§ 20. Powers and duties of the department.\n 2. The department shall, as provided in this chapter:\n (a) administer all the forms of public welfare work for which the\nstate is responsible;\n (b) supervise all social services work, as the same may be\nadministered by any local unit of government and the social services\nofficials thereof within the state, advise them in the performance of\ntheir official duties and regulate the financial assistance granted by\nthe state in connection with said work;\n (c) distribute, reimburse and grant as herein provided the funds\nappropriated by the legislature for such participation and also such\nfunds as may be received from the federal government for such purpose or\npurposes.\n 3. The department is authorized:\n (a) to supervise local social services departments and in exercising\nsuch supervision the department shall approve or disapprove rules,\nregulations and procedures made by local social services officials\nwithin thirty days after filing of same with the commissioner; such\nrules, regulations and procedures shall become operative immediately\nupon approval or on the thirtieth day after such submission to the\ncommissioner unless the commissioner shall specifically disapprove said\nrule, regulation or procedure as being inconsistent with law or\nregulations of the department;\n (b) in accordance with the provisions of this chapter to make\nreimbursements of local welfare costs on a participating basis\nestablished by law, to advance grants of money for local welfare\npurposes and to administer a discretionary fund for such purposes within\nthe limit of available appropriations;\n (c) to pay such per centum as the legislature shall determine, of the\nsalaries of local administrative personnel as it shall determine to be\nqualified to perform the duties assigned;\n (d) to establish rules, regulations and policies to carry out its\npowers and duties under this chapter;\n (e) to withhold or deny state reimbursement, in whole or in part, from\nor to any social services district or any city or town thereof, in the\nevent of the failure of either of them to comply with law, rules or\nregulations of the department relating to public assistance and care or\nthe administration thereof;\n (f) to promulgate any regulations the commissioner determines are\nnecessary, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred\neleven-b of this chapter, and to withhold or deny state reimbursement,\nin whole or in part, from or to any social services district, in the\nevent of the failure of any such district to comply with such\nregulations relating to such district's organization, administration,\nmanagement or program. Upon withholding or denying state reimbursement,\nthe commissioner shall notify the temporary president of the senate, the\nspeaker of the assembly and the chairmen of the senate finance committee\nand assembly ways and means committee;\n (g) to formulate plans for the recruitment, utilization and training\nof volunteers to assist in performing services and other duties in\nsocial services districts for the purpose of improving participation in\npublic welfare programs;\n (h) for the purpose of the proper administration of programs of public\nassistance and care, to enter into agreements not inconsistent with\nfederal law, with public agencies responsible for the administration of\npublic assistance and care in any geographically contiguous state, to\nreceive information from such public agencies which is substantially\nsimilar to information obtained by the department from the wage\nreporting system operated by the state department of taxation and\nfinance pursuant to section one hundred seventy-one-a of the tax law\nand, subject to the approval of the state department of taxation and\nfinance, to provide such public agencies with information obtained from\nsuch wage reporting system; provided, however, that no such agreement\nshall be entered into with a public ag
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