New York Social Services Law Article 2 - DEPARTMENT AND STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WELFARE

• 5 - Department of Social Welfare.
  The state department of social welfare, provided for in the constitution, is hereby continued.
• 11 - Commissioner of Social Services.
  The chief executive and administrative officer of the department shall be the commissioner of social services, who shall be appointed by the governor with the...
• 12 - Deputy Commissioners.
  The Commissioner shall appoint and remove at pleasure a first deputy commissioner, and such other deputy commissioners as he shall deem necessary for the proper...
• 13 - Organization of the Department.
  The commissioner shall determine the structure of departmental organization.
• 14 - Employees; Compensation.
  In addition to his deputies, the commissioner may appoint and remove from time to time, in accordance with law and any applicable rules of the...
• 16 - Offices of the Department.
  The department shall be provided with suitably furnished rooms for its offices. The principal office of the department shall be in the county of Albany.
• 17 - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.
  The commissioner shall (a) determine the policies and principles upon which public assistance, services and care shall be provided within the state both by the...
• 20 - Powers and Duties of the Department.
  2. The department shall, as provided in this chapter: (a) administer all the forms of public welfare work for which the state is responsible; (b)...
• 20-a - Local Personnel; Limitations on Department's Power.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter, the board, the commissioner or the department, acting singly or in unison, shall not have the power, directly...
• 20-b - Plan for In-Home Care of Senior Citizens.
  On or before the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-two the New York state council for home care services, in consultation with the commissioner...
• 20-c - Privatization.
  1. (a) Except as otherwise specified in the appropriation for system support and information services program in the office of temporary disability assistance within the...
• 21 - Welfare Management System.
  1. The department shall design and implement a welfare management system which shall be capable of receiving, maintaining and processing information relating to persons who...
• 21-a - Electronic Benefit Transfer System.
  Any electronic benefit transfer system shall be implemented by the department on a statewide basis and shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this...
• 22 - Appeals and Fair Hearings; Judicial Review.
  1. Any person described in subdivision three of this section, or any individual authorized to act on behalf of any such person, may appeal to...
• 23 - Wage Reporting System.
  1. The department is authorized to provide information obtained from the wage reporting system as operated by the state department of taxation and finance: (a)...
• 28 - Gifts and Bequests.
  The department may receive and retain any money or other personal property given or bequeathed to the department or a division or bureau thereof and...
• 29 - Federal Agency.
  The department, with the approval of the governor, may accept a designation from, and act as, the agent of the federal security agency or other...
• 30 - Continuation of Salaries of Local and State Welfare Employees Receiving Training for the Better Performance of Their Duties.
  Subject to the approval of the department, the board of supervisors of a county and the appropriating body of a city or town may include...
• 31 - Fellowships and Scholarships for Local and State Public Welfare Employees.
  The department, under regulations which it shall prescribe, and from moneys received or appropriated for such purpose, is authorized to grant fellowships and scholarships to...
• 32 - Reciprocal Agreements.
  The department is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with corresponding state agencies of other states regarding interstate transportation of dependent and indigent persons, and...
• 33 - Contracts for Supplies and Commodities Needed in the Administration of Assistance.
  The department may (a) make agreements for supplies and commodities needed in the administration of assistance and care, under which local welfare units may, subject...
• 34 - General Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.
  1. The commissioner of social services shall be the chief administrative officer of the department. 2. All the administrative and executive powers and duties of...
• 34-a - Services Planning Requirements.
  1. (a) Each social services district shall prepare a multi-year consolidated services plan encompassing adult services and family and children's services, which shall include diversion...
• 35 - Legal Representation of Individuals Whose Federal Disability Benefits Have Been Denied or May Be Discontinued.
  1. The commissioner shall establish criteria for selection of grant applications, review applications awarded pursuant to the provisions of this section, and exercise and perform...
• 36 - Studies.
  The department shall, in so far as available appropriations will permit, study and collect information in relation to (a) the number and conditions of persons...
• 36-a - Department Research and Demonstration Projects.
  1. The department is authorized to sponsor, conduct and participate in research and demonstration projects designed to ascertain and eliminate the causes of dependency and...
• 36-b - Local Flexibility Incentive Pilot Program.
  1. The department, in cooperation with the department of labor, is authorized to establish the local flexibility incentive pilot program to enable social services districts...
• 36-c - Savings Plan Demonstration Project.
  * 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in any social services district with a city having a population of one million...
• 37 - Reports of and to Department.
  The department may collect and, so far as it shall deem advantageous, embody in its annual reports information relating to the best manner of dealing...
• 38 - Commission for the Blind.
  The New York state commission for the blind shall continue to exercise and perform its duties, as prescribed by law, and the regulations of the...
• 39 - Indian Affairs.
  1. Powers and duties, if any, conferred or imposed, in terms, by laws now in force, on the governor, commissioners of the land office and...
• 40 - Real Property; Purchase or Acquisition.
  1. The commissioner, when an appropriation therefor has been made by the legislature, may acquire any real property which he may deem necessary for any...

Last modified: February 3, 2019