New York Social Services Law Title 2 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC WELFARE OFFICIALS

• 395 - Responsibility of Public Welfare Districts for the Welfare of Children.
  A public welfare district shall be responsible for the welfare of children who are in need of public assistance and care, support and protection, residing...
• 396 - Health and Welfare Services to All Children.
  All public welfare districts and towns, shall provide children who attend schools other than public with all or any of the health and welfare services...
• 397 - Powers and Duties of Social Services Officials in Relation to Children.
  All social services officials responsible for the administration of safety net assistance to families shall, in relation to all children in such families other than...
• 398 - Additional Powers and Duties of Commissioners of Public Welfare and Certain City Public Welfare Officers in Relation to Children.
  Commissioners of public welfare and city public welfare officers responsible under the provisions of a special or local law for the children hereinafter specified shall...
• 398-a - Standards of Payment for Foster Care.
  (1) For purposes of this section, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the term foster child shall mean a person who is cared for away...
• 398-b - Transition to Managed Care.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary and subject to the availability of federal financial participation, the commissioner is authorized to make...
• 398-c - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner in Relation to Children.
  1. The commissioner shall determine whether a child, whose report is submitted to the department pursuant to subparagraph five of paragraph b of subdivision one...
• 398-d - Child Welfare Services Community Demonstration Projects.
  1. The legislature finds that the centralized delivery of child protective services, preventive services, adoption services and foster care services in a social service district...
• 398-e - Eligibility for Protective Services, Foster Care Services, and Residential Services for Victims of Domestic Violence.
  An alien, including a non-qualified alien, as determined by applicable federal statute and regulation, is eligible for protective services for adults and children, foster care...
• 399 - Children Discharged From State Institutions.
  The commissioner of social services shall co-operate with the state institutions for delinquent, mentally disabled and physically handicapped children to ascertain the conditions of the...
• 400 - Removal of Children.
  1. When any child shall have been placed in an institution or in a family home by a social services official, the social services official...
• 401 - Births to Inmates of Public Homes.
  No commissioner of public welfare shall provide care in a public home for any pregnant woman during confinement unless such public home has adequate hospital...
• 402 - Children Forbidden in Public Homes.
  No public welfare official shall send a child to be cared for in a public home, and no commissioner of public welfare and no superintendent...
• 403 - The Religious Faith of Children and Minors.
  The religious faith of children and minors between sixteen and eighteen years of age coming under the jurisdiction of public welfare officials shall be preserved...
• 404 - Juvenile Justice Services Close to Home Initiative.
  * 1. A social services district in a city with a population in excess of one million may implement a close to home initiative to...

Last modified: February 3, 2019