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2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 240 - Additional Allowances.

§ 240. Additional   allowances.   No  allowance  or  compensation,  in
  addition to the salary or compensation prescribed by law  or  authorized
  by  this  chapter  or  otherwise by law, shall be paid to any officer or
  employee of the city or to any person paid out of the  city  funds,  nor
  shall any amount in excess of the sum payable under any contract be paid
  on account thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 241 - Books and Papers to Be Public Records.

§ 241. Books  and  papers  to be public records. All books, papers and
  documents  filed  with  or  constituting  a  part  of  the  records   or
  proceedings  of  any  officer, board or department of the city, shall be
  deemed to be public records and shall, during office hours, be  open  to
  public inspection.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 242 - Inhabitants Not Incompetent; Place of Trial of Actions and Proceedings.

§ 242. Inhabitants  not  incompetent;  place  of  trial of actions and
  proceedings.  Upon the trial of any issue  or  the  prosecution  of  any
  proceeding,  or  upon the taking or making of any inquisition, appraisal
  or award, or upon the judicial investigation of any facts  whatever,  to
  which  issue, proceedings, inquest, investigation or award the city is a
  party, or in which the city may, in any way, be  interested,  no  person
  shall  be  deemed incompetent as a judge, referee, commissioner, witness
  or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant, freeholder or taxpayer of
  the city. The place of trial of all actions and proceedings against  the
  city,  or any of its officers, boards or departments shall be the county
  in which the city is situated.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 243 - Witnesses Not to Be Excused From Testifying.

§ 243. Witnesses  not  to be excused from testifying.  In any criminal
  proceeding before a court or grand  jury  or  in  any  investigation  or
  inquiry  before  the common council, or any committee thereof, or before
  any officer conducting an investigation, touching the knowledge of  such
  witness  as  to  any offense committed in violation of the provisions of
  this chapter or ordinance of the city; the court or grand jury,  or  the
  common  council, committee or officer, may confer immunity in accordance
  with the provisions of section 50.20 or 190.40 of the criminal procedure
  law; provided, however, that no immunity shall be conferred except  upon
  twenty-four  hours  prior  written  notice  to  the appropriate district
  attorney having an official interest therein.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 244 - Liability of City in Certain Actions; Commencement of Actions.

§ 244. Liability  of city in certain actions; commencement of actions.
  No civil action shall be maintained against  the  city  for  damages  or
  injuries  to  person or property sustained in consequence of any street,
  highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out  of
  repair,  unsafe,  dangerous or obstructed unless it appears that written
  notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous, obstructed condition of such
  street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk  or  crosswalk  was  actually
  given  to the commissioner of public works, and that there was a failure
  or neglect within a reasonable time after the giving of such  notice  to
  repair,  or  remove the defect, danger or obstruction complained of, or,
  in the absence of such notice, unless it appears  that  such  defective,
  unsafe,  dangerous  or obstructed condition existed for so long a period
  that the same should have been discovered and remedied in  the  exercise
  of reasonable care and diligence. But no such action shall be maintained
  for damages or injuries to the person sustained solely in consequence of
  the  existence  of  snow  or ice upon any sidewalk, crosswalk or street,
  unless written notice thereof, relating to  the  particular  place,  was
  actually  given  to  the  commissioner  of  public works and there was a
  failure or neglect to cause such snow or ice to be removed, or the place
  otherwise made reasonably  safe  within  a  reasonable  time  after  the
  receipt  of  such notice. The city shall not be liable in a civil action
  for damages or injuries to persons or property or invasion  of  personal
  or  property rights, of any name or nature whatsoever, whether casual or
  continuing, arising at law or in equity, alleged to have been caused  or
  sustained,  in  whole or in part, by or because of any omission of duty,
  wrongful act, fault, neglect, misfeasance or negligence on the  part  of
  the  city,  or any of its agents, officers or employees, unless a notice
  of claim shall have been made and  served  in  compliance  with  section
  fifty-e of the general municipal law. Every action upon such claim shall
  be  commenced  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section fifty-i of the
  general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 245 - Definition of Words.

