2006 New York Code - State board of social welfare; powers and duties.

 
    §  2.  The  state board of social welfare shall be continued. It shall
  visit and inspect, or cause to be visited and inspected  by  members  of
  its  staff,  all public and private institutions, whether state, county,
  municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which  are  in  receipt  of
  public  funds  and which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional
  or reformatory character, including all reformatories for juveniles  and
  institutions  or  agencies exercising custody of dependent, neglected or
  delinquent children, but excepting state institutions for the  education
  and support of the blind, the deaf and the dumb, and excepting also such
  institutions  as  are  hereinafter  made  subject  to the visitation and
  inspection of the department of mental hygiene or the  state  commission
  of   correction.   As  to  institutions,  whether  incorporated  or  not
  incorporated, having inmates, but not in receipt of public funds,  which
  are   of   a   charitable,  eleemosynary,  correctional  or  reformatory
  character, and agencies, whether incorporated or not  incorporated,  not
  in  receipt  of  public  funds,  which  exercise  custody  of dependent,
  neglected or delinquent children, the  state  board  of  social  welfare
  shall  make  inspections,  or cause inspections to be made by members of
  its staff, but solely as  to  matters  directly  affecting  the  health,
  safety,  treatment  and  training  of  their inmates, or of the children
  under their custody. Subject to  the  control  of  the  legislature  and
  pursuant  to the procedure prescribed by general law, the state board of
  social welfare may make rules and  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with
  this  constitution,  with  respect  to  all of the functions, powers and
  duties with which the department and the state board of  social  welfare
  are herein or shall be charged.