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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-E - Institution Continued; Powers.

§  472-e.    Institution continued; powers.   The body corporate known
  prior to August twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and  ninety-six,  by  the
  name  of  the  "Burnham Industrial Farm," the name of which was, on that
  day, changed to  "Berkshire  Industrial  Farm,"  which  corporation  was
  continued  by  the  former  provisions  of  this  section, taking effect
  February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and  nine,  under  the  name  and
  style  of  "Burnham  Industrial  Farm,"  and thereafter continued as the
  "Berkshire Industrial Farm" by section  three  of  chapter  six  hundred
  nineteen  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  forty until March first,
  nineteen hundred fifty-nine, when its name  was  changed  to  "Berkshire
  Farm  for  Boys"  by chapter thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred
  fifty-nine and thereafter continued as the "Berkshire Farm for Boys," is
  hereby changed and shall be known as "Berkshire Farm Center and Services
  for Youth", and by the latter name shall have power  to  take  by  gift,
  lease,  purchase,  devise or bequest real and personal property and hold
  the same for the proper uses and purposes of said corporation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-F - Objects of Corporation.

§  472-f.    Objects of corporation.   The objects of this corporation
  shall be to receive and take charge of such children as may legally come
  into its custody and care, and to provide for their  support,  education
  and training.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-G - Board of Directors.

§  472-g.    Board  of  directors.    The property and concerns of the
  corporation shall be managed by a board of not over twenty-five and  not
  less  than ten directors, who shall receive no compensation.  The number
  of directors to be chosen within the maximum and minimum limit shall  be
  determined  in  the  manner prescribed by the by-laws.  At least four in
  number of the directors shall be elected annually on the  first  day  of
  May  of each year, but they shall hold office until their successors are
  elected.  The board of directors in  office  on  April  first,  nineteen
  hundred  forty-nine,  is  continued in office until their successors are
  chosen.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-H - Election of Directors.

§ 472-h.  Election of directors.  On the first day of May in each year
  at  least  four  in number of the board of directors shall be elected by
  the corporation in such manner and place as the  by-laws  shall  direct,
  but  if  no election is held on any such day the election may be held on
  any subsequent day, and any vacancies occurring otherwise  than  by  the
  expiration  of a regular term may be filled for the balance of such term
  in accordance with the by-laws of this corporation and by the votes of a
  majority of the directors then in office.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-I - Quorum to Do Business.

§ 472-i.  Quorum to do business.  Five members of the board shall be a
  quorum  provided  however  in  the  case where the then current board of
  directors is more than fifteen members then six  members  of  the  board
  shall  be  a  quorum,  and the board may delegate its powers, during the
  interval between its meetings, to an  executive  committee  of  its  own
  members,  whose  minutes  shall  be kept as provided by the by-laws, and
  shall be reported for approval to all stated meetings of the board;  but
  no  purchase  or  conveyance  of real estate shall be made unless by the
  concurrence of a majority of the whole board.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-J - Custody of Children, How Acquired; Notice to Corporation.

§  472-j.    Custody of children, how acquired; notice to corporation.
  The corporation shall be deemed to have acquired lawful care and custody
  of any child  between the ages of six and eighteen years who shall  have
  been  surrendered  to  it  by its parent or guardian; provided that such
  surrender is evidenced by a writing executed by such parent or  guardian
  setting  forth the name and age of the child, the date of surrender, and
  the term for which such surrender is made, and expressly vesting in  the
  corporation  all  the  powers  and  control over the child of which such
  parent or guardian was possessed; provided that no such surrender  shall
  be  made except upon five days' previous notice of the intention to make
  such surrender in writing, by the parent or guardian of the child to the
  said corporation or its agents.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-K - Placement of Children in Care of Corporation; Effect of Placement.

§  472-k.    Placement  of  children in care of corporation; effect of
  placement.  The family court may commit or place  in  said  corporation,
  with its consent, any child adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent or a
  person  in  need  of supervision.   Such commitment or placement in said
  corporation shall be to the custody and control thereof for  the  period
  provided in the order of commitment or placement.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-L - Transfer of Certain Children by Agencies.

§  472-l.  Transfer  of  certain  children  by agencies. The corporate
  authorities of any agency now or hereafter having the lawful custody and
  care of any child not less than six years of age, and not awaiting trial
  nor under sentence for a term of years for crime, may, with the  consent
  of  said  corporation, transfer and assign such custody and care to this
  corporation upon such terms as the directors  of  such  institution  and
  said corporation may agree.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-M - Power of Corporation as to Children in Its Care; Corporation to Act as Guardian.

