N.Y. Banking Law § 4: Information to be given to social services officials, state department of social services, state department of mental hygiene, the mental...

§ 4. Information to be given to social services officials, state

department of social services, state department of mental hygiene, the

mental hygiene legal service, representatives of boards of child welfare

and children's court by banking organizations. 1. If requested by an

authorized representative of the state department of mental hygiene, the

mental hygiene legal service, or of the state department of social

services, or by the authorities charged with the duty of administering

laws relating to public assistance or care or hospital care at public

expense in any town, city or county, the officials of any banking

organization shall furnish to such representative such information as

such officials have as to whether any inmate of any state institution,

or any applicant for or any person who is or was a recipient of hospital

care at public expense, or any applicant for or any person who is or was

a recipient of any form of public assistance or care under the social

services law, named in such request or the husband or wife, or other

relative legally responsible for the support of such inmate, applicant,

or recipient has or had funds, securities or other property on deposit

or in the custody of such banking organization, and the amount or

probable value thereof.

2. If requested by an authorized representative of the state office of

temporary and disability assistance, or a social services district child

support enforcement unit established pursuant to section one hundred

eleven-c of the social services law, the officials of any financial

institution, as defined in paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section

four hundred sixty-nine A of the federal social security act, shall

enter into an agreement with the state office of temporary and

disability assistance or a social services district child support

enforcement unit to develop and operate a data match system, using

automated data exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which each

such financial institution shall provide for each calendar quarter the

name, record address, social security number or other taxpayer

identification number, and other identifying information for each

individual who maintains a demand deposit account, checking or

negotiable withdrawal order account, savings account, time deposit

account, or money-market mutual fund account at such institution and who

owes past-due support, as identified by the state office of temporary

and disability assistance or a social services district child support

enforcement unit by name and social security number or other taxpayer

identification number. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the

authority of a local social services district support collection unit

pursuant to section one hundred eleven-h of the social services law.

3. No financial institution which discloses information pursuant to

subdivision two of this section, or discloses any financial record to

the state office of temporary and disability assistance or a child

support enforcement unit of a social services district for the purpose

of enforcing a child support obligation of such person, shall be liable

under any law to any person for such disclosure, or for any other action

taken in good faith to comply with subdivision two of this section.