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2023 New York Laws › COM - Economic Development Law › Article 27 - Newspaper and Broadcast Media Jobs Program › 495 - Newspaper and Broadcast Media Jobs Tax Credit.

§  495.  Newspaper  and broadcast media jobs tax credit. 1. A business
  entity that meets the eligibility requirements of section  four  hundred
  ninety-three  of  this  article,  and  meets  any additional eligibility
  criteria as articulated in  regulations  established  pursuant  to  this
  section,  and  demonstrates  a net employee increase, may be eligible to
  claim a credit equal to five thousand dollars  per  each  full-time  net
  employee  increase as defined in section four hundred ninety-two of this
  article. A business entity, including a partnership,  limited  liability
  company  and  subchapter  S  corporation,  may  not receive in excess of
  twenty thousand dollars in tax credits under this program.
2. A business  entity  that  meets  the  eligibility  requirements  of
  section  four  hundred  ninety-three  of  this  article,  and  meets any
  additional  eligibility   criteria   as   articulated   in   regulations
  established  pursuant to this section, may be eligible to claim a credit
  equal to fifty percent of annual wages  of  an  eligible  employee.  The
  calculation  of  such  a  credit  shall  only  be applied to up to fifty
  thousand dollars  in  wages  paid  annually  per  eligible  employee.  A
  business  entity, including a partnership, limited liability company and
  subchapter S corporation, may not receive in  excess  of  three  hundred
  thousand dollars in tax credits under this program.
3.  The  total  amount  of  tax  credits listed on certificates of tax
  credit issued by the commissioner  pursuant  to  this  article  may  not
  exceed  thirty  million  dollars  for each year the credit is available.
  Within this amount, the newspaper and broadcast media new  job  creation
  component of the credit may not exceed four million dollars per year and
  the  newspaper and broadcast media existing jobs component of the credit
  may not exceed twenty-six million dollars per year. Fifty percent of the
  newspaper and broadcast media existing jobs component  credits  will  be
  set-aside  for  eligible  business  entities  with  one hundred or fewer
  employees. Fifty percent of the newspaper and broadcast  media  existing
  jobs  component credits will be set-aside for eligible business entities
  with over one hundred employees. In both instances the cap will be three
  hundred thousand dollars under this program.
4. The credit shall be allowed as provided in  section  forty-nine  of
  the tax law.
2023 New York Laws › COM - Economic Development Law › Article 27 - Newspaper and Broadcast Media Jobs Program › 496 - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.

§  496.  Powers  and  duties  of the commissioner. 1. The commissioner
  shall promulgate regulations establishing  an  application  process  and
  eligibility  criteria, that will be applied consistent with the purposes
  of this article, so as not to exceed the annual cap on tax  credits  set
  forth  in  section  four  hundred  ninety-five  of  this  article which,
  notwithstanding  any  provisions  to   the   contrary   in   the   state
  administrative procedure act, may be adopted on an emergency basis.
2.  The  commissioner  shall,  in  consultation with the department of
  taxation and finance, develop a certificate of tax credit that shall  be
  issued  by  the  commissioner  to  eligible businesses. Such certificate
  shall contain such information as required by the department of taxation
  and finance.
3. The commissioner shall solely  determine  the  eligibility  of  any
  applicant  applying  for  entry  into  the  program and shall remove any
  business entity from  the  program  for  failing  to  meet  any  of  the
  requirements  set  forth  in  section  four hundred ninety-three of this
  article,  or  for  failing  to  meet  the  requirements  set  forth   in
  subdivision one of section four hundred ninety-four of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - Short Title and Definitions › 2-A - Release of Directory Information; Access to Institutions.

§ 2-a. Release  of  directory  information;  access  to  institutions.
  Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  if  a
  trustee,  president,  principal, or officer of any institution belonging
  to the University of the State of New York, or a board of  education  of
  any  public  school,  in  any city, union free, common or central school
  district or the administrator of  any  non-public  school  of  secondary
  education  receiving  state  funds  permits  the  release  of  directory
  information relating to pupils or permits access  to  school  buildings,
  school  grounds or other school property to persons who inform pupils of
  educational,  occupational  or  career  opportunities,   such   trustee,
  president,  principal,  officer,  board  or  administrator shall provide
  access to directory information relating to pupils and  access  to  such
  school  property  on  the same basis for official representatives of the
  state militia and the armed forces of the United States for the  purpose
  of informing pupils of educational, occupational or career opportunities
  within  the state militia or armed forces of the United States. Pursuant
  to this  section,  access  provided  to  school  property  or  directory
  information shall not be used for purposes other than informing students
  of educational, occupational or career opportunities.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - Short Title and Definitions › 2-B - Use of Student Social Security Numbers Restricted.