§ 245. Definition  of  words.  The word "his," as used in this chapter
  shall, in all proper cases, be held to include and be co-extensive  with
  the  words  "her," "it" and "their;" the word "person," shall be held to
  include  and  be  co-extensive  with  the  words  "persons,"  "company,"
  "joint-stock  association" and "corporation." The word "street" shall be
  held to include and be co-extensive with "roads," "avenues," "highways,"
  "alleys" and "squares;" the word "work" shall be held to include and  be
  co-extensive  with  "improvements"  and  "repairs;" the word "materials"
  shall  be  held  to  include  and  be  co-extensive   with   "supplies,"
  "stationery,"  "books," "furniture" and "repairs to furniture;" the word
  "tax" shall in all proper cases be held to include and  be  co-extensive
  with  "water  rents  or  rates," "assessments or reassessments for local
  improvements," and the singular noun shall be held  to  include  and  be
  co-extensive with the plural.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 17 - Construction; Saving Clause; Repeal › 250 - Construction.

§ 250. Construction.  The  provisions  of  this chapter have reference
  only to a city of the second class. This chapter is intended to  be  and
  shall  be deemed and held in all courts and jurisdictions to be a public
  act of which the courts shall take judicial notice. This  chapter  shall
  be  construed not as an act in derogation of the powers of the state but
  as one intended to aid the state in the execution  of  its  duties,  and
  shall  be liberally construed so as to carry into effect the objects and
  purposes thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 17 - Construction; Saving Clause; Repeal › 251 - Saving Clause.

§ 251. Saving  clause.    Nothing  contained  in this chapter shall be
  construed to repeal any statute of the state or ordinance of the city or
  rule or regulation of the board of health,  not  inconsistent  with  the
  provisions  of this chapter, and the same shall remain in full force and
  effect, when not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, to be
  construed and operated in harmony with its provisions. The powers  which
  are  conferred  and  the  duties  which  are imposed upon any officer or
  department of the city under any statute  of  the  state,  or  any  city
  ordinance  which  is  in  force at the time of the taking effect of this
  chapter shall, if  such  office  or  department  be  abolished  by  this
  chapter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board or
  department  upon whom is imposed corresponding or like functions, powers
  and duties under the provisions of this chapter. Where any contract  has
  been  entered into by the city prior to the time of the taking effect of
  this chapter, or any bond or undertaking has been given to or  in  favor
  of  the city, which contains provisions that the same may be enforced by
  some officer, board or department therein named, but by  the  provisions
  of  this  chapter  such  office,  board or department is abolished, such
  contracts, bonds and undertakings shall not in any manner  be  impaired,
  but  shall  continue  in  full  force,  and the powers conferred and the
  duties imposed with reference to the same upon  the  officer,  board  or
  department  which  has been abolished, shall thereafter be exercised and
  discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom is conferred or
  imposed like powers, functions or duties under the  provisions  of  this
  chapter.  The  park  commission,  in  any  city,  which at the time this
  chapter takes effect, has jurisdiction of its park system, is  continued
  in  office  notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, with all the
  powers and subject to all the duties, conferred and  imposed  upon  such
  commission by law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 17 - Construction; Saving Clause; Repeal › 252 - Laws Repealed.

§ 252. Laws repealed.  The following acts and parts of acts are hereby
  repealed:
1.  Of  the  laws  enumerated  in  the  schedule annexed, that portion
  thereof specified in the last column.
2. All acts or parts of acts and ordinances of the city, in so far  as
  inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall be deemed to repeal or in any
  wise  affect  the validity of the provisions of chapter five hundred and
  sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred and two; chapter three hundred and
  seventy-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and  three;  chapters  one
  hundred  and  seventeen,  three hundred and ninety-four and five hundred
  and fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and three; chapter three
  hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred  and  four;  chapters
  one  hundred  and  eighteen, one hundred and ninety-one, two hundred and
  twenty-three, five hundred and forty, five hundred and  forty-one,  five
  hundred  and  forty-three,  six  hundred and forty-five, six hundred and
  seventy-six and six hundred and  eighty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen
  hundred  and  five;  but  all  of such acts are hereby continued in full
  force and effect.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 12 - Deputy Commissioners.

