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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4105 - Required Attendance Upon Instruction.

§ 4105.   Required attendance upon instruction.  1. Every Indian child
  between six and sixteen years of age,  in  proper  physical  and  mental
  condition to attend school, shall regularly attend upon instruction at a
  school  in  which  at  least  the  common  school  branches  of reading,
  spelling, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and geography are  taught
  in  English,  or  upon  equivalent  instruction  by  a competent teacher
  elsewhere than at such school as follows:  Every  Indian  child  between
  fourteen  and sixteen years of age not regularly and lawfully engaged in
  any useful employment or service, and every such child between  six  and
  fourteen  years  of  age,  shall so attend upon instruction as many days
  annually during the period between the first days of September  and  the
  following  July  as  a public school of the community or district of the
  reservation, in which such child resides, shall be in session during the
  same period.
2. If any such child shall so attend upon instruction  elsewhere  than
  at  the  public school, such instruction shall be at least equivalent to
  the instruction given to Indian children of like age at a school of  the
  community  or  district  in  which  such  child  shall  reside; and such
  attendance shall be for at least as many hours of each day  thereof,  as
  are  required  of  children of like age at public schools and no greater
  total amount of holidays and  vacations  shall  be  deducted  from  such
  attendance during the period such attendance is required than is allowed
  in  public  schools  for  children of like age. Occasional absences from
  such attendance not amounting to irregular attendance in a fair  meaning
  of the term, shall be allowed upon such excuses only as would be allowed
  in like cases by the general rules and practices of public schools.
3.  Transportation shall be provided for Indian children who live more
  than a mile from the elementary and high schools they  attend,  and  the
  commissioner  of education is hereby empowered to make provision for the
  cost of the same as a part of the care and education of Indian children.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4106 - Duties of Persons in Parental Relation to Indian Children.

§ 4106. Duties  of  persons  in  parental relation to Indian children.
  Any person in parental relation to  an  Indian  child  between  six  and
  sixteen  years  of age in proper physical and mental condition to attend
  school, shall cause such child to attend upon instruction as provided in
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4107 - Penalty for Failure to Send Children to School.

§ 4107. Penalty  for  failure to send children to school.  A violation
  of section forty-one hundred six shall be a misdemeanor, punishable  for
  the   first  offense  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  five  dollars  or  by
  imprisonment not exceeding ten days, and for each subsequent offense, by
  a fine  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  not
  exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.  Courts of
  special  sessions  shall,  subject  to  removal, as provided in sections
  fifty-seven and fifty-eight of the  code  of  criminal  procedure,  have
  exclusive  jurisdiction in the first instance to hear, try and determine
  charges of violation of  section  forty-one  hundred  six  within  their
  respective jurisdictions.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4108 - Persons Employing Indian Children Unlawfully to Be Fined.

§ 4108. Persons  employing  Indian children unlawfully to be fined.  A
  person, firm, association or corporation shall  not  employ  any  Indian
  child  residing on any Indian reservation between six and fourteen years
  of age, in any business or service whatever during any part of the  term
  during which the school in the community or district in which such child
  resides  or the school where such child should attend is in session, nor
  shall employ any  Indian  child  residing  on  any  reservation  between
  fourteen  and  sixteen  years  of age, who does not, at the time of such
  employment present a consent in writing signed by the principal  teacher
  of  the  reservation or the principal of the district which educates the
  children in the community in which such child resides to the effect that
  such child may be employed, and specifying the nature of the service and
  the  duration  of  such  service  or  employment.    Any  person,  firm,
  association or corporation who shall employ any Indian child contrary to
  the provisions of this section shall for each offense forfeit and pay to
  the  principal  teacher  of  the  reservation  or to the commissioner of
  education the sum of twenty-five dollars to be sued for in the  name  of
  the  people  of  the  state  of  New York by the attorney general.  Such
  penalty, when paid, shall be used for the support and maintenance of the
  schools on said reservation or for said reservation.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4109 - Teachers' Record of Attendance.

§ 4109. Teachers'  record  of  attendance.    An  accurate  record  of
  attendance of all Indian children between six and sixteen years  of  age
  shall  be  kept by the teacher of every Indian school, showing each day,
  by the year, month,  day  of  the  month  and  day  of  the  week,  such
  attendance,  and  the  number  of  hours  in  each day thereof; and each
  teacher upon whose instruction such Indian child shall attend  elsewhere
  than at the school in the community or district of the reservation where
  he  resides,  shall keep a like record of such attendance.  Such records
  shall at all times be open to the principal teacher of  the  reservation
  and  its  attendance  officers  or to such person or persons as shall be
  designated by the commissioner of education who may inspect and copy the
  same and any teacher shall answer all lawful inquiries made by them.   A
  wilful neglect or refusal to keep such a record or answer such inquiries
  shall be a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4110 - Attendance Officers.