§ 2-b. Use of student social security numbers restricted. No public or
  private  elementary or secondary school or college as defined in section
  two of this article shall display any student's social  security  number
  to  identify  such  student  for posting or public listing of grades, on
  class  rosters  or  other  lists  provided  to  teachers,   on   student
  identification  cards,  in  student directories or similar listings, or,
  unless specifically authorized  or  required  by  law,  for  any  public
  identification purpose.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 10 - Legislative Intent.

§ 10. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that students' ability
  to  learn and to meet high academic standards, and a school's ability to
  educate its students, are compromised by incidents of discrimination  or
  harassment  including  bullying,  taunting or intimidation. It is hereby
  declared to be the policy of the state to afford all students in  public
  schools  an  environment  free  of  discrimination  and  harassment. The
  purpose of this article is to foster civility in public schools  and  to
  prevent  and  prohibit  conduct  which  is  inconsistent with a school's
  educational mission.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 11 - Definitions.

§  11.  Definitions.  For  the purposes of this article, the following
  terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "School property" shall mean in or within any building,  structure,
  athletic  playing  field,  playground,  parking  lot,  or land contained
  within the real  property  boundary  line  of  a  public  elementary  or
  secondary  school;  or  in or on a school bus, as defined in section one
  hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law.
2. "School function" shall mean  a  school-sponsored  extra-curricular
  event or activity.
3.  "Disability"  shall  mean  disability  as  defined  in subdivision
  twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law.
4. "Employee" shall mean employee as defined in subdivision  three  of
  section eleven hundred twenty-five of this title.
5.    "Sexual    orientation"   shall   mean   actual   or   perceived
  heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality.
6. "Gender" shall mean actual or perceived sex  and  shall  include  a
  person's gender identity or expression.
7.  "Harassment"  and  "bullying" shall mean the creation of a hostile
  environment by conduct or by threats, intimidation or  abuse,  including
  cyberbullying, that (a) has or would have the effect of unreasonably and
  substantially  interfering  with  a  student's  educational performance,
  opportunities or benefits, or mental, emotional or physical  well-being;
  or  (b)  reasonably  causes  or  would reasonably be expected to cause a
  student to fear for his or her physical safety; or (c) reasonably causes
  or would reasonably be expected to cause physical  injury  or  emotional
  harm  to  a  student;  or  (d) occurs off school property and creates or
  would foreseeably create a risk of  substantial  disruption  within  the
  school  environment,  where it is foreseeable that the conduct, threats,
  intimidation or abuse might reach school property.  Acts  of  harassment
  and bullying shall include, but not be limited to, those acts based on a
  person's  actual  or  perceived  race,  color,  weight, national origin,
  ethnic  group,  religion,   religious   practice,   disability,   sexual
  orientation, gender or sex. For the purposes of this definition the term
  "threats,  intimidation  or  abuse"  shall include verbal and non-verbal
  actions.
8. "Cyberbullying" shall mean harassment or  bullying  as  defined  in
  subdivision  seven  of  this section, including paragraphs (a), (b), (c)
  and (d) of such subdivision, where such harassment  or  bullying  occurs
  through any form of electronic communication.
9.  "Race"  shall,  for  the  purposes  of this article include traits
  historically associated with race, including but not  limited  to,  hair
  texture and protective hairstyles.
10. "Protective hairstyles" shall include, but not be limited to, such
  hairstyles as braids, locks, and twists.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 12 - Discrimination and Harassment Prohibited.

