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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6-A - Domestic Violence Prevention Act › 459-H - Confidentiality.

§  459-h.  Confidentiality.  1.  The street address of any residential
  program for victims of domestic violence applying for  funding  pursuant
  to  this  article  shall  be  confidential  and may be disclosed only to
  persons designated by rules and regulations of the department.
2. All information related to the general location or specific  street
  address  of  a  structure anticipated to house a residential program for
  victims of domestic  violence  that  is  contained  in  any  application
  submitted  to  a  state  or  local agency or any instrumentality thereof
  prior to the filing of an  application  for  funding  pursuant  to  this
  article shall be kept confidential by those entities and their employees
  and  may  be  disclosed  only  to  persons  designated  by the rules and
  regulations of the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 1 - General Provisions › 460 - Declaration of Policy and Statement of Purpose.

§  460.  Declaration  of  policy and statement of purpose. Residential
  care  programs  for  adults  and  children  of  the   highest   quality,
  efficiently  produced  and properly utilized at a reasonable cost, are a
  matter of vital concern to the people of this state. In  order  to  more
  effectively  protect  and assure the life, health, safety and comfort of
  adults and children who must be cared for away from their own homes, the
  department of social services acting directly or through social services
  districts, and with the cooperation of other state agencies, shall  have
  the  comprehensive responsibility for the development and administration
  of programs, standards and methods of operation, and all  other  matters
  of  state policy, with respect to residential care programs for children
  and adults and all facilities and agencies, whether public  or  private,
  which are subject to the provisions of this article. For the purposes of
  this  article,  with  respect to residential care programs for children,
  the term "department" shall mean  the  office  of  children  and  family
  services  and  with respect to residential care programs for adults, the
  term shall mean the office of children and family services  in  relation
  to  family type homes for adults and residential programs for victims of
  domestic violence, the office of temporary and disability assistance  in
  relation  to  shelters  for  adults  and  shelters for families; and the
  department of health in relation to all other residential care  programs
  for adults.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 1 - General Provisions › 460-A - Certificates of Incorporation.

§ 460-a. Certificates of incorporation. 1. Unless the written approval
  of  the  department  shall  have  been  endorsed  on  or  annexed  to  a
  certificate of incorporation, no such  certificate  shall  hereafter  be
  filed which includes among its corporate purposes the care of destitute,
  delinquent,    abandoned,   neglected   or   dependent   children;   the
  establishment or operation of any aged care accommodation, as defined in
  the private housing finance law, or adult care facility; the placing-out
  or  boarding-out  of  children,  as  defined  in   this   chapter;   the
  establishment or operation of a home or shelter for unmarried mothers or
  a  residential  program  for victims of domestic violence, as defined in
  subdivision four of section four hundred fifty-nine-a of  this  chapter;
  or  the  solicitation of contributions for any such purpose or purposes,
  provided, however, that the approval of  the  department  shall  not  be
  required   for  filing  of  a  certificate  of  incorporation  which  is
  restricted in its statement of corporate purposes to  the  establishment
  or  operation  of  a  facility  for  which  an  operating certificate is
  required by article twenty-three, nineteen, thirty-one or thirty-two  of
  the  mental  hygiene  law,  or  to  the  establishment or operation of a
  hospital, residential health care facility, or a home health agency,  as
  those  terms  are  defined  in article twenty-eight of the public health
  law.
2.  The  department  shall  promulgate  regulations  establishing  the
  procedure  for submitting certificates of incorporation for approval and
  specifying the documentation to be submitted  in  connection  with  such
  approval.  The  department  shall approve or disapprove a certificate of
  incorporation solely on the basis of information submitted  pursuant  to
  regulations. The department shall approve or disapprove a certificate of
  incorporation   by   indicating  its  approval  by  endorsement  of  the
  certificate of incorporation or its disapproval by giving written notice
  thereof, which  notice  shall  state  the  reasons  for  disapproval.  A
  certificate  of  incorporation  not  acted upon within sixty days of the
  receipt of all information  and  documentation  required  by  department
  regulations shall be deemed to be disapproved.
3.  Where  a  corporation  engages  in,  or  holds itself out as being
  authorized to engage in, activities described in  this  section  without
  having  obtained  requisite  approvals, the department may institute and
  maintain an action in the supreme court through the attorney general  to
  procure a judgement dissolving and vacating or annulling the certificate
  of incorporation of any such corporation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 1 - General Provisions › 460-B - Operating Certificate.

