New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services
Subchapter C - Social Services
Article 2 - Family and Children's Services
Part 421 - Standards of Practice for Adoption Services
- Section 421.1 - Definitions
- Section 421.2 - Principles of adoption services
- Section 421.3 - General requirements
- Section 421.4 - Services to biological parent or legal guardian
- Section 421.5 - Services to fathers of out-of-wedlock children
- Section 421.6 - Surrender
- Section 421.7 - Termination of parental rights
- Section 421.8 - Services to children
- Section 421.9 - Purchase-of-service contracts
- Section 421.10 - Community relations and recruiting
- Section 421.11 - First contact with prospective adoptive parents
- Section 421.12 - Application
- Section 421.13 - Application acceptance
- Section 421.14 - Waiting lists
- Section 421.15 - Adoption study process
- Section 421.16 - Adoption study criteria
- Section 421.17 - Finding a child
- Section 421.18 - Special provisions for adoptive placement
- Section 421.19 - Foster parents
- Section 421.20 - Records and reports
- Section 421.21 - Reimbursement for adoption expenditures
- Section 421.22 - Apportioning reimbursement
- Section 421.23 - Claiming
- Section 421.24 - Adoption with subsidy
- Section 421.25 - Agency staff review and evaluation
- Section 421.26 - Adoptive placements across State and county jurisdictions
- Section 421.27 - Criminal history record check
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
Statutory authority: Social Services Law, §§ 20, 22, 34, 101, 111-b, 111-i, 358-a, 372-b, 372-d, 372-e, 373-a, 374- a, 378-a, 378[a][2], [5], 383[3], 383-c, 384, 384-a, 384- b, 390, 398, 398-a, 398-b, 409-e, 409-f, 424-a, 450- 458, 460-d; Family Court Act, art. 10-A, § 1017; L. 1986, ch. 451; L. 1997, ch. 436; L. 1999, ch. 7, §§ 7, 55, 58; L. 2000, ch. 145; L. 2006, ch. 668; L. 2008, ch. 623, § 5
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