Duty to report investigations to locate non-respondent parents or relatives
§ 1052-c. Duty to report investigations to locate non-respondent parents or relatives. Upon a determination by the court to enter an order of disposition placing the child in accordance with section one thousand fifty-five of this part, the court shall immediately require the local social services district to report to the court the results of any investigation to locate any non-respondent parent or relatives of the child, including all of the child's grandparents, all suitable relatives identified by any respondent parent and any non-respondent parent and all relatives identified by a child over the age of five as relatives who play or have played a significant positive role in the child's life, as required pursuant to section one thousand seventeen of the article. Such report shall include whether any non-respondent parent has expressed an interest in seeking custody of the child or whether any relative who has been located has expressed an interest in becoming a foster parent for the child or in seeking custody or care of the child.
On deciding to place a child (§ 1055), the court immediately requires DSS to report results of the relative-location investigation (§ 1017).
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.