§ 4110. Attendance  officers.   1. The principal teacher of the Indian
  schools on each reservation shall  supervise  the  enforcement  of  this
  article  within  said  reservation  and  shall  appoint,  subject to the
  approval of the commissioner of education, and remove at  pleasure  such
  number  of  attendance  officers  as the commissioner of education shall
  deem  necessary,  whose  jurisdictions  shall  extend  over  all  school
  districts  on  the  reservation for which they shall be appointed.  Such
  principal teachers are also vested with the same power and authority  as
  the attendance officers appointed by them.
2.  If  the  education  of Indian children of the reservation shall be
  provided pursuant to  the  provisions  of  subdivision  two  of  section
  forty-one  hundred  one  of  this  chapter,  the  attendance  officer or
  officers of the school district  providing  such  education  shall  have
  jurisdiction  over  all  Indian  children  on  the  reservation.    Such
  attendance officers shall not, however, be entitled to receive from  the
  commissioner  of  education the payment for services provided in section
  forty-one hundred fourteen of this chapter.
3. The commissioner of education may appoint and  remove  at  pleasure
  such  attendance  officers  as  he  shall deem necessary, who shall have
  jurisdiction over  all  children  other  than  Indian  children  on  the
  reservation for which they shall be appointed.  Such attendance officers
  shall  receive such sum per day or part thereof as shall be fixed by the
  commissioner of education for  each  day  or  part  thereof  necessarily
  employed  as  such  attendance  officers.    Compensation  of attendance
  officers herein provided for shall be audited  by  the  commissioner  of
  education  and  paid  in  the  same  manner  as  other expenses incurred
  pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4111 - Arrest of Truants.

§ 4111. Arrest  of  truants. Any attendance officer may arrest without
  warrant anywhere within the state  any  Indian  child  between  six  and
  sixteen  years of age, found away from his home and who is then a truant
  from instruction upon which he is lawfully required to attend within the
  districts of which such attendance officer has  jurisdiction.  He  shall
  forthwith  deliver  a child so arrested either to the person in parental
  relation to the child, or to the teacher of the school from  which  said
  child is then a truant, or in case of habitual truants, shall bring them
  before  a  magistrate  for  commitment  to  a school for delinquents, as
  provided in section forty-one hundred twelve of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4112 - Commissioner of Education to Contract for Keeping of Truants.

§ 4112. Commissioner  of education to contract for keeping of truants.
  The commissioner of education may contract with  any  city  or  district
  having  a  school  for delinquents, for the confinement, maintenance and
  instruction therein of any child who shall be committed to  such  school
  as  a  truant  by  any magistrate before whom such child shall have been
  examined upon the charge of truancy.  The costs and  expenses  attending
  the  support and maintenance of any truant, as herein provided, shall be
  audited by the commissioner of education and paid in the same manner  as
  the  expenses of supporting and maintaining the schools on a reservation
  are paid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4113 - Census.

§ 4113. Census.  The commissioner of education shall cause to be taken
  a  complete  annual  census  of  the  Indian  children between birth and
  eighteen years of age on any reservation; such  census  shall  be  taken
  between  the  first  day  of  May  and  the last day of August and shall
  include all such facts  and  information  as  are  required  by  section
  thirty-two  hundred  forty-one  of this chapter. A report of such census
  shall be prepared in duplicate and a copy filed with the commissioner on
  or before the fifteenth day of October.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4114 - Payment of Services Herein Required.

§ 4114. Payment  of  services herein required.  Each of the attendance
  officers herein provided for shall receive such sum per day as shall  be
  fixed by the commissioner of education for each day necessarily employed
  in  enforcing  this  article;  and  each  person  employed in taking and
  tabulating the census of the residents of said  reservations,  shall  be
  entitled  to  receive such compensation as the commissioner of education
  shall allow.  The compensation of attendance officers and the expense in
  taking the enumeration herein provided  for  shall  be  audited  by  the
  commissioner  of education and paid in the same manner as other accounts
  for the support and maintenance of the schools on said reservations  are
  paid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4116 - Co-Operation of Indians Shall Be Sought.

