varying
  conditions and needs in different parts of the state.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 421 - Withholding State Aid.

§ 421. Withholding  state aid. The office may authorize or require the
  comptroller to withhold the payment of state aid to any municipality  in
  the  event such municipality alters or discontinues without the approval
  of the office the operation of a plan approved by the office,  or  fails
  to  adopt  or  change  a  plan as recommended by the office, or fails to
  comply with rules or regulations established by the office, or fails  to
  enforce  in  a  manner satisfactory to the office, laws now in effect or
  hereafter adopted that relate  in  any  manner  to  the  protection  and
  welfare of youth.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 422 - Youth Bureaus.

§ 422. Youth  bureaus.  1.  a.  Any  city, town or village desiring to
  establish a local youth bureau may apply to the municipality which  such
  city,  town or village is located within, for approval of its plans. The
  application shall be in writing, specifying the nature of  the  program,
  and shall contain such information as the municipality shall require.
b.  All  local  youth  bureaus  approved by the office of children and
  family services on or before April first, two thousand thirteen shall be
  deemed approved local youth bureaus for the purpose of this article.
2. No application for the approval of a local youth  bureau  shall  be
  considered  by  the municipality that has not been first approved by the
  governing body of the city, town or village making the application.
3. The municipality may approve or disapprove the proposed local youth
  bureau.
4. The approval of a local youth bureau shall authorize the city, town
  or village to establish, operate and maintain the program and will allow
  the municipality to distribute to such local  youth  bureau,  state  aid
  received  in  accordance  with  subdivision  one of section four hundred
  twenty of this article.
5. Two or more municipalities may join together to establish,  operate
  and  maintain  a  municipal  youth  bureau  and  may  make  and  perform
  agreements  in  connection  therewith.  Such  agreements  shall  include
  provisions  for  the proportionate cost to be borne by each municipality
  and for the manner of employment of personnel and  may  provide  that  a
  fiscal  officer  of  one such municipality shall be the custodian of the
  moneys made available for expenditure for  such  purposes  by  all  such
  municipalities  and that such fiscal officer may make payments therefrom
  upon audit of the appropriate auditing body or officer  of  his  or  her
  municipality. In making claims for state aid pursuant to subdivision one
  of  section  four hundred twenty of this article, each such municipality
  shall claim for its proportionate share of the total joint  expenditures
  so  made. However, where it is provided that there shall be a disbursing
  municipality, such disbursing municipality shall  claim  for  the  total
  joint  program expenditures so made and shall disburse such state aid to
  each participating municipality based upon the  proportionate  share  of
  expenditures so made.
6.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law, rule or regulation to the
  contrary, no municipal youth bureau serving one or  more  municipalities
  with  a  total youth population of twenty-five thousand or less shall be
  required under this article, or for  purposes  of  receiving  state  aid
  hereunder, to employ a full time executive director for their respective
  proposed or approved youth programs, as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 423 - Grants; Raising and Paying Over of Local Funds.

§ 423. Grants;  raising and paying over of local funds. 1. The office,
  with the approval of the governor, may accept as agent of the state  any
  gift  or  grant  for  any of the purposes of this article. Any moneys so
  received may be expended by the office to effectuate any of the purposes
  of this article, subject to the  same  limitations  as  to  approval  of
  project,  approval of expenditures and audit as are prescribed for state
  moneys appropriated for the purposes of this article.
2. A board of education, board of trustees  or  trustee  of  a  school
  district  may raise, appropriate and pay over to a municipality in which
  it is in whole or  in  part  located  moneys  to  be  expended  by  such
  municipality  for  any  purpose  authorized  by  this  article.  Such  a
  municipality may accept and expend moneys  so  received  only  for  such
  purpose. Moneys so appropriated and paid over by a school district shall
  not  be  included  in computing the amount that should be apportioned to
  such school district pursuant to article seventy-three of the  education
  law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 424 - Report and Recommendations.

§ 424. Report  and  recommendations.  The  office shall make an annual
  report  to  the  governor  and  legislature  which  shall  include   its
  recommendations  and  program  with  respect  to  the provisions of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-A - Delinquency and Youth Crime Prevention › 426 - Constitutionality.