§ 12. Discrimination and harassment prohibited. 1. No student shall be
  subjected  to  harassment or bullying by employees or students on school
  property or at a school function; nor shall any student be subjected  to
  discrimination  based  on  a  person's  actual or perceived race, color,
  weight, national origin, ethnic  group,  religion,  religious  practice,
  disability,  sexual  orientation,  gender, or sex by school employees or
  students on school property or at a school  function.  Nothing  in  this
  subdivision  shall  be construed to prohibit a denial of admission into,
  or exclusion from, a course of instruction based on  a  person's  gender
  that  would  be  permissible  under  section thirty-two hundred one-a or
  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  two  of  section  twenty-eight  hundred
  fifty-four  of  this chapter and title IX of the Education Amendments of
  1972  (20  U.S.C.  section  1681,  et.  seq.),  or   to   prohibit,   as
  discrimination  based  on  disability, actions that would be permissible
  under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
2. An age-appropriate version of the policy  outlined  in  subdivision
  one of this section, written in plain-language, shall be included in the
  code  of conduct adopted by boards of education and the trustees or sole
  trustee pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter and
  a summary of such policy shall be included in any summaries required  by
  such section twenty-eight hundred one.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 14 - Commissioner's Responsibilities.

§ 14. Commissioner's responsibilities. The commissioner shall:
1.  Provide direction, which may include development of model policies
  and, to the  extent  possible,  direct  services,  to  school  districts
  related  to  preventing  harassment,  bullying and discrimination and to
  fostering an environment in every school where all  children  can  learn
  free of manifestations of bias;
2.  Provide grants, from funds appropriated for such purpose, to local
  school districts to assist them in implementing the guidelines set forth
  in this section;
3. Promulgate regulations to assist school districts  in  implementing
  this article including, but not limited to, regulations to assist school
  districts   in   developing   measured,  balanced,  and  age-appropriate
  responses to violations of this policy,  with  remedies  and  procedures
  following a progressive model that make appropriate use of intervention,
  discipline and education and provide guidance related to the application
  of regulations; and
4.  Provide  guidance  and  educational  materials to school districts
  related to  best  practices  in  addressing  cyberbullying  and  helping
  families  and  communities work cooperatively with schools in addressing
  cyberbullying, whether on or off school property or at or  away  from  a
  school function.
5.   The   commissioner   shall   prescribe  regulations  that  school
  professionals applying on or after December thirty-first,  two  thousand
  thirteen  for  a  certificate or license, including but not limited to a
  certificate or license valid for service as a classroom teacher,  school
  counselor,   school   psychologist,   school   social   worker,   school
  administrator or supervisor  or  superintendent  of  schools  shall,  in
  addition  to  all  other  certification  or licensing requirements, have
  completed training on the social patterns of  harassment,  bullying  and
  discrimination,  as defined in section eleven of this article, including
  but not limited to those acts based on a person's  actual  or  perceived
  race,  color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious
  practice,  disability,  sexual   orientation,   gender   or   sex,   the
  identification    and    mitigation    of   harassment,   bullying   and
  discrimination, and strategies for effectively  addressing  problems  of
  exclusion, bias and aggression in educational settings.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 15 - Reporting by Commissioner.

§  15.  Reporting  by  commissioner.  The  commissioner shall create a
  procedure under which material incidents  of  harassment,  bullying  and
  discrimination on school grounds or at a school function are reported to
  the department at least on an annual basis. Such procedure shall provide
  that  such reports shall, wherever possible, also delineate the specific
  nature of such incidents of  harassment,  bullying  and  discrimination,
  provided  that the commissioner may comply with the requirements of this
  section through use of the existing uniform violent  incident  reporting
  system.  In  addition  the  department may conduct research or undertake
  studies to determine compliance throughout the state with the provisions
  of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 16 - Protection of People Who Report Harassment, Bullying or Discrimination.

§  16.  Protection  of  people  who  report  harassment,  bullying  or
  discrimination. Any person having reasonable cause  to  suspect  that  a
  student has been subjected to harassment, bullying or discrimination, by
  an  employee or student, on school grounds or at a school function, who,
  acting reasonably and in good faith, reports such information to  school
  officials,  to  the commissioner or to law enforcement authorities, acts
  in compliance with paragraph e  or  i  of  subdivision  one  of  section
  thirteen   of   this   article,   or   otherwise  initiates,  testifies,
  participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this
  article, shall have immunity from any civil  liability  that  may  arise
  from   the  making  of  such  report  or  from  initiating,  testifying,
  participating or assisting in such formal or informal  proceedings,  and
  no   school  district  or  employee  shall  take,  request  or  cause  a
  retaliatory action against any such person who, acting reasonably and in
  good  faith,  either  makes  such  a  report  or  initiates,  testifies,
  participates or assists in such formal or informal proceedings.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 17 - Application.

