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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 4 - Homelessness Intervention Program › 49 - Definitions.

§ 49. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
1.  "Homeless"  shall mean an undomiciled household which is unable to
secure permanent and habitable housing without  special  assistance,  as
determined  by the commissioner, including but not limited to households
temporarily residing in  emergency  shelters,  transitional  facilities,
hotels/motels, or substandard conditions.
2.  "Household"  shall  mean  a single individual or family, including
couples without dependent  children  who,  or  which,  are  eligible  to
receive public assistance.
3.  "Eligible applicant" shall mean local social services districts or
not-for-profit corporations serving homeless and at-risk households.
4. "At-risk" shall mean a household threatened with  homelessness  and
those with a history of frequent moves.
5.  "Homelessness intervention services" shall mean services which are
designed to  stabilize  at-risk  and  homeless  households  by  avoiding
homelessness  or  assisting households to secure permanent and habitable
housing. Such services may include, but  need  not  be  limited  to  the
following:
(a) services to resolve conflicts between landlords and tenants and to
facilitate fair and workable solutions;
(b)  legal  services  to  households threatened with the loss of their
homes through eviction, harassment or other means;
(c) tenant activities to educate households in  the  areas  of  tenant
rights  and  responsibilities, and to organize tenants to remedy housing
problems such as code violations, landlord abandonment and harassment;
(d) benefits/entitlements  advocacy  to  ensure  that  households  are
receiving  all  federal,  state  and  local  benefits  to which they are
entitled, such as temporary assistance to  needy  families,  safety  net
assistance,  food  stamps,  supplemental  security income, rent security
deposits, furniture and household moving expenses;
(e) relocation assistance which provides for the identification of and
referral to permanent and habitable  housing,  transportation  services,
landlord/tenant   lease   negotiation   services   and   assistance   in
establishing utility services; and
(f) the provision of or  referral  to  support  services  designed  to
stabilize  households  in  permanent  and  habitable  housing  including
services related to substance abuse,  domestic  violence,  housekeeping,
budgeting,  education,  day  care, employment, parenting, mental health,
physical health, and such other services deemed necessary by the  office
of  temporary  and  disability  assistance. Service provided to homeless
households pursuant to this paragraph must be provided for a  period  of
at  least  six months beginning the first day of the month following the
month in which such household secured permanent housing.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 4 - Homelessness Intervention Program › 50 - Homeless Intervention Contracts.

§  50.  Homeless  intervention  contracts.  1. The commissioner shall,
within the amounts appropriated therefor, select through  a  competitive
request-for-proposal   process,  local  social  services  districts  and
not-for-profit corporations serving homeless and at-risk  households  to
provide  homelessness  intervention  services  to  homeless  and at-risk
households. In order to ensure that contracts are awarded  and  services
provided  in  geographic  areas  of  the  state  to homeless and at risk
households in greatest need, and to maximize the effect of state  funds,
the  commissioner  shall,  prior  to  entering  into  a contract with an
eligible applicant pursuant to this  section,  consider  the  extent  to
which  existing  homelessness intervention services are available in the
local social services district and the extent to  which  these  services
should be expanded.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  require  eligible  applicants  to submit
operating plans in order to receive funding pursuant  to  this  article.
Such plans shall include:
(a)  a  description  of  the  homeless  intervention  services  to  be
provided, including  procedures  for  intake,  referral,  outreach,  the
provision of services, follow-up and anticipated outcomes;
(b)  the  specific population that will be served and how the services
provided will address the population's special needs;
(c) a description of the  manner  in  which  coordination  with  other
federal,  state,  local  and privately funded services will be achieved;
and
(d) a description of how the  services  will  be  designed  to  assist
households  transition from a reliance on outside interventions and move
toward housing stability and economic self reliance.
3. Prior to entering into a contract pursuant  to  this  section,  the
commissioner  shall determine that the eligible applicant is a bona fide
organization which shall have  demonstrated  by  its  past  and  current
activities  that  it  has the ability to provide such services, that the
organization is financially responsible and that the operating  plan  is
appropriate for the needs of households to be served.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 4 - Homelessness Intervention Program › 51 - Regulations.