§ 472-m.  Power of corporation as to children in its care; corporation
  to  act as guardian. Said corporation shall have the custody and control
  of all children surrendered, committed,  placed  or  transferred  to  it
  under sections four hundred seventy-two-j to four hundred seventy-two-l,
  and  shall  have  authority  by  its  officers or agents to restrain and
  direct them, to assign them to suitable employments, to determine  their
  hours of labor, study and rest, to care for their sustenance and health,
  and  to instruct them in useful knowledge; and shall have power to place
  such children in suitable homes where they may be adopted into  families
  or  taken  on  trial or for a limited time, or to place such children in
  group homes or group residences operated by the corporation or by  other
  agencies;  or, in its discretion, to return them to their former home or
  their parents or guardians under the supervision  and  guidance  of  the
  corporation.    And  said corporation may, with the consent of any other
  agency authorized by law to take the custody and  control  of  children,
  transfer  to  such  other  agency  the  custody and control of any child
  whenever such transfer is deemed by said corporation to be necessary and
  proper for the welfare of such child or for the discipline or protection
  of other children  in its charge, provided that there be first  obtained
  from  a  judge  of  a  court  of  record    an order of approval of such
  transfer.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-N - Statements as to Age.

§ 472-n.  Statements as to age.  In all cases under this article where
  children  shall  come  under  the  care,  custody  or  control  of  said
  corporation, the age of such children shall, so far as said  corporation
  is concerned, be prima facie deemed and taken to be correct as stated in
  the  written  surrender  of  the  parent  or  guardian,  or the order of
  placement or commitment by  a  family  court,  or  in  the  transfer  or
  placement  by  any  agency  at  the  time  of  placement,  admission  or
  commitment.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-O - Reports.

§  472-o.  Reports.  The said corporation shall annually, on or before
  the fifteenth day of January, report to the legislature the  number  and
  names  of  the  children in its custody or under its guardianship, their
  age, residence,  occupation,  state  of  education,  together  with  the
  changes in these particulars during the preceding year; the receipts and
  expenditures  and  the  financial  condition  of the corporation, and an
  account of its general operations.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm › Title 2 - Berkshire Industrial Farm › 472-P - Property Exempt From Taxation.

§  472-p.   Property exempt from taxation.  So long as the property of
  said corporation shall  be  used  for  charitable  purposes  only,  such
  property, both real and personal, shall be exempt from taxation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 9-B - Adult Protective Services › Title 2 - Short-Term Involuntary Protective Services Orders › 473-B - Reporting of Endangered Adults; Persons in Need of Protective Services.

§ 473-b. Reporting of endangered adults; persons in need of protective
services.  Any  person who in good faith believes that a person eighteen
years of age or  older  may  be  an  endangered  adult  or  in  need  of
protective  or  other services, pursuant to this article, and who, based
on such belief either:
(a) reports or refers such person to the department,  office  for  the
aging,  or  any local social services district office or designated area
agency on aging, law enforcement agency, or any other person, agency  or
organization  that  such  person,  in  good  faith,  believes  will take
appropriate action; or
(b) testifies in any judicial  or  administrative  proceeding  arising
from  such  report  or  referral  shall  have  immunity  from  any civil
liability that might otherwise result by reason of  the  act  of  making
such report or referral or of giving of such testimony.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 474 - Reports to Supervisors of Appointments and Committals to Charitable Institutions.

§  474.    Reports  to  supervisors  of appointments and committals to
  charitable institutions. 1.   Every judge,  justice,  superintendent  or
  public welfare official or other person who is authorized by law to make
  appointments  or  commitments  to  any  state charitable institution, in
  which the board, instruction, care or clothing is a charge  against  any
  county,  town  or  city, shall make a written report to the clerk of the
  board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which  any  town
  is  situated,  or to the city clerk of any city, which is liable for any
  such board, instruction, care or clothing, within ten  days  after  such
  appointment  or  commitment,  and  shall  therein state, when known, the
  nationality, age, sex and residence  of  each  person  so  appointed  or
  committed and the length of time of such appointment or commitment.
2.    This  and  the two following sections shall apply to each of the
  asylums, reformatories, homes, retreats, penitentiaries, jails or  other
  institutions, except public homes, in each of the counties of this state
  except  the  county  of  Kings, in which the board, instruction, care or
  clothing of persons committed thereto is, or shall be, a charge  against
  any county or town therein.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 475 - Reports by Officers of Certain Institutions to Clerks of Supervisors and Cities.

