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                           LAWS OF NEW YORK, 2000

 

                                 CHAPTER 596

 

  AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law and the family court act, in

    relation to the definition of a "person in need of supervision"

 

     Became a law December 19, 2000, with the approval of the Governor.

            Passed by a majority vote, three-fifths being present.

 

    The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-

  bly, do enact as follows:

 

    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 371 of the social services law, as

  added by chapter 690 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows:

    6.  "Person  in  need  of supervision" means a [male less than sixteen

  years of age and female] person less than eighteen years of age  who  is

  habitually  truant  or  who  is incorrigible, ungovernable or habitually

  disobedient and beyond the lawful control of a parent  or  other  person

  legally responsible for such child's care, or other lawful authority.

    §  2.  Subdivision  (a)  of  section  712  of the family court act, as

  amended by chapter 920 of the laws  of  1982,  is  amended  to  read  as

  follows:

    (a)  "Person  in need of supervision". A [male less than sixteen years

  of age and a female] person less than eighteen years of age who does not

  attend school in [accord] accordance with the provisions of part one  of

  article  sixty-five  of  the education law or who is incorrigible, ungo-

  vernable or habitually disobedient and beyond the lawful  control  of  a

  parent  or  other  person  legally responsible for such child's care, or

  other lawful authority, or who violates the provisions of section 221.05

  of the penal law.

    § 3. Subdivision (a) of section  718  of  the  family  court  act,  as

  amended  by  chapter  843  of  the  laws  of 1980, is amended to read as

  follows:

    (a)  A peace officer, acting pursuant to [his]  such  peace  officer's

  special  duties,  or  a  police  officer may return to [his] a parent or

  other person legally responsible for [his] such child's care  any  [male

  under  the age of sixteen or female] child under the age of eighteen who

  has run away from home without just cause  or  who,  in  the  reasonable

  [opinion]  conclusion of the officer, appears to have run away from home

  without just cause. For purposes of this action,  a  police  officer  or

  peace  officer  may  reasonably  conclude that a child has run away from

  home when the child refuses to give his or her  name  or  the  name  and

  address  of [his] a parent or other person legally responsible for [his]

  such child's care or when the officer has reason to doubt that the  name

  or  address given are the actual name and address of the parent or other

  person legally responsible for the child's care.

    § 4. Subdivision (b) of section 732 of the family court act is amended

  to read as follows:

    (b)  the respondent[, if male, was under sixteen years of age and,  if

  female,]  was  under  eighteen years of age at the time of the specified

  acts; and

 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law

                               to be omitted.

 

 

  CHAP. 596                          2

 

    § 5. This act shall take effect on the  first  day  of  November  next

  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

 

  The Legislature of the STATE OF NEW YORK ss:

    Pursuant  to  the authority vested in us by section 70-b of the Public

  Officers Law, we hereby jointly certify that  this  slip  copy  of  this

  session law was printed under our direction and, in accordance with such

  section, is entitled to be read into evidence.

 

     JOSEPH L. BRUNO                                     SHELDON SILVER

  Temporary President of the Senate                Speaker of the Assembly