Section 336-D. Job search activities

1. Each applicant for or recipient of
  public  assistance  shall, upon request of the social services official,
  demonstrate that he or she is engaged in an active and continuing effort
  to achieve self-sufficiency as defined by the department.   Such  effort
  shall  include but not be limited to an active and continuing search for
  employment, or for persons otherwise exempt in accordance  with  section
  three  hundred thirty-two of this title, and where deemed appropriate by
  the social services official, activities  that  foster  preparation  for
  employment.   Each such applicant or recipient shall have an affirmative
  duty to accept any offer of lawful employment in which  he  or  she  may
  engage.  The  failure of a social services district to assign applicants
  and recipients to activities pursuant to this title  shall  not  relieve
  such  persons  from the requirements  of this section. An individual who
  fails to comply with the requirements of the section shall be subject to
  the provisions set forth in subdivision  five  of  section  one  hundred
  thirty-one  of  this  chapter and of section three hundred forty-one and
  three hundred forty-two of this title.
    2. The social services official shall, if deemed appropriate  by  such
  official,  supervise  job  search  activities  assigned pursuant to this
  article.