§  51.  Regulations. The office of temporary and disability assistance
  shall, in consultation with other agencies  deemed  appropriate  by  the
  commissioner,  promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to
  carry out the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 2-A - Shelter and Supported Housing Programs › Title 4 - Homelessness Intervention Program › 52 - Reports.

§   52.  Reports.  On  or  before  February  first,  nineteen  hundred
  eighty-nine and on or before February first of each year  thereafter  in
  which  contracts under this article are in force, the commissioner shall
  submit to the governor, the temporary president of the  senate  and  the
  speaker  of  the  assembly  a  report  detailing progress and evaluating
  results, to date, of the program. Such report shall include, but not  be
  limited  to  a review of the basis for selection of eligible applicants;
  the number of persons served; a review of the efforts  made  to  prevent
  homelessness  and  to provide permanent housing for homeless households,
  including a list of the number of persons and families, by project,  who
  received  services; an identification of the estimated savings and costs
  of the program to  the  state  and  localities;  and  an  evaluation  of
  continuing needs for homelessness intervention services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 1 - Application › 56 - City Social Services Districts.

§  56.   City social services districts.    The city of New York shall
  have all the powers and duties of a social services district insofar  as
  consistent with the provisions of the special and local laws relating to
  such  city.    The  officers  thereof charged with the administration of
  public assistance and care shall have additional powers and duties of  a
  commissioner  of social services not inconsistent with the laws relating
  to said city.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 1 - Application › 57 - Cities in County Social Services Districts.

§  57.  Cities in county social services districts.   Each city, other
  than the city of New York, shall form part of the county social services
  district of the county in which it is situated and shall not assume  any
  powers  and responsibilities for the administration or expense of public
  assistance and care, in addition to those specified in  subdivision  two
  of  section  sixty-nine,  except  pursuant to the provisions of sections
  seventy-four and seventy-four-a of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 2 - Public Welfare Districts and Their Responsibility for Public Assistance and Care › 61 - Social Services Districts.

§  61.  Social services districts.   For the purpose of administration
  of public assistance and care the state shall be divided into county and
  city social services districts as follows:
1.  The city of New York is hereby constituted a city social  services
  district.
2.   Each of the counties of the state not included in subdivision one
  of this section is hereby constituted a county social services district.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 2 - Public Welfare Districts and Their Responsibility for Public Assistance and Care › 64 - Separation of Social Services From Eligibility and Assistance Payments Functions.

§  64.  Separation  of social services from eligibility and assistance
  payments functions.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law,  rule  or
  regulation every social services district shall be organized to effect a
  separation  of  social services from eligibility and assistance payments
  functions as follows:
1. The commissioner shall issue within ten days of the effective  date
  hereof,  guidelines  to  the  social  services  districts  of  the state
  outlining the principles and purposes to be attained in  the  separation
  of  social  services  from  the  functions of eligibility and assistance
  payments, and defining the content of services  which  may  be  included
  under  the  term  "social services" and of the functions associated with
  eligibility and assistance payments.
2. Each social services district shall submit to the  commissioner  by
  July  first,  nineteen hundred seventy-one, its own plan for separation,
  together with its timetable for implementation of the plan.
3. Upon finding that the  plan  conforms  to  the  applicable  minimum
  federal requirements, the commissioner shall approve such plan.
4.  Each social services district shall submit to the commissioner, in
  accordance with applicable federal law and regulations, modifications of
  its approved plan for separation of social services from eligibility and
  assistance payments  functions.  Each  social  services  district  shall
  prepare,  in accordance with applicable federal law and regulations, for
  the effective operation of such approved plan as so modified.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3 - County Public Welfare Districts › 66 - County Appointments and Bonds.

