§ 409-n. Implementation. 1. The department shall plan for the implementation of the services case management system during the period from the first day of July, nineteen hundred eighty-four to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-five.
2. Subject to the appropriation of funds, the provisions of this title shall be implemented from the first day of October, nineteen hundred eighty-five in a select number of representative pilot social services districts which shall be designated by the commissioner in consultation with the advisory board established pursuant to this title, in communities with a higher than state average teen population applying for or receiving public assistance.
3. Subject to the appropriation of funds, social services districts which had not implemented the provisions of this title by the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-seven shall be required to implement the provisions of this title during the period April first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven through March thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety. The social services districts subject to the provisions of this subdivision shall implement this title in accordance with a schedule to be developed by the department which will ensure statewide implementation by the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-eight.