§ 4116. Co-operation  of Indians shall be sought.  In the discharge of
  the duties imposed by this article, the said commissioner shall endeavor
  to secure the co-operation of all the several bands of Indians, and  for
  this  purpose, shall visit, by himself or his authorized representative,
  all the reservations where they reside, lay the matter  before  them  in
  public  assembly,  inviting them to assist either by appropriating their
  public moneys to this object, or by setting  apart  lands  and  erecting
  suitable  buildings,  or  by  furnishing  labor  or  materials  for such
  buildings, or in any other way which he or  they  may  suggest  as  most
  effectual for the promotion of this object.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4117 - Payment of Cost of Education of Physically Handicapped Indian Children.

§ 4117. Payment  of cost of education of physically handicapped Indian
  children.   Any  claims  for  providing  home-teaching,  transportation,
  scholarships  in  non-residence  schools,  tuition  and  maintenance for
  physically handicapped children which are, ultimately or  in  the  first
  instance,  made  a  charge  against  a county or a city having a special
  children's court act, pursuant to the provisions of article  eighty-nine
  of   this   chapter,   shall,  if  such  home-teaching,  transportation,
  scholarships, tuition and maintenance shall be provided  for  physically
  handicapped  Indian children, be paid by the education department out of
  moneys appropriated therefor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4118 - Attendance at Post-Secondary Institutions by Native American Students.

§ 4118. Attendance  at  post-secondary institutions by Native American
  students.   1.  The  education  department  shall  select  students  for
  attendance at post-secondary institutions from the several Indian tribes
  located within this state. In making such selection, due regard shall be
  had to a just participation in the privileges of this section by each of
  such  several tribes. If practicable, reference shall also be had to the
  population of  each  of  such  tribes  in  determining  such  selection.
  Eligibility  for  selection  shall  not  be  limited to Native Americans
  residing on reservations.
2. No such student may attend  a  post-secondary  institution  outside
  this  state,  nor  one  that has not been approved by the New York state
  board  of  regents,  nor  may  he  be  supported  or  educated  at  such
  institutions  for a period exceeding four years unless he is enrolled in
  a program normally requiring five years of training.
3. Such sum as may be appropriated for the support  and  education  of
  Native  American  students  in  such institutions shall be paid from the
  treasury, upon the audit and warrant of  the  comptroller,  on  vouchers
  approved by the education department.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 83 - Indian Schools › 4119 - School District May Contract to Educate Indian Children.

§ 4119. School  district  may  contract  to  educate  Indian children.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  the  trustee,  trustees  or
  board  of  education of any school district shall have power to contract
  with the  commissioner  of  education  for  the  instruction  of  Indian
  children  for a period of ten years. Notwithstanding any other provision
  of law, the trustee, trustees  or  board  of  education  of  any  school
  district  shall  have authority to lease a site or school building owned
  by the state of New York whether located on or off an Indian reservation
  and such trustee, trustees or board of education shall have authority to
  maintain school in such building  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  such
  building  may  not be located within the district boundary lines of such
  school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4201 - Duties of Commissioner of Education.

§ 4201. Duties   of   commissioner  of  education.  1.  The  following
  institutions for the instruction of the deaf and of the blind  shall  be
  subject  to  the visitation of the commissioner of education: a. The New
  York school for the deaf;
b. The Lexington school for the deaf;
c. St. Mary's school for the deaf in the city of Buffalo;
e. St. Joseph's school for the deaf in the city of New York;
f. Rochester school for the deaf in the city of Rochester;
h. The New York Institute for Special Education in  the  city  of  New
  York;
i. Lavelle School for the Blind in the city of New York;
j. Mill Neck Manor school for the deaf in Nassau county;
k.  St. Francis DeSales school for the deaf and hard of hearing in the
  county of Kings.
l. Cleary Deaf Child Center, Inc., in  the  counties  of  Suffolk  and
  Nassau.
2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner:
a.  To  inquire  into  the organization of the several schools and the
  methods of instruction employed therein.
b. To prescribe courses of study and methods of instruction that  will
  meet the requirements of the state for the education of state pupils.
c.  To make appointments of pupils to the several schools, to transfer
  such pupils from one school to another as circumstances may require;  to
  cancel appointments for sufficient reason.
d.  To  ascertain  by  a  comparison  with  other similar institutions
  whether any improvements in instruction and discipline can be made;  and
  for that purpose to appoint from time to time, suitable persons to visit
  the schools.
e.  To  suggest  to  the  directors  of  such  institutions and to the
  legislature such improvements as he shall judge expedient.
f. To make an annual report to the legislature on all of  the  matters
  enumerated  in  this subdivision and particularly as to the condition of
  the schools, the improvement of  the  pupils,  and  their  treatment  in
  respect to board and lodging.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4202 - Regulations for Admission.

