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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 21 - Vocational Rehabilitation › 1006 - Acceptance of Law of the United States.

§ 1006. Acceptance  of  law  of  the United States.   The state of New
  York, through its legislative authority:
1. Accepts the provisions of any  law  of  the  United  States  making
  appropriation   to  be  apportioned  among  the  states  for  vocational
  rehabilitation of disabled persons, and accepts the  provisions  of  any
  law  of  the  United  States  making  appropriation for apportionment or
  grants among the states for services for disabled persons.
2. Empowers and directs the board of regents of the university, hereby
  designated the  New  York  state  board  for  vocational  education,  to
  cooperate  with such agency as the federal government shall designate to
  carry out the purposes of such law.
3. Appoints the commissioner of taxation and  finance  and  the  state
  comptroller  as  joint custodians of all money given to the state by the
  United States under the authority of such law, and such money  shall  be
  paid  out  in  the  manner provided by such act for the purposes therein
  specified.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 21 - Vocational Rehabilitation › 1007 - Vocational Rehabilitation Records.

§ 1007. Vocational  rehabilitation  records.  1. It shall be unlawful,
  except for purposes directly connected with the  administration  of  the
  vocational rehabilitation program, for any person or persons to solicit,
  disclose,  receive,  or  make  use  of,  or authorize, knowingly permit,
  participate in, or acquiesce in the use of any list of, or names of,  or
  any information concerning, persons applying for or receiving vocational
  rehabilitation,  directly or indirectly derived from the record, papers,
  files, communications of the state or subdivisions or agencies  thereof,
  or  acquired in the course of the performance of official duties without
  the consent of each such applicant or recipient. Such  records,  papers,
  files  and  communications shall be regarded as confidential information
  and privileged within the meaning of section forty-five hundred four  of
  the civil practice law and rules.
2. Wage reporting information obtained by the office of vocational and
  educational services for individuals with disabilities of the department
  from  the  state  department of taxation and finance pursuant to the tax
  law shall be considered confidential  and  shall  not  be  disclosed  to
  persons  or  agencies  other  than  those  considered  entitled  to such
  information  when  such  disclosure  is   necessary   for   the   proper
  administration of the department's vocational rehabilitation program.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 21 - Vocational Rehabilitation › 1008 - Use of Appropriations.

§ 1008. Use of appropriations. Any appropriation made to carry out the
  provisions  of  this  article, in addition to any moneys allotted to the
  state for a similar purpose by the government of the United  States  may
  be  used for the payment of salaries, travel, maintenance and operation,
  and other administrative expenses including the  purchase  of  necessary
  office  furniture,  supplies, et cetera, the necessary costs for persons
  being evaluated for or undergoing  vocational  rehabilitation  including
  tuition,  fees,  books  and  other  training  supplies,  maintenance and
  traveling expenses, occupational examinations and license fees, medical,
  psychiatric and psychological  examinations  and  other  diagnostic  and
  related  services,  tools  and  equipment,  initial stocks and supplies,
  surgical fees, hospitalization,  therapeutic  treatment  and  prosthetic
  appliances,  the  establishment  and  construction  of  public and other
  nonprofit rehabilitation facilities to provide services for  handicapped
  individuals  and  the establishment and construction of public and other
  nonprofit  workshops  for  the  severely  handicapped,   including   the
  furnishing  of  equipment  or  the  providing of grants of funds to such
  public and other nonprofit rehabilitation facilities and workshops to be
  utilized for the acquisition of equipment, supplies, personnel and other
  necessary and proper items to be utilized in such facilities.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 21 - Vocational Rehabilitation › 1009 - Powers and Duties of Department of Social Services Relating to Vocational Rehabilitation of Blind Persons.

