2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 19-A - (411 - 426) DELINQUENCY AND YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION
412 - Definitions.

§ 412. Definitions. As used in this article,
    1.  "Office"  shall  mean  the  office of children and family services
  established in the department  of  family  assistance  by  chapter  four
  hundred thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven.
    2.  "Commissioner"  shall mean the commissioner of children and family
  services, designated as the head of the office of  children  and  family
  services  by  chapter  four  hundred  thirty-six of the laws of nineteen
  hundred ninety-seven.
    3. "Youth" shall mean any person under twenty-one years of age.
    4. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, village, town, that  part
  of  a  town not included within the boundaries of a village, or a school
  district (if approved for such purpose by the commissioner, in instances
  where no other municipality, overlapping such school district  in  whole
  or  part,  is  receiving state aid pursuant to this article or upon such
  other  basis  as  the  commissioner  shall  by  regulation   determine).
  Municipality  may  mean  an  Indian  reservation,  subject  to rules and
  regulations of the office.
    5. "Youth program" shall mean a "youth bureau,"  "recreation  project"
  or   "youth   service"   project  established  under  prior  authorizing
  legislation establishing a temporary state youth commission as  well  as
  similar local programs designed to accomplish the broad purposes of this
  article.  The  definition,  determination  and  classification  of youth
  programs shall be subject to approval by the office in  accordance  with
  rules and regulations adopted by it.
    6.  "State aid" shall mean payments by the state to a municipality for
  or toward the cost of establishment,  operation  and/or  maintenance  of
  approved  youth  programs  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of this
  article.
    7. "Youth board" shall mean the citizen board of a youth bureau.