§  475.    Reports  by  officers  of certain institutions to clerks of
  supervisors and cities.  1.    The  keeper,  superintendent,  secretary,
  director  or  other  proper officer of a state charitable institution to
  which  any  person  is  committed  or  appointed,  whose  board,   care,
  instruction,  tuition  or clothing shall be chargeable to any city, town
  or county, shall make a written report to the clerk of such city  or  to
  the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in
  which such town is situated, within ten days after receiving such person
  therein.
2.    Such  report  shall state when such person was received into the
  institution,  and,  when  known,  the  name,  age,   sex,   nationality,
  residence,  length of time of commitment or appointment, the name of the
  officer making the same, and the sum chargeable per week, month or  year
  for such person.
3.    If  any person so appointed or committed to any such institution
  shall die, be removed or discharged,  such  officers  shall  immediately
  report to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the
  county  in which such town is situated, or to the city clerk of the city
  from which such person was committed or  appointed,  the  date  of  such
  death, removal or discharge.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 476 - Verified Accounts Against Counties, Cities and Towns.

§  476.  Verified accounts against counties, cities and towns. 1.  The
  officers mentioned in the last section shall annually, on or before  the
  fifteenth  day  of  October,  present  to  the  clerk  of  the  board of
  supervisors of the county, or of  the  county  in  which  such  town  is
  situated,  or  to the city clerk of a city from which any such person is
  committed or appointed, a verified report and statement of  the  account
  of  such institution with such county, town or city, up to the first day
  of October, and in case of a claim for clothing, an  itemized  statement
  of  the  same; and if a part of the board, care, tuition or clothing has
  been paid by any person or persons, the account shall show what sum  has
  been  so paid; and the report shall show the name, age, sex, nationality
  and residence of each person mentioned in the account, the name  of  the
  officer  who made the appointment or commitment, and the date and length
  of the same, and the time to which the account has been  paid,  and  the
  amount  claimed  to  such  first day of October, the sum per week or per
  annum charged, and if no part of such account has been paid, the  report
  shall show such fact.
2.   Any officer who shall refuse or neglect to make such report shall
  not be entitled to receive any compensation or  pay  for  any  services,
  salary or otherwise, from any town, city or county affected thereby.
3.    The clerk of the board of supervisors who shall receive any such
  report or account shall file and  present  the  same  to  the  board  of
  supervisors of his county on the second day of the annual meeting of the
  board next after the receipt of the same.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 477 - Dutchess County.

§ 477. Dutchess county. 1. All mentally ill, developmentally disabled,
  blind  and  deaf  and  mute  persons,  the  expense of whose support and
  maintenance now is, or, under the laws of the state  of  New  York,  may
  become  a  charge  upon  the  city  of  Poughkeepsie,  or  the county of
  Dutchess, exclusive of said city, or both, and who  are  maintained,  or
  shall  be  maintained,  in  any  of the institutions of the state of New
  York, shall be supported by said county of Dutchess as one district.
2. All institutions in the state of  New  York  maintaining  any  such
  person  whose  support  is  properly  chargeable,  or  shall be properly
  chargeable, to said city or county, are hereby required to render to the
  county treasurer of said county  all  bills  for  the  support  of  such
  persons without any distinction between those persons from the different
  parts of said county.
3.  This  section  shall not be held to affect chapter two hundred and
  eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, an  act  for
  the better support of the poor in the city of Poughkeepsie, except as to
  the class of persons herein named.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 478 - Investigation of Complaints by Boards of Managers.

§  478.   Investigation of complaints by boards of managers.  Whenever
  the managers, directors or trustees of any  asylum,  hospital  or  other
  charitable institution, the managers, directors or trustees of which are
  appointed  by the governor and senate, or by the legislature, shall deem
  it necessary or proper to investigate and ascertain  the  truth  of  any
  charge  or  complaint  made  or circulated respecting the conduct of the
  superintendent,  assistants,  subordinate  officers  or   servants,   in
  whatever  capacity  or duty employed by or under the official control of
  any such managers, directors or trustees, it shall  be  lawful  for  the
  presiding  officer for the time being of any such managers, directors or
  trustees, to administer  oaths  to  all  witnesses  coming  before  them
  respectively  for  examination,  and to issue compulsory process for the
  attendance of any witness within the state whom  they  may  respectively
  desire  to  examine,  and for the production of all papers that any such
  witness may possess, or have in his power, touching the matter  of  such
  complaint or investigation; and wilful false swearing by any witness who
  may  be so examined is hereby declared to be perjury.  A subpoena issued
  under this section shall be regulated by  the  civil  practice  law  and
  rules.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 479 - Designation of Depository of Funds.