§ 1009. Powers and duties of department of social services relating to
vocational  rehabilitation  of  blind  persons.   1. The board of social
services, the department of social  services  and  the  New  York  state
commission for the visually handicapped shall retain, and shall continue
to  exercise,  all  the  powers  and  duties  relating  to blind persons
conferred on them by the provisions of any other law.
2. The department of social services is empowered to perform  any  and
all  acts  that  may be required to be performed by it by any law of the
United States in order to obtain funds through the New York state  board
for  vocational  education, or otherwise, from any federal department or
agency, for use in the vocational rehabilitation of blind persons;  such
department  is  further  empowered  to use and expend such funds for the
purpose herein mentioned in accordance with the provisions of any law of
the United States making such funds available to the state.
3. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent  provision  of  this  article,
funds  made  available  to the state by the United States to be used for
vocational rehabilitation of blind persons shall be accepted and used by
the state for such purposes provided the department of  social  services
shall  determine  to  accept  and to use the same in accordance with the
provisions of any law of the United States.
(b) Provided the federal government shall make  funds  available,  the
department  of  social  services  and  its  commission  for the visually
handicapped  are  empowered  to  accept  gifts  for  the  extension  and
improvement  of non-profit facilities and workshops for the training and
rehabilitation of blind persons, and to match the value  of  such  gifts
made  to such department or commission for such purposes by or on behalf
of such non-profit facilities or workshops. The department  may  utilize
such  federal funds and gifts for such purposes and may make appropriate
agreements therefor with suitable non-profit agencies serving the blind.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 1 - Vocational Education and Extension Boards › 1101 - Establishment of County Vocational Education and Extension Boards.

§ 1101. Establishment  of  county  vocational  education and extension
  boards.
1. The board of supervisors or other governing elective  body  of  any
  county  may  adopt a resolution by a majority vote of the members of the
  board establishing a county vocational education and extension board for
  the purpose of giving instruction in agriculture and home economics  and
  such  other  special  subjects as may be approved by the commissioner of
  education.
2. Upon the adoption of the resolution as provided  in  the  preceding
  subdivision  the  board  of supervisors or other governing elective body
  shall appoint a board which shall be known as "The Vocational  Education
  and Extension Board of the County of .................... " (insert here
  the  name  of  the county). Such board shall consist of nine members who
  shall serve for a period of nine years each except  that  members  first
  appointed  shall be appointed for such terms that the term of one member
  will expire each year, and their successors  shall  thereafter  each  be
  appointed  for  a  full  term of nine years respectively. At least three
  members of this board shall be appointed upon  recommendations  made  by
  the  farm  and home bureau associations of the county and at least three
  members upon recommendations made by the district superintendents of the
  county. Vacancies occurring in such office shall be filled by the  board
  of supervisors or other governing elective body for the unexpired term.
3.  The fiscal year of the vocational education and extension board of
  each county shall begin on July first and end on June thirtieth.
4. A county  vocational  education  and  extension  board  established
  pursuant  to  this  section  is  hereby  created  a  body corporate. All
  property which is now vested in, or shall hereafter be transferred to, a
  county vocational education and extension board shall be held by it as a
  corporation.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 1 - Vocational Education and Extension Boards › 1103 - Courses of Study and Qualifications of Teachers.

§ 1103. Courses  of study and qualifications of teachers.  The courses
  of instruction to accomplish the purposes of part one  of  this  article
  are  to be approved by the commissioner of education.  Such courses when
  conducted in elementary or secondary schools are to be approved  by  the
  superintendent  in  whose  jurisdiction  such instruction is given.  The
  qualifications of the teachers, directors,  assistants  and  supervisors
  employed  by  a vocational education and extension board must conform to
  the regulations of the regents of the university and the commissioner of
  education.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 1 - Vocational Education and Extension Boards › 1104 - State Aid.

§ 1104. State  aid.    1.  The commissioner of education in the annual
  apportionment of public moneys shall apportion therefrom to each  county
  maintaining  approved  vocational  education and extension work, a quota
  amounting to one-half   of  the  salary  paid  each  teacher,  director,
  assistant,  and  supervisor, but not to exceed ten thousand five hundred
  dollars  on  account  of  the  employment  of  such  teacher,  director,
  assistant or supervisor.
2.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of subdivision one of this section
  or chapters fifty-three and three hundred  ninety-one  of  the  laws  of
  nineteen  hundred  eighty-nine  or  any  other  provision  of law to the
  contrary, aid payable  to  county  vocational  education  and  extension
  boards  in  the spring of nineteen hundred ninety shall be reduced by an
  amount equal to the amount that would have been paid pursuant to section
  five hundred twenty-one of this chapter to the New York state  teachers'
  retirement system on behalf of such board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 1 - Vocational Education and Extension Boards › 1105 - Exemption of Certain Districts.

§ 1105. Exemption  of  certain districts.   Upon the recommendation of
  the county vocational  education  and  extension  board,  the  board  of
  supervisors  or  other  governing elective body of any county may exempt
  any city or union free school district from the raising  of  moneys  for
  the  purpose of paying the cost of operating and maintaining the program
  of the county vocational education and extension board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 1 - Vocational Education and Extension Boards › 1106 - Transportation.

