§ 532-f. Required certification for residential programs.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
residential program established for the purpose of serving runaway and
homeless youth that serves any youth under the age of eighteen or that
is contained in a municipality's approved comprehensive plan, must be
certified by the office of children and family services and must be
operated by an authorized agency as such term is defined in subdivision
ten of section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law.