§ 66.  County appointments and bonds.  1.  The legislative body of the
  county   may   authorize   the  appointment  of  any  number  of  deputy
  commissioners of social services, physicians to care for sick persons in
  their homes, other assistants  and  employees,  including  attorneys  to
  perform  duties  it  considers  necessary to carry out the provisions of
  this chapter.  However, such legislative body may  also  authorize  that
  such attorneys, in addition to performing the duties assigned to them by
  the  county  commissioner,  may  be  deputized by the county attorney to
  perform duties on his behalf in connection with the work of  the  social
  services department.
2.    The  county  commissioner  shall  appoint  deputy commissioners,
  physicians, assistants and employees  so  authorized  and  direct  their
  work.
3.  Each county commissioner and deputy commissioner shall be required
  to  give bond before entering upon his duties.  The board of supervisors
  shall fix the amount of such bond and may require and fix the amount  of
  bond to be given by any other assistant or employee whose appointment is
  authorized.    The  expense  of any bond required in connection with the
  work of a county public welfare official or employee shall be paid  from
  county public welfare funds.
4.    In  accordance  with  federal  and state regulations each county
  social services commissioner shall appoint a citizens advisory committee
  or committees to exercise and perform such functions, powers, and duties
  as the regulations of the department may require.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3 - County Public Welfare Districts › 67 - Town Public Welfare Officers; Appointment of Staff.

§  67.    Town  public welfare officers; appointment of staff.  1. The
  town board of each town responsible for the expense of providing  safety
  net  assistance for persons residing or found in such town shall appoint
  a social services  official or authorize a supervisor of the town to act
  as  such official. It may in its discretion appoint  an  assistant  town
  social  services  official and other employees to assist the town social
  services official in carrying out his or her  duties.  The  town  social
  services  official,  his or her assistant and other employees shall hold
  office during the pleasure of the town board. The town board  shall  fix
  the  salary  to  be  paid  a  town  social services official, his or her
  assistant or other employees or fix the amount per hour to be paid  them
  when they are performing any duty connected with their office.
2.    The  town  public  welfare  officer shall be responsible for the
  authorization  of  the  assistance  and  care  for  which  the  town  is
  responsible   and   shall   assist   the   county  commissioner  in  the
  administration of assistance and care to persons residing  or  found  in
  his   town  for  whose  care  the  county  public  welfare  district  is
  responsible.  Except as otherwise agreed and arranged by and between the
  county commissioner and the town public welfare officer, the town public
  welfare officer shall receive all applications for public assistance and
  care made in his town by residents of such town, and  he  shall  forward
  each  such  application to the county commissioner immediately after the
  receipt of the same.  He shall have all the powers and perform  all  the
  duties  of  a  public  welfare  official  applicable  to the work hereby
  assigned.
3.  In case of emergency and until  it  is  possible  for  the  county
  commissioner  either  to  take  charge of the case or to make a complete
  investigation, the town public welfare officer may grant such  temporary
  assistance  and  care  as may be necessary.  All such grants made by the
  town public welfare officer shall be made in accordance with  the  rules
  and regulations of the department and the regulations established by the
  county commissioner of public welfare.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3 - County Public Welfare Districts › 69 - Responsibility for Public Assistance and Care in a County Social Services District.

§ 69. Responsibility for public assistance and care in a county social
  services  district. The responsibility for the  administration of public
  assistance and care in a county social services district and the expense
  thereof may either be  borne by the county social services  district  or
  be  divided  between  such  district and the towns and cities therein as
  hereinafter provided.
1.  Unless  otherwise  determined  by  the  board  of  supervisors  as
  hereinafter  provided, each town shall be responsible for the expense of
  providing safety net assistance for persons residing or  found  in  such
  town.
2.  Unless  otherwise  determined  by  the  board  of  supervisors  as
  hereinafter provided, a city forming a part of a county social  services
  district  shall  be responsible for the expense of  providing safety net
  assistance for any person residing or found in its territory.
3. A county social services district  shall  be  responsible  for  the
  expense  of  providing  all  assistance and care for persons residing or
  found in a town or city in its territory for which such town or city  is
  not responsible under the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
  section.    The  expense of such assistance and care granted by a county
  social services district shall be subject to reimbursement by the  state
  in the cases provided for by section sixty-two or by any other provision
  of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3 - County Public Welfare Districts › 71 - Commitments.

§  71.  Commitments.  Commitments to a county home may be made by such
  town and city public welfare officers as are authorized  by  the  county
  commissioner.   All other commitments to hospitals or other institutions
  at the expense of the county public welfare district shall  be  made  by
  the  county commissioner, or by such other official as may be authorized
  pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3 - County Public Welfare Districts › 72 - Power of the Board of Supervisors to Assume Responsibility for Assistance and Care.