§ 426. Constitutionality.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section
  or part of this article shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of
  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
  impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph or section or part thereof
  directly involved in controversy in which such judgment shall have  been
  rendered.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 431 - Purpose of Article.

§ 431. Purpose of article. The purpose of this article is to implement
  section  nine  of  article  one of the state constitution, as amended by
  vote of the people at the general election in November, nineteen hundred
  fifty-seven.  The legislature hereby declares that the raising of  funds
  for  the  promotion  of  bona  fide charitable, educational, scientific,
  health, religious, civic and patriotic causes  and  undertakings,  where
  the  beneficiaries  are indefinite, is in the public interest. It hereby
  finds that, as conducted prior to the enactment of this  article,  bingo
  was the subject of exploitation by professional gamblers, promoters, and
  commercial  interests.  It  is  hereby  declared to be the policy of the
  legislature that all  phases  of  the  supervision,  licensing  and  the
  regulation of bingo and of the conduct of bingo games, should be closely
  controlled  and  that the laws and regulations pertaining thereto should
  be strictly construed and rigidly enforced; that the conduct of the game
  and all  attendant  activities  should  be  so  regulated  and  adequate
  controls  so  instituted  as  to discourage commercialization in all its
  forms, including the rental of commercial premises for bingo games,  and
  to   ensure  a  maximum  availability  of  the  net  proceeds  of  bingo
  exclusively for  application  to  the  worthy  causes  and  undertakings
  specified  herein;  that  the  only justification for this article is to
  foster and support such worthy causes and  undertakings,  and  that  the
  mandate  of  section  nine  of article one of the state constitution, as
  amended,  should  be  carried  out  by  rigid  regulation   to   prevent
  commercialized  gambling,  prevent  participation  by criminal and other
  undesirable elements  and  prevent  the  diversion  of  funds  from  the
  purposes herein authorized.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 432 - Definitions.

§ 432. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have the following meanings:
1.  "Control commission" or "commission" shall mean the New York state
  gaming commission created pursuant to section one  hundred  two  of  the
  racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law.
2.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  any city, town or village within this
  state.
3. "Bingo" or "game" shall mean a specific game  of  chance,  commonly
  known  as  bingo  or  lotto, in which prizes are awarded on the basis of
  designated numbers or symbols on a card conforming to numbers or symbols
  selected at random.
4. "Authorized organization" shall mean any  bona  fide  religious  or
  charitable  organization  or  bona fide educational, fraternal, civic or
  service organization or bona fide organization  of  veterans,  volunteer
  firefighters,  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers,  which by its charter,
  certificate of incorporation, constitution, or act of  the  legislature,
  shall have as its dominant purpose or purposes one or more of the lawful
  purposes as defined in the bingo licensing law, provided that each shall
  operate  without  profit  to  its  members,  and provided that each such
  organization has engaged in serving one or more of the  lawful  purposes
  as defined in the bingo licensing law, article fourteen-H of the general
  municipal  law,  for  a period of one year immediately prior to applying
  for a license under the licensing law.
5. "Bingo licensing law" shall mean article fourteen-h of the  general
  municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 434 - Utilization of Other Agency Assistance.

§ 434. Utilization  of  other  agency  assistance.  To  effectuate the
  purposes of this article, the governor  may  authorize  any  department,
  division,  board,  bureau, commission or agency of the state or of or in
  any political subdivision thereof to provide such facilities, assistance
  and data as will  enable  the  commission  properly  to  carry  out  its
  activities and effectuate its purposes hereunder.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 436 - Hearings; Immunity.

§ 436. Hearings;  immunity.    1.  A hearing upon any investigation or
  review authorized by this  article  or  by  article  fourteen-h  of  the
  general  municipal  law  may  be conducted by two or more members of the
  commission or by a hearing officer duly designated by the commission, as
  the commission shall determine.
2. A person who has violated any provision of this article or  article
  fourteen-h of the general municipal law, or of the rules and regulations
  of the commission, or any term of any license issued under said articles
  or  said  rules  and regulations, is a competent witness against another
  person so charged. In any  hearing  upon  any  investigation  or  review
  authorized  by  this  article  or  article  fourteen-h  of  the  general
  municipal law, for or relating to a violation of any provision  of  said
  articles  or  of  the  rules and regulations of the commission or of the
  term of any such license, the commission, may confer immunity upon  such
  witness  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section 50.20 of the
  criminal procedure law. Such immunity shall be conferred only  upon  the
  vote  of  at  least  three  members  of  the  commission, and only after
  affording the attorney general and the appropriate district  attorney  a
  reasonable  opportunity to be heard with respect to any objections which
  they or either of them may have to the granting of such immunity.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 437 - Place of Investigations and Hearings; Witnesses; Books and Documents.

