N.Y. Social Services Law § 372-d: Adoption services; purchase by department

§ 372-d. Adoption services; purchase by department. 1. The

department may provide, through purchase of services from authorized

agencies, adoption services for any child who has been referred to the

statewide adoption service pursuant to section three hundred

seventy-two-c and who has not been placed for adoption within three

months after the date of such referral.

2. As used in this section "adoption services" shall mean those

services and activities set forth in subdivision one of section three

hundred seventy-two-b of this chapter.

3. In accordance with regulations of the department, expenditures

made by the department for the provision, through purchase, of adoption

services for a child pursuant to this section shall be subject to

reimbursement to the state by the social services district charged with

the guardianship and custody of the child, as follows: fifty percent of

the amount expended for the provision of such adoption services after

first deducting from such amount any federal funds properly received or

to be received on account thereof.