§  12.    Deputy  commissioners.    The Commissioner shall appoint and
  remove at pleasure a first deputy commissioner, and  such  other  deputy
  commissioners as he shall deem necessary for the proper organization and
  general classification of the work of the department, each of whom shall
  be in the exempt class of the civil service.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 14 - Employees; Compensation.

§  14.    Employees;  compensation.   In addition to his deputies, the
  commissioner may appoint and remove from time  to  time,  in  accordance
  with law and any applicable rules of the state civil service commission,
  such employees as he may deem necessary for the efficient administration
  of  the  department.    The  compensation  of employees appointed by the
  commissioner pursuant to this section shall  be  determined  by  him  in
  accordance with law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 20-A - Local Personnel; Limitations on Department's Power.

§   20-a.     Local  personnel;  limitations  on  department's  power.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter,  the  board,
  the  commissioner  or  the department, acting singly or in unison, shall
  not have the power, directly or indirectly to prescribe  the  number  of
  persons  to  be  employed  in any social services district providing the
  district complies with the minimum federal standards relating thereto.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 20-B - Plan for In-Home Care of Senior Citizens.

§  20-b.   Plan for in-home care of senior citizens.  On or before the
  first day of April, nineteen  hundred  eighty-two  the  New  York  state
  council for home care services, in consultation with the commissioner of
  social  services  and  the  office  for  the aging, shall prepare a plan
  designed to ease the burden  of  families  providing  care  for  elderly
  parents  in  the  home  of  the  parents or the homes of their families.
  Recommendations are to be made  concerning,  but  not  limited  to,  tax
  exemptions and increased availability of supportive services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 20-D - Training of Direct Care Workers in Adverse Childhood Experiences.

§   20-d.  Training  of  direct  care  workers  in  adverse  childhood
experiences. 1. As used in this section:
(a) "Direct-care employees" means the employees of  domestic  violence
shelters,  safe  dwellings, and domestic violence programs identified by
the certifying organization to receive training,  which  shall  include,
but  not be limited to, the directors and coordinators of such shelters,
dwellings, and programs, and any individual or  employee  performing  or
required to perform similar responsibilities.
(b)  "Certifying organization" means an organization designated by the
federal department of health and human services to coordinate  statewide
improvements  within  local  communities,  social  services systems, and
programming  regarding  the  prevention  and  intervention  of  domestic
violence in New York state.
(c)  "Adverse  childhood  experiences"  or  "ACEs"  means stressful or
traumatic experiences experienced during childhood, which  are  strongly
related  to  the  development  and  prevalence of a wide range of health
problems throughout a person's lifetime, including, but not  limited  to
physical  or  sexual  abuse; domestic violence; parental mental illness;
substance abuse; and incarceration.
2. The office of temporary and disability assistance and the office of
children and family services shall, within amounts appropriated for such
purpose, contract exclusively  with  an  entity,  or  with  entities  in
partnership,  to develop a training program for direct-care employees to
identify  individuals  who  have  experienced  ACEs,  develop  effective
strategies  for  assisting  and  interacting  with such individuals, and
locate programs and services to which such individuals with ACEs may  be
referred  to  help  build  the  individual's resilience. Such entity, or
entities   in   partnership,   shall   be   experienced   in   providing
trauma-informed,  victim-centered  training  on domestic violence, child
abuse, and ACEs. Such entity,  or  entities  in  partnership,  shall  be
responsible for providing such training to direct-care employees.
3.  All direct-care employees shall be required to participate in such
training program. Such training shall be provided at  no  cost  to  such
employees.
4. The office of temporary and disability assistance and the office of
children and family services shall, within amounts appropriated for such
purpose,   contract   with   a  certifying  organization  to  provide  a
certification of completion to each direct-care employee  who  satisfies
the requirements of such training program.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 28 - Gifts and Bequests.

§  28.  Gifts and bequests.  The department may receive and retain any
  money or other personal property given or bequeathed to  the  department
  or  a division or bureau thereof and shall expend the same in accordance
  with the general powers and duties of the department  for  the  purposes
  for which it is given or, if unaccompanied by conditions or limitations,
  for such purposes as it may determine.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 29 - Federal Agency.