§  72.  Power of the board of supervisors to assume responsibility for
  assistance and care.  1.  The board of supervisors of the county may, by
  resolution adopted by a majority vote, direct that the cost  of  all  or
  any  part  of the assistance and care for which the towns and cities are
  made responsible under the provisions of subdivisions  one  and  two  of
  section  sixty-nine  shall  be  a  charge  on the county social services
  district  and  administered  under   the   direction   of   the   county
  commissioner.
2.  Copies of any such resolution shall be sent to each town clerk and
  to  the  mayor  and  clerk  of  each  city in the county social services
  district within ten days after the adoption of the resolution.  However,
  no  resolution  adopted  by  the  board  of  supervisors   pursuant   to
  subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall  take effect in a city in the
  county social services district until confirmed by the legislative  body
  of the city.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3-A - Integration of Local Public Welfare Administration › 74 - Administration of Assistance by or on Behalf of Certain Cities.

§ 74.  Administration of assistance by or on behalf of certain cities.
  1.  Each city, other than the city of New York, which is responsible for
  one or more types of public assistance and care on the date this section
  becomes  effective  shall  function under section seventy-four-a of this
  chapter.
2.  Any city subject to the provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this
  section  may confirm and make effective therein, pursuant to subdivision
  two of section seventy-three of this chapter, a resolution of the county
  legislative body adopted pursuant to section seventy-two of this chapter
  directing that the cost of all public assistance and  care  shall  be  a
  charge on the county social services district.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3-A - Integration of Local Public Welfare Administration › 74-A - Administration of Assistance by County for City; Reimbursements and Advances; Cost to County to Be Raised by Tax on Taxable Property of City and to Be

§   74-a.      Administration   of  assistance  by  county  for  city;
  reimbursements and advances; cost to county  to  be  raised  by  tax  on
  taxable property of city and to be included in county tax levy.  1.  The
  county  shall  administer  in and for the city the public assistance and
  care for the administration of which the city is responsible  and  shall
  be entitled to all reimbursements and advances against reimbursements on
  account  of  the  assistance  and care so administered to which the city
  would otherwise be entitled and which would otherwise be payable to  the
  city in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
2.    The  cost  to  the  county  of  all  assistance  and  care  thus
  administered by the county in and for the city shall be a charge against
  and be levied as a tax upon the taxable property of  the  city  and  the
  amount  to  be  so  raised by tax shall be included by the county in its
  next ensuing tax levy.
3.   This section is applicable only  to  those  cities  described  in
  subdivision one of section seventy-four of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 3-A - Integration of Local Public Welfare Administration › 74-H - Appeals and Reviews.

§  74-h.    Appeals  and  reviews.    1.    A social services official
  responsible in an  individual  case  for  either  the  authorization  of
  assistance  or  the  investigation of the application for assistance and
  the making of a recommendation relative to such application  shall  have
  the  right to appeal to the department from a decision made in such case
  by another social services official.
Upon receiving such an appeal, the department shall  issue  a  written
  determination  which  shall  be  binding  on  all  the  social  services
  officials involved in such appeal.
2.  The department on its own motion  may  review  any  case  for  the
  purpose  of  determining whether assistance and care has been adequately
  or properly provided.  After making such a review,  the  department  may
  issue  such  written  determination  as  it  may  deem  proper, and such
  determination shall be binding on  all  the  social  services  officials
  concerned.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 4 - City Public Welfare Districts › 77 - City Commissioners of Public Welfare; Appointment of Staff.