§    460-b.    Operating  certificate.    1.    No facility subject to
  inspection and supervision by the department, except a facility operated
  by a state department or agency, or a facility which pursuant to law  is
  licensed  or  certified to operate by a state department or agency or by
  an authorized agency as such term is defined in  section  three  hundred
  seventy-one of this chapter, shall be operated unless it shall possess a
  valid  operating  certificate  issued  pursuant  to  this article by the
  department, which certificate shall specify  who  the  operator  of  the
  facility  shall be, the kind or kinds of care and services such facility
  is authorized to provide, the capacity of the facility, the location  of
  the  facility  and,  except  in  the  case  of a facility operated by an
  authorized  agency  as  such  term  is  defined  in  paragraph  (a)   of
  subdivision  ten  of  section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter,
  the duration of the period of its validity.   The  department  shall  by
  regulation  specify the manner in which the public shall be given notice
  of the existence of such operating certificate.
2.  Application for an operating certificate pursuant to this  article
  shall  be made upon forms prescribed by the department and in accordance
  with procedures established by  regulations  of  the  department.    The
  application shall contain the name of the facility, the kind or kinds of
  care  and services to be provided, the location and physical description
  of the facility, and  such  other  information  as  the  department  may
  require.  The application shall be approved and an operating certificate
  shall  be  issued  when  it  is  established  to the satisfaction of the
  department that the facility meets, and will be operated  in  accordance
  with,   the  requirements  of  this  article,  the  regulations  of  the
  department  and  all  other  applicable  provisions  of  law   including
  requirements   as  to  the  premises,  equipment,  personnel,  care  and
  services, rules, by-laws and administrative practices.
3.  Each facility required to obtain an operating certificate pursuant
  to this section shall be required, as a condition of qualifying  for  or
  remaining   qualified  for  such  certificate,  to  demonstrate  to  the
  satisfaction of the department that it has taken all reasonable steps to
  assure that residents entitled  to  a  personal  allowance  pursuant  to
  section  one  hundred thirty-one-o of this chapter have in fact received
  the full personal benefit of such allowance, and that proper  accounting
  procedures have been complied with.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 1 - General Provisions › 460-E - Records and Reports; Confidentiality; Information.

§  460-e.  Records  and  reports; confidentiality; information. 1. The
  department shall require, collect and maintain such information, records
  or reports as it may determine to be necessary to further the purpose of
  this article. Organizations and institutions subject to  the  inspection
  and  supervision  of  the  department shall provide such information and
  records in  such  form  and  at  such  times  as  the  department  shall
  determine.
2. The department may request from any other state department or state
  or  local  agency,  including  the  department  of  mental  hygiene, the
  division for youth and the board  of  social  welfare,  and  such  other
  department  or  agency shall furnish, such information as the department
  may require for the proper performance of its duties under this article.
  The  department  shall  safeguard  the  confidentiality  of  information
  received   from   such   departments  and  agencies.  Such  other  state
  departments or state agencies may request from the department,  and  the
  department  shall  furnish, such information as such other department or
  agency may  require  for  the  proper  discharge  of  its  duties.  Such
  departments  and  agencies  shall  safeguard the confidentiality of such
  information, records, and reports in the same manner as  the  department
  in  accordance  with  the provisions of sections one hundred thirty-six,
  four hundred forty-four and four hundred sixty-one-e of this chapter  or
  as otherwise authorized by law.
3.  Officers  or  employees  of  the  department  shall  maintain  the
  confidentiality of facts and information obtained as the result  of  any
  inspection  or  investigation  of  a  facility subject to inspection and
  supervision under this  article,  in  the  same  manner  as  information
  received under subdivision two of this section.
4. All officers of facilities or agencies subject to the inspection of
  the department shall furnish to the department, on forms provided by the
  department,  such  information  and statistics as it may require, within
  sixty days from the expiration of the state fiscal year  or  such  other
  fiscal period as may be designated by the department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 1 - General Provisions › 460-F - Penalties.

§    460-f.    Penalties.    Any person who intentionally violates any
  provision of this article or regulations of the department  relating  to
  certificates of incorporation, operating certificates or confidentiality
  of information shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 1 - General Provisions › 460-G - Construction.

