N.Y. Social Services Law § 148: Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public welfare district

§ 148. Penalty for unlawfully bringing a needy person into a public

welfare district. No person shall, without legal authority, send or

bring, or cause to be sent or brought, any needy person into a public

welfare district with the purpose of making him a charge on such public

welfare district, or for the purpose of avoiding the responsibility of

assistance or care in the public welfare district from which he is

brought or sent. Any person found guilty of such an act shall be guilty

of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine of fifty dollars, recoverable in

the name of the public welfare district.