§ 17. Application. Nothing in this article shall:
1.   Apply   to   private,  religious  or  denominational  educational
  institutions; or
2. Preclude or limit any right or cause of action provided  under  any
  local,  state  or federal ordinance, law or regulation including but not
  limited to any remedies or rights available under the  Individuals  With
  Disabilities  Education  Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Law of 1964,
  section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of  1973  or  the  Americans  with
  Disabilities Act of 1990.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 18 - Severability and Construction.

§  18.  Severability  and construction. The provisions of this article
  shall be severable, and if any court of competent jurisdiction  declares
  any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this article to be invalid,
  or its applicability to any government agency, person or circumstance is
  declared  invalid,  the  remainder  of  this  article  and  its relevant
  applicability shall not be affected.  The  provisions  of  this  article
  shall be liberally construed to give effect to the purposes thereof.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 101 - Education Department; Regents of the University.

§ 101. Education  department;  regents of the university.  There shall
  continue to be in the state government an  education  department.    The
  department is charged with the general management and supervision of all
  public  schools  and all of the educational work of the state, including
  the operations of The University of  the  State  of  New  York  and  the
  exercise  of  all  the  functions  of  the  education department, of The
  University of the State of New York, of the regents  of  the  university
  and  of  the  commissioner of education and the performance of all their
  powers and duties, which were transferred to the education department by
  section three hundred twelve of the state departments law or shall  have
  been   prescribed  by  law  before  March  sixteenth,  nineteen  hundred
  twenty-seven, whether in terms vested in such department  or  university
  or  in  any  sub-department,  division  or  bureau  thereof  or  in such
  commissioner, board or officer, and such functions,  powers  and  duties
  shall  continue  to  be  vested in the education department continued by
  this chapter and shall continue to be exercised and performed therein by
  or through the appropriate officer, sub-department, division  or  bureau
  thereof,  together  with  such functions, powers and duties as hereafter
  may be conferred or imposed upon  such  department  by  law.    All  the
  provisions  of this chapter, in so far as they are not inconsistent with
  the provisions of  this  chapter  as  hereby  amended  or  may  be  made
  applicable,  shall  apply  to the education department continued by this
  chapter as hereby amended and to The University  of  the  State  of  New
  York,  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university, the commissioner of
  education and to the divisions, bureaus and officers in such department.
  The head of the department shall continue  to  be  the  regents  of  The
  University  of the State of New York, who shall appoint, and at pleasure
  may remove, the commissioner  of  education.    The  commissioner  shall
  continue  to be the chief administrative officer of the department.  The
  regents also may appoint and, at pleasure, remove a deputy  commissioner
  of education, who shall perform such duties as the regents may assign to
  him by rule and who, in the absence or disability of the commissioner or
  when  a vacancy exists in the office of commissioner, shall exercise and
  perform the functions, powers and duties conferred  or  imposed  on  the
  commissioner  by  this  chapter.    The regents of The University of the
  State of  New  York  shall  continue  to  constitute  a  board  and  The
  University of the State of New York, which was continued under such name
  by  section two of article eleven of the constitution, shall continue to
  be governed and all its corporate powers to be exercised by such board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 101-A - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations of Commissioner Relating to the Supervision of Services for the Public Good Conducted Under Supervision of Schoo

§ 101-a. Promulgation   of   rules  and  regulations  of  commissioner
  relating to the supervision of services for the  public  good  conducted
  under  supervision  of school districts.   The commissioner of education
  shall promulgate rules and regulations for the  supervision,  by  school
  districts,  of  programs  of  performing services for the public good by
  certain infants pursuant to the provisions  of  sections  seven  hundred
  fifty-eight-a  and  353.6  of  the  family  court  act.   Such rules and
  regulations,   shall include, but not  be  limited  to,  provisions  (a)
  assuring  that  the  conditions  of  work,  including  wages,  meet  the
  standards therefor prescribed pursuant to the labor law;  (b)  affording
  coverage  to the child under the workers' compensation law; (c) assuring
  that the entity receiving such services shall not utilize  the  same  to
  replace  its  regular  employees;  and  (d) providing for reports to the
  family court not less frequently  than  every  six  months,  unless  the
  family court orders otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 101-B - Paperwork Reduction.