§   460-g.  Construction.  The provisions of this article shall not be
  deemed or construed to alter, amend,  repeal  or  otherwise  modify  the
  provisions  of  article  nineteen-G  of  the  executive law, relating to
  secure and non-secure detention facilities, article  nineteen-H  of  the
  executive  law  relating to residential facilities operating as approved
  runaway programs and transitional independent living  support  programs,
  or  articles thirteen and eighty-one of the mental hygiene law, relating
  to facilities for the mentally disabled or drug dependent persons.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461 - Responsibility for Standards.

§    461.    Responsibility for standards.   1.   The department shall
  promulgate  and  may  alter  or  amend  regulations   effectuating   the
  provisions  of  this  title,  including  but not limited to establishing
  fiscal, administrative, architectural, safety, nutritional  and  program
  standards  which  apply  to  all  adult  care  facilities subject to its
  inspection and  supervision.    Such  regulations  may  be  promulgated,
  altered  or  amended  only  after  consultation with the board of social
  welfare, department of mental hygiene, health department and office  for
  the aging.
2.  In addition to those standards established pursuant to regulations
  under  subdivision  one  hereof,  the  department  of mental hygiene may
  propose any supplementary standards relating to the  necessity  for  and
  content  of  programs  designed  to protect the health and well-being of
  mentally disabled persons, as defined in the mental hygiene  law,  which
  shall apply to any facility which cares for a significant number of such
  persons.  The promulgation by the department of any regulations adopting
  such  supplementary  standards  shall  be subject to the approval of the
  department of mental hygiene.
3. Nothing contained within this title shall prohibit an  operator  of
  any adult care facility from exceeding the requirements of this title or
  the  regulations  of  the  department which effectuate the provisions of
  this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-I - Planning and Development Grants for Enriched Housing Programs.

§   461-i.  Planning  and  development  grants  for  enriched  housing
  programs. 1. The department shall, to the extent funds are available for
  such purpose, award planning and development  grants  to,  and  contract
  with,  lawfully approved enriched housing programs that qualify for such
  grants under criteria to be established by the department.  Such  grants
  shall  be  made  for  the  purposes  of  defraying start-up expenses and
  reducing initial operating deficits incurred in the first twelve  months
  of  a  program's  operations resulting from initial low occupancy rates.
  Use of such funds may include, but shall not be limited to,  paying  for
  rent  prior to occupancy and security deposits, administrative expenses,
  minor renovations of  existing  structures,  furnishings  and  household
  equipment,  moving  expenses  of  residents  and  reasonable anticipated
  operating deficits resulting from low initial occupancy rates.
2. Any public agency, public corporation or not-for-profit corporation
  who has filed an application for approval to operate an enriched housing
  program, or any lawfully approved enriched housing  operator,  may  make
  application  for  a  planning and development grant in a manner and form
  prescribed by the department. The department shall  make  determinations
  of  award for each application for such grants at such time that a final
  determination is made with respect to approving the establishment of, or
  granting an operating certificate for, an enriched housing program.  The
  department  shall  award planning and development grants on the basis of
  the quality of the proposed program, the  applicant's  financial  needs,
  the  geographic  distribution  of  enriched  housing  programs,  and the
  availability  of,  and  demand  for,  long-term  care  services  in  the
  geographic area to be served by the proposed program.
3.  The  department  may award planning and development grants to, and
  contract  with,  lawfully  approved  enriched  housing  programs   under
  criteria to be established by the department for the purpose of moderate
  renovations  or  modifications of existing structures when determined to
  be necessary by the  commissioner.  Use  of  such  grants  for  moderate
  structural  renovations  or  modifications  shall be deemed necessary in
  those instances where the commissioner  determines  that,  without  such
  renovations  or  modifications,  a  geographic  area  may be underserved
  because of the lack of available or suitable existing structures.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-M - Death and Felony Crime Reporting.

§  461-m.  Death  and felony crime reporting. The operator of an adult
  home, enriched housing program or residence for  adults  shall  have  an
  affirmative duty to report any death, or attempted suicide of a resident
  to  the department of health within twenty-four hours of its occurrence,
  and shall also have an affirmative duty to report to an appropriate  law
  enforcement  authority  if  the  operator discovers an incident that the
  operator believes or reasonably should believe would constitute a felony
  crime against a resident of such facility as soon as possible, or in any
  event within twenty-four hours. In addition, the operator shall send any
  reports involving a resident who had at any time received services  from
  a  mental  hygiene  service  provider  to  the  justice  center  for the
  protection of people with special needs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-O - Complaint Investigation Procedures.

