§ 529. Reimbursement for institutional care, aftercare supervision and\nfoster care. 1. Definitions. As used in this section:\n (a) "authorized agency", "certified boarding home", "local charge" and\n"state charge" shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms by the\nsocial services law;\n (b) "aftercare supervision" shall mean supervision of released or\ndischarged youth, not in foster care; and,\n (c) "foster care" shall mean residential care, maintenance and\nsupervision provided released or discharged youth, or youth otherwise in\nthe custody of the division for youth, in a division foster family home\ncertified by the division.\n (d) "division foster family home" means a service program provided in\na home setting available to youth under the jurisdiction of the division\nfor youth.\n 2. Expenditures made by the office of children and family services for\ncare, maintenance and supervision furnished youth, including alleged and\nadjudicated juvenile delinquents and persons in need of supervision,\nplaced or referred, pursuant to titles two or three of this article, and\njuvenile offenders, youthful offenders and adolescent offenders\ncommitted pursuant to the penal law, in the office's programs and\nfacilities, shall be subject to reimbursement to the state by the social\nservices district from which the youth was placed or by the social\nservices district in which the juvenile offender resided at the time of\ncommitment, in accordance with this section and the regulations of the\noffice, as follows: fifty percent of the amount expended for care,\nmaintenance and supervision of local charges including juvenile\noffenders.\n 4. Expenditures made by the division for youth for foster care shall\nbe subject to reimbursement to the state by the social services district\nfrom which the youth was placed, in accordance with the regulations of\nthe division, as follows: fifty percent of the amount expended for care,\nmaintenance and supervision of local charges.\n 5. (a) Expenditures made by the division for youth for aftercare\nsupervision shall be subject to reimbursement to the state by the social\nservices district from which the youth was placed, in accordance with\nregulations of the division, as follows: fifty percent of the amount\nexpended for aftercare supervision of local charges.\n (b) Expenditures made by social services districts for aftercare\nsupervision of adjudicated juvenile delinquents and persons in need of\nsupervision provided (prior to the expiration of the initial or extended\nperiod of placement or commitment) by the aftercare staff of the\nfacility from which the youth has been released or discharged, other\nthan those under the jurisdiction of the division for youth, in which\nsaid youth was placed or committed, pursuant to directions of the family\ncourt, shall be subject to reimbursement by the state, upon approval by\nthe division and in accordance with its regulations, as follows:\n (1) the full amount expended by the district for aftercare supervision\nof state charges;\n (2) fifty percent of the amount expended by the district for aftercare\nsupervision of local charges.\n (c) Expenditures made by the division for youth for contracted\nprograms and contracted services pursuant to subdivision seven of\nsection five hundred one of this article, except with respect to urban\nhomes and group homes, shall be subject to reimbursement to the state by\nthe social services district from which the youth was placed, in\naccordance with this section and the regulations of the division as\nfollows: fifty percent of the amount expended for the operation and\nmaintenance of such programs and services.\n 5-a. The social services district responsible for reimbursement to the\nstate shall remain the same if during a period of placement or extension\nthereof, a child commits a criminal act while in a division facility,\nduring an authorized absence therefrom or after absconding therefrom and\nis returned
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