2010 New York Code
SOS - Social Services
Article 6-A - (459-A - 459-H) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT
459-B - Residential services for victims of domestic violence.

§  459-b.  Residential  services  for victims of domestic violence. In
  accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the
  regulations of the department, a social services  district  shall  offer
  and  provide necessary and available emergency shelter and services at a
  residential program for victims of domestic  violence  to  a  victim  of
  domestic  violence  who  was residing in the social services district at
  the time of the alleged domestic violence whether or not such victim  is
  eligible for public assistance.