§ 1106. Transportation.    1.  In  a  county  which  has  a vocational
  education and extension board which does not furnish  transportation  to
  pupils pursuant to subdivision thirteen of section eleven hundred two of
  this  chapter  the cost of the transportation of pupils under twenty-one
  years of age to schools and classes maintained by such county vocational
  education and extension board shall be a charge  upon  the  district  in
  which such pupils reside, or are attending as non-resident pupils.  Such
  transportation  shall  be  considered  as other transportation of school
  pupils in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  part  two  of  article
  seventy-three of the education law and the district of residence, or the
  district  in  which non-resident pupils are attending, shall be entitled
  to a transportation quota.
2. In a county which has a vocational education  and  extension  board
  which   furnishes  transportation  to  pupils  pursuant  to  subdivision
  thirteen of section eleven hundred two of this chapter, such  vocational
  education and extension board shall receive a transportation quota which
  shall  be  one-half  of  the  cost of the transportation of pupils under
  twenty-one years of age  to  schools  and  classes  maintained  by  such
  vocational education and extension board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23 - Career Education in Counties › Part 1 - Vocational Education and Extension Boards › 1107 - County Bonds for Land and Buildings.

§ 1107. County  bonds  for  land  and buildings.   A county vocational
  education and extension board established  by  a  board  of  supervisors
  pursuant  to  the provisions of part one of this article shall be deemed
  to be a department of the county for the purposes of this  section,  and
  the  board  of  supervisors  of  such county may acquire land, construct
  buildings and other facilities for the use of the  vocational  education
  and  extension  board  of  the county and shall have the power to expend
  moneys for and make appropriations  to  pay  the  cost  thereof  and  to
  finance the cost thereof pursuant to the local finance law.
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 › 1110 - Establishment of a Special Education District.

§ 1110. Establishment of a special education district.
1.  The  board  of  supervisors  or  other  governing elective body of
  Westchester county shall have power to adopt a resolution by a  majority
  vote  of  the  members  of  such  board to establish within the county a
  special education district which shall include all the territory  within
  the county. A city school district in such county having a population of
  fifty  thousand  or more inhabitants shall be excluded from such special
  education district provided the board of education of  such  city  shall
  adopt  a  resolution  requesting  that  such  city school district be so
  excluded and file such resolution with the board of supervisors or other
  governing elective body within sixty days  after  the  establishment  of
  such  special  education  district.  With  the  approval  of  the county
  commission  for  special  education  to  be  appointed  as   hereinafter
  provided,  a city school district so excluded may later become a part of
  such special education district upon  the  written  application  by  the
  board of education of such city school district.
2. Upon the establishment of such special education district the board
  of  supervisors  or  other governing elective body shall appoint a board
  which shall be known as the county  commission  for  special  education.
  Such  commission  shall  consist  of  five members who shall serve for a
  period of five years each, except that members first appointed shall  be
  appointed  for  such  terms that the term of one member will expire each
  year, and their successors shall thereafter each be appointed for a full
  term of five years, respectively. Vacancies  occurring  in  such  office
  shall  be filled by the board of supervisors or other governing elective
  body for the unexpired term.
3. Members of such commission shall serve without compensation  except
  their   actual   and  necessary  travelling  expenses  incurred  in  the
  performance of their official duties.
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 › 1112 - Courses of Study and Qualifications of Teachers.

§ 1112. Courses  of study and qualifications of teachers.  The courses
  of instruction to accomplish the purposes of part two  of  this  article
  are to be approved by the commissioner of education.  The qualifications
  of  the  teachers, directors, assistants and supervisors employed by the
  county commission for special education must conform to the  regulations
  of the regents of the university and the commissioner of education.
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 › 1113 - State Aid.

§ 1113. State  aid.    The  commissioner  of  education  in the annual
  apportionment of public moneys shall apportion therefrom to such  county
  the quotas provided in section eleven hundred four of this chapter.
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 › 1114 - Appropriations by Board of Supervisors.

§ 1114. Appropriations   by  board  of  supervisors.    The  board  of
  supervisors or other governing elective body may make appropriations and
  levy taxes upon all the taxable property included within the  boundaries
  of  the special education district to carry out the purposes of part two
  of this article, and such taxes shall be assessed, levied and  collected
  at  the  same  time and in the same manner as county taxes are assessed,
  levied and collected within the boundaries  of  such  special  education
  district.
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 › 1115 - Indebtedness of Special Education District.

