2006 New York Code - Safeguarding religion of children under jurisdiction of court.

 
    §  32. When any court having jurisdiction over a child shall commit it
  or remand it to an institution or agency or place it in the  custody  of
  any  person  by parole, placing out, adoption or guardianship, the child
  shall be committed or  remanded  or  placed,  when  practicable,  in  an
  institution  or  agency  governed  by  persons,  or  in the custody of a
  person, of the same religious persuasion as the child.