§  29.    Federal  agency.    The department, with the approval of the
  governor, may accept a designation from, and act as, the  agent  of  the
  federal  security  agency or other duly authorized federal agency in the
  administration of relief and related  activities,  activities  affecting
  the  welfare  of  individuals  and  communities, and the disbursement or
  expenditure of federal funds or commodities in relation  thereto  within
  the state of New York.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 30 - Continuation of Salaries of Local and State Welfare Employees Receiving Training for the Better Performance of Their Duties.

§  30.   Continuation of salaries of local and state welfare employees
  receiving training for the better performance of their duties.   Subject
  to  the approval of the department, the board of supervisors of a county
  and the appropriating body  of  a  city  or  town  may  include  in  its
  appropriations  moneys  for  the  continuation  of the salaries of their
  local welfare employees who are on leave receiving  additional  training
  for  the  better  performance  of  their  duties,  provided that no such
  salaries shall be so continued to a greater extent than  will  reimburse
  such employee for the loss of earnings while on such leave.  Salaries of
  the employees of the department may be continued in a similar fashion.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 31 - Fellowships and Scholarships for Local and State Public Welfare Employees.

§ 31.  Fellowships and scholarships for local and state public welfare
  employees.   The department, under regulations which it shall prescribe,
  and from moneys received or appropriated for such purpose, is authorized
  to grant fellowships and scholarships to local and state public  welfare
  employees  to  enable them to receive additional training for the better
  performance of their duties.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 32 - Reciprocal Agreements.

§  32.   Reciprocal agreements.  The department is authorized to enter
  into reciprocal agreements with corresponding state  agencies  of  other
  states  regarding  interstate  transportation  of dependent and indigent
  persons, and to arrange with the propert officials in this state for the
  acceptance, transfer and support of persons receiving public  assistance
  and care in other states in accordance with the terms of such reciprocal
  agreements,  but  this  state  shall  not  nor shall any county or other
  political subdivision of this state  be  committed  to  the  support  of
  persons  who  are  not,  in  the  opinion of the department, entitled to
  public support by the laws of this state.  No agreement made pursuant to
  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  become  effective  until  the
  attorney-general  has  approved  its form and sufficiency and determined
  its legal effect.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 33 - Contracts for Supplies and Commodities Needed in the Administration of Assistance.

§   33.    Contracts  for  supplies  and  commodities  needed  in  the
administration of assistance.  The department may
(a)   make agreements for  supplies  and  commodities  needed  in  the
administration  of  assistance and care, under which local welfare units
may, subject to the approval of the department, purchase  such  supplies
and commodities; and
(b)  in accordance with requisitions duly approved by the commissioner
of general services, purchase as the agent of local welfare units and on
their  request,  supplies or commodities needed in the administration of
assistance and care and  make  payments  therefor  after  making  proper
deductions  from  state  reimbursements  due the local units which avail
themselves of the provisions of this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 35 - Legal Representation of Individuals Whose Federal Disability Benefits Have Been Denied or May Be Discontinued.

§  35.  Legal  representation  of individuals whose federal disability
  benefits have been denied or may be discontinued.  1.  The  commissioner
  shall  establish  criteria  for  selection of grant applications, review
  applications awarded pursuant to the provisions  of  this  section,  and
  exercise and perform such other functions as are related to the purposes
  of this section.
2. The commissioner shall make grants, within the amounts appropriated
  for  that  purpose,  to  not-for-profit  legal services corporations and
  not-for-profit agencies serving the disabled and local  social  services
  districts,  to  provide  for  representation  of  persons  whose federal
  disability benefits including supplemental security  income  and  social
  security  disability  insurance  have been denied or may be discontinued
  for  the  purpose  of  representing   these   persons   in   appropriate
  proceedings.  When  the  commissioner has contracted with a local social
  services district to provide such representation, the  legislative  body
  of  such  district may authorize and make provision for the commissioner
  of social services of the district to obtain necessary legal services on
  a fee for services basis or other appropriate basis which the department
  may approve. Such legal services may be provided by not-for-profit legal
  services corporations, not-for-profit agencies serving the  disabled  or
  private attorneys.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  submit  a  report to the chairman of the
  senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means
  committee on or before  the  first  day  of  October,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-eight  and biannually thereafter. Such a report shall include but
  not be limited to a review of the basis for selection  of  participating
  entities;  the  administrative method used to carry out the program; the
  number of cases appealed by district; the disposition of  such  appeals;
  an  identification  of the savings and costs of the program to the state
  and localities by district; an evaluation of  the  continuing  need  for
  legal  representation  provided  by  the program and recommendations for
  possible federal and state legislative and regulatory  actions  relating
  thereto.
4.   Responsibility   for   local  financial  participation  shall  be
  determined by the commissioner based on either costs of and  the  number
  of  district  residents  served  by each local entity or the alternative
  cost allocation procedure deemed appropriate by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 36 - Studies.

