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               The regulations of the Department of Social Services                   
          concerning the physical requirements of a certified foster home             
          are extensive, and include, among others, the following:                    
                    (1) Physical facilities of the foster home shall                  
               be in good condition and present no hazard to the                      
               health and safety of the children.                                     
                    (2) Foster homes shall be in substantial                          
               compliance with all applicable provisions of State and                 
               local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations.                         
                    (3) The physical space, construction and                          
               maintenance of each foster home and premises shall be                  
               in good repair and kept in a sufficiently clean and                    
               sanitary condition so that the physical well-being as                  
               well as a reasonable degree of physical comfort is                     
               assured the members of the foster family.                              
                    (4) Foster homes shall have separate bedrooms for                 
               children of the opposite sex over four years of age.                   
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               As foster parents, petitioners have boarded several foster             
          children since 1980.  In 1991, they cared for a young girl, then            
          aged 6, in their home.  Petitioners first received this foster              
          child into their home in 1989.  Petitioners' foster child, their            
          adopted daughter, and their son resided in petitioners' household           
          in 1991.  Two other sons resided outside petitioners' household.            
               For 1991, petitioners were reimbursed by Monroe County in              
          the amount of $9,539 for the care of their foster child.  This              
          reimbursement included "board payments" of $8,559, a "clothing              
          allowance" of $509, and "special allowances" of $471.                       
               The Foster Parent Manual, published by the New York State              
          Department of Social Services and supplemented by the Monroe                




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