§  479.  Designation of depository of funds.  1.  It shall be the duty
  of the board of trustees or managers of each  charitable  or  benevolent
  institution  in  this  state,  supported  in  whole or in part by moneys
  received from the state, or by any county,  city  or  town  thereof,  to
  designate  by  resolution,  to  be entered upon their minutes, some duly
  incorporated national or state bank or trust company as  the  depository
  of the funds of such institution.
2.    After such designation, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of
  each such charitable or benevolent institution immediately to deposit in
  the bank or trust company so designated, in his name as treasurer of the
  institution, naming it, all funds of the institution which may come into
  his possession.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10 - General Provisions Applicable to Charitable Institutions › 480 - Labor of Children Not to Be Hired Out.

§ 480. Labor of children not to be hired out. It shall be unlawful for
  the  trustees  or  managers of any house of refuge, reformatory or other
  correctional institution, to contract, hire, or let by the day, week  or
  month,  or  any  longer  period,  the  services or labor of any child or
  children, now or hereafter committed to or  incarcerated  individual  of
  such institutions.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-A - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund Act › 481-A - Legislative Findings and Purpose.

§  481-a.  Legislative  findings  and  purpose.  For  the past decade,
  society has witnessed broad changes in family structure.  These  changes
  have  created  unique  stresses  on our children as well as on those who
  care for them. Among the most dire results of  family  stresses  is  the
  increasing  frequency  of child abuse and maltreatment, represented by a
  steady increase in reports of abuse and maltreatment  to  the  statewide
  central  register  of child abuse and maltreatment.  Additionally nearly
  one-fifth of homicides, and an even larger proportion of assaults  occur
  within  the  home  between  members  of families. Among the contributing
  causes of family violence are economic stress,  social  isolation,  drug
  and  alcohol  abuse,  parental  attitude  regarding discipline and child
  rearing, as well as acceptance  of  violence  as  a  way  of  life.  The
  reported  incidents  of both adult domestic violence and child abuse and
  maltreatment ( including intergenerational  family  violence)  represent
  only  a  portion  of  the total number of incidents in the pervasive and
  persistent problem of family violence. The development  and  support  of
  prevention  programs  for  child  abuse  and  maltreatment  and domestic
  violence (including intergenerational family violence) and  services  to
  victims  of  family  violence  is, therefore, of major importance to the
  state.
It is the intent of the legislature that the funds for the William  B.
  Hoyt  Memorial  children  and family trust fund shall be a new source of
  funding which shall increase the  funds  available  for  prevention  and
  treatment  services  to victims of family violence. The legislature does
  not intend that these funds be  used  as  a  substitute  for  any  funds
  currently  available  from  federal,  state  or  local  sources  for the
  provision of prevention or treatment services to these victims.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-A - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund Act › 481-D - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund Advisory Board.

§  481-d.  William  B.  Hoyt  Memorial  children and family trust fund
  advisory board. 1. There is hereby  established  in  the  department,  a
  William  B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund advisory board.
  The board shall meet regularly for the purpose of  advising  and  making
  recommendations  to  the  department  in  developing  program  standards
  relating  to   the   establishment   of   family   violence,   including
  intergenerational  family  violence,  prevention  and  service programs,
  developing requests for proposals and evaluating  the  effectiveness  of
  funded  programs. The members of the board shall receive no compensation
  for their services,  but  shall  be  reimbursed  for  their  actual  and
  necessary expenses incurred during the performance of their duties.
2.  The board shall consist of thirteen members to be appointed by the
  governor, two of whom shall be appointed upon the recommendation of  the
  speaker  of  the  assembly,  one  of  whom  shall  be appointed upon the
  recommendation of the minority leader of the assembly, two of whom shall
  be appointed upon the recommendation of the temporary president  of  the
  senate,  and  one  of whom shall be appointed upon the recommendation of
  the minority leader of  the  senate.  Members  of  the  board  shall  be
  appointed  for  a  term of three years. The governor shall designate one
  member to serve as chairman of the board. To the maximum extent possible
  members shall be chosen to represent  equally  those  knowledgeable  in,
  concerned  with  or  committed  to the field of domestic violence and/or
  child abuse. Members of the board may be chosen  from  groups  including
  but  not limited to: local social services districts; local youth boards
  or youth  bureaus;  child  abuse  and  neglect  task  forces;  statewide
  coalitions   against  domestic  violence;  alcoholism  services;  public
  agencies,  not-for-profit  corporations  and  educational   institutions
  concerned with or providing professional training in family violence and
  child  welfare  services; family violence self-help and advocacy groups;
  the legal, social work, mental health, medical, clergy, judicial and law
  enforcement professions; groups dealing  with  services  to  the  abused
  elderly;  other  professionals that provide family violence services and
  other concerned  individuals  or  organizations,  including  parents  or
  guardians  of  children  who  were  or are in receipt of services funded
  pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-A - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund Act › 481-F - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund.

