2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3 - County Public Welfare Districts › 73 - Power of the Board of Supervisors to Change the Administrative System of the County Social Services District.

§  73.  Power of the board of supervisors to change the administrative
system of the county social services district.  When pursuant to section
seventy-two, the board of supervisors has adopted a resolution directing
that the cost of all public assistance and care shall be a charge on the
county social services district:
1.  The county social services district shall, after the date fixed by
such resolution, be responsible for administration of public  assistance
and  care  in  all  of  the  towns  of  its  district and thereafter all
provisions of this chapter as to the powers and duties of towns  and  of
town social services officers shall be inoperative in such county social
services district.  The appointment of all town social services officers
and  employees  shall  terminate  on the date when such resolution takes
effect.
2.  (a)  Such resolution shall not take effect in a city in  a  county
social   services  district  unless  it  is  confirmed  by  act  of  the
legislative body of the city in accordance with the provisions  of  this
paragraph.    The  legislative  body  of  such  a  city  may confirm the
resolution of the board of supervisors (1) on or before the first day of
October in the year in which such resolution was adopted by the board of
supervisors, and make such confirmation effective on the  first  day  of
January next succeding such confirmation, provided the resolution of the
board  of  supervisors  takes  effect  in  the towns of the county on or
before such first day of January, or (2) at any other time or date,  and
make  such  confirmation effective on any date not earlier than the date
the resolution of the board of supervisors takes effect in the towns  of
the  county,  provided  the  board  of  supervisors  shall by resolution
specifically approve such confirmation.
(b)  On the day after a city confirms a resolution  of  the  board  of
supervisors pursuant to paragraph (a), the mayor or the city clerk shall
send  a written notice of such confirmation to the clerk of the board of
supervisors of the county.  He shall also send a copy of such notice  to
the  county  commissioner of social services and the county commissioner
shall thereupon notify the department.
(c)  If a city in the county social services  district  shall  confirm
the  resolution  of  the  board  of  supervisors  in accordance with the
provisions of paragraph (a), the county social services district  shall,
on  and after the effective date of such confirmation be responsible for
administration  of  public  assistance  and  care  in  such  city,   and
thereafter all provisions of this chapter as to the powers and duties of
a  city in a county social services district and of city social services
officers shall be inoperative in such city.
(d)  Unless and until a city in the county  social  services  district
shall  confirm  the resolution of the board of supervisors in accordance
with the provisions of paragraph (a), the responsibility  of  such  city
for  assistance  and care in its territory shall not be affected by such
resolution, and the city shall be governed by  the  provisions  of  this
chapter  and  other  laws relating to cities which form part of a county
social services district and to city social services officers;  and  the
city  shall continue to be responsible for the cost of public assistance
and care under the provisions of subdivision two of section  sixty-nine,
except as otherwise provided in title three-a of this article.  The cost
of  any  assistance and care given to local charges residing or found in
such city, paid  by  the  county  social  services  district  under  the
provisions of subdivision three of section sixty-nine, shall be a charge
on the county social services district.
3.  The board of supervisors shall make such additional appropriations
and  authorize  the  appointment of such number of deputy commissioners,
other assistants and employees as  it  may  deem  necessary  to  provide

adequate  administration of the public assistance and care for which the
county social services district is made responsible under the provisions
of this section.