2006 New York Code - Payments For Indians.

 
    §  13-a.  Payments  for  Indians.    Whenever it shall appear that any
  person whose name shall be certified for payment of an annuity or  other
  fund  by  the state is incapable of receiving it because of incompetency
  or infancy said payment shall be made to the attorney or  agent  of  the
  tribe  of  which said incompetent or infant is a member, as trustee, who
  shall disburse it for the benefit of said incompetent or infant in  such
  manner as will best promote his or her general welfare, except when such
  payment  is  certified  to  be  made  to  a  member  of the Cayuga tribe
  incapable of receiving it in which event said payment shall be  made  to
  the  state  department  of  social welfare for the purposes hereinbefore
  described.