§  481-f.  William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund. 1.
  There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller  and
  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and  finance  a  separate  and distinct
  account, to be known as the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family
  trust fund. Such account shall be classified by the  comptroller  as  an
  expendable  trust. Such account shall consist of any moneys appropriated
  to the department for the purposes of the programs  authorized  pursuant
  to  this  article  and  funds  from  any other source, including but not
  limited  to,  federal  funds,  donations   from   private   individuals,
  corporations or foundations, for the implementation of programs provided
  for  in this article. All funds received by the comptroller on behalf of
  the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family  trust  fund  shall  be
  deposited  by  the  comptroller  to  the  credit  of the William B. Hoyt
  Memorial children and family trust fund. Notwithstanding the  provisions
  of  this  subdivision,  funds  granted to the department pursuant to the
  federal child abuse prevention and treatment act shall not be  deposited
  to  the credit of the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust
  fund.
2. Donations from private individuals,  corporations,  or  foundations
  deposited  in  the  William B.   Hoyt Memorial children and family trust
  fund may be invested by the comptroller pursuant to  the  provisions  of
  section  ninety-eight-a  of  the state finance law. Any income from such
  investments shall be deposited to the credit  of  the  William  B.  Hoyt
  Memorial children and family trust fund.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-B - Statewide Settlement House Program › 482-A - Legislative Findings and Purpose.

§  482-a. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature finds that
  public policy experts and state and local agencies have  been  searching
  for  a  model  of  service  delivery  that  will insure programmatically
  effective and cost-efficient delivery of services to inner-city families
  and neighborhoods, and that the emerging  consensus  is  that  the  best
  models   provide   comprehensive,  coordinated,  neighborhood-based  and
  family-focused services. The legislature further  finds  that  New  York
  state's existing network of fifty-eight settlement houses can contribute
  to  providing  these  comprehensive, coordinated, neighborhood-based and
  family-focused  services  in  a  cost-effective  manner,  and  that  the
  capacity  of  these  settlement  houses  to  provide  and  enhance these
  services can be increased if the settlement  houses  are  provided  with
  additional  resources  to  implement  greater  neighborhood outreach, to
  direct individuals and family  members  to  appropriate  settlement  and
  community-based resources, to monitor the progress of these individuals,
  and  to  plan and coordinate intra-agency and community services so that
  community residents have easy access to a range of services that respond
  to the varied and often multiple needs of individuals and families.
It is the intent of the legislature to increase the funds available to
  settlement houses for the purpose of providing a comprehensive range  of
  services  to  the  residents  of  the neighborhoods they serve, and that
  funds  provided  pursuant  to  this  article  will  be  complemented  by
  privately-raised  contributions to the settlement-houses for the program
  services funded pursuant to  this  article.  The  legislature  does  not
  intend  that these funds be used as a substitute for any funds currently
  available from federal, state or local  sources  for  the  provision  of
  neighborhood-based  service  delivery  programs  provided  by settlement
  houses.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-B - Statewide Settlement House Program › 482-B - Definitions.