§  461-o.  Complaint  investigation  procedures.  The department shall
  establish  procedures  governing  the  receipt  and   investigation   of
  complaints  regarding  the  care  afforded  to  residents  of adult care
  facilities  consistent  with  article  eleven  of   this   chapter,   as
  applicable.  Such  procedures  shall  assure  the confidentiality of the
  complainant. Such procedures shall include but not  be  limited  to  the
  procedures  for reporting complaints, either in writing or orally to the
  department, and the time frames governing the investigation of any  such
  complaints  submitted  to  the  department.  Provided  however,  if  any
  complaint alleges the abuse or neglect of  a  resident  or  involves  an
  incident  that  exposes  a resident to cruel or unsafe care or otherwise
  represents a serious resident care issue, the  department  shall  ensure
  that an investigation of any such complaint is initiated immediately and
  in  no  event  commenced  less than seventy-two hours from the time such
  complaint is received by the department.  Upon  the  conclusion  of  the
  investigation  by  the department the operator and the complainant shall
  be notified in writing of the  results  of  such  investigation  or,  as
  applicable, pursuant to article eleven of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-P - Adult Care Facilities Training Program.

§  461-p.  Adult care facilities training program. The department may,
  within the amounts as appropriated for such purpose, establish an  adult
  care  facility  training program that shall assist in the development of
  training materials and/or the provision of staff training activities. In
  developing such training program, the  department  shall  determine  the
  feasibility  of  providing  such  training  on  a  statewide  basis. The
  department may  contract  with  organizations  representing  adult  care
  facilities  to  provide such training. Such contracts shall require that
  funding made available through this program shall be used to enhance the
  skills of staff of adult care facilities and may  include,  but  not  be
  limited  to  training activities regarding medication management, safety
  and security procedures,  rights  of  residents,  behavioral  management
  techniques,  and  any  other  training  initiatives  identified  by  the
  department.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-Q - Temperature Standards in Adult Homes, Enriched Housing Programs and Residences for Adults.

§  461-q.  Temperature  standards  in  adult  homes,  enriched housing
  programs and residences for adults. The  commissioner  of  health  shall
  promulgate   rules   and   regulations  with  respect  to  an  allowable
  temperature in all  areas  occupied  by  residents  of  an  adult  home,
  enriched  housing  program and residence for adults, including any areas
  intended for use by  its  residents  in  common  including  auditoriums,
  meeting  rooms  and  cafeterias.    One  common room in such adult home,
  enriched housing program and residence for adults shall be  required  to
  be air conditioned.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-R - Food Services.

§  461-r.  Food  services.  1.  Food services in adult care facilities
  shall be provided in a manner that respects the  dietary  needs  of  the
  residents  in  relation to health conditions, food allergies and dietary
  intolerances, religious and ethnic  mandates,  and  that  allows  for  a
  reasonable variation in taste preferences.
2. Resident food committees in each facility, assembled from among the
  residents,  shall have the freedom to meet and evaluate the food service
  available to them without interference, and shall advise  the  operators
  of  the  adult care facility as to issues of dietary needs, preferences,
  food quality and safety.
3. The  commissioner  of  health  shall  review  existing  adult  care
  facility  regulations  and  amend existing regulations or promulgate new
  regulations if appropriate, to determine those food service personnel in
  adult care facilities that should undergo training appropriate  for  the
  level  of food service which they may perform, including but not limited
  to sanitation in the food preparation and service  areas;  refrigeration
  and  preservation;  principles  of a balanced meal; and ordering with an
  emphasis on fresh foods.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 2 - Residential Programs for Adults › 461-T - Review of Criminal History Information Concerning Prospective Direct Care Employees.

§ 461-t. Review of criminal history information concerning prospective
  direct  care  employees.  Every adult home, enriched housing program and
  residence for adults shall conduct a criminal history  record  check  of
  prospective direct care employees utilizing the procedures and standards
  set forth in article twenty-eight-E of the public health law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 3 - Residential Programs for Children › 462-A - Responsibility for Inspection and Supervision.

§  462-a. Responsibility for inspection and supervision. 1. The office
  of children and family services shall inspect and supervise  secure  and
  non-secure  detention facilities and those office of children and family
  services residential facilities authorized by article nineteen-G of  the
  executive  law  and  those  residential  facilities operated as approved
  runaway programs or transitional  independent  living  support  programs
  pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law.
2.  The  appropriate offices of the state department of mental hygiene
  shall  inspect  and  supervise  those  facilities  subject  to  articles
  thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
3.  For  those  facilities  which  care  for  a  significant number of
  mentally disabled children, the  department  shall  enter  into  written
  cooperative  agreements  no  later  than October first, nineteen hundred
  seventy-seven with the department of mental hygiene for joint inspection
  and supervision of such facilities, as appropriate.
4. The office of  children  and  family  services  shall  inspect  and
  supervise all other child care facilities subject to its regulation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 3 - Residential Programs for Children › 462-B - Responsibility for Enforcement.