* § 4202. Regulations  for  admission.  The commissioner may make such
  regulations and give such directions to parents and persons in  parental
  relation,  in relation to the admission of students into any institution
  specified in this article, as will prevent students entering the same at
  irregular periods. Such regulations shall include, but  not  be  limited
  to,  procedures  to  assure  that the due process rights of students and
  their  parents  or  persons  in  parental  relation  are  protected   in
  accordance with sections forty-four hundred two, forty-four hundred four
  and  forty-four  hundred four-a of this title and applicable federal law
  and regulations.
* NB Effective until June 30, 2024
* § 4202. Regulations for admission. The commissioner of education may
  make such regulations and give such directions to parents and guardians,
  in relation to the admission of pupils into any institution specified in
  this article, as will prevent pupils  entering  the  same  at  irregular
  periods.
* NB Effective June 30, 2024
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4203 - Persons Eligible for Appointment as Pupils to Institutions for Instruction of the Deaf.

§ 4203. Persons eligible for appointment as pupils to institutions for
  instruction  of  the deaf.  All deaf children resident in this state, of
  the age of three years and upwards and of  suitable  capacity,  and  who
  shall  have  been  resident  in  this  state  for  one  year immediately
  preceding the application, or, if an orphan, whose nearest friend  shall
  have  been resident in this state for one year immediately preceding the
  application, shall be eligible to appointment as state pupils in one  of
  the  institutions  for  the  instruction  of  the  deaf  of  this state,
  authorized by  law  to  receive  such  pupils;  provided,  however,  the
  foregoing  requirement  as  to  length of residence in this state may be
  waived in the discretion of the commissioner of education.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4204-A - Deaf-Infant Program.

§ 4204-a.  Deaf-infant program. (1) All deaf children resident in this
state, below the age of three, of suitable age and capacity,  who  shall
have  been resident in this state for one year immediately preceding the
application, or is an  orphan  whose  nearest  friend  shall  have  been
resident   in   this  state  for  one  year  immediately  preceding  the
application, shall be eligible to receive approved educational  services
in  one of the institutions for instruction for the deaf of the state as
enumerated in section forty-two hundred one of this article, as well  as
in  such  educational  programs or other like facilities which shall, in
the discretion of the commissioner, be certified as eligible to  receive
such  pupils  on  a  day  basis  only;  provided, however, the foregoing
requirement as to length of residence in this state may be waived in the
discretion of the commissioner. Such children who are first eligible for
services pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of this title  whose
parents  or persons in parental relationship elect to have them continue
to receive services pursuant to this section may do  so  through  August
thirty-first of the calendar year in which such child turns three.
(2)  Each deaf pupil so received into any of the approved institutions
or  facilities  aforesaid  shall  be  provided  with  tuition;  and  the
directors  of the institution or facility shall receive an appropriation
for each pupil so provided for, in quarterly payments, to be paid by the
commissioner of taxation and finance on the warrant of the  comptroller,
to  the  treasurer  of said institution or facility, on his presenting a
bill showing the actual time and number of pupils in  attendance,  which
bill  shall be signed by the chief executive officer of the institution,
and verified under his oath.
(3) Children placed in any  such  approved  institution  or  facility,
pursuant  to  this  section,  shall be maintained therein on a day basis
only at the expense of the state for the period of time the school is in
session. Further, the commissioner shall approve such  expense  only  if
the  child  attends  the facility nearest his legal residence; provided,
however, that the foregoing requirement as to  the  facility  the  child
shall attend may be waived in the discretion of the commissioner.
(4)  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  such  rules and regulations
pertaining to the educational  programs  for  deaf  children  placed  in
facilities  under  the provisions of this section as he shall deem to be
in the best interests of such children.
(5)  The  department  shall  maintain  a  register  of  such  approved
institutions  or  facilities which, after inspection, it deems qualified
to meet the needs of such child for instruction of such  child  in  such
institution  or  facility.  Such  inspection  shall  also  determine the
eligibility  of  such  educational  facility  to   receive   the   funds
hereinbefore specified.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4205 - Clothing for Deaf State Pupils.

