Section 507-B. Placement and commitment; papers to be furnished

1.   No
  placement or commitment order to the division which  recites  the  facts
  upon  which it was based shall be deemed or held to be invalid by reason
  of any imperfection or defect in form.
    2. The court shall immediately notify the division of the placement or
  commitment of any youth therewith.  The orders of the court  and  copies
  of the probation report and all other relevant evaluative records in the
  possession  of  the  court, detention facility, and probation department
  related to such youth, including but  not  limited  to  any  diagnostic,
  educational,    medical,    psychological   and   psychiatric   records,
  fingerprints, photographs, a certified copy  of  the  sentence  and  any
  pre-sentence  memoranda  filed  with  the  court,  where applicable, and
  reports relating to assaults or other violent acts, attempts at  suicide
  or  escape  by  the  youth shall be delivered together with the youth or
  earlier to a person authorized by the director  to  receive  the  child,
  notwithstanding any contrary provision of law.
    3.  The  court  shall,  before  placing  or committing any such youth,
  inquire into and determine the age of the youth at the time of placement
  or commitment, and the youth's age as so determined shall be  stated  in
  the  order.   The statement of the age of such youth in such order shall
  be conclusive evidence as to such age in any action to  recover  damages
  for  allegedly  unlawful  detention  under  such  order,  and  shall  be
  presumptive evidence thereof in any other inquiry, action or  proceeding
  relating to such detention.
    4.  Notwithstanding  the  time  frames  provided  in  paragraph (b) of
  subdivision four of section five hundred seven-a of  this  article,  the
  division  may  delay  acceptance  of  a youth placed or committed to the
  division in accordance with division regulations  promulgated  prior  to
  the effective date of this subdivision.