N.Y. Social Services Law § 336-d: Job search activities

§ 336-d. Job search activities. 1. Each applicant for or recipient of

public assistance shall, upon request of the social services official,

demonstrate that he or she is engaged in an active and continuing effort

to achieve self-sufficiency as defined by the department. Such effort

shall include but not be limited to an active and continuing search for

employment, or for persons otherwise exempt in accordance with section

three hundred thirty-two of this title, and where deemed appropriate by

the social services official, activities that foster preparation for

employment. Each such applicant or recipient shall have an affirmative

duty to accept any offer of lawful employment in which he or she may

engage. The failure of a social services district to assign applicants

and recipients to activities pursuant to this title shall not relieve

such persons from the requirements of this section. An individual who

fails to comply with the requirements of the section shall be subject to

the provisions set forth in subdivision five of section one hundred

thirty-one of this chapter and of section three hundred forty-one and

three hundred forty-two of this title.

2. The social services official shall, if deemed appropriate by such

official, supervise job search activities assigned pursuant to this

article.