§ 437. Place  of  investigations  and  hearings;  witnesses; books and
  documents.   The commission  may  conduct  investigations  and  hearings
  within  or  without  the  state  and  shall  have  power  to  compel the
  attendance of witnesses, the production of books, records, documents and
  other evidence by the issuance of a subpoena signed by a member  of  the
  commission.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 438 - Privilege Against Self-Incrimination.

§ 438. Privilege  against  self-incrimination.  The willful refusal to
  answer a  material  question  or  the  assertion  of  privilege  against
  self-incrimination  during  a  hearing  upon any investigation or review
  authorized by this article or  by  article  fourteen-h  of  the  general
  municipal law by any licensee or any person identified with any licensee
  as an officer, director, stockholder, partner, member, employee or agent
  thereof   shall  constitute  sufficient  cause  for  the  revocation  or
  suspension of any  license  issued  under  this  article  or  under  the
  licensing  law, as the commission or as the municipal governing body may
  determine.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 439 - Filing and Availability of Rules and Regulations.

§ 439. Filing  and  availability  of  rules and regulations. A copy of
  every rule and regulation adopted  and  promulgated  by  the  commission
  shall  be  filed in the office of the secretary of state before it shall
  become effective and copies thereof  shall  be  made  available  to  the
  various municipalities operating under the bingo licensing law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-B - State Bingo Control Commission › 439-A - Municipality to File Copies of Local Laws and Ordinances; Reports.

§ 439-a. Municipality  to  file  copies  of local laws and ordinances;
  reports.  Each municipality in which the bingo licensing  law  shall  be
  adopted  shall  file  with  the  commission  a copy of each local law or
  ordinance enacted pursuant thereto within ten days after  the  same  has
  been  approved  by  a  majority  of the electors voting on a proposition
  submitted at a general or special election, or within ten days after the
  same has been amended or repealed by the common council or  other  local
  legislative  body,  and on or before February first of each year, and at
  any other time or times which  the  commission  may  determine,  make  a
  report  to the commission of the number of licenses issued therein under
  the bingo licensing law, the names and addresses of the  licensees,  the
  aggregate  amount  of license fees collected, the names and addresses of
  all persons detected of violating the bingo licensing law, this  law  or
  the rules and regulations adopted by the commission pursuant hereto, and
  of  all  persons  prosecuted  for such violations and the result of each
  such prosecution, the penalties imposed  therein  during  the  preceding
  calendar  year,  or  the  period for which the report is required, which
  report may contain any recommendations  for  improvement  of  the  bingo
  licensing  law or the administration thereof which the governing body of
  the municipality shall deem to be desirable.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 481 - Definitions.

§ 481. Definitions. When used in this article:
1.  "Office"  means  the state office of rural affairs created by this
  article.
2. "Director" means the chief  administrative  officer  of  the  state
  office of rural affairs.
3.  "State agency" means any department, office, council, or agency of
  the state, or any public benefit corporation or authority authorized  by
  the laws of the state.
4.  "Federal  agency" means any department, office, council, or agency
  of  the  federal  government,  or  any  public  benefit  corporation  or
  authority authorized by federal statute.
5.  "Local  agency"  means  any  municipality, or office or department
  thereof or not-for-profit  organization  created  for  the  purposes  of
  enhancing the quality of life and revitalization of rural areas.
6.  "Municipality"  means  any  county, city, town, village, or school
  district.
7. "Rural areas" means counties within the state having less than  two
  hundred   thousand  population,  and  the  municipalities,  individuals,
  institutions, communities, programs and such other entities or resources
  as are found therein. In counties of two  hundred  thousand  or  greater
  population,  "rural  areas" means towns with population densities of one
  hundred fifty persons  or  less  per  square  mile,  and  the  villages,
  individuals, institutions, communities, programs and such other entities
  or resources as are found therein.
8.  "Rural  development and revitalization" shall mean those policies,
  programs, laws, regulations, or other matters having to  do  with  rural
  areas  including, but not limited to, human services and community life;
  health care; education; business, economic development, and  employment;
  agriculture;    environment,    land   use,   and   natural   resources;
  transportation; community  facilities,  housing;  and  local  government
  services and management.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 482 - State Office of Rural Affairs.

