N.Y. Social Services Law 459-F – Payment for services
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§ 459-f. Payment for services. Payments by a social services district to a residential program for victims of domestic violence for the costs of emergency shelter and services provided to a victim of domestic violence at the daily reimbursement rate determined by the department in accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter shall be reduced by the sum of any other reimbursement available for such costs.
Terms Used In N.Y. Social Services Law 459-F
- Residential program for victims of domestic violence: means any residential care program certified by the department and operated by a not-for-profit organization in accordance with the regulations of the department for the purpose of providing emergency shelter, services and care to victims of domestic violence. See N.Y. Social Services Law 459-A
- Victim of domestic violence: means any person over the age of sixteen, any married person or any parent accompanied by his or her minor child or children in situations in which such person or such person's child is a victim of an act which would constitute a violation of the penal law, including, but not limited to acts constituting disorderly conduct, harassment, aggravated harassment, sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse, stalking, criminal mischief, menacing, reckless endangerment, kidnapping, assault, attempted assault, attempted murder, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, strangulation, identity theft, grand larceny or coercion; and
(i) such act or acts have resulted in actual physical or emotional injury or have created a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to such person or such person's child; and
(ii) such act or acts are or are alleged to have been committed by a family or household member. See N.Y. Social Services Law 459-A