2010 New York Code
SOS - Social Services
Article 9-A - Berkshire Industrial Farm
Title 2 - (472-E - 472-Q) BERKSHIRE INDUSTRIAL FARM
472-J - Custody of children, how acquired; notice to corporation.

§  472-j.    Custody of children, how acquired; notice to corporation.
  The corporation shall be deemed to have acquired lawful care and custody
  of any child  between the ages of six and eighteen years who shall  have
  been  surrendered  to  it  by its parent or guardian; provided that such
  surrender is evidenced by a writing executed by such parent or  guardian
  setting  forth the name and age of the child, the date of surrender, and
  the term for which such surrender is made, and expressly vesting in  the
  corporation  all  the  powers  and  control over the child of which such
  parent or guardian was possessed; provided that no such surrender  shall
  be  made except upon five days' previous notice of the intention to make
  such surrender in writing, by the parent or guardian of the child to the
  said corporation or its agents.