§ 482-b. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "Settlement house" means an independent, voluntary, not-for-profit
organization  demonstrating  affiliation  with  the   New   York   state
association  for  settlement  houses and neighborhood centers engaged in
community work and social services delivery in a defined neighborhood in
a municipality of the state of New York  which  provides  comprehensive,
coordinated,  family-focused  multi-generational  human services such as
child care, employment training, housing  assistance  counseling,  youth
development, educational services, senior services and arts and cultural
activities,  based  on  the  needs  of the neighborhood or neighborhoods
served and which:
(a) has been incorporated for at least three years;
(b) is qualified as a  tax-exempt  organization  pursuant  to  section
501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code;
(c)  provides  services  to  all those who live in the neighborhood or
neighborhoods served without regard to race, creed, religious  practice,
color,  sex,  age,  national  origin,  economic  status,  disability, or
affectional preference;
(d) has an independent, autonomous board of directors which  meets  at
regular  intervals,  has full authority over the policies and operations
of the organization, and the  membership  of  which  includes  community
residents;
(e)  employs appropriate staff including a position of chief executive
officer;
(f) has a budget which is adopted on an annual basis by the  board  of
directors,  utilizes  an accepted accounting system, and has prepared an
annual fiscal audit by a certified public accountant not connected  with
the organization; and
(g)   can  demonstrate  that  one  of  its  primary  purposes  is  the
improvement of the relationships among  groups  of  different  cultural,
economic,  religious,  and  social  groups  in  the  community through a
variety of individual, group, and inter-group activities.
2. "Program services" may include, but are not limited to, several  of
the following services:
(a)  early childhood services, including child care, child development
services, early child education and health information and referral  for
pre-school children;
(b)  youth  services,  including  teen centers and school-age programs
which  provide  recreation,   homework   assistance,   preparation   for
employment, counseling and meals;
(c)   education  programs,  including  remedial  education,  tutoring,
homework assistance and English language training;
(d) family programs, including home  management,  homemaker  services,
parenting  skills  training,  teen  parent  services  and  programs  for
seniors;
(e) child  welfare  services  including  foster  care  and  preventive
services;
(f)  employment programs, including summer youth employment apprentice
programs, job training programs, and displaced homemaker programs;
(g)  mental  health  services,  including  psychological  and,   where
appropriate, psychiatric group and individual evaluation and counseling;
(h) housing assistance.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-B - Statewide Settlement House Program › 482-C - Statewide Settlement House Program; Awarding of Grants.

§  482-c.  Statewide  settlement house program; awarding of grants. 1.
The commissioner is hereby authorized to issue grants for the purpose of
enhancing and coordinating activities and programs,  expanding  programs
to  serve  more  individuals and families, and/or promoting inter-agency
coordination   with   other    neighborhood    organizations    offering
complementary services.
2.  Funds  awarded  to settlement houses pursuant to the provisions of
subdivision one of this section shall be used to supplement and  not  to
supplant other federal, state or local funds.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  issue  requests  for applications to all
settlement  houses  and  shall  specify  that  applications  include   a
description  of  the nature of the services to be provided, a discussion
of the relatedness of the services to the purposes of a settlement house
as defined in section four hundred eighty-two-b of this article  and  an
estimate  of  the  number  and composition of clients to be served. Such
applications may include a discussion of plans  to  develop  or  enhance
outreach  services  to  individuals  and  families, institute or augment
assessments of individual and family needs, coordinate services, develop
links with neighborhood organizations, develop employment  inititatives,
mentoring   programs   and   other  cooperative  programs  with  unions,
neighborhood businesses and community corporations, and identify sources
of private funding. Such applications shall also include  at  least  the
following:
(a)  appropriate  accounting and fiscal control procedures that assure
that funds are expended in accordance with this article,  including  the
filing of an annual financial statement by each provider; and
(b)  appropriate  written  records regarding the number of individuals
and families served and the type and extent of services rendered by  the
settlement house.
4.  The  commissioner  shall  solicit  and select applications for the
provision of programs and services funded pursuant to this  article.  It
is  necessary  that settlement houses receiving funding pursuant to this
article demonstrate a plan to raise one dollar for each two  dollars  of
state  grants  received.    Subsequent  year  funding may be adjusted to
reflect prior years' experience.
5. The commissioner may issue a request for applications to the extent
funds are available on a multi-year basis.
6. The commissioner shall make grants of up to fifty thousand  dollars
to  settlement houses following approval of an acceptable plan submitted
pursuant to the request for applications so  long  as  there  are  funds
available.  The  commissioner  shall  notify  the  local social services
district of a grant award to a settlement house in that district.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-C - State Council on Children and Families › 483 - Council on Children and Families; Chair.