§  101-b. Paperwork reduction. 1. The commissioner shall be authorized
  to receive  and  accept  reports,  plans,  applications  and  all  other
  information  required  to  be  reported by statute or regulation through
  electronic means. The commissioner shall accept hard copy non-electronic
  filings or submissions if the school district  is  able  to  demonstrate
  that  complying  with  electronic  submission  requirements would create
  undue hardship for the school district or some other good  cause  exists
  that  would  make  electronic  submission  extremely impractical for the
  school district.
2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner  to  review  all  existing
  reports  and  plans  that  school  districts  and  boards of cooperative
  educational services are required to submit and by November  first,  two
  thousand ten, the commissioner shall submit to the board of regents, the
  governor,  the  speaker  of the assembly, the temporary president of the
  senate, the director of the budget and  the  chairs  of  the  respective
  fiscal  and  education  committees  of  the senate and assembly specific
  recommendations  to  eliminate  unnecessary  or  duplicative   reporting
  requirements;   and   where  possible,  recommendations  to  consolidate
  reports, plans and other information required to  be  submitted  to  the
  commissioner   including  which  recommendations  could  be  implemented
  administratively and which would require statutory authorization.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 102 - Associate and Assistant Commissioners.

§ 102. Associate  and  assistant  commissioners.   The commissioner of
  education shall appoint, subject to the approval of  the  regents,  such
  associate and assistant commissioners as he shall deem necessary for the
  proper  organization  and  general  classification  of  the  work of the
  department, and assign to such associate and assistant commissioners the
  work which shall be under their respective supervision.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 103 - Divisions of Department.

§ 103. Divisions  of  department.    By action of the regents upon the
  recommendation of the commissioner of education the  department  may  be
  divided  into  divisions and bureaus.   By like action new divisions and
  bureaus may be created and divisions and bureaus may be consolidated  or
  abolished, and the administrative work of the department assigned to the
  several divisions and bureaus.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 104 - Other Officers and Employees.

§ 104. Other  officers  and employees.  The commissioner of education,
  subject to the approval of the regents, shall have power, in  conformity
  with their rules, to appoint all other needed officers and employees and
  fix their titles, duties and salaries.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 105 - Removals and Suspensions.

§ 105. Removals  and  suspensions.   With the approval of the regents,
  the commissioner of education may, at his pleasure, remove  from  office
  any  assistant  commissioner,  or  other appointive officer or employee;
  and, when the regents are not in session, the commissioner  may,  during
  his pleasure, suspend, without salary, any such officer or employee, but
  not  longer  than  till the adjournment of the succeeding meeting of the
  regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 106 - Joint Seal.

§ 106. Joint   seal.      The  regents  of  the  university  upon  the
  recommendation of the commissioner of education  shall  adopt,  and  may
  modify at any time, a seal, which shall be used in common as the seal of
  the  education  department  and  of  the  university;  and copies of all
  records thereof and of all acts, orders, decrees and decisions  made  by
  the  regents  or by the commissioner of education, and of their official
  papers, and of the drafts or machine copies of any of the foregoing, may
  be authenticated under the said seal and shall then be evidence  equally
  with and in like manner as the originals.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 108 - State Education Building.

§ 108. State  education building.   The state education building shall
  be occupied exclusively  by  the  education  department,  including  the
  university,  with  the  state  library,  the state museum, and its other
  divisions and bureaus, together with such  other  work  with  which  the
  commissioner  of  education  and the regents have official relations, as
  the regents may, in their discretion,  provide  for  therein,  and  such
  building and the offices of such department shall be maintained at state
  expense under the charge and care of such department.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 109 - .

§ 109.    Any  person, association, organization or corporation may be
  permitted to use the auditorium  in  the  state  education  building  at
  Albany  for  such  purposes  as  may be authorized by regulations of the
  commissioner of education upon payment of such fee as  may  be  required
  pursuant  to  a schedule for such purpose adopted by the commissioner of
  education and approved by the director of the division of the budget.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 110 - Refunds.