§ 4205. Clothing  for  deaf  state  pupils.    Whenever the parents or
  guardians  are  unable  to  furnish  clothing  to  state   pupils,   the
  commissioner  of  education  is hereby required to apportion annually to
  each institution caring for deaf children legally appointed thereto  the
  sum of one hundred twenty dollars per pupil or so much thereof as may be
  necessary to be applied to the cost of clothing for each of said pupils.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4206 - Persons Eligible for Appointment as Pupils to Institutions for Instruction of the Blind.

§ 4206. Persons eligible for appointment as pupils to institutions for
  instruction  of  the  blind.    1. All blind persons of suitable age and
  capacity and who shall have been residents in this state  for  one  year
  immediately  preceding  the  application or, if a minor, whose parent or
  parents, or, if an orphan, whose  nearest  friend,  shall  have  been  a
  resident   in   this  state  for  one  year  immediately  preceding  the
  application, shall be eligible for appointment as state  pupils  to  the
  New  York Institute for Special Education in the city of New York or the
  Lavelle School for the Blind in the city of New York.
2. Blind babies and children of the age of fifteen years and under and
  possessing the other  qualifications  prescribed  in  this  article  and
  requiring  kindergarten  training or other special care and instruction,
  shall be eligible for appointment as state pupils by the commissioner of
  education at his discretion in any incorporated  institution  furnishing
  approved  care,  training and instruction for blind babies and children,
  and any such child may be transferred to  the  New  York  Institute  for
  Special  Education in the city of New York or the Lavelle School for the
  Blind in the city of New York, to which he or  she  would  otherwise  be
  eligible  for  appointment,  upon  arriving  at  suitable  age,  in  the
  discretion of the commissioner of education.
3. All  such  appointments  shall  be  made  by  the  commissioner  of
  education.  The requirement of this section as to length of residence in
  this state may be waived  in  the  discretion  of  the  commissioner  of
  education.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4208 - Clothing for Blind State Pupils.

§ 4208. Clothing  for  blind  state  pupils.   Whenever the parents or
  guardians  are  unable  to  furnish  clothing  to  state   pupils,   the
  commissioner  of  education  is hereby required to apportion annually to
  each institution caring for blind children legally appointed thereto the
  sum of one hundred twenty dollars per pupil or so much thereof as may be
  necessary to be applied to the cost of clothing for each of said pupils.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4209 - Blind and Deaf Children and Blind and Cerebral Palsied Children.

§ 4209. Blind  and  deaf  children  and  blind  and  cerebral  palsied
  children.  1. All children who are both blind and deaf or both blind and
  cerebral palsied shall be admitted as  state  pupils  into  one  of  the
  institutions  described  in this article for the instruction of the deaf
  or blind and under the same conditions of eligibility  as  are  provided
  for the admission of deaf or blind state pupils.
2.  In  the  discretion  of the commissioner of education a sum not to
  exceed a sum equal to double the average  annual  per  capita  cost  for
  pupils  attending all of the schools which are subject to the provisions
  of section forty-two hundred one of this article  shall be available  in
  the  manner provided in section forty-two hundred ten of this article to
  aid a blind and deaf pupil in receiving instruction  in  an  institution
  for  the  instruction  of the deaf or blind located outside the state in
  order to continue the education of such blind and  deaf  pupil  for  the
  term  of instruction provided in section forty-two hundred seven of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4211 - Tuition.

§ 4211. Tuition.    The  term "tuition" as used in this article and in
  the provisions of chapter ten hundred sixty  of  the  laws  of  nineteen
  hundred  seventy-four shall mean the per pupil cost of all instructional
  services,  supplies,  equipment  and  the  operation  of   instructional
  facilities  as determined by the commissioner. Approved tuition shall be
  computed from expenditures for which no revenue has been  received  from
  the following sources:
a. receipts from the federal government;
b.  any  cash  receipts,  except gifts, bequests, donations and earned
  interest dedicated by the directors of  the  institution  in  accordance
  with the regulations of the commissioner; and
c.  any  refund made or any apportionment or payment received from the
  state  for  experimental  or  special  programs  as  approved   by   the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 85 - Instruction of the Deaf and of the Blind › 4213 - Other Persons Eligible for Appointment.

