2006 New York Code - Clothing And Money To Be Furnished Patients Discharged Or Released.

 
  § 29.17 Clothing  and  money  to  be  furnished  patients  discharged or
            released.
    No patient shall be discharged or released from a department  facility
  without  suitable  clothing  adapted  to  the  season  in  which  he  is
  discharged or released; and if it  cannot  be  otherwise  obtained,  the
  facility  shall  upon the order of the director, or of the commissioner,
  as the case may be, furnish the same,  and  money  not  exceeding  fifty
  dollars,  to  defray  his  expenses  until he can reach his relatives or
  friends, or find employment to earn a subsistence.