Section 157. Definitions

As used in this title. 1.  Safety net assistance
  means allowances pursuant to section one hundred  thirty-one-a  for  all
  support, maintenance and need, and costs of suitable training in a trade
  to  enable  a person to become self-supporting, furnished eligible needy
  persons in accordance with applicable provisions of law, by a  municipal
  corporation,  or a town where safety net assistance is a town charge, to
  persons or their  dependents  in  their  abode  or  habitation  whenever
  possible  and  includes  such  relief granted to veterans under existing
  laws but does not include hospital  or  institutional  care,  except  as
  otherwise provided in this subdivision, or family assistance  or medical
  assistance  for  needy  persons  granted  under  titles  ten and eleven,
  respectively, or aid to persons receiving federal supplemental  security
  income payments and/or additional state payments.  Safety net assistance
  may  also  be  provided  in  a family home or boarding home, operated in
  compliance with the regulations of the  department,  and  on  and  after
  January  first,  nineteen hundred seventy-four, in facilities in which a
  person is receiving family care or residential care, as those terms  are
  used  in  title  six  of  article  five  of this chapter, and to persons
  receiving care in a facility supervised by the office of alcoholism  and
  substance  abuse  or in a residential facility for the mentally disabled
  approved, licensed or operated by the office of  mental  health  or  the
  office  of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, other than
  those facilities defined in  sections  7.17  and  13.17  of  the  mental
  hygiene  law  or  residential  care  centers  for adults operated by the
  office of mental health, when such type of  care  is  deemed  necessary.
  Payments  to such homes and facilities for care and maintenance provided
  by them shall be at rates established pursuant to law and regulations of
  the department. The department, however, shall not  establish  rates  of
  payment  to such homes or facilities without approval of the director of
  the budget.
    2. State aid means payments to a municipal corporation  by  the  state
  for home relief furnished in accordance with this title.
    3.  Municipal  corporation shall mean a county or city except a county
  wholly within a city.