2006 New York Code - Reporting Of Endangered Adults; Persons In Need Of Protective Services.

 
    § 473-b. Reporting of endangered adults; persons in need of protective
  services.  Any  person who in good faith believes that a person eighteen
  years of age or  older  may  be  an  endangered  adult  or  in  need  of
  protective  or  other services, pursuant to this article, and who, based
  on such belief either:
    (a) reports or refers such person to the department,  office  for  the
  aging,  or  any local social services district office or designated area
  agency on aging, law enforcement agency, or any other person, agency  or
  organization  that  such  person,  in  good  faith,  believes  will take
  appropriate action; or
    (b) testifies in any judicial  or  administrative  proceeding  arising
  from  such  report  or  referral  shall  have  immunity  from  any civil
  liability that might otherwise result by reason of  the  act  of  making
  such report or referral or of giving of such testimony.