2010 New York Code
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 1 - (371 - 392) CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
372-B - Adoption services.

§  372-b. Adoption services. 1. a. A prospective adoptive parent shall
  have a right to a fair hearing pursuant to section  twenty-two  of  this
  chapter  concerning the failure of a social services official to provide
  adoption services authorized to be provided pursuant to this section and
  the state's consolidated services plan.  At the time a child  is  placed
  in a prospective adoptive home, the prospective adoptive parent shall be
  notified in writing of his or her right to such fair hearing.
    b.  Each  social  services  official shall provide, either directly or
  through purchase of service, adoption services for each child  in  their
  care  who  is  freed for adoption.  Such adoption services shall include
  the evaluation of a child's placement needs and pre-placement  planning,
  recruitment  of and homestudy for prospective adoptive parents, training
  of adoptive parents, placement planning, supervision and  post  adoption
  services.
    2.    The  department shall promulgate regulations which shall require
  that adoption services be made available to all children who are  listed
  with  the  New York state adoption service.  Such regulations shall also
  provide for cooperation between local social services commissioners, and
  for apportioning reimbursement for adoption services where more than one
  agency or social services district has  provided  such  services  for  a
  child.
    2-a.   The  department  shall  promulgate  regulations  requiring  all
  adoption agencies to forward names and addresses of all persons who have
  applied for adoption of a hard-to-place or handicapped child, as defined
  in section four hundred fifty-one of this chapter. A list of such  names
  and  addresses shall be maintained by the department and made available,
  without charge, to every agency in the state to assist them  in  placing
  such children for adoption.
    3.     The    department  shall  promulgate  regulations  to  maintain
  enlightened adoption policies and to establish  standards  and  criteria
  for adoption practices.