§ 462-b. Responsibility for enforcement. 1. The office of children and
  family  services  shall  exercise  the  enforcement powers enumerated in
  section four hundred sixty-d of this article which may apply  to  secure
  and  non-secure detention facilities and to those office of children and
  family services residential facilities authorized by article  nineteen-G
  of  the  executive  law  and  those  residential  facilities operated as
  approved runaway programs or  transitional  independent  living  support
  programs pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law.
2.  The  appropriate offices of the state department of mental hygiene
  shall exercise the enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred
  sixty-d of this article which may apply to those facilities  subject  to
  articles thirty-one and thirty-two of the mental hygiene law.
3.  With  respect to facilities which care for a significant number of
  mentally disabled children, the  department  shall  enter  into  written
  cooperative  agreements  no  later  than October first, nineteen hundred
  seventy-seven  with  the  department  of  mental  hygiene   establishing
  circumstances  under  which  the  department  will at the request of the
  department of mental hygiene  act  to  limit  or  modify  the  operating
  certificate  of  any  facility  so  as  to  preclude  such facility from
  accepting, caring for  or  continuing  to  care  for  mentally  disabled
  children.
4.  The  office  of  children  and  family services shall exercise the
  enforcement powers enumerated in section four hundred  sixty-d  of  this
  article with respect to all other child caring facilities subject to its
  regulation  either  independently or at the request of the department of
  mental hygiene.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 4 - Registry of Community Residential Facilities › 463 - Definitions.

§  463.  Definitions.  For  the  purposes of this title, the following
  definitions shall apply:
1. "Community residential facility" means  any  facility  operated  or
  subject  to licensure by the state which provides a supervised residence
  for mentally, emotionally, physically, or socially disabled  persons  or
  for  persons  in  need of supervision or juvenile delinquents. This term
  includes, but is not limited to, community residences for  the  mentally
  disabled  operated  or licensed by the office of mental health or office
  for people with developmental disabilities or by the  divisions  of  the
  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse,  agency operated boarding
  homes, group homes or private proprietary homes for adults  operated  or
  licensed  by the department of social services, group homes operated by,
  contracted for or licensed by the division for youth and half-way houses
  operated or licensed by the division of substance abuse services.
2. "Sponsoring agency" means  an  agency  or  unit  of  government,  a
  voluntary  agency  as  defined  in  the  mental  hygiene  law  or  other
  organization  which  intends  to  establish  or  operate   a   community
  residential facility.
3.   "Licensing   authority"  means  the  head  of  the  state  agency
  responsible for issuance of a license  or  operating  certificate  to  a
  proposed community residential facility.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 4 - Registry of Community Residential Facilities › 463-A - Statewide Registry.

§  463-a.   Statewide registry.  1.  There shall be established in the
department a statewide registry  on  community  residential  facilities.
The  department  shall  develop,  in cooperation with the state agencies
responsible for the planning, administration, licensing, regulation  and
operation of community residential facilities, a uniform data base for a
statewide  registry  to  include,  but  not be limited to, the following
information:
(a)  the nature or type of such community residence for  the  disabled
including the class of disabled persons it is intended to serve;
(b)   the title of the sponsoring agency responsible for the operation
of such community residence;
(c)   the geographical area  in  which  such  community  residence  is
located,  including  but  not  limited  to street address, municipality,
local school district and health systems agency;
(d)  the number of clients or residents authorized to live within such
community residences; and
(e)  the licensing authority of such community residence.
2. (a)  The  department  shall,  no  later  than  December  fifteenth,
nineteen  hundred eighty-three and annually thereafter, prepare a report
to the governor and the legislature including the following information:
(i)  a registry of all community  residences  presently  operating  in
this  state  including  the  types  of  services provided, the number of
persons served, the number of persons authorized to reside therein,  the
licensing  authority  by  which  it  is governed and the municipality in
which it is located; and
(ii)  the number of persons in the state presently receiving placement
in a community residence including the general type  of  services  being
provided and the municipality in which they are provided.
(b)  The  department  shall prepare for inclusion in the annual report
required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of this chapter  to  be
filed  with the governor and the legislature prior to December fifteenth
of each year an analysis of the information as previously  described  in
paragraph  (a)  of this subdivision so as to improve the ability of such
state agencies responsible for the planning, administration,  licensing,
regulation  and  operation  of  such community residences to effectively
identify existing and future needs for persons and services in different
areas and coordinate their planning efforts to meet such needs.
3.  The department shall provide or cause  to  be  provided  technical
assistance,  within  available resources, to municipalities which intend
to establish similar coordinated planning functions as described in this
act.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 7 - Residential Care Programs for Adults and Children › Title 4 - Registry of Community Residential Facilities › 463-B - Powers and Duties.

