2014 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 1 - (371 - 392) CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
383-B - Medical treatment for abused, neglected and destitute children; consent of commissioners.

  383-b.  Medical  treatment  for  abused,  neglected  and  destitute
  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, neglected or destitute
  child, or who has been taken into  or  kept  in  protective  custody  or
  removed  from  the  place  where  he or she is residing, or who has been
  placed in the custody of such commissioner,  pursuant  to  section  four
  hundred  seventeen  of  this article or section one thousand twenty-two,
  section one thousand twenty-four,  section  one  thousand  twenty-seven,
  section  one thousand ninety-four or section one thousand ninety-five of
  the family court act.