2006 New York Code - Consolidated Procedure.

 
  § 79.09 Consolidated procedure.
    Upon  petition for the appointment of a guardian the court may appoint
  such  guardian  to  receive  not  only  benefits  from   the   veterans'
  administration and income from such benefits, but such other property of
  the  ward  to  which  he  may  be  entitled  and which is not then being
  administered by a committee appointed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
  article  seventy-eight  of this chapter in the case of an incompetent or
  pursuant to article seventy-seven of this  chapter  in  the  case  of  a
  conservatee,  or  guardian  appointed  pursuant to the provisions of the
  surrogate's court procedure act in the  case  of  an  infant;  provided,
  however,  that if objection to such appointment of a guardian be made by
  or on behalf of such ward, such appointment shall  not  be  made  except
  upon  compliance  with said provisions of this chapter in the case of an
  incompetent or conservatee, or the surrogate's court  procedure  act  in
  the case of an infant.