NY Educ L § 1125 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting 1125 - Definitions.

§  1125.  Definitions.  For the purposes of this article the following   terms shall have the following meanings:1. "Child abuse" shall mean any of the following acts committed in  an   educational  setting  by  an  employee or volunteer against a child: (a)   intentionally or recklessly inflicting physical injury, serious physical   injury or death, or (b) intentionally or recklessly engaging in  conduct   which  creates  a  substantial  risk  of  such  physical injury, serious   physical injury or death, or (c) any child sexual abuse  as  defined  in   this  section,  or  (d) the commission or attempted commission against a   child of  the  crime  of  disseminating  indecent  materials  to  minors   pursuant to article two hundred thirty-five of the penal law.2.  "Child"  shall  mean  a  person  under the age of twenty-one years   enrolled in a school.3. "Employee" shall mean any person: (i) who is receiving compensation   from a school or (ii) whose duties involve direct  student  contact  and   (a)  who  is  receiving  compensation  from  any  person  or entity that   contracts with a school to provide transportation services to  children,   or  (b)  who  is  an employee of a contracted service provider or worker   placed within the school under a public assistance  employment  program,   pursuant to title nine-B of article five of the social services law, and   consistent  with  the  provisions  of  such  title  for the provision of   services to such school, its students or employees, directly or  through   contract.4.  "Volunteer" shall mean any person, other than an employee, who has   direct student contact and: (i) provides services to a school,  or  (ii)   provides  services  to any person or entity that contracts with a school   to provide transportation services to children.5. "Educational setting" shall mean the  building  and  grounds  of  a   school,  the vehicles provided directly or by contract by the school for   the transportation of students  to  and  from  school  buildings,  field   trips,  co-curricular  and  extra-curricular  activities both on and off   school grounds, all co-curricular and extra-curricular  activity  sites,   and  any  other  location  where  direct  contact between an employee or   volunteer and a child has allegedly occurred.6. "Administrator" or "school administrator" shall mean  a  principal,   or the equivalent title, in a school, or other chief school officer.7.  "Law  enforcement  authorities"  shall  mean  a  municipal  police   department, sheriff's department, the division of state  police  or  any   officer  thereof.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  law   enforcement authorities shall not include any child  protective  service   or  any  society for the prevention of cruelty to children as such terms   are defined in section four hundred twenty-three of the social  services   law.8.  "Parent"  shall  mean either or both of a child's parents or other   persons legally responsible for the child.9. "Child sexual abuse" shall mean conduct prohibited by  article  one   hundred thirty or two hundred sixty-three of the penal law.10.  "School"  shall include a school district, public school, charter   school, nonpublic school, board  of  cooperative  educational  services,   special  act  school district as defined in section four thousand one of   this chapter, approved preschool special education program  pursuant  to   section  forty-four  hundred  ten  of  this  chapter,  approved  private   residential or non-residential school for the education of students with   disabilities including private schools established under  chapter  eight   hundred  fifty-three  of  the  laws  of nineteen hundred seventy-six, or   state-operated or state-supported  school  in  accordance  with  article   eighty-five, eighty-seven or eighty-eight of this chapter.