Section 1048. Adjournments

(a) The court may adjourn a fact-finding hearing
  or a dispositional hearing for good cause shown on its own motion, or on
  motion of the corporation counsel, county attorney or district attorney,
  or  on  motion  of  the  petitioner  or on motion of the child or on his
  behalf or of the parent or other person legally responsible for the care
  of the child. If so requested by the  parent  or  other  person  legally
  responsible  for the care of the child, the court shall not proceed with
  a fact-finding hearing earlier than three days after service of  summons
  and  petition,  unless  emergency  medical  or  surgical  procedures are
  necessary to safeguard the life or health of the child.
    (b) At the conclusion of a fact-finding hearing and  after  the  court
  has  made findings required before a dispositional hearing may commence,
  the court may on its  own  motion  or  motion  of  the  respondent,  the
  petitioner  or  the  law  guardian order a reasonable adjournment of the
  proceedings, to enable the court to make inquiry into the  surroundings,
  conditions, and capacities of the persons involved in the proceedings.
    (c)  Whenever  a  child  has been remanded to the care of an agency or
  institution under section ten hundred fifty-one of this article,  notice
  of  any  dispositional  hearing  shall  be  served  upon  the  agency or
  institution  with  whom  the  child  was  placed  and  upon  the  agency
  supervising  the care of the child on behalf of the agency with whom the
  child was placed. Service of notice of the adjourned  hearing  shall  be
  made  in  such  manner  and  on  such  notice  as  the court may, in its
  discretion, prescribe. Any such agency or institution served with notice
  pursuant to this subdivision may apply to the  court  for  leave  to  be
  heard.