§ 110. Refunds.   1. Moneys received by the state education department
  pursuant  to  this  chapter  prior  to  July  first,  nineteen   hundred
  forty-two,  may be refunded:  (a) Where such moneys were not required by
  law or regents' rule.   (b) Where such moneys  were  in  excess  of  the
  amounts  required  by  law or regents' rule.  (c) Where fees are paid by
  applicants who are not permitted to enter examinations  for  which  such
  fees  are  paid.    Any  such moneys received after July first, nineteen
  hundred forty-two shall not be so refunded unless application  for  such
  refund  has  been  made  within two years after its receipt by the state
  education department, except that applicants for  professional  licenses
  may  make an application for a refund within two years of the withdrawal
  or denial of the application, whichever occurs first.
2. Applicants for professional licenses not  receiving  such  licenses
  may  be  granted  partial refunds not exceeding fifty percent of the fee
  paid to the department unless they have failed    the  examinations  for
  such  licenses,  in which case such applicants may not receive a refund.
  Each applicant for a professional license who has at any time received a
  partial refund of an initial  license  application  fee  shall  pay  all
  required  fees  upon  submitting  any subsequent application for initial
  licensure.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 111 - Indian Affairs.

§ 111. Indian  affairs.    The education department, by or through the
  appropriate division, bureau or  officer  thereof,  shall  exercise  and
  perform  the functions, powers and duties conferred or imposed by law in
  relation to the education of children upon the Indian reservations.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 112-A - Students Confined in Certain Facilities; Responsibility for Issuance of Diplomas.

§  112-a.  Students confined in certain facilities; responsibility for
  issuance of diplomas. 1. A person under twenty-one years of age who  has
  not received a high school diploma and who is placed with, committed to,
  under the supervision of, detained or otherwise confined in any facility
  operated  or  administered  by a state department or agency or political
  subdivision of the state which provides educational programs pursuant to
  section one hundred twelve of this article, or  who  is  confined  in  a
  correctional  facility, as defined in subdivision four of section two of
  the correction law, and  who  participates  in  an  educational  program
  provided  by such facility, shall be issued a high school diploma by the
  school district of  location  except  when  credit  bearing  educational
  programming  is provided by another school district. When credit bearing
  educational programming is provided by  another  school  district,  that
  district  shall  be responsible for issuing the high school diploma. The
  school district responsible for issuing the diploma  must  determine  if
  such   person   has   completed  the  minimum  New  York  state  diploma
  requirements as set forth in the regulations of the  commissioner  while
  placed  with,  committed  to,  under  the  supervision  of,  detained or
  confined in such facility.
2. For purposes of this section the term "school district of location"
  means the school district in which the  facility  where  such  youth  is
  placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined is located.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 1 - General Provisions › 113 - Leaves of Absence to Professional Members of the Department.

§ 113. Leaves  of  absence  to professional members of the department.
  The department, subject to such  regulations  as  the  commissioner  may
  promulgate,  may  grant  any  professional  member  of  the staff of the
  department an extended leave of absence for  advanced  study,  research,
  professional  writing  or  other  experience  of recognized professional
  value, for not to exceed one year in seven at the rate of not to  exceed
  one-half  the  regular salary paid, or for not to exceed six months with
  salary  at  full  rate  for  such  leave.    The  balance  of   salaries
  appropriated  for  such persons, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
  may be applied during the period of such absence for the purpose of  the
  salaries  of substitutes to take the place of the persons thus on leave.
  Not more than five such leaves of absence shall be  granted  during  any
  one fiscal year.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 4 - Scientific and Historic Places › 174 - Powers Formerly Exercised by the State Board of Geographic Names.

§ 174. Powers  formerly  exercised  by  the  state board of geographic
  names.   The regents, or  such  bureau,  division  or  officers  of  the
  university  or  of the education department as may be designated by them
  for such  purpose,  shall  1.    Determine  and  establish  the  correct
  historical  and  etymological  form of the place names in this state and
  recommend the adoption of such correct forms for public use.
2. Determine the form and propriety of new place  names  proposed  for
  general use, and no corporation, individual or community shall introduce
  such new place names without the consent and approval of this board.
3.  Co-operate  with  the  United States board of geographic names and
  with the United States post-office department in establishing a  proper,
  correct  and  historically accurate form for all place names proposed as
  designations of new post-offices.
4. No petition or recommendation for the naming of any mountain, lake,
  river or other natural object for or in honor of any living person shall
  be granted, approved or consented to by the regents of the university or
  by the committee on geographic names appointed by it except by unanimous
  vote.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program › 180 - Definitions.