§ 482. State  office  of  rural affairs. 1. There is hereby created in
  the executive department an office of rural affairs.  The  head  of  the
  office  shall be the director of rural affairs who shall be appointed by
  the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, and  who  shall
  hold office at the pleasure of the governor.  The director shall receive
  an annual salary to be fixed by the governor within the amount available
  therefor  by  appropriation.  He  shall  also  be  entitled  to  receive
  reimbursement for expenses actually and necessarily incurred by  him  in
  the  performance  of  his duties. The director may appoint such officers
  and employees, agents, consultants, and special committees as he or  she
  may  deem  necessary, prescribe their duties, fix their compensation and
  provide for reimbursement of their  expenses  within  amounts  available
  therefor by appropriation.
2.  The  director  shall  prepare  and  submit  annually, on or before
  February first, a comprehensive report, pursuant to section four hundred
  ninety of this article.
3. The governor shall direct  that  all  state  agencies  provide  the
  director  with  assistance in advancing the purpose of the office and to
  assure that the activities of the office are fully coordinated with  the
  activities of state agencies providing related services.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 484 - Assistance of Other State Agencies.

§ 484. Assistance  of other state agencies. To effectuate the purposes
  of this article, the director may  request  and  shall  be  entitled  to
  receive  from  any state agency, and the same are authorized to provide,
  such assistance, service, facilities, and data as will enable the office
  to carry out its functions, powers and duties, and such  temporarily  or
  permanently  assigned  personnel  as  the  director  of  the  budget may
  approve.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 485 - Functions, Powers and Duties of Other Departments and State Agencies.

§ 485. Functions,  powers  and  duties  of other departments and state
  agencies. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to  derogate
  or  detract  in any way from the functions, powers, or duties prescribed
  by law of any other department of the state or to interrupt or  preclude
  the  direct  relationship  of  any  such department or agency with local
  agencies, individuals or corporations  for  the  carrying  out  of  such
  functions, powers or duties.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 486 - Comprehensive Grant Information.

§ 486. Comprehensive  grant  information.  1. The office shall request
such specific information as the director  determines  to  be  necessary
concerning assistance programs and grants administered by federal, state
and  local  agencies,  individuals  and corporations designed to enhance
rural areas. Such information shall be used to  advise  local  agencies,
individuals or corporations for the purpose of promoting coordination in
program or grant efforts wherever feasible or proper.
2.  Any  applicant requesting program grants or assistance in order to
address  rural  development  and  revitalization  needs,  conditions  or
strengths  in  rural  areas  may, pursuant to the rules of the director,
confer with the office to obtain assistance in the prompt and  efficient
processing and review of applications.
3.  The  office shall, so far as possible, render such assistance; and
the director may designate an officer or employee of the office  to  act
as an expeditor for the purpose of:
(a)  Facilitating  contacts  for the applicant with state, federal, or
local agencies, individuals or corporations responsible  for  processing
and reviewing grant applications;
(b)  Arranging conferences to clarify the interest and requirements of
any such  agency,  individual  or  corporation  with  respect  to  grant
applications;
(c)  Considering  with  the  agency,  individual  or  corporation  the
feasibility  of  consolidating  hearings  and  data  required   of   the
applicant;
(d)  Assisting  the  applicant in the resolution of outstanding issues
identified by the agency, individual or  corporation,  including  delays
experienced in application review; and
(e)  Coordinating  federal,  state  and local grant application review
actions and assistance programs to the extent practicable.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 487 - Implementation of Services.

