2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 7 - State and City Colleges and Institutions-Cornell University › Article 126 - Community Colleges and State-Aided Four-Year Colleges › 6301 - Definitions.

§ 6301. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context shall
otherwise require, the following terms shall mean:
1.  "State  university  trustees."  Board  of  trustees  of  the state
university.
2. "Community colleges." Colleges established and operated pursuant to
the provisions of this  article,  either  individually  or  jointly,  by
counties,   cities,  intermediate  school  districts,  school  districts
approved by the state university trustees, or individually by  community
college regions approved by the state university trustees, and providing
two-year  post  secondary programs pursuant to regulations prescribed by
the state university trustees and receiving  financial  assistance  from
the state therefor.
3.  "Local  sponsor."  Any city, county, intermediate school district,
school district approved by the state university trustees, or  community
college  region approved by the state university trustees, sponsoring or
participating in the establishment or operation of a community college.
4. "Community college  region."  A  community  college  local  sponsor
composed of two or more contiguous counties, cities or school districts,
or  any  combination thereof, which are eligible to appoint members to a
community college regional board of trustees.
5. "Resident."  A person who has resided in the state for a period  of
at  least  one  year  and in the county, city, town, intermediate school
district, school district or community college region, as the  case  may
be,  for a period of at least six months, both immediately preceding the
date of such person's registration in a community college  or,  for  the
purposes of section sixty-three hundred five of this article, his or her
application for a certificate of residence; provided, however, that this
term  shall include any student who is not a resident of New York state,
other than a non-immigrant noncitizen within the  meaning  of  paragraph
(15)  of  subsection (a) of section 1101 of title 8 of the United States
Code, if such student:
(i) attended an approved New York high school for two or  more  years,
graduated  from  an  approved  New  York  high  school  and  applied for
attendance at an institution or educational unit of the state university
within five years of receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
(ii)  attended  an  approved  New  York  state  program  for   general
equivalency  diploma  exam  preparation,  received a general equivalency
diploma issued within New York state and applied for  attendance  at  an
institution  or  educational  unit  of  the state university within five
years of receiving a general equivalency diploma issued within New  York
state; or
(iii)  was enrolled in an institution or educational unit of the state
university in the fall semester or quarter of the two thousand  one--two
thousand  two  academic  year  and was authorized by such institution or
educational unit to pay tuition  at  the  rate  or  charge  imposed  for
students who are residents of the state.
Provided,  further,  that  a student without lawful immigration status
shall also be required to file an affidavit  with  such  institution  or
educational  unit  stating  that the student has filed an application to
legalize his or her immigration status, or will file such an application
as soon as he or she is eligible to do so.
In the event that a person qualified as above for state residence, but
has been a resident of two or more counties in the state during the  six
months  immediately  preceding  his  application  for  a  certificate of
residence pursuant to section sixty-three hundred five of this  chapter,
the  charges  to  the counties of residence shall be allocated among the
several counties proportional to the number of months, or major fraction
thereof, of residence in each county.
6. "Certificate of residence form". A standard form  as  developed  by
the  chancellor of the state university of New York, in conjunction with
the chancellor of the city university of New York.