2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 225 - Unlawful Acts in Respect to Examinations and Records.

§ 225.  Unlawful acts in respect to examinations and records. A person
  who shall:
1.  Personate  or  attempt  to  offer  to  personate another person in
  taking, or attempting  or  offering  to  take  an  examination  held  in
  accordance with this chapter or with the rules of the university; or
2.  Take, or attempt or offer to take, such an examination in the name
  of any other person; or
3. Procure any other person to falsely personate him or  to  take,  or
  attempt or offer to take, any such examination in his name; or
4.  Have  in  his  possession  question  papers to be used in any such
  examination, when not contained in their sealed wrappers, or  copies  of
  such  papers  or  questions,  at any time prior to the date set for such
  examination, unless duly authorized by the regents or  the  commissioner
  of education; or
5. Sell or offer to sell question papers or any questions prepared for
  use  in any examination held in accordance with this chapter or with the
  rules of the university; or
6. Use in any such examination any question papers  or  questions,  or
  secure  or  prepare  the answers to such questions prior to the time set
  for the examination; or
7. Willfully and wrongfully disclose or transmit  to  any  person  the
  questions  or answers to such examination prior to the time set for such
  examination, unless duly authorized  by  the  regents,  commissioner  of
  education  or  appropriate  school  authorities or otherwise provided by
  law, or willfully and wrongfully destroy, falsify or conceal the records
  or results of such examination from the appropriate authorities to  whom
  such  records  or  results  are required to be transmitted in accordance
  with this chapter, the rules of the  regents,  the  regulations  of  the
  commissioner,  or  the  by-laws,  rules  or  regulations  of such school
  authorities; or
8. Transmit to the state education  department  answers  to  questions
  used  in  any  such examination which are prepared or written outside of
  the period of examination, or alter any such answers after  such  period
  is closed; or
9.  Secure or attempt to secure any credential regularly issued by the
  university, which is based upon such examination or based upon a  course
  or  courses  of  study  in  any  institution  of learning or educational
  institution approved by the university, which he has not actually passed
  or completed; or
9-a. Knowingly and willfully make an unauthorized and false alteration
  or representation of any official  records  related  to  a  student  and
  maintained  by a school or college under the supervision of the regents,
  the commissioner, or the university of the state of New York,  including
  identifying  data,  grades,  records  of  attendance, records of student
  achievement,   assessment    results,    disciplinary    records,    and
  individualized education programs.
10.  Otherwise secure or attempt to secure the record of having passed
  such examination or of having been issued or of having been given credit
  toward such credential in violation of the university rules;  is  guilty
  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon conviction thereof shall be punished for a
  first offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars  or  imprisonment
  for  not  less  than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,
  and for a second offense by a fine of not  less  than  two  hundred  and
  fifty  dollars  or  imprisonment for not less than six months or by both
  such fine and imprisonment.
11. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision ten of this section,
  a  violation  of  this  section  shall  also  constitute   grounds   for
  disciplinary  action  in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,

  the rules of the regents, the regulations of the  commissioner,  or  the
  by-laws, rules or regulations of such school authorities.