§  36.    Studies.    The  department  shall,  in  so far as available
appropriations will permit, study and collect information in relation to
(a)  the number and conditions of persons who lack or  are  threatened
with  the  deprivation  of  the  necessaries  of  life,  or seek, or are
receiving public assistance or care and all matters pertaining  thereto,
including  the  causes thereof and advise measures for their relief, and
also for the relief of those in receipt of aid from private charity;
(b)  unemployment, poverty, economic distress and  other  problems  of
social welfare generally as may be useful in the discharge of its duties
or contribute to the promotion of social and economic security;
(c)    the  number  of  recipients  of  aid  in,  and the receipts and
expenditures of, each public welfare district;
(d)  dependency and local conditions relative thereto;
(e)  such other matters in respect to public and private charities  as
it may deem advisable;
and  shall  publish  such  information as it deems of public concern and
which may be of value in the performance of its duties.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 36-A - Department Research and Demonstration Projects.

§  36-a.  Department  research  and  demonstration  projects.  1.  The
  department is authorized to sponsor, conduct and participate in research
  and demonstration projects  designed  to  ascertain  and  eliminate  the
  causes of dependency and to rehabilitate recipients of public assistance
  and   care  or  to  demonstrate  the  utilization  of  research  in  the
  administration of public assistance and care.
2. Except where a specific appropriation has been  made  therefor,  no
  such  research  or  demonstration  project  requiring the expenditure of
  state funds shall be instituted without prior approval of  the  director
  of the budget.
3.  The  department  may request the cooperation of any county or city
  social services  district  in  connection  with  any  such  research  or
  demonstration project sponsored or conducted by the department.
* 4.  The  commissioner  shall seek any federal waiver or waivers from
  the United States department of agriculture that  may  be  necessary  to
  exclude  income provided to an individual as part of their participation
  in a pilot program authorized under section one hundred thirty-one-a  of
  this  chapter  for supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility
  determination purposes.
* NB Repealed March 23, 2029
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 37 - Reports of and to Department.

§  37.  Reports of and to department.  The department may collect and,
  so far as it shall deem  advantageous,  embody  in  its  annual  reports
  information  relating  to  the  best  manner  of  dealing with those who
  require assistance from public funds, or who receive  aid  from  private
  charity  and  represent  its  views as to the best methods of caring for
  dependent children and such other matters as the commissioner  may  deem
  advisable.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2 - Department and State Board of Social Welfare › 38 - Commission for the Blind.

§  38. Commission for the blind. The New York state commission for the
  blind shall continue to exercise and perform its duties,  as  prescribed
  by  law,  and  the  regulations  of  the  office  of children and family
  services subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner; and
  such commission shall be a bureau of the office of children  and  family
  services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 1 - Homeless Housing and Assistance Program › 41 - Legislative Findings and Purpose.

§  41.  Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature hereby finds
  that large numbers of people in communities across our state are  unable
  to  secure  housing  for  themselves and are living in the streets or in
  emergency shelters,  despite  current  efforts  by  public  and  private
  agencies to provide adequate housing for those in need; that the present
  condition  is  contrary to the public interest and threatens the health,
  safety, welfare, comfort and security of the people of the  state;  that
  communities  across  the  state  must  each do their share to assist the
  homeless; and that the public interest  requires  that  state  financial
  assistance  be  provided  to construct or rehabilitate housing units for
  the homeless in communities throughout New York  state  and  to  explore
  alternative  means  of meeting their long-term housing needs, consistent
  with the fiscal constraints faced by New York  state.  The  legislature,
  therefore,  finds  that  a  special  fund should be established, to fund
  capital programs sponsored by  not-for-profit  corporations,  charitable
  organizations,  wholly owned subsidiaries of not-for-profit corporations
  or of charitable organizations, public corporations  and  municipalities
  that  will  expand  and  improve the supply of shelter and other housing
  arrangements for homeless persons.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 1 - Homeless Housing and Assistance Program › 42 - Definitions.