§ 180. Definitions. Wherever used in this part V of this article:
1.  The  term "eligible employee" means each employee of the education
  department  who  occupies  a  position  which  is  designated   by   the
  commissioner  as requiring the rendering of professional services within
  the field of supervision of higher education, and who, at  the  time  of
  his  initial  employment  with  the  department or within one year prior
  thereto, owns or  owned  a  contract  which  may  legally  be  continued
  pursuant  to  this  part.  An  eligible  employee  who has elected to be
  covered by the education department optional  retirement  program  shall
  not be deemed ineligible by virtue of a subsequent assignment within the
  education  department to a sphere of responsibility outside of the field
  of supervision of higher education. No  person  receiving  a  retirement
  benefit  from  any retirement or pension system of New York state or any
  political subdivision thereof shall be eligible to elect  the  education
  department optional retirement program.
2.  The  term "education department optional retirement program" means
  the retirement program established pursuant to part V of this article.
3. The term  "electing  employee"  means  any  eligible  employee  who
  exercises  his  election  pursuant  to  this  part  V of this article to
  participate in the education department optional retirement program.
4. The term "state salary" means all amounts paid by or for the  state
  as compensation for services rendered by an eligible employee.
5.  The  term  "insurer"  means a life insurance corporation, or other
  corporation, subject to department of financial services supervision.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program › 181 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program Established.

§ 181. Education  department  optional retirement program established.
  1.   There  is  hereby  established  an  education  department  optional
  retirement program which shall provide for the continuation of contracts
  providing  retirement  and  death  benefits for or on behalf of electing
  employees.   Under such program  the  state  and  such  employees  shall
  contribute,   to   the   extent  authorized  or  required,  towards  the
  continuation of such contracts, which shall  have  been  issued  to  and
  shall have previously become the property of such employees.
2. The commissioner shall, in his discretion, designate the insurer or
  insurers  to  which payment of such contributions under this article may
  be made and shall approve the form and content of such  contracts.    In
  making  such designation and giving such approval the commissioner shall
  give due consideration to (i) the nature and extent of  the  rights  and
  benefits  to  be  provided  by such contracts for electing employees and
  their beneficiaries, (ii) the relation of such rights  and  benefits  to
  the  amount  of  contributions  to  be  made  under  this part V of this
  article, (iii) the suitability of such rights and benefits to the  needs
  and  interests  of  electing  employees  and  to  the  interests  of the
  department in the employment and retention of  eligible  employees,  and
  (iv)  the authority and ability of the designated insurer or insurers to
  provide rights and benefits under such contracts.
3.  The  commissioner  is  hereby  authorized  to  provide   for   the
  administration  of such education department optional retirement program
  and to perform or authorize the performance of such functions as may  be
  necessary  for  such  purposes  in  accordance  with this part V of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program › 184 - Survivor's Benefits.

§ 184. Survivor's  benefits.  In the case of the death of any electing
  employee after the effective date of his election and before retirement,
  the value of the death benefits provided by the  contract  or  contracts
  continued  under  the  education  department optional retirement program
  which is attributable to the state's contribution as determined  by  the
  commissioner,  shall  be deemed to be an ordinary death benefit provided
  under a public pension plan within the meaning of  section  one  hundred
  fifty-four of the civil service law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program › 185 - Social Security.

§ 185. Social  security.   Every electing employee shall have old-age,
  survivors, and disability insurance coverage  provided  by  the  federal
  social  security  act in accordance with the provisions of article three
  of the retirement and social security law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program › 186 - State Not Liable for Payment of Benefits.

§ 186. State  not  liable  for payment of benefits.  Neither the state
  nor the department shall be a party to any contract continued  in  whole
  or  in  part  with  contributions  made  under  the education department
  optional retirement program established  and  administered  pursuant  to
  this  part  V  of this article.   No retirement, death or other benefits
  shall be payable by the state or by the department under such  education
  department  optional retirement program, except as otherwise provided in
  section 184.  Such benefits shall be paid to electing employees or their
  beneficiaries by the designated insurer or insurers in  accordance  with
  the terms of their contracts.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 3 - Education Department › Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program › 187 - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Acts Superseded.

§ 187. Inconsistent  provisions  of other acts superseded.  Insofar as
  the provisions of this part V of this article are inconsistent with  the
  provisions  of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this
  article shall be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 201 - Corporate Name and Objects.