§ 77.  City commissioners of public welfare; appointment of staff.  1.
  There shall be a city commissioner of public welfare in each city public
  welfare  district,  who  shall administer the public assistance and care
  for which the city public welfare district is responsible.
2.   The officer appointed, in accordance  with  section  one  hundred
  sixteen  of  this chapter, to administer public assistance and care in a
  city which is constituted a city public welfare district, shall have the
  powers and perform  the  duties  of  the  city  commissioner  of  public
  welfare.
3.    When  the duties of a city commissioner are by the provisions of
  special or local law relating to the city  assigned  to  more  than  one
  department  of  the  city government, the administrative officer of each
  such department shall have such of the powers and perform  such  of  the
  duties  of a city commissioner as may be applicable to the work assigned
  to such department, and all the provisions of this chapter shall  be  so
  interpreted.
4.    The  city  commissioner  of  public welfare shall appoint deputy
  commissioners, assistants and employees authorized  by  the  legislative
  body  of  the city and shall direct their work.  When authorized by such
  legislative body such city commissioner may appoint attorneys to perform
  duties other than those assigned to  the  corporation  counsel  or  city
  attorney.    However,  if  such  city  commissioner shall approve and if
  authorized by such legislative body, such attorneys may, in addition  to
  performing  the  duties  assigned  to them by such city commissioner, be
  deputized by the corporation counsel or city attorney to perform  duties
  on  his  behalf  in  connection with the work of the welfare department.
  The city commissioner shall appoint physicians to visit sick persons  in
  their homes when authorized by the legislative body of such city.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 4 - City Public Welfare Districts › 78 - Citizens Advisory Committees.

§  78.   Citizens advisory committees.  In accordance with federal and
  state regulations, each city social services commissioner shall  appoint
  a citizens advisory committee or committees to exercise and perform such
  functions,  powers  and  duties as the regulations of the department may
  require.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 4 - City Public Welfare Districts › 79 - Plan for the Homeless.

§  79.  Plan for the homeless. The mayor of New York city shall submit
  to the legislature and the governor a copy of the  revised  and  updated
  five-year  plan  for  housing  the  homeless  in  New York city which is
  required under section 21-121 of the administrative code of the city  of
  New York, no later than February fourteenth of each year.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 81 - Reports.

§  81.   Reports.   1.  The county commissioner shall make:  (a)  Such
reports and furnish such information to the department with  respect  to
the  work  of the county social services district as is required by this
chapter and the department.
(b)  An annual report to the board of supervisors concerning the  work
of  the  county  social services district and additional reports at such
times and covering such facts as the board of supervisors may require.
(c)  If any of the cost of assistance and care paid for by the  county
social  services  district  is  charged  back  to  the  towns and cities
thereof, a report to the county treasurer at the end of the fiscal year,
stating the per capita maintenance cost per day in the county  home  and
an itemized statement of the amount to be charged each town and city for
the  assistance and care given either in the county home or elsewhere to
persons residing or found in each town or city and a  statement  of  all
expenditures and receipts in behalf of such persons.
(d)   Current reports to the city and town social services officers of
persons residing in their cities and towns who are in receipt of  public
assistance and care from the county.
2.  A town social services officer shall make:
(a)    An  annual  report  to  the  town board concerning his work and
additional reports at such times and covering such  facts  as  the  town
board may require.
(b)    An  annual report to the county commissioner and any additional
reports at such time and covering such facts as may be required  by  the
county commissioner or the department.
3.  A city commissioner of social services shall make:
(a)    Such  reports to the department with respect to his work as are
required by this chapter and the department.
(b)   An annual report to the mayor  of  the  city  or  to  any  other
official  or  board  authorized  to  receive  such report and additional
reports at such times and covering such facts as may be required.
4.  Such annual reports shall include an  itemized  statement  of  all
money received by the social services official and all money expended by
him,  and  a  detailed  statement  in regard to the recipients of public
assistance and care.   Town and  city  social  services  officers  shall
furnish  the  county  commissioner with all data, relating to their work
and persons in receipt of  public  assistance  and  care,  necessary  to
enable  the  county  commissioner  to  make  the reports required by the
department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 82 - Accounts.

§  82.    Accounts.    All  social  services officials shall keep such
  accounts regarding the receipt and disbursements of the social  services
  funds,  and of any trust funds, as may be required by law or directed by
  the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 83 - County Social Services Funds.