§  463-b.  Powers and duties.  The department shall have the following
powers and duties:
(a)  to request and receive appropriate information as required by the
provisions of  this  title  from  state  agencies  responsible  for  the
planning,   administration,   licensing,   regulation  or  operation  of
community residential facilities, including  a  list  of  all  community
residences  heretofore  or  hereafter  established  by  such  agency  or
pursuant to a license or operating certificate issued by such agency;
(b)   to compile  and  index  such  information  received  from  state
agencies   responsible  for  the  planning,  administration,  licensing,
regulation or operation of community residential facilities in order  to
establish  a  comprehensive registry of such residences within the state
of New York;
(c)  to provide access to such registry to  such  state  agencies  and
sponsoring   agencies  responsible  for  the  planning,  administration,
licensing, regulation or operation of community  residential  facilities
so as to coordinate and integrate planning among such state agencies;
(d)    to make available to municipalities a listing of such community
residential facilities located within their jurisdiction  or  within  an
adjoining  municipality  in  order  to  facilitate proper local planning
efforts for the development of such  community  residential  facilities;
and
(e)    to  promulgate  such regulations as may be necessary to protect
information required to be kept confidential  pursuant  to  law  and  to
prevent  the dissemination of any personally identifiable information of
residents or clients of such community residential facilities.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8 - New York State Rural Human Services Networking Program › 464-A - Legislative Findings.

§   464-a.   Legislative   findings.  The  legislature  hereby  finds,
  determines, and declares that:
1. In rural areas there is a necessity to promote different approaches
  to human services delivery if programs are to properly  address  diverse
  community  and  individual needs and such unique rural conditions as low
  population density; a large proportion of elderly persons;  the  absence
  of  economies of scale; geographic isolation; inadequate transportation;
  fluctuating service demands; and general lack of  suitable  alternatives
  for service delivery.
2.  The  human  services  delivery  system  in  rural  areas  is often
  fragmented, consisting of  isolated  providers  with  limited  financial
  resources  and limited information-sharing networks. Many such providers
  are currently providing  identical  or  similar  services  to  the  same
  clientele  in  the  same  area,  often without being aware of a possible
  duplication of effort.
3. A full range of coordinated and integrated human services is  vital
  to  the  health  and well-being of residents of rural areas of the state
  who are or may in the future be  confronted  with  such  intense  social
  problems   as  domestic  violence,  teenage  pregnancy,  migrant  health
  problems, nutritional deficiencies, suicide, hunger, unemployment,  lack
  of suitable shelter, crime, drug and alcohol abuse and poverty.
4.  A  proper  response to intense social problems in some rural areas
  would be to encourage greater sharing of information and resources among
  human services providers in such  rural  areas,  thereby  enhancing  the
  cost-effectiveness  and  delivery  of  services required to address such
  social problems.  Such cooperative undertakings could be accomplished if
  a program of financial incentives and state-level  technical  assistance
  were made available to encourage providers in rural areas to embark upon
  such  cooperative  arrangements  and  networking  of  the  services they
  provide.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8 - New York State Rural Human Services Networking Program › 464-B - Definitions.

§ 464-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
1.  "Rural  area"  shall  mean  a rural area as defined in section two
  thousand nine hundred fifty-one of the public health law.
2. "Advisory committee" shall mean the committee created in accordance
  with section four hundred sixty-four-c of this article, for the purposes
  of assisting the commissioner in administering the New York state  rural
  human  services networking program created pursuant to the provisions of
  this article.
3. "Human service" shall mean any service provided to  individuals  or
  groups  of  individuals,  for the purpose of improving or enhancing such
  individuals'  health  and/or  welfare,  by  addressing  social  problems
  including  but  not  limited  to:  domestic violence, teenage pregnancy,
  migrant health problems, child abuse, nutritional deficiencies, suicide,
  hunger, unemployment, lack of suitable shelter, crime, drug and  alcohol
  abuse and poverty.
4.  "Human  services provider" shall mean any public or not-for-profit
  private entity utilizing public  and/or  private  funds  to  provide  or
  contract  for  the  provision  of  human services for the benefit of the
  general public or specific client groups.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8 - New York State Rural Human Services Networking Program › 464-C - Advisory Committee Created.

