§ 4. Information to be given to social services officials, state department of social services, state department of mental hygiene, the mental hygiene legal service, representatives of boards of child welfare and children's court by banking organizations. 1. If requested by an authorized representative of the state department of mental hygiene, the mental hygiene legal service, or of the state department of social services, or by the authorities charged with the duty of administering laws relating to public assistance or care or hospital care at public expense in any town, city or county, the officials of any banking organization shall furnish to such representative such information as such officials have as to whether any inmate of any state institution, or any applicant for or any person who is or was a recipient of hospital care at public expense, or any applicant for or any person who is or was a recipient of any form of public assistance or care under the social services law, named in such request or the husband or wife, or other relative legally responsible for the support of such inmate, applicant, or recipient has or had funds, securities or other property on deposit or in the custody of such banking organization, and the amount or probable value thereof.

2. If requested by an authorized representative of the state office of temporary and disability assistance, or a social services district child support enforcement unit established pursuant to section one hundred eleven-c of the social services law, the officials of any financial institution, as defined in paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section four hundred sixty-nine A of the federal social security act, shall enter into an agreement with the state office of temporary and disability assistance or a social services district child support enforcement unit to develop and operate a data match system, using automated data exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which each such financial institution shall provide for each calendar quarter the name, record address, social security number or other taxpayer identification number, and other identifying information for each individual who maintains a demand deposit account, checking or negotiable withdrawal order account, savings account, time deposit account, or money-market mutual fund account at such institution and who owes past-due support, as identified by the state office of temporary and disability assistance or a social services district child support enforcement unit by name and social security number or other taxpayer identification number. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the authority of a local social services district support collection unit pursuant to section one hundred eleven-h of the social services law.

3. No financial institution which discloses information pursuant to subdivision two of this section, or discloses any financial record to the state office of temporary and disability assistance or a child support enforcement unit of a social services district for the purpose of enforcing a child support obligation of such person, shall be liable under any law to any person for such disclosure, or for any other action taken in good faith to comply with subdivision two of this section.