New York Laws
Title 2 - Facilities
504 - Division Facilities.

§ 504. Division facilities. 1. The office of children and family
services shall operate and maintain secure, limited secure and
non-secure facilities for the care, custody, treatment, housing,
education, rehabilitation and guidance of youth placed with or committed
to the office of children and family services.

2. Each separate facility may bear the name, designated by the
division, of an individual known for outstanding service to youth.

3. A youth attending a local public school while in residence at a
division facility shall be deemed a resident of the school district
where the youth's parent or guardian resides at the commencement of each
school year for the purpose of determining which school district shall
be responsible for the youth's tuition.

4. The division shall determine the particular division facility or
program in which a child placed with the division shall be cared for,
based upon an evaluation of such child. The division shall also have
authority to discharge or conditionally release children placed with it
and to transfer such children from a limited secure or non-secure
facility to any other limited secure or non-secure facility, when the
interest of such children requires such action; provided that a child
transferred to a non-secure facility from a limited secure facility may
be returned to a limited secure facility upon a determination by the
division that, for any reason, care and treatment at the non-secure
facility is no longer suitable.