§  483.  Council  on children and families; chair. 1. There shall be a
  council on children  and  families  established  within  the  office  of
  children  and  family  services consisting of the following members: the
  state commissioner of children and family services, the commissioner  of
  temporary  and disability assistance, the commissioner of mental health,
  the  commissioner  of  the  office   for   people   with   developmental
  disabilities, the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance
  abuse  services,  the  commissioner  of  education,  the director of the
  office of probation and correctional alternatives, the  commissioner  of
  health,  the  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services,
  the state advocate for persons with disabilities, the  director  of  the
  office  for  the  aging, the commissioner of labor, and the chair of the
  commission on quality of care for the mentally  disabled.  The  governor
  shall designate the chair of the council and the chief executive officer
  (CEO).
2.  The  chair of the council in consultation with the commissioner of
  the office of children and family services, shall designate  staff  from
  the office of children and family services to work full time in carrying
  out the functions of the council.
3. The council may conduct its meetings and, by and through the chair,
  perform  its  powers and duties notwithstanding the absence of a quorum;
  provided, however that no action may be taken by the council without the
  concurrence of the chair.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-C - State Council on Children and Families › 483-A - Utilization of Other Agency Assistance.

§  483-a.  Utilization  of  other agency assistance. To effectuate the
  purposes of this  article,  any  department,  division,  board,  bureau,
  commission  or  agency  of  the  state  or  of any political subdivision
  thereof shall, at the request of the chair, provide to the council  such
  facilities,  assistance  and data as will enable the council properly to
  carry out its powers and duties and those of the chair.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-C - State Council on Children and Families › 483-F - The Children's Plan.

§  483-f.  The  children's  plan.  1.  The council, in accordance with
  section 7.43 of the mental hygiene law, shall assist the commissioner of
  mental health with the implementation of the children's plan,  developed
  pursuant  to chapter six hundred sixty-seven of the laws of two thousand
  six. State child-serving agencies involved in the  development  of  such
  plan  shall  assist, as needed, with such plan's implementation and such
  agencies shall sign off on all future reports and plans.  Such  agencies
  shall  include,  but not be limited to, the office of mental health, the
  office  for  people  with  developmental  disabilities,  the  office  of
  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse services, the commission on quality of
  care and advocacy for persons with disabilities, the office of  children
  and  family  services, the state education department, the department of
  health, and the department of probation and correctional alternatives.
2. The council shall, with the approval of the child-serving agencies,
  submit a report to the governor and to the  legislature,  on  or  before
  October first, two thousand ten, and every two years after such date, on
  the   progress   of   the   children's  plan,  including  the  outcomes,
  achievements and recommendations for revision of such plan. Such  report
  shall  also  be  made  a  discrete part of the office of mental health's
  statewide comprehensive five year plan consistent with the  requirements
  of subdivision (b) of section 5.07 of the mental hygiene law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-C - State Council on Children and Families › 483-H - Internet Mapping Resource of School Age Child Care Providers and Afterschool and Home Visiting Programs.

§  483-h. Internet mapping resource of school age child care providers
and  afterschool  and  home  visiting  programs.  1.  The  council,   in
accordance  with  information  made  available  to  it  by the office of
children and family services  pursuant  to  section  seventeen  of  this
chapter;  information  provided  to  the  council by the state education
department pursuant to section three hundred five of the education  law;
and information provided by the department of health pursuant to section
two  hundred  one  of  the  public  health  law,  shall develop and make
available through a link on its website an internet mapping resource of:
(a) all recipients of competitive grants awarded  or  administered  by
the  state office of children and family services or the state education
department  for  the  purpose  of  providing:  afterschool  programs  or
extended  learning  time,  including  but not limited to grants for such
purposes awarded under  section  thirty-six  hundred  forty-one  of  the
education law;
(b)  all  registered school age child care providers registered by the
office  of  children  and  family  services  except  for  those  who  in
accordance  with  subdivision eight-a of section three hundred ninety of
this chapter have opted out of providing information online; and
(c) all home visiting programs that meet the criteria as  required  by
section  four  hundred twenty-nine of this chapter regardless of whether
they have a contract with or  receive  funding  from  the  state,  which
provide  the  necessary information to the office of children and family
services required pursuant to subdivision (i) of  section  seventeen  of
this  chapter,  or the department of health as required by paragraph (w)
of subdivision one of section two hundred one of the public health law.
2.  The  internet  mapping  resource  shall  include   the   following
information  for  each  grant  recipient,  provider  or program: (a) the
recipient's, or provider's or program's name; (b), the address at  which
the  recipient,  provider  or program is offered except for those who in
accordance with subdivision eight-a of section three hundred  ninety  of
this  chapter  have  opted out of providing information online,; (c) the
phone number for the recipient, provider or program; and (d)  a  general
description   of   eligible  individuals  and  families  served  by  the
particular recipient, provider or program.
3. The internet mapping resource described in subdivision one of  this
section shall be updated no less than once a year.
4.  The  council  may include locations and information for additional
relevant programs as it sees fit.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-D - Services for Victims of Human Trafficking › 483-AA - Definitions.

