2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 2 - County Commission for Special Education in Westchester County › 1111 - Powers and Duties of County Commission for Special Education.

§ 1111. Powers  and duties of county commission for special education.
  The county commission for special education shall have power:
1. To make or cause to be made  a  survey  to  determine  the  special
  educational needs of the district.
2. To establish schools or classes for physically handicapped children
  and   to   provide   other  necessary  educational  services,  including
  transportation and home teaching.
3. To establish and maintain vocational schools and  classes  for  the
  purpose   of   providing   instruction   in   agricultural,  industrial,
  commercial, technical and home making subjects.
4. To provide vocational and educational guidance service.
5. To establish such other special educational services  as  may  meet
  the approval of the commissioner of education.
6.  To  employ  a  director  of  special  education,  who shall be the
  executive  officer  and  secretary  of  the  commission,  and  upon  the
  recommendation  of  such  director  to employ directors, supervisors and
  teachers and all other  persons  necessary  to  carry  on  such  special
  education projects as it may establish, and to determine the salaries to
  be paid.
7.  To purchase, lease, rent, improve or sell land, and build, repair,
  improve, lease, rent, buy and sell buildings.
8. To acquire real property by condemnation for the purposes  of  such
  special  education  district.  Such  condemnation  proceedings  shall be
  instituted and conducted by such commission in the name of the district,
  under the provisions of the statutes relating  to  the  condemnation  of
  real property.
9.  To purchase all necessary furniture, implements, books, materials,
  equipment and supplies.
10. To make contracts with cities, villages, school districts or other
  agencies for carrying out the purposes of part two of this article.
11. To appoint advisory committees.
12. To make and establish, and from time  to  time  alter  and  amend,
  rules  and  regulations  for the transaction of its business and for the
  administration of the work under its charge.
13. It shall be the  duty  of  the  commission  to  make  an  itemized
  estimate  of  the  money needed for the ensuing year for the purposes of
  part two of this article and file the same with the clerk of  the  board
  of  supervisors  or  other  governing  elective body at least sixty days
  before the annual meeting of such board.
14. It shall be the duty of the commission to make an annual report in
  writing to the regents of The University of the State of New York and to
  the board of supervisors or other governing elective body on  or  before
  the first day of October in each year. It shall also be its duty to make
  such  other  reports as may be required by the commissioner of education
  and by such board or body.
15. It shall have such other  powers  and  shall  perform  such  other
  duties as may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of part two
  of this article.
16.  It  shall not incur liabilities against county funds in excess of
  the amounts appropriated by the board of supervisors or other  governing
  elective body.