§ 487. Implementation of services. 1. Services rendered by this office
  shall  be made available without charge, provided that nothing contained
  herein shall relieve an applicant  of  any  part  of  existing  fees  or
  charges established for the review and approval of grant applications by
  agencies, individuals or corporations.
2. Each state agency involved in the administration of a program grant
  or technical assistance effort designed to address rural development and
  revitalization  needs  in  rural  areas  shall  designate  an officer or
  employee to act as program liaison officer to cooperate with and  assist
  the office in carrying out the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 488 - Participation of Federal and Local Agencies, Individuals and Corporations.

§ 488. Participation  of  federal  and local agencies, individuals and
  corporations.  1.  Federal   and   local   agencies,   individuals   and
  corporations  involved  in  the  administration  of  a  program grant or
  technical assistance effort for rural  development  and  revitalization,
  shall  be  encouraged  to  participate in the assistance services of the
  office and to make  information  available  to  applicants  through  the
  office  with  respect  to  any related program, undertaking, project, or
  activity which is referred to the office under the  provisions  of  this
  article.
2.  The director shall consult with and seek assistance from officials
  of  federal  and  local  agencies  or  corporations  with   respect   to
  coordinating  assistance programs for rural areas and shall recommend to
  the governor and the legislature any policies or  programs  which  would
  facilitate such coordination.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 489 - Temporary Assignment or Permanent Transfer of Personnel.

§ 489. Temporary  assignment  or  permanent transfer of personnel. The
  director, in consultation with the head of the state agency involved and
  with the approval of the director of the budget,  may  provide  for  the
  temporary  or permanent assignment or transfer of officers and employees
  of state agencies to the office. Employees permanently transferred shall
  be transferred without further examination or  qualification  and  shall
  retain  their  respective  civil  service classification and status. Any
  employee who,  at  the  time  of  such  transfer,  has  a  temporary  or
  provisional  appointment  shall be transferred subject to the same right
  of removal, examination or termination as though such transfer  had  not
  been  made.  No existing right or benefit, including retirement benefits
  or remedy of any character, shall  be  lost,  impaired  or  affected  by
  reason  of this article. The director of the budget shall be responsible
  for timely notification of all such assignments  and  transfers  to  the
  chairman  of  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  chairman of the
  assembly ways and means committee. Transfer  of  employees  pursuant  to
  this  article shall be governed solely and exclusively by the provisions
  hereof notwithstanding other provisions of the law.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-F - Rural Affairs Act › 490 - Reports to the Governor and the Legislature.

§ 490. Reports  to  the governor and the legislature. The office shall
  hereafter make an annual report, to be received on  or  before  February
  first,  to  the  governor  and the legislature concerning the assistance
  activities undertaken by the  office,  recommendations  for  legislative
  proposals,  data  concerning program activities in rural areas and other
  pertinent information which,  in  the  opinion  of  the  director,  will
  indicate the activities conducted by the office in the previous year.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services

ARTICLE 19-G
OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES
 
  Title 1.   (Designated without title heading) (§§ 500--501-d)
2.   Facilities (§§ 502-509)
3.   Programs and services for youth (§§ 510-a--523-n)
3-A. Youth center facility program (§§ 527-a--527-m)
4.   Support and reimbursement (§§ 528-531)
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 500 - Office of Children and Family Services; Commissioner.

§ 500.  Office of children and family services; commissioner. 1. There
  is hereby continued in the department of family assistance an autonomous
  office of children and family services. The head of such office shall be
  the commissioner of children and family services, who shall be appointed
  by  the  governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and
  shall serve at the  pleasure  of  the  governor.  The  commissioner  may
  appoint  such  officers,  employees, agents and consultants as he or she
  may deem necessary, prescribe their duties, fix their  compensation  and
  provide for reimbursement of their expenses within the amounts available
  therefor by appropriation.
2.  The commissioner may 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.
3. Whenever the division for youth or its director is referred  to  in
  any  provision of this chapter or in any other law, such reference shall
  be deemed to refer to the office of children and family services or  the
  commissioner of children and family services.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 501-A - Actions Against Persons Designated Foster Parents of the Division; Defense and Indemnification.