§ 1115. Indebtedness  of  special education district.  For the purpose
  of giving effect to the provisions of part two of this article the board
  of supervisors or other governing elective body of such county may issue
  obligations of the county  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  the  local
  finance  law,  which  obligations  shall  be  a  charge upon the special
  education district.  Whenever at the time of its enlargement the special
  education district shall have an outstanding bonded  indebtedness,  such
  outstanding  indebtedness  shall  become  a  charge against the enlarged
  district.
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 › 1116 - County Treasurer to Act as Treasurer of the County Commission for Special Education.

§ 1116. County  treasurer to act as treasurer of the county commission
  for special education.   All  moneys  collected  from  taxes  levied  in
  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  part  two of this article and all
  moneys apportioned by the commissioner of education,  and  any  and  all
  moneys received from any and all sources whatsoever for carrying out the
  provisions  of  part  two  of  this article, shall be paid to the county
  treasurer.  Such funds shall be disbursed by such county treasurer  upon
  audit by the special education commission.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-A - Service Centers for Independent Living › 1120 - Declaration of Intent.

§ 1120. Declaration  of intent.   Persons with disabilities comprise a
  large percentage of New York's total population. The legislature  hereby
  finds  and declares that action is necessary to assist these individuals
  to integrate and live more independently in the community.  Since  their
  inception,  service  centers  for  independent  living have enhanced the
  ability of persons with disabilities to pursue an independent and active
  lifestyle within their community.   In order  to  achieve  this,  it  is
  necessary  for the state to provide funding to maintain existing service
  centers designed to promote independent  living  and  to  encourage  the
  establishment  of  new  centers.  In  addition, the office of vocational
  rehabilitation should have the  responsibility  and  authority  for  the
  encouragement  of  the  planning,  development,  funding, evaluation and
  monitoring of such service centers.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-A - Service Centers for Independent Living › 1121 - Service Centers for Independent Living; Purpose and Duties.

§ 1121. Service  centers  for  independent living; purpose and duties.
1. A service center for independent living shall be  a  community  based
non-residential  program  designed  to  promote  independent  living for
persons with disabilities.
(a) Such center shall:
(i) be a private not-for-profit corporation, pursuant  to  subdivision
five  of  paragraph  a  of section one hundred two of the not-for-profit
corporation law;  provided,  however,  that  persons  with  disabilities
comprise  at  least  fifty-one percent of the membership of the board of
directors;
(ii) be staffed by  persons  experienced  in  assisting  persons  with
disabilities;
(iii)  provide  services  designed  to  meet the needs of persons with
disabilities,  including  such  services  as  assisting   persons   with
disabilities  to  obtain  housing,  employment  referral, transportation
referral, attendant care, independent living  skills,  peer  counseling,
advocacy  services,  job  training, health care, homemaker services, and
other such services as approved by the commissioner;
(iv) train personnel for the purpose of attendant  care  in  assisting
and serving persons with disabilities; and
(v) serve persons with disabilities.
(b)  Such  center  may  also,  but  need  not limit itself to, provide
disability awareness programs, peer counseling, role  modeling  and  any
other appropriate services within elementary and secondary schools.
2.  Such  service  centers  shall  not be established or operated as a
residential or housing facility.
3. Such service centers shall make maximum use of  existing  resources
available  to  persons  with  disabilities  and  shall not duplicate any
existing services or programs, to  the  extent  that  such  services  or
programs  are available through other state sources to meet the needs of
persons with disabilities. Such centers shall however provide  necessary
information  and  referral  to  assist  a  person  with  a disability in
obtaining such services and coordinate where possible  the  delivery  of
such services to persons with disabilities.
4.  Such  service  centers  shall be in compliance with all applicable
local laws and ordinances.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-A - Service Centers for Independent Living › 1122 - Education Department; Responsibilities.

§ 1122. Education  department; responsibilities.  The department shall
  assist individuals and organizations in the planning  and  establishment
  of   such   service   centers.   The  department  shall  ensure  program
  accountability and shall monitor and evaluate such centers.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-A - Service Centers for Independent Living › 1124 - Distribution of Funds.

