2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 1 - (371 - 392) CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
372-D - Adoption services; purchase by department.

 
    §  372-d.    Adoption  services;  purchase  by  department.   1.   The
  department may provide, through purchase  of  services  from  authorized
  agencies,  adoption  services for any child who has been referred to the
  statewide  adoption  service   pursuant   to   section   three   hundred
  seventy-two-c  and  who  has  not  been placed for adoption within three
  months after the date of such referral.
    2.   As used in this section  "adoption  services"  shall  mean  those
  services  and  activities  set forth in subdivision one of section three
  hundred seventy-two-b of this chapter.
    3.  In accordance with regulations  of  the  department,  expenditures
  made  by the department for the provision, through purchase, of adoption
  services for a child pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be  subject  to
  reimbursement  to the state by the social services district charged with
  the guardianship and custody of the child, as follows:  fifty percent of
  the amount expended for the provision of such  adoption  services  after
  first  deducting from such amount any federal funds properly received or
  to be received on account thereof.