§  83.   County social services funds.  1.  The county treasurer shall
  be the treasurer of the county social services district.
2.  Except as hereinafter provided, disbursements  for  administration
  and  public  assistance and care from county social services funds shall
  be made only on warrants  drawn  by  the  county  commissioner  for  the
  payment  of  bills  and claims, in accordance with the provisions of law
  relating to such county and after audit  by  such  county  commissioner,
  except  that in counties having a county comptroller or a county auditor
  such claims shall be audited by the county comptroller or county auditor
  after approval by the county commissioner.
3.  Payments for board and incidental expenses of children  cared  for
  in  boarding  homes  or  in  the  homes  of relatives or in institutions
  maintained by an authorized agency provided under title two  of  article
  six  or  on  order  of  the family court of the county, may be made upon
  schedules showing the names of the persons  or  institutions  with  whom
  such  children  are  boarded, the names of children boarded with each of
  them, the monthly rate of board to be paid  for  each  such  child,  the
  period  covered  by  each such schedule, the amount due for the board of
  each child during such period, an itemized account of the amount allowed
  for incidentals, if any, in the case of each child, and the total amount
  due to each such person or institution, verified by the commissioner and
  audited  as  hereinbefore  provided  and  without  the  presentation  of
  verified bills or claims by such persons or institutions.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 84 - County Commissioner's Revolving Fund.

§  84.   County commissioner's revolving fund.  A board of supervisors
  may authorize the county treasurer to furnish  the  county  commissioner
  with  an  emergency revolving fund.  Moneys from this fund shall be used
  only where it would be a hardship on the applicant or recipient to  wait
  for  the  issuance  of  a grant in accordance with regularly established
  disbursement procedures.  Reimbursement of expenditures from  this  fund
  shall  be  made  at  least  monthly  upon  the  presentation of itemized
  statements  or  vouchers  chargeable  to  the  appropriate  programs  of
  assistance in accordance with established procedures.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 85 - Monthly Reports of County Commissioner to County Treasurer.

§  85.    Monthly  reports of county commissioner to county treasurer.
  The county commissioner shall pay over to the  county  treasurer  on  or
  before  the  tenth  day  of  each  month  all  money  received by him in
  connection with the work of his  public  welfare  district  and  make  a
  report  giving  the  source  of  all  such receipts during the preceding
  calendar month.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 86 - Town Public Welfare Funds.

§  86.    Town public welfare funds.   1.  The taxes levied for public
  assistance and care in a town shall be paid to the town supervisor, who,
  without prior audit, shall disburse them on written order  of  the  town
  public  welfare officer for the payment of bills and claims submitted in
  accordance with the provisions of law relating to such town.   All  such
  bills and claims shall be filed annually with the town clerk.
2.    The town supervisor shall, without prior audit, issue individual
  checks to persons as authorized by the town welfare officer on forms  as
  either prescribed or approved by the state department of social welfare,
  or such supervisor shall pay over to the town welfare officer for use as
  a  revolving  fund  such  amount  as the town board authorizes.   When a
  revolving fund has been established, the  town  welfare  officer  shall,
  furnish  to  the town a bond in such penal sum and with such sureties as
  the town board may approve, conditioned upon the faithful  discharge  of
  his  duties.  Whenever a revolving fund has been established the welfare
  officer shall pay all welfare claims  for  which  the  town  is  legally
  responsible   excepting  salaries  and  other  compensations  from  such
  revolving fund.  Upon receiving such revolving  fund  the  town  welfare
  officer  shall  deposit  such  sum of money received in an official bank
  account, in the bank or trust company designated for such purpose by the
  town board, and he shall also enter in a suitable book or books kept  by
  him  for  that  purpose  a  record  of the receipts and payments of such
  revolving fund.  From appropriations for town welfare purposes the  town
  supervisor  shall,  each  month,  on  presentation  by  the town welfare
  officer of bills and claims, submitted in accordance with the provisions
  of law relating to such town, and statements of other  disbursements  on
  forms as either prescribed or approved by the state department of social
  welfare,  reimburse  such revolving fund for the amount of disbursements
  therefrom during the preceding month.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 86-A - City Public Welfare Funds.

§  86-a.    City  public  welfare funds.   The taxes levied for public
  assistance and care in a city, or in a  city  public  welfare  district,
  shall  be  paid to the city treasurer, or the commissioner of finance in
  the city of New York, and disbursed in accordance with the provisions of
  law relating to such city for the payment of bills and claims,  provided
  such  provisions of law are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 87 - Special Funds.

