N.Y. Social Services Law § 157: Definitions

§ 157. Definitions. As used in this title. 1. Safety net assistance

means allowances pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-a of this

article for all support, maintenance and need, and costs of suitable

training in a trade to enable a person to become self-supporting,

furnished eligible needy persons in accordance with applicable

provisions of law, by a municipal corporation, or a town where safety

net assistance is a town charge, to persons or their dependents in their

abode or habitation whenever possible and includes such relief granted

to veterans under existing laws but does not include hospital or

institutional care, except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, or

family assistance or medical assistance for needy persons granted under

titles ten and eleven of this article, respectively, or aid to persons

receiving federal supplemental security income payments and/or

additional state payments. Safety net assistance may also be provided in

a family home or boarding home, operated in compliance with the

regulations of the department, and on and after January first, nineteen

hundred seventy-four, in facilities in which a person is receiving

family care or residential care, as those terms are used in title six of

this article, and to persons receiving care in a facility supervised by

the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services or in a

residential facility for the mentally disabled approved, licensed or

operated by the office of mental health or the office for people with

developmental disabilities, other than those facilities defined in

sections 7.17 and 13.17 of the mental hygiene law, in a developmental

center facility operated by the office for people with developmental

disabilities or residential care centers for adults operated by the

office of mental health, when such type of care is deemed necessary.

Payments to such homes and facilities for care and maintenance provided

by them shall be at rates established pursuant to law and regulations of

the department. The department, however, shall not establish rates of

payment to such homes or facilities without approval of the director of

the budget.

2. State aid means payments to a municipal corporation by the state

for home relief furnished in accordance with this title.

3. Municipal corporation shall mean a county or city except a county

wholly within a city.