§ 4213. Other  persons  eligible for appointment.   In accordance with
  the provisions of the charter of the  New  York  Institute  for  Special
  Education,  and  amendments  thereto, as issued by the board of regents,
  children  with  handicapping   conditions,   other   than   handicapping
  conditions  which  would  establish  eligibility  for appointment to the
  schools enumerated in this article, shall be eligible for appointment to
  the New York Institute  for  Special  Education  as  state  pupils.  The
  provisions of this article shall apply but not necessarily be limited to
  the appointment, education, maintenance and support of such pupils. Such
  pupils  eligible  for  appointment,  pursuant  to this section, shall be
  persons over five and  under  twenty-one  years  of  age  who  have  not
  received a high school diploma.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4301 - New York State School for the Blind.

§ 4301. New  York  State  School  for  the Blind.   The New York State
  Institution  for  the  Blind  established  by   chapter   five   hundred
  eighty-seven  of  the  laws  of eighteen hundred sixty-five and the acts
  supplemental thereto and renamed the "New  York  State  School  for  the
  Blind"  by  chapter  five  hundred  sixty-three  of the laws of eighteen
  hundred ninety-five, is continued under the jurisdiction and control  of
  the education department.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4302 - Object of Institution.

§ 4302. Object of institution.  The primary object of the school shall
  be,  to  furnish  to  the  blind  children  of  the state the best known
  facilities for acquiring a thorough education, and to train them in some
  useful profession or manual art, by means of which they may  be  enabled
  to  contribute to their own support after leaving the school; but it may
  likewise, through its industrial department, provide such of  them  with
  appropriate  employment  and  boarding accommodations as find themselves
  unable, after completing their course of instruction  and  training,  to
  procure  these  elsewhere  for themselves.   It shall, however, be in no
  sense an asylum for those  who  are  helpless  from  age,  infirmity  or
  otherwise, or a hospital for the treatment of blindness.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4303 - Appointment and Terms of Board of Visitors.

§ 4303. Appointment  and  terms  of  board of visitors.   The governor
  shall appoint each year, by and with the  consent  of  the  senate,  one
  member  of  the  board  of  visitors who shall serve for a term of seven
  years.  Two of the board must be residents of the county of Genesee  and
  a majority must be residents within fifty miles of said school.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4304 - Vacancies on Board of Visitors.

§ 4304. Vacancies on board of visitors.  In case of the declination of
  any member of such board of visitors to act under his appointment, or of
  the  occurrence  of  any  other  vacancy  in  the  board  not  caused by
  expiration of term, the governor shall forthwith appoint  some  suitable
  person to fill such vacancy, and the member so appointed shall serve out
  the term of his predecessor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4305 - Members of Board; Compensation; Disabilities.

§ 4305. Members  of board; compensation; disabilities.  The members of
  the board of visitors shall serve without pay, but they  shall  be  paid
  their  actual  expenses  necessarily  incurred in the discharge of their
  official  duties.    No  member  of  such  board  shall  be  pecuniarily
  interested  in any contract for buildings pertaining to the school or in
  furnishing supplies therefor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4306 - Powers of Board of Visitors.

§ 4306. Powers  of  board  of  visitors.   The board of visitors shall
  visit and inspect such school, recommend the appointment and approve the
  removal of a superintendent of such school and have  such  other  powers
  and duties as may be required or authorized by the board of regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4309 - Applicants From Without the State.

§ 4309. Applicants from without the state.  Blind persons from without
  the  state  may  be  received  into  the  school  upon the payment of an
  adequate sum, fixed by the education department, for their boarding  and
  instruction;  provided  that  such  applicants  shall in no case exclude
  those from the state of New York.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4310 - Applications for Admission.

§ 4310. Applications  for admission.   Applications for admission into
  the school shall be made to the education department in such  manner  as
  it may direct, but the department shall require each such application to
  be accompanied by a certificate from the county judge or county clerk of
  the county, or the supervisor or town clerk of the town, or the mayor of
  the  city, where the applicant resides, setting forth that the applicant
  is a legal resident of  the  town,  county  and  state  claimed  as  his
  residence.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4313 - School District and Social Services District Financial Responsibility.