§ 87.  Special funds. 1.  When a county commissioner shall receive any
  money as guardian of a minor or to be used for some particular person or
  purpose,  he  shall deposit it with the county treasurer, who shall keep
  such  money  in  a  special  account  to  be  drawn  on  by  the  county
  commissioner for the person or purpose designated.
2.    When  a town social services officer shall receive such money he
  shall deposit it in a bank approved by the town supervisor to  be  drawn
  on  by  the town social services officer and the town supervisor jointly
  for the person or purpose designated.
3.  When a city commissioner of social  services  shall  receive  such
  money,  he shall deposit it with the official having charge of the funds
  of such city, who shall keep it either  in  a  separate  account  to  be
  requisitioned  by  the  city commissioner or in one or more common trust
  funds established and maintained pursuant to the charter of such city.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 88 - Responsibility for Adequate Appropriations.

§  88.    Responsibility for adequate appropriations.  It shall be the
  duty of the board of supervisors of a county, the town board of  a  town
  and the appropriating body of a city to make adequate appropriations and
  to take such action as may be necessary to provide the public assistance
  and care required by this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 89 - Estimates in County Public Welfare Districts.

§  89.  Estimates  in  county  public welfare districts. 1. The county
commissioner shall submit annually, in the manner prescribed by  and  on
or  before the date fixed by or pursuant to law, an itemized estimate of
revenues and the amount of money needed for the ensuing fiscal year  for
the  public assistance and care for which the county is responsible, and
for the administration thereof.
2. A town social services officer shall prepare and file annually with
the town budget officer and the county commissioner of social  services,
at  the  time  specified in section one hundred four of the town law, an
itemized estimate  of  the  amount  needed  for  the  ensuing  year  for
administration  and for public assistance and care. The town board shall
include the amount necessary to be raised by tax in the annual  estimate
submitted to the board of supervisors as provided by the town law.
3. (a) A city public welfare officer shall submit an itemized estimate
of  the amount needed for the ensuing year for administration and public
assistance and care to the mayor or other authority provided by law  and
to the county commissioner of public welfare.
(b) When, pursuant to the provisions of title three-a of this article,
the  county commissioner is administering the public assistance and care
for which a city is responsible, and there is  no  city  public  welfare
officer,  the  county commissioner shall make and submit an estimate for
the city in the place and stead of a city public welfare officer.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 90 - Appropriations in County Public Welfare Districts.

§  90.    Appropriations  in county public welfare districts.  1.  (a)
The board of supervisors shall appoint a committee  of  its  members  to
consider the estimates presented by the town boards in the county public
welfare  district.    If  any  town  shall fail to submit an estimate as
provided by the previous section, the county commissioner shall  prepare
and  submit  to  such  committee  an  estimate  of the amount needed for
administration and public  assistance  and  care  in  such  town.    The
committee  shall  recommend  to  the  board of supervisors the amount it
considers necessary for the ensuing fiscal year for the various forms of
public assistance and care and administrative expenses in  each  of  the
towns in the county public welfare district.
(b)   The board of supervisors shall approve an estimate for each town
in the county public welfare district and shall levy taxes in each  such
town for the amount of the approved estimate for such town.
2.    The  legislative  body of a city forming part of a county public
welfare district shall appropriate the amount it considers necessary for
administration and public assistance and care in  such  city  and  shall
cause taxes to be levied for the amount of such appropriation.
Nothing  contained  in  this section shall be construed to prevent the
financing of any such expenditure, in whole or in part, pursuant to  the
local finance law.
3.  The board of supervisors shall appropriate, in the manner provided
by  law,  the  amount it considers necessary for the ensuing fiscal year
for the various forms of public assistance and care  and  administrative
expenses  in  the  county  public  welfare  district and shall cause the
necessary taxes to be levied therefor in the  territory  of  the  county
public welfare district.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 90-A - Taxes for County Public Welfare Districts.

§  90-a.    Taxes for county public welfare districts.  Taxes for each
  form of assistance or care administered by  the  county  public  welfare
  district  shall  be  levied  only  in  the territory in which the county
  public welfare district is responsible for the  administration  of  such
  form thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 91 - Estimates and Appropriations in City Public Welfare Districts.

