§ 356. Moneys to be provided by counties and cities; how expended.
1. The legislative body of each social services district shall annually
appropriate to the commissioner of social services such sum as may be
needed for family assistance, and for the administration thereof. When
the assistance for which such social services district is responsible is
administered, pursuant to title three-A of article three, by a social
services official who is not an officer of the social services district
for which the appropriation is made, all or part of the sum appropriated
shall be made available to such other officer and to the municipality of
which he or she is an officer, in the manner, and at such times, as is
required by other provisions of this chapter. The legislative body of
the social services district shall include such sums in the taxes to be
levied for such social services district.

2. Allowances granted for family assistance shall be paid out of
moneys appropriated or otherwise made available to the social services
district.

3. Expenditures for allowances and administrative expenses under this
title shall be a charge upon the county or city public welfare district.