412 - Definitions. - New York Statutes

§ 412. Definitions. As used in this article, 1. "Office" shall mean the office of children and family services established in the department of family assistance by chapter four hundred thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven. 2. "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of children and family services, designated as the head of the office of children and family services by chapter four hundred thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven. 3. "Youth" shall mean any person under twenty-one years of age. 4. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, village, town, that part of a town not included within the boundaries of a village, or a school district (if approved for such purpose by the commissioner, in instances where no other municipality, overlapping such school district in whole or part, is receiving state aid pursuant to this article or upon such other basis as the commissioner shall by regulation determine). Municipality may mean an Indian reservation, subject to rules and regulations of the office. 5. "Youth program" shall mean a "youth bureau," "recreation project" or "youth service" project established under prior authorizing legislation establishing a temporary state youth commission as well as similar local programs designed to accomplish the broad purposes of this article. The definition, determination and classification of youth programs shall be subject to approval by the office in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by it. 6. "State aid" shall mean payments by the state to a municipality for or toward the cost of establishment, operation and/or maintenance of approved youth programs in accordance with the provisions of this article. 7. "Youth board" shall mean the citizen board of a youth bureau.