N.Y. Social Services Law 425 – Cooperation of other agencies
§ 425. Cooperation of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of this title, the commissioner may request and shall receive from departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state, or any of its political subdivisions, or any duly authorized agency, or any other agency providing services under the local child protective services plan such assistance and data as will enable the department and local child protective services to fulfill their responsibilities properly. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall limit the department's authority under sections three hundred seventy-two, four hundred sixty-c and four hundred sixty-e of this chapter to access the records of authorized agencies.
Terms Used In N.Y. Social Services Law 425
- Authorized agency: means
(a) Any agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other organization which is incorporated or organized under the laws of this state with corporate power or empowered by law to care for, to place out or to board out children, which actually has its place of business or plant in this state and which is approved, visited, inspected and supervised by the office of children and family services or which shall submit and consent to the approval, visitation, inspection and supervision of such office as to any and all acts in relation to the welfare of children performed or to be performed under this title; provided, however, that on and after June first, two thousand seven, such term shall not include any for-profit corporation or other for-profit entity or organization for the purposes of the operation, management, supervision or ownership of agency boarding homes, group homes, homes including family boarding homes of family free homes, or institutions which are located within this state;
(b) Any court or any social services official of this state authorized by law to place out or to board out children or any Indian tribe that has entered into an agreement with the department pursuant to section thirty-nine of this chapter;
(c) Any agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other organization which is not incorporated or organized under the laws of this state, placing out a child for adoption whose admission to the United States as an eligible orphan with non-quota immigrant status pursuant to the federal immigration and nationality act is sought for the purpose of adoption in the State of New York or who has been brought into the United States with such status and for such purpose, provided, however, that such agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other organization is licensed or otherwise authorized by another state to place out children for adoption, that such agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other organization is approved by the department to place out such children with non-quota immigrant status for adoption in the State of New York, and provided further, that such agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other organization complies with the regulations of the department pertaining to such placements. See N.Y. Social Services Law 371 - Child: means a person actually or apparently under the age of eighteen years;
2. See N.Y. Social Services Law 371 - Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Home: includes a family boarding home or a family free home. See N.Y. Social Services Law 371
2. The department, after consultation with the division for youth, the division of criminal justice services, the department of mental hygiene, the commission on quality of care for the mentally disabled and the state education department shall develop guidelines to be utilized by appropriate state and local governmental agencies and authorized agencies as defined by subdivision ten of section three hundred seventy-one of this article which have responsibility for the care and protection of children, in evaluating persons who have a criminal conviction record and who have applied to such agencies or provider agencies, as defined in subdivision three of section four hundred twenty-four-a of this title for employment or who have applied to such state agencies or licensing agency as defined in subdivision four of section four hundred twenty-four-a of this title, for a license, certificate, permit or approval to be an adoptive parent, provider of day care services in a day care center, family day care home or group family day care home, an operator of a camp subject to the provisions of Article 13-B of the public health law, or an operator of a foster family home subject to the provisions of subdivision seven of section five hundred one, § 502-a of the executive law or section three hundred seventy-six and three hundred seventy-seven of this article.
3. The guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision two of this section shall not supercede any similar guidelines developed by local governmental agencies prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six.