N.Y. SOS Law § 473-B
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Reporting of endangered adults; persons in need of protective services
Official statutory text
§ 473-b. Reporting of endangered adults; persons in need of protective\nservices. Any person who in good faith believes that a person eighteen\nyears of age or older may be an endangered adult or in need of\nprotective or other services, pursuant to this article, and who, based\non such belief either:\n (a) reports or refers such person to the department, office for the\naging, or any local social services district office or designated area\nagency on aging, law enforcement agency, or any other person, agency or\norganization that such person, in good faith, believes will take\nappropriate action; or\n (b) testifies in any judicial or administrative proceeding arising\nfrom such report or referral shall have immunity from any civil\nliability that might otherwise result by reason of the act of making\nsuch report or referral or of giving of such testimony.\n
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