§ 1124. Distribution  of  funds.  1.  Service  centers for independent
  living shall be funded out of appropriations available for such purposes
  to the extent of the entire approved budget of such centers.
2.  Budgets  submitted  by  service  centers  shall  be  approved   in
  accordance  with regulations of the commissioner, subject to approval of
  the director of the budget.
3. Service centers shall be located in the cities of Albany,  Buffalo,
  Rochester,   Syracuse,   Utica,   White  Plains,  Binghamton,  Kingston,
  Poughkeepsie, Jamestown, Yonkers, the counties of Queens, Kings, Nassau,
  Bronx, Richmond, New York and Suffolk.
4. Additional service centers  shall  be  located  in  the  cities  of
  Niagara  Falls,  Olean,  Troy,  Amsterdam,  Newburgh,  Corning,  Ithaca,
  Cortland, Auburn, Watertown, Plattsburgh,  Batavia,  Massena  and  Glens
  Falls,  the  counties of Delaware and Rockland, the county of Orange, in
  either the city of Middletown or Port Jervis or in the town of Deerpark,
  Greenville, Mount Hope, Warwick  or  Wawayanda  or  in  the  village  of
  Goshen,  in the county of New York to serve the Harlem community, and in
  the counties of Putnam, Sullivan and Herkimer.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1127 - Confidentiality of Records.

§ 1127. Confidentiality of records. Reports and other written material
  submitted  pursuant  to  this  article, and photographs taken concerning
  such reports in the possession of any person authorized to receive  such
  information,  pursuant  to this article, shall be confidential and shall
  not be redisclosed except to law enforcement authorities involved in  an
  investigation  of  child abuse in an educational setting or as expressly
  authorized by law or pursuant to  a  court-ordered  subpoena.  A  school
  administrator  or a school superintendent shall exercise reasonable care
  in preventing such unauthorized  disclosure.  Willful  disclosure  of  a
  written record required to be kept confidential pursuant to this section
  to a person not authorized to receive or review such record is a class A
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1128-A - Additional Duties of School Administrators and Superintendents.

§   1128-a.   Additional   duties   of   school   administrators   and
  superintendents.
1. Where a superintendent of schools or, in  a  school  other  than  a
  school  district  or public school, the school administrator forwards to
  law enforcement a report as described in paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision
  one  or  subdivision  one-a of section eleven hundred twenty-six of this
  article, he or she shall refer such report to the commissioner where the
  employee or volunteer alleged to have committed an act of child abuse as
  defined in this article holds a certification or license issued  by  the
  department.
2. A report which is made pursuant to this article and does not, after
  investigation,  result  in  a criminal conviction shall be expunged from
  any record which may be kept by a school or school district with respect
  to the subject of such a report after a period of five  years  from  the
  date  of  the  making  of  such  report  or at such earlier time as such
  school, or school district, as the case may be, determines.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1129 - Penalties for Failure to Comply.

§  1129.  Penalties  for  failure  to comply. 1. Willful failure of an
employee to prepare and submit a written  report  of  an  allegation  of
child abuse as required by this article shall be a class A misdemeanor.
2.  (a) Willful failure of a school administrator or superintendent to
submit a written report of child abuse to an appropriate law enforcement
authority, as required by this article, shall be a class A misdemeanor.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, any failure  to
submit a written report of child abuse to an appropriate law enforcement
authority  as  required  by this article, shall be punishable by a civil
penalty not to exceed  five  thousand  dollars  upon  an  administrative
determination by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1130 - Notification by District Attorney.

§   1130.   Notification   by  district  attorney.  Where  a  criminal
  investigation of  an  allegation  of  child  abuse  by  an  employee  or
  volunteer  is  undertaken  in response to a report forwarded by a school
  administrator or superintendent to law enforcement authorities  pursuant
  to  section  eleven  hundred twenty-eight of this article, and where law
  enforcement authorities  have  provided  such  report  to  the  district
  attorney and have requested assistance, as soon as practicable, it shall
  be   the   responsibility   of  the  district  attorney  to  notify  the
  superintendent of schools of the district where the acts of child  abuse
  allegedly  occurred  and  of  the  school  district  where  the child is
  attending, if different, of an indictment or the filing of an accusatory
  instrument against the employee or volunteer against whom an  allegation
  of child abuse in an educational setting was made. The district attorney
  shall  notify  the  superintendent  of schools of the district where the
  acts of child abuse allegedly occurred and of the  school  district,  if
  different,  where  the  child  is  attending  of  the disposition of the
  criminal case against such employee or volunteer or  the  suspension  or
  termination of the criminal investigation of such employee or volunteer.
  The  aforementioned notifications to the superintendent of schools shall
  be made to the appropriate school administrator where the acts of  child
  abuse  allegedly  occurred  in  a school other than a school district or
  public school.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1131 - Actions Upon Criminal Conviction of a Licensed or Certified School Employee.