§ 201. Corporate name and objects. The corporation created in the year
  seventeen  hundred  eighty-four  under  the  name  of The Regents of the
  University of the State of New York, is hereby continued under the  name
  of  The  University  of  the  State of New York. Its objects shall be to
  encourage and promote  education,  to  visit  and  inspect  its  several
  institutions  and  departments, to distribute to or expand or administer
  for them such property and funds as the state may  appropriate  therefor
  or  as  the  university  may  own  or hold in trust or otherwise, and to
  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  intrusted  to  it.  The  said
  corporation  shall  have  power  to  take,  hold and administer real and
  personal property and the income thereof in trust for  any  educational,
  scientific,  historical  or other purpose within the jurisdiction of the
  regents of The University of the State of New York.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 203 - Officers.

§ 203. Officers.    The elective officers of the university shall be a
  chancellor and a vice-chancellor who shall  serve  without  salary,  and
  such  other officers as are deemed necessary by the regents, all of whom
  shall be chosen by ballot by the regents and shall  hold  office  during
  their  pleasure;  but  no  election,  removal  or change of salary of an
  elective officer shall be made by less than six votes in favor  thereof.
  Each  regent  and  each  elective  officer shall, before entering on his
  duties, take and file with the secretary of state  the  oath  of  office
  required of state officers.
The  chancellor  shall preside at all convocations and at all meetings
  of the regents, and confer all degrees which they shall authorize.    In
  his  absence  or inability to act, the vice-chancellor, or if he be also
  absent, the senior regent present, shall perform all the duties and have
  all the powers of the chancellor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 206 - Authority to Take Testimony and Conduct Hearings.

§ 206. Authority to take testimony and conduct hearings.  The regents,
  any committee thereof, the commissioner of education, the deputy and any
  associate and assistant commissioner of education and the counsel of the
  department  may take testimony or hear proofs relating to their official
  duties, or in any matter which they may lawfully investigate.   Hearings
  by  the regents pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter may be
  given by or before not less than three members of the regents designated
  by the regents or by the chancellor  of  the  university  to  hold  such
  hearings, but any decision or determination in such proceedings shall be
  made by the regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 207 - Legislative Power.

§ 207. Legislative   power.      Subject  and  in  conformity  to  the
  constitution  and  laws  of  the  state,  the  regents  shall   exercise
  legislative  functions  concerning  the educational system of the state,
  determine its educational policies, and,  except,  as  to  the  judicial
  functions of the commissioner of education, establish rules for carrying
  into  effect  the laws and policies of the state, relating to education,
  and the functions, powers, duties and trusts conferred or  charged  upon
  the  university  and  the education department.  But no enactment of the
  regents shall modify in any degree the freedom of the governing body  of
  any  seminary  for the training of priests or clergymen to determine and
  regulate the  entire  course  of  religious,  doctrinal  or  theological
  instruction to be given in such institution.  No rule by which more than
  a  majority  vote  shall  be  required  for  any specified action by the
  regents shall be amended, suspended or repealed by a smaller  vote  than
  that   required  for  action  thereunder.    Rules  or  regulations,  or
  amendments or repeals thereof, adopted or prescribed by the commissioner
  of education as provided by law shall not be effective unless and  until
  approved  by  the  regents,  except  where authority is conferred by the
  regents upon the commissioner of education to adopt, prescribe, amend or
  repeal such rules or regulations.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 208 - General Examinations, Credentials and Degrees.

§ 208. General examinations, credentials and degrees.  The regents may
  confer  by  diploma  under  their seal such honorary degrees as they may
  deem proper,  and  may  establish  examinations  as  to  attainments  in
  learning,  and  may award and confer suitable certificates, diplomas and
  degrees on persons who satisfactorily meet the requirements prescribed.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 208-A - Scheduling of Examinations.

§  208-a. Scheduling of examinations. The department shall make a bona
  fide effort to schedule state mandated examinations on days  other  than
  days   of   religious   observation.  The  commissioner  may  promulgate
  regulations to implement this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 209 - Academic Examinations; Admission and Fees.

§ 209. Academic  examinations;  admission and fees.  The regents shall
  establish in the secondary institutions of the university,  examinations
  in studies furnishing a suitable standard of graduation therefrom and of
  admission  to  colleges, and certificates or diplomas shall be conferred
  by the regents on students who satisfactorily pass such examinations.
Any person shall be admitted to these examinations who  shall  conform
  to the rules and pay the fees prescribed by the regents.