The City of Utica works with Oneida Couny Social Services and regularly inspects rental housing inhabited by recipients of Social Service Programs.
Landlords in the City of Utica who want to rent to a recipient of any Social Services program, are required to have the prospective tenant request an inspection of the rental dwelling by the Codes Department.
If the dwelling unit is not inspected, the Department of Social Services may withhold rent until such time as it receives notification from the Codes Department that the unit has passed inspection and is fit to be inhabited.
This is the info about Social Services.....
see http://www.cityofutica.com/departments/codes/information/county-codes-program/index