§ 464-c. Advisory committee created. 1. An advisory committee shall be
  created  to  assist  the  commissioner in carrying out the provisions of
  this article. Such advisory committee shall consist  of  seven  members,
  with  the  commissioner  or  his or her designee serving as chairperson.
  Membership of the committee shall include the following persons or their
  designees:  the  chairperson  of  the  legislative  commission  on   the
  development of rural resources which was created by chapter four hundred
  twenty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-two; the director of
  the  state  office  of rural affairs; the director of the office for the
  aging; the commissioner of the department of health; the commissioner of
  the division for youth; and the commissioner of  the  office  of  mental
  health.  The  chairperson  of  the  advisory  committee  may  invite the
  commissioner or director, or his or her designee,  of  any  other  state
  agency  or  department,  or  any  other rural human services provider or
  consumer, to serve  as  an  ex-officio  member  of  the  committee.  The
  commissioner  shall  take actions to promote the efficient and effective
  operation of the advisory committee.
2. The advisory committee shall:
a. Review  and  recommend  to  the  commissioner  guidelines  for  the
  operation of the rural human services networking program;
b.  Recommend  any  changes  in  statutes  or regulations necessary to
  accomplish the purposes of this article;
c. Assist  the  department  in  the  evaluation  of  individual  pilot
  projects and of the rural human services networking program; and
d.  Assist  in  the  development  of  interim  and  final  reports, in
  accordance with section four hundred sixty-four-e of this article.
e. Assist the commissioner in determining those rural areas to receive
  priority consideration in selecting pilot  project  sites,  pursuant  to
  subdivision four of section four hundred sixty-four-d of this article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8 - New York State Rural Human Services Networking Program › 464-E - Distribution of Reports.

§  464-e.  Distribution  of  reports. The commissioner, in conjunction
  with the advisory committee, shall  prepare  an  interim  report  within
  thirty  months  after  the  effective  date of this article, which shall
  include a preliminary review of each pilot project. The commissioner, in
  conjunction with such committee,  shall  also  prepare  a  final  report
  within  sixty  months  after  the  effective date of this article.  Such
  final report shall contain a description of the various  human  services
  pilot  projects    demonstrated  and  their  perceived  effect  on cost,
  delivery and accessibility of human services in rural areas.  The  final
  report  shall  describe  the  effect  of  each pilot project on existing
  providers and consumers of such services, as well as the effect on  each
  community  served.  The  same  report  shall  identify  laws,  rules and
  regulations, if any, that should be repealed or amended in order to make
  it possible to properly and efficiently implement such plans or programs
  in other rural areas of the state. Said interim and final reports  shall
  be  distributed  to  all  participants in the program, as well as to the
  governor and the legislature.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8 - New York State Rural Human Services Networking Program › 464-F - Funds Not to Be Diminished.

§  464-f.  Funds  not  to be diminished. For the duration of the grant
  period, no local or regional human  services  provider  shall  lose  any
  grants  or  funds  to  which  it  may  be entitled if it were to operate
  separately, solely because it elects to participate in a  pilot  project
  program and, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
  such  grants  or funds shall continue to be allocated in the same manner
  and in the same amount as if such human  services  provider  was  not  a
  participant in such pilot project program.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-A - Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Program › 465 - Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Program; Establishment.

§ 465. Nutrition outreach and public education program; establishment.
  The  nutrition  outreach  and  public  education  program is established
  within the office of temporary and disability assistance.  Such  program
  is  established  to  ensure maximum participation by eligible persons in
  federal and  state  food  assistance  programs.  The  program  shall  be
  structured so as to increase participation statewide but with particular
  attention   to  high  risk  areas  with  a  focus  on  certain  at  risk
  populations.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-A - Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Program › 465-A - Definitions.