§  483-aa.  Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this
article:
(a) "Human trafficking victim" means a person who is a victim  of  sex
trafficking as defined in section 230.34 of the penal law or a victim of
labor trafficking as defined in section 135.35 of the penal law.
(b)  "Pre-certified victim of human trafficking" is a person who has a
pending application for federal certification as a victim  of  a  severe
form of trafficking in persons as defined in section 7105 of title 22 of
the  United States Code (Trafficking Victims Protection) but has not yet
obtained such certification, or a person who has reported a crime to law
enforcement and it reasonably appears to law enforcement that the person
is such a victim.
(c) "Short-term safe house" means a residential facility operated by a
not-for-profit agency with experience in  providing  services  to  human
trafficking  victims, that provides emergency shelter, services and care
to human trafficking victims including food, shelter, clothing,  medical
care,  counseling  and  appropriate  crisis  intervention  services  and
promotes a safe living environment.
(d) "Long-term safe house" means a residential facility operated by  a
not-for-profit  agency  with  experience  in providing services to human
trafficking victims, that provides shelter for human trafficking victims
and promotes a safe living environment. In addition,  a  long-term  safe
house  shall provide or assist with securing necessary services for such
human trafficking victims either through direct provision  of  services,
or  through  written agreements with other community and public agencies
for the provision of services including  but  not  limited  to  housing,
assessment,  case  management,  medical  care,  legal, mental health and
substance use disorder services. Such safe house, in accordance  with  a
service  plan  for  such  human  trafficking  victim, shall also provide
counseling and therapeutic services, educational services including life
skills services, job training and placement  and  planning  services  to
successfully transition such person back into the community.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-D - Services for Victims of Human Trafficking › 483-DD - Law Enforcement Assistance With Respect to Immigration.

§ 483-dd. Law enforcement assistance with respect to immigration. Upon
  the request of a human trafficking victim or a representative of a human
  trafficking  victim,  the  state  or  local  law  enforcement  agency or
  district attorney's office shall provide  the  victim  with  the  United
  States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Form I-914 Supplement
  B  Declaration  of  Law Enforcement Officer for Victim of Trafficking in
  Persons. In order to provide persuasive evidence, the state or local law
  enforcement  agency  endorsement  must  contain  a  description  of  the
  victimization  upon  which the application is based, including the dates
  the trafficking  in  persons  occurred.  The  endorsement  must  address
  whether  the victim had been recruited, harbored, transported, provided,
  or obtained specifically for either labor servitude or services  or  for
  the  purposes of a commercial sex act as defined in subdivision three of
  section 7102 of title 22 of the United States Code.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-D - Services for Victims of Human Trafficking › 483-FF - National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline Poster.

§  483-ff.  National human trafficking resource center hotline poster.
(a) The commissioner of temporary and disability assistance  shall  make
publicly  available on its website an electronic version of the National
Human Trafficking Resources Center (NHTRC) hotline poster, or create and
make available a variation thereof.
(b) The poster shall:
(1) be available for printing, at a minimum, in English and all  other
languages that the NHTRC poster is available in;
(2)  be  at  least eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in size;
and
(3) if created by the commissioner, include the following statement:
"If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in any  activity
and  cannot  leave - whether it is commercial sex, housework, farm work,
or any other similar activity -  call  the  National  Human  Trafficking
Resource Center Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 to access help and services.
Victims of human trafficking are eligible for protections and services
under United States and New York state law.
The hotline is:
(1) Available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week;
(2) Toll free;
(3) Operated by a non-profit, non-governmental organization;
(4) Anonymous and confidential;
(5) Accessible in one hundred seventy languages; and
(6)  Able to provide help, referral to services, training, and general
information."
(c) The commissioner shall  consult  with  other  state  agencies  and
organizations  that  he  or she deems appropriate to encourage that such
posters are located in public places where trafficking  victims  may  be
present, including but not limited to: highway rest stops, bus stations,
truck  stops, airports, adult or sexually oriented businesses, hospitals
and  urgent  care  centers.  In  consulting  with  such   agencies   and
organizations,  the  commissioner  shall  advise  that posters should be
placed in conspicuous locations near primary public entrances  or  other
areas where posters and notices are customarily posted on the premises.