§  1131.  Actions  upon criminal conviction of a licensed or certified
  school employee.  1. In the event that a licensed  or  certified  school
  employee  against  whom  an  allegation of child abuse in an educational
  setting has been made, is convicted of any crime involving  child  abuse
  in  an  educational  setting, the district attorney shall provide notice
  thereof to the commissioner and the superintendent  of  schools  of  the
  district  or, in a school other than a school district or public school,
  the school administrator where the acts of child abuse occurred  and  to
  the school where the child is attending, if different.
2.  Upon  receiving  notice  of  a conviction from a district attorney
  pursuant to subdivision one of this  section,  the  commissioner  shall,
  without  delay,  proceed  to  determine whether the individual possesses
  good  moral  character,  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  of  the
  commissioner governing such a determination.
3.  Nothing  in  this  article  shall  be  construed  as  creating any
  authority to take an adverse action against an employee or volunteer  by
  virtue  of  a  report  pursuant  to  this  article  which  has  not been
  substantiated.
4. An employee or volunteer who has adverse action taken  against  him
  or  her  by  virtue of or in connection with any report made pursuant to
  this article shall be entitled to receive a  copy  of  such  report  and
  respond  to the allegations of child abuse made therein. Any employee or
  volunteer shall, in addition, be entitled to  seek  disclosure  of  such
  report pursuant to article six of the public officers law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1133 - Unreported Resignation Against Public Policy.

§  1133.  Unreported  resignation  against  public policy. 1. A school
  administrator or superintendent shall not make any agreement to withhold
  from  law   enforcement   authorities,   the   superintendent   or   the
  commissioner,  where  appropriate,  the fact that an allegation of child
  abuse in an educational setting on the part of any employee or volunteer
  as required by this article in return for the resignation  or  voluntary
  suspension  from  his  or  her position of such person, against whom the
  allegation is made.
2. Each violation of subdivision one of this section shall  constitute
  a class E felony, and shall also be punishable by a civil penalty not to
  exceed twenty thousand dollars.
3.   Any   superintendent  of  schools  or  school  administrator  who
  reasonably and in  good  faith  reports  to  law  enforcement  officials
  information  regarding  allegations  of  child abuse or a resignation as
  required by this article shall have immunity from any  liability,  civil
  or criminal, which might otherwise result by reason of such actions.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 23-B - Child Abuse in an Educational Setting › 1134 - Reporting to the Vulnerable Persons' Central Register and the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment.

§  1134. Reporting to the vulnerable persons' central register and the
  statewide central register of child  abuse  and  maltreatment.  Where  a
  person  employed  by a school is required to report an incident of child
  abuse in an educational  setting  to  the  vulnerable  persons'  central
  register  pursuant  to  article eleven of the social services law or the
  statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment  pursuant  to
  article  six  of  the  social  services  law  and he or she reports such
  incident thereto, such person shall have been deemed  to  have  complied
  with the reporting requirements of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 24 - New York State Rural Education Program Act › 1202 - Legislative Findings and Intent.

§ 1202. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds,
  determines and declares that:
1.  Rural  education  is  a  critical  factor  and  dominant  force in
  stimulating  and   maintaining   socioeconomic   development,   economic
  viability,  social  activity and cultural enrichment in rural regions of
  New York state. Rural schools fill an integral role as  centers  of  the
  community  and as a bridge for youth to connect with the broader society
  in fulfilling their dreams and ambitions;
2. Rural areas account for more  than  half  of  the  school  systems,
  boards of cooperative education services and colleges in the state;
3.  Rural areas have unique conditions and circumstances which require
  special consideration in the development and assessment of state policy,
  including:  (a)  that  rural  areas  contain  many  of  the  low-wealth,
  low-spending  school districts in the state; (b) that average incomes of
  rural residents are lower than statewide norms; and (c) that  per  pupil
  expenditures  in  rural  schools are more than fifteen percent below the
  statewide average;
4. Weaknesses exist in rural education inasmuch as rural schools  have
  difficulty   attracting   and  retaining  highly  trained  teachers  and
  administrators, teachers are spread thinly over several subject areas;
5. A limited knowledge base on small rural  educational  organizations
  and  lack  of  a  systematic research agenda for rural schools limit the
  potential for development  of  cohesive  state  policy  for  educational
  services in rural New York;
6. The establishment of a program on rural education would enhance the
  capacity  of  policy  makers  within  state  government:  (a)  to better
  understand the inefficiencies and needs of the state's  rural  education
  systems;  (b)  to  assess the impact of existing and proposed government
  mandates on rural areas; (c)  to  promote  innovation,  flexibility  and
  investment  to  ensure that rural residents have equitable access to and
  receive quality educational  services  and  opportunities;  and  (d)  to
  promote  the  long-term  goal  of  improving  the  economic  and  social
  well-being of rural communities as a direct result  of  improving  rural
  school performance.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 24 - New York State Rural Education Program Act › 1203 - Definitions.

