New York Laws
Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children
390-C*2 - Additional Powers and Duties of the Office of Children and Family Services.

* § 390-c. Additional powers and duties of the office of children and
family services. 1. The commissioner of children and family services is
authorized and directed to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to
ensure that, whenever a child day care provider is licensed or
registered pursuant to section three hundred ninety of this article, the
police department and fire department of the municipality wherein such
licensee or registrant is authorized to operate and the state police
shall be notified of the existence of the child day care center, its
location and the fact that children are likely to be at that location in
the event of an emergency. In those cases where the local municipality
does not have a police department or a fire department, the sheriff of
the appropriate county shall be notified in lieu thereof.

2. The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and
directed to conduct a study to determine the best method of compiling an
accurate and accessible central record of information regarding the safe
operation of each day care center licensed or registered within the
state. Such record should include but not be limited to complaints by
parents or guardians, internal incident reports, reports by police or
fire departments, local or state building code violations, any relevant
information gathered from utility providers or other visitors to the day
care center and any additional information held by another state or
local agency regarding a day care provider or a day care center location
which could affect safe operation of a day care center.

3. On or before the thirtieth day of June in the year next succeeding
the year in which this section takes effect, the commissioner of
children and family services shall report to the governor, the temporary
president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly regarding the
results of the study undertaken pursuant to subdivision two of this
section.

4. The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and
directed, no later than one year from the effective date of this
subdivision, to promulgate rules and regulations to require that local
social services districts offer child day care providers, as defined in
section three hundred ninety of this title, the option to be paid any
monies owed for providing subsidized child care by a deposit directly
into a bank account of the child day care provider. Such direct deposit
shall only be made at the express written consent of the provider and
shall be requested on forms provided by the local social services
district and duly filled in by the provider. Such written consent can be
revoked at any time by the provider in writing on forms provided by the
local social services district.

* NB There are 2 § 390-c's

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