2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 1 - (371 - 392) CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
383-B - Medical treatment for abused or neglected children; consent of commissioners.

 
    §  383-b.  Medical treatment for abused or neglected children; consent
  of commissioners.   The local commissioner of  social  services  or  the
  local  commissioner  of  health  may give effective consent for medical,
  dental, health and hospital services for any child who has been found by
  the family court to be an abused child or a neglected child, or who  has
  been  taken into or kept in protective custody or removed from the place
  where he is residing, or who has been placed  in  the  custody  of  such
  commissioner, pursuant to section four hundred seventeen of this chapter
  or  section one thousand twenty-two, section one thousand twenty-four or
  section one thousand twenty-seven of the family court act.