§ 501-a. Actions  against  persons  designated  foster  parents of the
  division;  defense  and  indemnification.  The  provisions  of   section
  seventeen  of  the public officers law shall apply to persons designated
  foster parents whose duties involve the care, treatment  or  supervision
  of  persons  admitted  to institutions operated by the division, whether
  within such institutions or released therefrom pursuant to section  five
  hundred twenty-three of this article or whose duties involve services to
  or for applicants while rendering such care, treatment or services.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 501-B - Intervention as of Right; Notice.

§ 501-b. Intervention  as  of  right;  notice. The division for youth,
  pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision  (a)  of  section  ten  hundred
  twelve  of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules, shall be permitted to
  intervene in any action involving an appeal from a decision of any Court
  of this State which relates to programs, conditions or services provided
  by the division for youth. Written notice shall be given to the attorney
  general and the director of the division for youth by the  party  taking
  the appeal.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 501-C - Confidentiality.

§ 501-c. Confidentiality. 1.(a) Records or files of youths kept by the
division for youth shall be deemed confidential and shall be safeguarded
from  coming  to  the knowledge of and from inspection or examination by
any person other than one authorized to receive  such  knowledge  or  to
make such inspection or examination: (i) by the division pursuant to its
regulations; (ii) or by a judge of the court of claims when such records
are required for the trial of a claim or other proceeding in such court;
or  (iii)  by  a  federal  court  judge  or magistrate, a justice of the
supreme court, a judge of the county court or family court, or  a  grand
jury  when  such  records are required for a trial or proceeding in such
court or grand jury.  No  person  shall  divulge  the  information  thus
obtained  without  authorization  to  do  so by the division, or by such
justice, judge or grand jury.
(b) The division shall not release information which would  reasonably
identify such youth as ever being in the custody of the division, except
as provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
(c)  Nothing  in  this  subdivision shall limit a person's or agency's
responsibility  or  authority  to  report  suspected  child   abuse   or
maltreatment pursuant to title six of article six of the social services
law.
(d) Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to prevent access by a
parent  or  legal  guardian of a youth to records or files of such youth
where access is otherwise specifically authorized by law.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section,  the  official
case  records  produced  and  maintained  by  the division shall be made
available to a probation department,  upon  written  request,  where  an
order  of the court has been issued directing such department to conduct
an investigation pursuant to  the  provisions  of  sections  390.20  and
720.20  of  the  criminal  procedure law and section 351.1 of the family
court act. Any written requests for records shall be  accompanied  by  a
copy  of  the  court  order and shall request only a copy of the youth's
official case record. The division shall be granted  a  minimum  of  ten
days  to produce such records. The division shall be required to forward
only records less than three years old  in  its  possession,  or  copies
thereof,  relating  to  a youth less than twenty-one years of age at the
time of the request. The division may impose  a  fee  upon  a  probation
department  for  its  costs  in photocopying records provided under this
subdivision. A probation  department  shall  retain  copies  of  records
received  or  information  obtained therein under the same conditions of
confidentiality that apply to the investigation and any  report  on  the
investigation which was the basis for obtaining such records.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 501-D - Grants or Gifts.

§ 501-d. Grants or gifts. The director of the division for youth, with
  the  approval  of  the  governor,  may  accept as agent of the state any
  grant, including federal grants, or any gift for any of the purposes  of
  this  article.    Any moneys so received may be expended by the division
  for youth to effectuate any purpose of this article, subject to the same
  limitations as to approval of expenditures and audit as  are  prescribed
  for state moneys appropriated for the purposes of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 501-F - Commissioner for the Interstate Compact for Juveniles.

* §  501-f.  Commissioner  for  the  interstate compact for juveniles.
  Pursuant to subdivision B of article III of section five  hundred  one-e
  of  this article, the commissioner shall be appointed by the governor in
  consultation with the state council established pursuant to  article  IX
  of  section  five  hundred  one-e and section five hundred one-g of this
  article.
* NB Repealed September 1, 2025
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 1 - (Designated Without Title Heading) › 501-H - Detention and Appointment of an Attorney for the Child in Proceedings Involving Youth Governed by the Interstate Compact for Juveniles.