§  42. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have  the  following  meanings  unless  the  context  clearly   requires
  otherwise:
1. "Homeless project" shall mean a specific facility, including lands,
  buildings   and   improvements   acquired,   constructed,  renovated  or
  rehabilitated and operated by a not-for-profit  corporation,  charitable
  organization, wholly owned subsidiary of a not-for-profit corporation or
  of  a  charitable  organization, public corporation or a municipality to
  increase the availability of housing for  homeless  persons,  which  may
  include  other  non-housing  services such as but not limited to dining,
  recreational, sanitary, social, medical and mental  health  services  as
  may be deemed by the commissioner to be essential to such a project.
2.  "Homeless  person" shall mean an undomiciled person  who is unable
  to secure permanent and stable housing without  special  assistance,  as
  determined by the commissioner.
3.  "Project  cost"  shall  mean  the  cost of any or all undertakings
  necessary  for  planning,  financing,  land   acquisition,   demolition,
  construction, rehabilitation, equipment and site development.
4.  "Not-for-profit  corporation"  and "charitable organization" shall
  mean entities established pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law
  or otherwise established pursuant to law.
5. "Public corporation" shall mean a municipal corporation, a district
  corporation, or a public benefit corporation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45 - Definitions.

§  45.  Definitions.  As used in this title, the following terms shall
have  the  following  meanings  unless  the  context  clearly   requires
otherwise:
1. "Eligible cost" shall mean the cost to deliver one or more services
to  eligible  residents  to assist such residents to live independently,
including information  and  referral,  resident  services  coordination,
crisis  intervention,  and  other like services. Eligible cost shall not
include: those  costs  associated  with  maintenance  and  operation  of
physical   plant;  those  costs  associated  with  support  services  or
maintenance provided or financially assisted by other state or municipal
programs; or those costs associated with support  services  provided  in
residential care programs licensed by a state department or agency. When
two  or  more  eligible  projects  exist  in  the  same geographic area,
services shall be  provided  in  common  among  such  projects  whenever
feasible.
2.  "Eligible  applicant"  shall  mean a not-for-profit corporation or
charitable organization  which  operates  single  room  occupancy  units
qualifying as an eligible project.
3.  "Eligible  resident" shall mean a person residing in a single room
occupancy unit who is in need of services to live independently. In  the
event that the income of such resident exceeds one hundred fifty percent
of  the  poverty level, the eligible project may charge a service fee to
the eligible resident not to exceed fifty percent of the total  cost  of
services  provided pursuant to this title in such project divided by the
number of eligible residents in the project.
4. "Eligible project" shall mean those  single  room  occupancy  units
occupied  by  eligible  residents,  within a building or portion thereof
which is operated by an eligible applicant.
5. "Single room occupancy unit" shall mean a  private  room  providing
living  and  sleeping  space for no more than two persons with access to
bathing and toilet facilities, within  a  building  or  portion  thereof
which  is  operated by an eligible applicant; provided, however, that in
no event shall such unit be located in:
(a) hotels, motels or other dwellings occupied transiently;
(b) shelters for families or adults, as defined by the commissioner;
(c) residential facilities or institutions which are  required  to  be
licensed by any state agency;
(d) college or school dormitories;
(e) clubhouses;
(f) housing intended for use primarily or exclusively by the employees
of a single company or institution; or
(g) convents or monasteries.
The unit itself may contain a kitchen and/or a bathroom.
6.  "In-kind expenditures" shall mean the cash value of eligible costs
that are not reimbursed under this title and  may  include  but  not  be
limited to materials, equipment, space or paid or volunteer staff.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-A - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program.