§ 4313. School   district   and  social  services  district  financial
  responsibility. 1.  Financial  responsibilities.  School  districts  and
  social  services  districts shall be responsible for the cost of tuition
  and maintenance, respectively, for children in  attendance  at  the  New
  York  state school for the blind during the September first through June
  thirtieth session. Such costs shall be established pursuant  to  section
  forty-four  hundred  five  of  this chapter.   a. The school district of
  which any such child is resident at the time of admission or readmission
  to the New York State school for the  blind  pursuant  to  this  article
  shall  be  required  to  reimburse  the  state in an amount equal to the
  tuition payments made to the state school by the state on behalf of  the
  school  district.  The  comptroller shall deduct the appropriate tuition
  amounts from any state funds which become due to a school  district  for
  each year in which such child is in attendance at such school, and shall
  deposit  such funds to the special revenue accounts established for such
  purpose. Any tuition amounts deducted pursuant to this subdivision shall
  be included in the approved operating expense  of  the  school  district
  pursuant to paragraph t of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred
  two of this chapter.
b. The social services district in which any such child is resident at
  the  time  of  admission or readmission to the New York state school for
  the blind pursuant to this article shall be required  to  reimburse  the
  state  in  an amount equal to the maintenance payments made to the state
  school by the state on behalf  of  the  social  services  district.  The
  comptroller  may  deduct  the  appropriate  maintenance amounts from any
  state funds which become due to a social services district for each year
  in  which  such  child  is  in  attendance  at  such  school  only  upon
  notification  by  the  commissioner  of  social services after receiving
  notice by the  commissioner  of  education  that  such  social  services
  district  has  failed  to remit the required maintenance payments to the
  state within ninety days of the  date  on  which  such  social  services
  district  was  billed  by  the  state  for  services rendered, and shall
  deposit such funds to the special revenue accounts established for  such
  purpose.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4315 - Drafts Upon State Treasury.

§ 4315. Drafts  upon state treasury.  All moneys appropriated for such
  school or derived from other sources in the course of the administration
  thereof shall be expended upon vouchers approved by the commissioner  of
  education, when and in the manner authorized by the board of regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4316 - Construction, Alteration, Improvement and Repair of Buildings of School.

§ 4316. Construction,  alteration, improvement and repair of buildings
  of school.  All of the provisions of section one hundred twenty-seven of
  the state finance  law  shall  apply,  so  far  as  applicable,  to  the
  construction,  alteration,  improvements and repair of buildings for the
  school.   For such  purpose,  the  education  department  shall  be  the
  department  having  jurisdiction  as  such  expression  is  used in such
  section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 87 - New York State School for the Blind › 4318 - Publications, Bequests and Donations.

§ 4318. Publications,  bequests  and  donations.   The school shall be
  entitled to receive copies of all books and other publications which are
  distributed gratuitously by the state to township or  county  libraries,
  common  schools, academies, colleges and societies.  It may also receive
  in the name of the state, bequests or donations of money or any kind  of
  property,  but such money or property shall, in all cases, belong to the
  state, and be subject to its control; provided that the same  shall  not
  be  diverted from the particular object for which it shall be bequeathed
  or donated.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 88 - New York State School for the Deaf › 4352 - Object of Institution.

§ 4352. Object of institution.  The primary object of the school shall
  be  to  furnish  to  children  of the state suffering from deafness or a
  combination of deafness and other handicaps, and who may be expected  to
  profit  from  instruction, such educational opportunities as will enable
  them, so far as practical, to become useful and  well-adjusted  citizens
  of the state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 88 - New York State School for the Deaf › 4353 - Advisory Board of Visitors.

§ 4353. Advisory  board  of visitors.  1. The regents shall appoint an
  advisory board of visitors of the New York state  school  for  the  deaf
  consisting  of nine members. At least two of the board must be residents
  of the county of Oneida and the majority must be residents within  fifty
  miles  of said school. The term of office of members of such board shall
  be five years, from July first following the date of appointment, except
  that the first members of such board shall be appointed for  such  terms
  so  that  the terms of two members thereof shall expire on July first in
  the year of nineteen hundred sixty-four, the terms of two members  shall
  expire  on  July  first  in the year of nineteen hundred sixty-five, the
  terms of two members shall expire on July first in the year of  nineteen
  hundred  sixty-six,  the terms of two members shall expire on July first
  in the year of nineteen hundred sixty-seven and that  the  term  of  one
  member  shall  expire  on  July  first  in  the year of nineteen hundred
  sixty-eight.
2. In the event that a vacancy occurs on such board for  reason  other
  than  the  expiration  of  a  term,  such  vacancy  shall  be  filled by
  appointment by the board of regents for the  balance  of  the  unexpired
  term.
3.  The  members  of the board of visitors shall serve without pay but
  they shall be paid their actual expenses  necessarily  incurred  in  the
  official  discharge  of  their  duties. No member of such board shall be
  pecuniarily interested in any contract pertaining to the  administration
  of such school.
4. The board of visitors shall visit and inspect such school and shall
  have  such  other  powers and duties as may be required or authorized by
  the board of regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 88 - New York State School for the Deaf › 4354 - Superintendent and Other Personnel.