* §  501-h.  Detention and appointment of an attorney for the child in
  proceedings involving youth  governed  by  the  interstate  compact  for
  juveniles.  1.  If  a youth is detained under the interstate compact for
  juveniles established pursuant to section five  hundred  one-e  of  this
  article,  he or she shall be brought before the appropriate court within
  seventy-two hours or the next day the court is in session, whichever  is
  sooner,  and shall be advised by the judge of his or her right to remain
  silent, his or her right to be represented by counsel of his or her  own
  choosing,  and of the right to have an attorney assigned in accord with,
  as applicable, section two hundred forty-nine of the family court act or
  article eighteen-B of the county law.  The  youth  shall  be  allowed  a
  reasonable  time  to retain counsel, contact his or her parents or other
  person or persons legally responsible for his or her care  or  an  adult
  with  whom  the  youth  has  a significant connection, and the judge may
  adjourn the proceedings  for  such  purposes.  Provided,  however,  that
  nothing  in  this  section shall be deemed to require a youth to contact
  his or her parents or other person or persons  legally  responsible  for
  his  or  her  care.  Provided  further,  however,  that counsel shall be
  assigned immediately, and continue to  represent  the  youth  until  any
  retained  counsel  appears.  The court shall schedule a court appearance
  for the youth no later than ten days after the initial court appearance,
  and every ten days thereafter, while the youth is detained  pursuant  to
  the  interstate  compact  for  juveniles  unless  any such appearance is
  waived by the attorney for the child.
2. All youth subject to proceedings governed by the interstate compact
  for juveniles established pursuant to section five hundred one-e of this
  article shall be appointed  an  attorney  pursuant  to,  as  applicable,
  section  two  hundred  forty-nine  of  the  family  court act or article
  eighteen-B of the county law if independent legal representation is  not
  available to such youth.
* NB Repealed September 1, 2025
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 2 - Facilities › 503-A - Temporary Hold Over Units.

§ 503-a. Temporary  hold  over  units.  1.  The division may establish
  secure temporary hold over units at its facilities for the accommodation
  of youth placed with the division  pursuant  to  article  three  of  the
  family  court  act,  who are being transported to a division facility or
  program, a court appearance or a home visit, where  travel  arrangements
  or the distance to be travelled requires such a holdover. No youth shall
  be  held  in these units in excess of twenty-four hours unless emergency
  conditions, including illness of the youth or  severe  weather,  prevent
  travel.
2.  Temporary  hold over units may be established on a regional basis.
  Contact between youth who are housed in a hold over unit  and  residents
  of  the  facility  shall be minimal.   Youth staying in a temporary hold
  over unit shall be under supervision at all times. At least one staff on
  duty shall be of the same gender as the youth.
3. The temporary hold over units  shall  contain  individual  sleeping
  rooms, dining facilities and an area for recreation.
4.  Juvenile  offenders committed to the custody of the division shall
  not be housed in temporary hold over units at any time.  Notwithstanding
  any  other  law,  the  division  shall  have  the authority to house any
  adjudicated youth placed with the division pursuant to article three  of
  the  family  court act, in a secure temporary hold over unit, subject to
  the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 19-I - Waterfront Commission Act › Title 2 - Facilities › 504 - Division Facilities.

§ 504. Division  facilities.  1.  The  office  of  children and family
  services  shall  operate  and  maintain  secure,  limited   secure   and
  non-secure   facilities  for  the  care,  custody,  treatment,  housing,
  education, rehabilitation and guidance of youth placed with or committed
  to the office of children and family services.
2. Each separate  facility  may  bear  the  name,  designated  by  the
  division, of an individual known for outstanding service to youth.
3.  A  youth  attending  a local public school while in residence at a
  division facility shall be deemed a  resident  of  the  school  district
  where the youth's parent or guardian resides at the commencement of each
  school  year  for the purpose of determining which school district shall
  be responsible for the youth's tuition.
4. The division shall determine the particular  division  facility  or
  program  in  which  a child placed with the division shall be cared for,
  based upon an evaluation of such child. The  division  shall  also  have
  authority  to discharge or conditionally release children placed with it
  and to transfer such  children  from  a  limited  secure  or  non-secure
  facility  to  any  other limited secure or non-secure facility, when the
  interest of such children requires such action; provided  that  a  child
  transferred  to a non-secure facility from a limited secure facility may
  be returned to a limited secure facility upon  a  determination  by  the
  division  that,  for  any  reason,  care and treatment at the non-secure
  facility is no longer suitable.