§  45-a.    Single  room occupancy support services program.  There is
  hereby established under the administration of the commissioner a single
  room  occupancy  support  services   program,   to   provide   financial
  assistance, subject to limitations stated in appropriations therefor, in
  the  form  of  grants,  to  eligible  applicants  for  eligible costs of
  services to assist eligible residents of single room occupancy units  to
  live  independently.    The commissioner, subject to the approval of the
  director of the budget and within amounts appropriated  therefor,  shall
  request  proposals  from  local  social  services districts for funds to
  support grants made pursuant to this title.  Copies of such requests for
  proposals shall be simultaneously  distributed  to  eligible  applicants
  known  to  the commissioner and the availability of such proposals shall
  be publicized by the department. Local social services districts will be
  chosen competitively based upon such proposals for funding. Criteria  to
  be  used  by  the  commissioner  in  awarding funding among local social
  services districts shall include but not be limited to  the  anticipated
  need  for  single room occupancy units within each district; the ability
  of the local social services district to properly supervise  the  single
  room  occupancy support services program; and the appropriateness of the
  support services for the population to be served.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-B - Notice of Funding Availability; Contracts.

§  45-b.  Notice  of  funding  availability; contracts. A local social
  services district that receives funding pursuant  to  this  title  shall
  issue  notices  of  funding availability together with application forms
  for financial assistance under this title, provided that  such  notices,
  application  forms  and  competitive  award  procedures  are approved in
  advance by the department. When  such  applications  are  approved,  the
  local  social  services  official  is authorized to enter into contracts
  with eligible applicants to provide financial assistance in the form  of
  grants for eligible costs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-C - Direct Application by Eligible Applicants.

§  45-c.  Direct application by eligible applicants. Upon receipt of a
  copy  of  the  request  for  proposals  issued   pursuant   to   section
  forty-five-a  of  this title, an eligible applicant may notify the local
  social services district in which its eligible project is located of its
  desire to participate in the  single  room  occupancy  support  services
  program.  In  the event that the local social services district does not
  submit a proposal pursuant to section forty-five-a of this  title,  such
  eligible  applicant that has notified the local social services district
  of its desire to participate may submit an application directly  to  the
  commissioner  for  financial assistance under this title. Criteria to be
  used by the commissioner in awarding funding directly to  such  eligible
  applicants  shall include but not be limited to the anticipated need for
  single room occupancy units  within  the  district  where  the  eligible
  project  is located, and the appropriateness of the support services for
  the population to be served. Before directly  awarding  any  funding  to
  eligible  applicants,  the  commissioner  shall  consult  with the local
  social services district where the eligible project is located regarding
  the need for single room  occupancy  units  within  such  district,  the
  ability  of  the  eligible  project  to  provide  single  room occupancy
  services and any  other  factors  which  are  necessary  to  effectively
  evaluate direct application by eligible projects. When such applications
  are  approved,  the  commissioner, within the amounts appropriated under
  this title, and subject to the limitations set forth in this section and
  section  forty-five-d  of  this  title,  is  authorized  to  enter  into
  contracts  with  eligible applicants, to provide financial assistance in
  the form of grants for eligible costs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-D - Operating Plans.

§ 45-d. Operating plans. 1. Contracts with not-for-profit corporations
and  charitable  organizations  shall be approved by the social services
district, or the commissioner in the case  of  direct  applications,  in
accordance with an operational plan submitted pursuant to the provisions
of subdivision two of this section.
2.  The  social  services district, or the commissioner in the case of
direct applications, shall require  that,  in  order  to  receive  funds
pursuant  to  this  title,  the not-for-profit corporation or charitable
organization must submit an operating plan. Preference shall be given to
plans which demonstrate that existing state, federal, local and  private
dollars  will  be  utilized  to  the fullest extent possible to fund the
service costs of the project.  Such  plans  shall  include  but  not  be
limited to:
(a)  the  manner in which the capital expenses of the project shall be
met;
(b) the services that  will  be  provided  to  the  residents  of  the
project;
(c) the specific population that will be served by the project and how
the project will address the population's special needs;
(d)  a  description  of  the  manner  in which coordination with other
federal, state, local and private funding sources shall be achieved;
(e) the cost per month per eligible resident of  the  services  to  be
provided; and
(f)  evidence  demonstrating that such project complies or will comply
with existing local, state and federal laws and regulations.
3. Prior to entering into a  contract  pursuant  to  this  title,  the
social  services  district,  or  the  commissioner in the case of direct
applications, shall determine that  the  not-for-profit  corporation  or
charitable organization submitting such plan is a bona fide organization
which shall have demonstrated by its past and current activities that it
has  the  ability  to maintain, manage or operate such project, that the
organization is financially responsible, that the  proposed  project  is
financially  viable  and  that  the  project  has  been determined to be
appropriate for the needs of the homeless in the relevant community.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-E - Reimbursement.

