New York Social Services Law Section 148 - Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public welfare district.

  148.  Penalty  for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public
  welfare district.  No person shall, without  legal  authority,  send  or
  bring,  or  cause  to be sent or brought, any needy person into a public
  welfare district with the purpose of making him a charge on such  public
  welfare  district,  or for the purpose of avoiding the responsibility of
  assistance or care in the public  welfare  district  from  which  he  is
  brought or sent.  Any person found guilty of such an act shall be guilty
  of  a  misdemeanor and liable to a fine of fifty dollars, recoverable in
  the name of the public welfare district.

Last modified: February 3, 2019