2006 New York Code - General Provisions

 
                                   TITLE 1
 
                             GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
  Section 131.    Assistance, care and services to be given.
          131-a.  Monthly grants and allowances of public assistance.
          131-b.  Fees for services.
          131-c.  Inclusion  of  parents  and  siblings  of a minor in the
                    public assistance household.
          131-d.  Substance abuse rehabilitative and preventive services.
          131-e.  Family planning services.
          131-f.  Retroactive social security benefit increases.
          131-g.  Authority to accept public and private gifts.
          131-h.  Authority to operate family homes for adults.
          131-i.  Social services districts; agreements.
          131-i*. Family loan program.
          131-j.  Certain utility deposits.
          131-k.  Illegal aliens.
          131-l.  Exclusion of agent orange benefits.
          131-m.  Information on resource referral services.
          131-n.  Exemption of income and resources.
          131-o.  Personal allowances accounts.
          131-p.  Group   health   insurance   benefits;   condition    of
                    eligibility.
          131-q.  Electronic payment file transfer system pilot project.
          131-r.  Liability   for   reimbursement   of  public  assistance
                    benefits.
          131-s.  Payments made for  utility  service  for  recipients  of
                    public   assistance  benefits,  supplemental  security
                    income benefits or additional state payments.
          131-t.  Periodic reporting.
          131-u.  Domestic violence services to eligible persons.
          131-v.  Temporary emergency shelter.
          131-w.  Limitations in the payment of rent arrears.
          131-x.  Reverse mortgage loans.
          131-z.  Child assistance program.
          131-aa. Monthly statistical reports.
          132.    Investigation of applications.
          132-a.  Children born out of wedlock; special provisions.
          133.    Temporary preinvestigation grant.
          133-a.  Contracts for distribution of public assistance grants.
          134.    Supervision.
          134-a.  Conduct of investigation.
          134-b.  Front end detection system.
          135.    Cooperation of public welfare officials.
          136.    Protection of public welfare records.
          136-a.  Information  from   state   tax   commission   and   the
                    comptroller.
          137.    Exemption from levy and execution.
          137-a.  Exemption  of  earnings  of  recipients from assignment,
                    income execution and installment payment order.
          138-a.  Responsibility  of  the  department  for  recipients  in
                    family care.
          139-a.  Special  provisions  to  avoid  abuse  of assistance and
                    care.
          141.    Burial of the dead.
          142.    Exclusiveness of eligibility requirements.
          142-a.  Federal economic opportunity  act  grants  or  payments;
                    effect on eligibility for certain public assistance or
                    care.
          142-b.  Federal manpower development training act and elementary
                    and secondary education act grants or payments; effect
                    on eligibility for certain public assistance or care.
          143.    Information  to be given by employers of labor to social
                    services officials, the department, family  court  and
                    the state department of mental hygiene.
          143-a.  Information  to  be given to public welfare officials by
                    retail instalment sellers, small  loan  companies  and
                    sales finance companies.
          143-b.  Avoidance of abuses in connection with rent checks.
          143-c.  Avoidance  of  abuses  in  connection with rent security
                    deposits.
          144.    Power of public welfare officials and  service  officers
                    to administer oaths; power of public welfare officials
                    to  subpoena  persons  liable  for  support and compel
                    production of records.
          144-a.  Information to be given to officials of  the  department
                    and of social services districts.
          145.    Penalties.
          145-a.  Judgment liens.
          145-b.  False statements; actions for treble damages.
          145-c.  Sanctions.
          146.    Penalty for the sale or exchange of assistance supplies.
          147.    Misuse  of  food  stamps,  food  stamp  program coupons,
                    authorization cards and electronic access devices.
          148.    Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy  person  into  a
                    public welfare district.
          149.    Penalty for bringing a needy person into the state.
          150.    Penalty  for  neglect  to  report  or  for  making false
                    report.
          151.    Penalty for cashing public assistance checks.
          152.    Payments to the New  York  public  welfare  association;
                    attendance at conventions of public welfare officials.
          152-a.  Burial   reserves   for  certain  recipients  of  public
                    assistance or care from assigned assets.
          152-b.  Surplus after recovery of cost of public assistance  and
                    care; unclaimed funds.