§ 45-e. Reimbursement. Expenditures made by a social services district
for  grants made pursuant to this title shall be reimbursed by the state
at the rate of fifty per centum, after  first  deducting  therefrom  any
federal  funds  properly  received or to be received on account thereof;
provided,  however,  that  in  lieu  of  local  financial  participation
required  by this section, the commissioner may permit a social services
district to  substitute  actual  or  in-kind  expenditures  incurred  by
eligible  applicants  in  the  operation  of  eligible  projects  if the
commissioner determines that:
(a)  local  social  services  district  financial   participation   is
unavailable  in  all  or  a  portion  of such expenditures although such
district  financial participation in the single room  occupancy  support
services  program  equals or exceeds such financial participation in the
previous program year; and
(b) such eligible projects require  financial  assistance  under  this
title to ensure the financial viability of supportive services programs.
Actual or in-kind expenditures made by an eligible applicant receiving
assistance  pursuant  to  section  forty-five-c  of  this title shall be
reimbursed by the state at the rate of  fifty  per  centum  after  first
deducting  therefrom  any  federal  funds  properly  received  or  to be
received on account thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-F - Administration.

§ 45-f. Administration. 1. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and
  regulations  for  the  administration  of  this  title.  Such  rules and
  regulations shall include but not be limited  to  provisions  concerning
  eligibility  of not-for-profit corporations and charitable organizations
  for single room occupancy support project assistance,  funding  criteria
  and the funding determination process, supervision and evaluation of the
  contracting   corporations  and  organizations  and  any  other  matters
  consistent with the purposes of this title.
2. The social services district, or the commissioner in  the  case  of
  direct   applications,   shall  provide  for  the  review,  at  periodic
  intervals, of the performance of  the  not-for-profit  corporations  and
  charitable organizations receiving financial assistance pursuant to this
  title.  Such  review  shall,  among  other things, be for the purpose of
  ascertaining  conformity  to  contractual  provisions,   the   financial
  integrity  and efficiency of the organizations and the evaluation of the
  project. Contracts entered into pursuant to this title may be terminated
  by the social services district, or the  commissioner  in  the  case  of
  direct  applications,  upon  a  finding of substantial nonperformance or
  other breach by the corporation or organization of its obligations under
  its contract.
3. In order to further the purposes of this article,  social  services
  districts  shall,  in  accordance  with  regulations  promulgated by the
  department, undertake such efforts as may be necessary  and  practicable
  to  assist  eligible  residents  to  apply  for  and  obtain appropriate
  governmental assistance.
4. The department, subject to the approval  of  the  director  of  the
  budget,  may  retain up to five percent of the total amount appropriated
  pursuant to this title in any fiscal year for administrative purposes.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 2 - Single Room Occupancy Support Services Program › 45-G - Annual Report.

§  45-g.  Annual  report.  Beginning  October  first, nineteen hundred
  eighty-eight, and each year thereafter, the commissioner shall report to
  the governor and legislature on the success of the single room occupancy
  support  services  program  in  assisting  eligible  residents  to  live
  independently.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 4 - Homelessness Intervention Program › 48 - Legislative Intent.

§  48.  Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  finds that there are a
  significant  number  of  homeless  and  at-risk  households  living   in
  temporary and unstable conditions which would benefit from the provision
  of  a  comprehensive  assistance  program. The legislature further finds
  that the current system of providing services to such  households  would
  be  improved  by ensuring that a broad range of flexible, individualized
  assistance is available to  stabilize  households  and  to  better  meet
  divergent  local  needs.  The  legislature,  therefore, finds that state
  financial assistance  should  be  made  available  for  the  purpose  of
  providing  supportive  services  designed  to  stabilize  households  by
  attempting to avoid  homelessness  and,  for  those  who  are  currently
  homeless,  by facilitating the transition form homelessness to permanent
  housing.