2023 New York Laws › BNK - Banking › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions; Miscellaneous Provisions. › 4 - Information to Be Given to Social Services Officials, State Department of Social Services, State Department of Mental Hygiene, the Mental Hygiene Lega

§ 4.  Information  to  be  given  to  social services officials, state
  department of social services, state department of mental  hygiene,  the
  mental hygiene legal service, representatives of boards of child welfare
  and  children's  court  by  banking organizations. 1. If requested by an
  authorized representative of the state department of mental hygiene, the
  mental hygiene legal service, or  of  the  state  department  of  social
  services,  or  by the authorities charged with the duty of administering
  laws relating to public assistance or care or hospital  care  at  public
  expense  in  any  town,  city  or  county,  the officials of any banking
  organization shall furnish to such representative  such  information  as
  such  officials  have as to whether any inmate of any state institution,
  or any applicant for or any person who is or was a recipient of hospital
  care at public expense, or any applicant for or any person who is or was
  a recipient of any form of public assistance or care  under  the  social
  services  law,  named  in  such request or the husband or wife, or other
  relative legally responsible for the support of such inmate,  applicant,
  or  recipient  has or had funds, securities or other property on deposit
  or in the custody of  such  banking  organization,  and  the  amount  or
  probable value thereof.
2. If requested by an authorized representative of the state office of
  temporary and disability assistance, or a social services district child
  support  enforcement  unit  established  pursuant to section one hundred
  eleven-c of the social services law,  the  officials  of  any  financial
  institution,  as  defined in paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section
  four hundred sixty-nine A of the  federal  social  security  act,  shall
  enter  into  an  agreement  with  the  state  office  of  temporary  and
  disability assistance  or  a  social  services  district  child  support
  enforcement  unit  to  develop  and  operate  a data match system, using
  automated data exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in  which  each
  such  financial  institution shall provide for each calendar quarter the
  name,  record  address,  social  security  number  or   other   taxpayer
  identification  number,  and  other  identifying  information  for  each
  individual  who  maintains  a  demand  deposit  account,   checking   or
  negotiable  withdrawal  order  account,  savings  account,  time deposit
  account, or money-market mutual fund account at such institution and who
  owes past-due support, as identified by the state  office  of  temporary
  and  disability  assistance  or a social services district child support
  enforcement unit by name and social security number  or  other  taxpayer
  identification  number.  Nothing  herein  shall  be  deemed to limit the
  authority of a local social services district  support  collection  unit
  pursuant to section one hundred eleven-h of the social services law.
3.  No  financial  institution which discloses information pursuant to
  subdivision two of this section, or discloses any  financial  record  to
  the  state  office  of  temporary  and  disability assistance or a child
  support enforcement unit of a social services district for  the  purpose
  of  enforcing a child support obligation of such person, shall be liable
  under any law to any person for such disclosure, or for any other action
  taken in good faith to comply with subdivision two of this section.