§ 4354. Superintendent  and  other personnel.   1. The chief executive
  officer of such school shall be a superintendent who  shall  be  in  the
  unclassified  service and who shall be appointed by the board of regents
  upon   the   recommendation   of   commissioner   of   education.   Such
  superintendent  shall  serve  at  the  pleasure of the board of regents.
  Except as hereinafter  provided,  such  superintendent  shall  have  the
  supervision   and   management   of  the  school,  shall  recommend  the
  appointment and removal of subordinate officers, teachers and  employees
  thereof,  prescribe  their  duties  and  perform  all  of the duties and
  exercise the powers and duties prescribed  for  such  superintendent  of
  schools by law or by the rules of the board of regents.
2.  The commissioner shall, subject to the approval of the director of
  the budget, determine the amount to be deducted  from  the  salaries  of
  employees for the maintenance provided for such personnel in the school.
3.  The commissioner of education shall have power, in conformity with
  regulations approved  by  the  regents,  to  appoint  all  other  needed
  officers  and  employees  and  determine  their duties. The commissioner
  shall by regulations approved as aforesaid, establish for  positions  in
  the unclassified service in such department as certified by him pursuant
  to  section  thirty-five  of  the  civil service law, suitable personnel
  procedures and conditions of employment including:
a. A classification  plan  which  shall  include  titles,  duties  and
  minimum qualifications.
b.  A salary plan which shall include minimum and maximum salaries and
  increments and procedures for adjustment  of  salaries  on  appointment,
  promotion and reassignment.
c.  Regulations  for  appointments,  promotions,  probation, permanent
  tenure, disciplinary action and attendance.
d. Such other rules and regulations as may be necessary  for  carrying
  out the provisions of this section.
The  regulations establishing such salary plan shall be subject to the
  approval of the director of the budget.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 88 - New York State School for the Deaf › 4356 - Applications for Admission.

§ 4356.  Applications for admission.  Applications for admission shall
  be  made  to the department in such manner as shall be prescribed by the
  department and shall be accompanied by such evidence of legal  residence
  and other information as the department may require.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 89 - Children With Disabilities. › 4410-C - Audits of Special Education Services Program Providers for Preschool Children With Disabilities.

§  4410-c.  Audits of special education services program providers for
  preschool children  with  disabilities.  1.  Notwithstanding  any  other
  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary  and within such funds as are made
  available for such purpose, the comptroller  shall  audit  the  expenses
  reported  to  the  department  by  every  program  provider  of  special
  education services for  preschool  children  with  disabilities  in  the
  state.  Pursuant  to  a  plan  developed by the comptroller, such audits
  shall be conducted in a manner so as to cause every such provider to  be
  audited  by  the  comptroller  at  least once by March thirty-first, two
  thousand eighteen.
2. a. The priority and  frequency  of  such  audits,  and  any  audits
  conducted  thereafter,  shall  be  based  upon a risk assessment process
  conducted by the comptroller which may include investigations of alleged
  improprieties, previous audit findings  and  recommendations,  or  other
  financial performance indicators.
b.  In undertaking such audits the comptroller's review shall include,
  but not be limited  to,  examining,  auditing  and  evaluating  relevant
  financial  documents  and  records of providers for the particular years
  included within the scope of the audit.
c.  All  audits   shall   include   any   appropriate   findings   and
  recommendations  of  the  comptroller  regarding  the  propriety  of the
  amounts reported as expenses to the department  as  well  as  any  other
  findings  deemed  appropriate  with respect to the public funding of the
  special education services.
d. The comptroller shall refer any findings of fraud, abuse  or  other
  conduct  constituting a crime that are uncovered during the course of an
  audit, as warranted to an  appropriate  agency  or  agencies  possessing
  jurisdiction.
e.  The final audit report resulting from audits performed pursuant to
  this section shall be posted to the department's  internet  website  and
  otherwise  made  available to the public upon request for a period of at
  least five years. Furthermore, the audited provider shall be required to
  post the final audit report on its  internet  website,  if  any,  for  a
  period of five years.
f.  The  comptroller  shall  inform  and  advise  the governor and the
  legislature in December of each year regarding its  audits  of  expenses
  reported  to  the  department  by program providers of special education
  services for preschool children with disabilities conducted  during  the
  preceding  twelve  months  and regarding any other pertinent information
  the comptroller deems appropriate.