§ 1203. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
1. "Center" shall mean the New York state center for rural schools;
2.  "Committee"  shall  mean  the  rural education advisory committee,
  established pursuant to the provisions of this article; and
3. "Rural area" shall mean any  county  with  less  than  two  hundred
  thousand population, or any town which has a population of less than one
  hundred fifty persons per square mile.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 24 - New York State Rural Education Program Act › 1206 - Contract Authority.

§ 1206. Contract  authority.  The  center, after consultation with the
  committee, is hereby empowered to enter into any agreement  or  contract
  with  any  private  or  public  agencies,  corporations,  or individuals
  necessary or convenient to carry out the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 24 - New York State Rural Education Program Act › 1207 - Functions, Powers and Duties of Other State Agencies.

§ 1207. Functions,  powers and duties of other state agencies. Nothing
  contained in this article shall be deemed to derogate or detract in  any
  way from the functions, powers or duties prescribed by law of any agency
  or  department  of  the  state  or  to  interrupt or preclude the direct
  relationship of any such  department  or  agency  with  local  agencies,
  individuals  or  corporations  for  the  carrying out of such functions,
  powers and duties.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1501-A - Publication of Minutes.

§ 1501-a. Publication  of  minutes.    Any  school  district  board of
  trustees, board of education or other corporate  body  may  publish  the
  minutes  of  its proceedings in the official newspaper or if no official
  newspaper  has  been  designated,  in  any  newspaper   having   general
  circulation in the school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1501-C - Voting by Residents of Certain Facilities.

§  1501-c.  Voting by residents of certain facilities. Notwithstanding
  any provision of this title to the contrary, the provisions  of  section
  8-407  of  the  election  law  shall  apply  to  all elections conducted
  pursuant to this title by a school district. The board of  elections  of
  the  city  or county in which a school district is located shall provide
  for the implementation of the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1502 - Passengers on School Buses.

§ 1502. Passengers  on  school buses. 1. Boards of education of school
  districts located entirely or partially in any county with less than two
  hundred thousand population or any town which has a population  of  less
  than  one hundred fifty persons per square mile are hereby authorized to
  permit the following persons to ride as passengers on school buses  with
  pupils:  residents  who  are enrolled in education or training programs,
  including,  but  not  limited  to,   alternative   education   programs,
  vocational,  apprenticeship  and  job  training programs, and on-the-job
  training; children under the age of five traveling between home and  day
  care  or  preschool programs; and employees of school districts or other
  educational or training institutions.
2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to  the  contrary,  the
  board  of education of any school district located entirely or partially
  in any county with less than two hundred thousand population or any town
  which has a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square
  mile is hereby  authorized  and  empowered,  in  order  to  protect  the
  interests  of  pupils,  to  adopt  rules and regulations under which any
  person would be permitted to ride as a passenger on any school bus  that
  provides  pupil  transportation  for such district during the hours such
  bus is transporting pupils to and from classes providing:
a. such person makes application to the school district, in accordance
  with the rules and regulations of the district, and such application  is
  approved by the board of education;
b.  there  is  regularly sufficient space on such school bus to permit
  all pupils to be seated while such bus is in operation;
c. any amount charged such person does not  exceed  the  cost  to  the
  district for transporting a pupil the same distance.
3.  Any  rules  and  regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of
  this section may, among other things, establish the  maximum  number  of
  persons other than pupils that may ride any bus.
4. Any person authorized in subdivision one of this section to ride as
  a  passenger  on  school  buses  with pupils, may also ride on buses not
  owned by the school district  but  used  for  transportation  of  pupils
  pursuant  to contract, provided the school district and the owner of the
  bus agree upon any amount to be charged such person. Such agreement  may
  include an amount to be paid to the bus owner or school district.
5.  In  the  event  any  person  is authorized to ride on school buses
  pursuant to the provisions of this section, the  school  district  shall
  maintain  records  indicating  the number of such trips and any revenues
  collected  therefrom.   Any   funds   collected   for   such   non-pupil
  transportation  as  authorized  by  this section shall be credited to an
  account so designated.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1502-A - Power to Provide for Observance of Memorial Day; Certain Cases.