§ 465-a. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "High  risk  areas"  means  any  county  or  urban  area  where  a
  significant percentage or number of those potentially eligible for  food
  assistance programs are not participating in such programs.
2. "Food assistance programs" means programs including but not limited
  to  food stamp programs, school breakfast and lunch programs, child care
  food  programs,  summer  food  service  programs,  special  supplemental
  programs  for  women, infants and children, congregate meal programs and
  home delivered meal programs.
3. "At risk populations" means populations including but  not  limited
  to  families  with  children  receiving  family  assistance,  households
  receiving federal supplemental security income payments, households with
  incomes at or below one  hundred  eighty-five  percent  of  the  poverty
  level,  recipients  of  emergency  food,  elderly  or  disabled persons,
  homeless persons, unemployed persons, and families and persons  residing
  in rural households who are at risk of nutritional deficiencies.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-A - Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Program › 465-B - Responsibilities of the Commissioner.

§  465-b. Responsibilities of the commissioner. The commissioner shall
  directly or through contract administer a program of nutrition  outreach
  that shall include but not be limited to:
1. statewide coordination;
2.  provision  of  information  as to the availability of, eligibility
  criteria for, and application procedure for food assistance programs;
3. coordination of efforts among state  agencies  including,  but  not
  limited  to, the department of health, the office for the aging, and the
  education department and community agencies involved in food  assistance
  programs;
4.  compilation  of statistical data from state and local agencies and
  dissemination to community organizations; and
5. nutrition education.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-A - Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Program › 465-C - Grants to Community Organizations.

§  465-c.  Grants  to  community organizations. The commissioner shall
  make grants within the amount appropriated therefor  to  community-based
  organizations or consortia of community-based organizations in high risk
  areas  for  outreach  activities. Such outreach activities shall include
  but not be limited to:
1. identification of barriers  to  participation  in  food  assistance
  programs including the unavailability of such programs;
2.  information  as  to  program availability, individual or household
  eligibility, and application procedure;
3. identification of at risk populations and individuals within the at
  risk populations who are not participating;
4. assistance with eligibility requirements including verification and
  enrollment;
5. dissemination of information to and  conducting  training  sessions
  for local groups; and
6. nutrition education to at risk populations.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-A - Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Program › 465-D - Criteria for High Risk Areas.

§  465-d. Criteria for high risk areas. In selecting those areas which
  would be determined to be high risk and therefore eligible for a  grant,
  the commissioner may consider factors including, but not limited to:
1.  fifty  percent  or  more  of  those  potentially  eligible are not
  participating in the food stamp program or where a significant number of
  the population potentially eligible, particularly the working  poor  and
  the elderly, are not participating;
2.  twenty-five  percent  or more of children are eligible for free or
  reduced price meals within the school lunch program;
3. infant mortality or morbidity rates;
4. economic indicators including, but not limited to, the unemployment
  rate, prevailing wages, and recent loss of job base;
5. high concentration of at risk populations; and
6. unavailability of food assistance programs in the area  because  of
  lack  of provider participation or knowledge about the existence of such
  programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-B - Transitional Care › 466-A - Agreements.

§  466-a.  Agreements.  The department shall enter into memorandums of
  understanding with the office of mental health and the office for people
  with developmental disabilities. The memorandums  with  the  office  for
  people  with  developmental disabilities and the office of mental health
  shall facilitate access  by  those  offices  to  child  care  facilities
  providing  transitional  care  to  young  adults as may be necessary for
  those offices to meet their responsibilities for monitoring the care  of
  the young adults.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 8-B - Transitional Care › 466-B - Care Provided by Authorized Agencies.

§ 466-b. Care provided by authorized agencies. An authorized agency as
  defined  in section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter shall also
  be  authorized to provide temporary care for persons over age twenty-one
  who meet the requirements of section 7.37-a or  13.37-a  of  the  mental
  hygiene  law  or  on  whose  behalf  temporary  payments  are being made
  pursuant to section 7.38 or 13.38 of the mental hygiene law, who were in
  the care of the authorized agency at  the  time  of  their  twenty-first
  birthday,  and  who  have  remained  continuously  in  the  care  of the
  authorized agency since their twenty-first  birthday.    Notwithstanding
  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  in  any case where an individual
  receiving transitional funding is about to be transferred from  a  child
  care  facility  to an adult placement, a transfer plan shall be prepared
  by the sending facility and forwarded to the receiving facility and  the
  individual, and, unless the individual objects, the parents, guardian or
  other  family  members  prior  to  the transfer. The transfer plan shall
  include any information necessary to facilitate a safe transfer, such as
  specific problems, schedule for administering medications  and  behavior
  unique to the individual.