§  91.  Estimates and appropriations in city public welfare districts.
  The city commissioner of public welfare shall present to  the  mayor  or
  other authority provided by law in such city an itemized estimate of the
  amount  of  money  needed for the ensuing year for the administration of
  the city public welfare district and for  public  assistance  and  care.
  The   legislative  body  of  the  city  public  welfare  district  shall
  appropriate the amount necessary for such purpose and shall cause  taxes
  to be levied for the amount of such appropriation.
Nothing  contained  in  this section shall be construed to prevent the
  financing of any such expenditure, in whole or in part, pursuant to  the
  local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 92 - Deficiency Appropriations.

§  92.    Deficiency  appropriations.    1.
(a)    Should  the sums
appropriated  for  medical  assistance   for   needy   persons,   family
assistance,  or  care and protection of children pursuant to article six
of this chapter and their administration be expended  or  contracted  or
become  exhausted  during  the year for the purposes for which they were
appropriated, or should no appropriation have been made, additional sums
shall be appropriated by the proper appropriating  bodies,  as  occasion
demands, to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(b)  In cities such additional sums if appropriated shall be paid from
unexpended  balances  not  required by law to be expended for a specific
purpose, or from contingent funds when such exist.
(c)  In counties, such additional appropriations shall  be  paid  from
funds  in  the  county  treasury  available therefor, provided that such
funds were raised by taxes levied in a territory identical with that  in
which  such  sums  may  be  expended, and then only to the extent of any
excess thereof not needed for other purposes under other  provisions  of
this chapter.
(d)  Nothing contained in this section, however, shall be construed to
prevent  the financing of such deficiency appropriations pursuant to the
local finance law.
2.  All the provisions of subdivision one in regard to cities shall be
applicable to towns in Dutchess county,  and,  in  every  city  or  town
thereof,  except  in  the  city  of  Poughkeepsie,  the  amount  of such
additional sums must first be approved by  the  county  commissioner  of
public welfare by writing filed with the city or town clerk.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 3 - Local Public Welfare Organization; Powers and Duties › Title 5 - Records, Reports, Funds and Appropriations › 93 - Provisions for Financing Home Relief.

§  93.   Provisions for financing home relief.  1.  Definitions.  When
used in this section:
(a)  Home relief means home relief as defined in section  one  hundred
fifty-seven  and  also  includes  all  administrative  expenses  of home
relief.
(b)  Local share of home relief means the total cost or estimated cost
of home relief after deducting the amount or  the  estimated  amount  of
state  aid  received  or to be received therefor under the then existing
law and rules.
(d)  City means any city responsible for the  administration  of  home
relief.
2.    Estimates and appropriations.   Each county, city and town shall
make an annual estimate and appropriation of the total  amount  required
for  the  fiscal  year  for home relief in accordance with this article.
Such estimates shall show not only the total amount so required, but the
estimated state aid to be received, and the  estimated  local  share  of
home relief.
3.    Additional  appropriations  to supply deficiencies in the annual
appropriations.    Should  the  sum  or  the  aggregate  of   the   sums
appropriated  or  amounts available and authorized to be expended in any
county, city or town be less than the amount required in  any  year  for
home  relief, supplemental appropriations may be made from time to time,
and in that case not less than the same percentage of the local share of
home relief included in such supplemental appropriations may  be  raised
by  taxes  levied  for the next fiscal year as would have been raised by
taxes for  the  current  fiscal  year  if  the  amount  of  supplemental
appropriation  had  been  contained  in the annual appropriation for the
current fiscal year.
6.  County taxes.  County taxes for the  payment  of  obligations  and
interest  thereon,  issued  for  home  relief shall be a charge upon the
entire county but shall be levied in the first instance against all  the
taxable  property  in  the  territory in which the county public welfare
district is responsible for the administration of such home relief.
8.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section,  until
the  commencement  of  the  fiscal year in any county, city or town next
following December first, nineteen hundred forty-six, the local share of
the cost of home relief in any year, in lieu of being raised by tax, may
be paid from any other funds available,  provided,  however,  no  monies
shall be borrowed to pay the cost of home relief.