§ 1502-a. Power  to  provide  for  observance of Memorial day; certain
  cases.  1. In any year in which the celebration  of the holiday known as
  "Memorial  day" is to be otherwise observed as a public holiday pursuant
  to any other provision of the laws of this state on a day which is other
  than the day provided by federal law for such observance,  the  trustees
  or  board  of  education  may by resolution provide that in and for such
  school district, such observance shall be had on the day designated  for
  federal purposes.
2.    Upon  the  adoption of such resolution the day so designated for
  federal purposes shall for the purposes of  such  school  district,  its
  facilities,  employees  and  students be a public holiday and subject to
  all other provisions of law relating to public  holidays  and  the  date
  otherwise provided by state law for the observance of Memorial day shall
  not be a public holiday for that year in or for such school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1503 - Application of Funds Obtained From Sale of School Property.

§ 1503. Application  of  funds  obtained from sale of school property.
  All moneys obtained from the sale  of  any  school  property  authorized
  under the provisions of this chapter shall be applied for the benefit of
  the  district as directed by the voters thereof in any annual or special
  meeting.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1505-A - Teachers' Rights as a Result of the Dissolution of a School District.

§ 1505-a. Teachers'  rights as a result of the dissolution of a school
  district.  1. In any case in which a school district  is  dissolved  and
  portions  of  such  former  district  are  added to more than one school
  district pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen hundred  five  of
  this  article  or  section  seventeen hundred five of this chapter, each
  teacher employed in such former school district  at  the  time  of  such
  dissolution  shall  select  the  particular  school  district  to  which
  territory is added in which he or she shall be considered  an  employee,
  with  the  same tenure status he or she maintained in such former school
  district. Such selection of the  particular  school  district  to  which
  territory  is  added  by such teacher shall be based upon each teacher's
  seniority in such former school district, with the  right  of  selection
  passing from such teachers with the most seniority to such teachers with
  least seniority.
2. Any such teacher who is unable to obtain a teaching position in any
  such  school district to which territory is added, because the number of
  positions needed are less than the number of  teachers  eligible  to  be
  considered employees pursuant to subdivision one of this section, shall,
  in all such school districts to which territory is added, be placed on a
  preferred  eligible list of candidates for appointment to a vacancy that
  may thereafter occur in a position  similar  to  the  one  such  teacher
  filled  in such former school district. The teachers on such a preferred
  eligible list shall be appointed to such vacancies in such corresponding
  or similar positions under the jurisdiction of the  school  district  to
  which territory is added in the order of their length of service in such
  former  school  district,  within  seven  years  from  the  date  of the
  dissolution of such former school district.
3. For any such teacher as  set  forth  in  subdivision  one  of  this
  section,  for  salary,  sick  leave and any other purpose, the length of
  service credited in such former school district  shall  be  credited  as
  employment time with such school district to which territory is added.
4.  This  section  shall in no way be construed to limit the rights of
  any such teachers set  forth  in  this  section  granted  by  any  other
  provision of law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1506 - Filing of Certain Orders of District Superintendent.

§ 1506. Filing  of  certain  orders  of district superintendent.   The
  order of a district superintendent forming or altering the boundaries of
  a school district and the written description thereof together with  all
  notices,  orders,  consents and proceedings relating to the formation or
  alteration thereof shall be filed with the commissioner, with the  clerk
  of  each  school district affected, and  with the town clerk of the town
  in which such  district  is  located;  provided,  however,  that  orders
  altering boundaries of school districts shall be filed with the clerk of
  only the town in which the property being transferred is located.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1507 - Alteration by Consent.

§ 1507. Alteration  by  consent.    1. With the written consent of the
  trustees of all the districts  to  be  affected  thereby,  the  district
  superintendent  may  make an order altering the boundaries of any school
  district within his jurisdiction, and fix in such order a day  when  the
  alteration shall take effect.
2.  With the written consent of the board of education of a union free
  school district having a population of forty-five hundred or  more,  and
  employing  a  superintendent  of schools, and the written consent of the
  board of education or trustees of a district in a  supervisory  district
  adjoining  such  union free school district, the district superintendent
  having jurisdiction may make an order altering the  boundaries  of  such
  districts,  and  fix  in such order a day when the alteration shall take
  effect.