2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 806 - Courses of Instruction in Highway Safety and Traffic Regulation; School Safety Patrols.

§ 806. Courses   of   instruction   in   highway  safety  and  traffic
  regulation; school safety patrols.  1. The regents of The University  of
  the  State of New York shall prescribe courses of instruction in highway
  safety and traffic regulation which shall include bicycle safety, to  be
  maintained  and  followed in all the schools of the state. The boards of
  education and trustees of the several cities and school districts of the
  state shall require instruction to be given  in  such  courses,  by  the
  teachers  employed  in  the  schools  therein. All pupils attending such
  schools shall attend upon such instruction.
Similar courses of instruction shall be prescribed and  maintained  in
  private  schools  in  the  state,  and  all pupils in such schools shall
  attend upon such courses. If such courses are  not  so  established  and
  maintained  in  a  private  school,  attendance upon instruction in such
  school shall not be deemed substantially equivalent to instruction given
  to pupils of like grade in the public schools in the city or district in
  which such pupils reside.
2. The regents shall determine the subjects to  be  included  in  such
  courses   of  instruction  in  highway  safety  and  traffic  regulation
  including bicycle safety, and the period of instruction in each  of  the
  grades  in  such  subjects.    They  shall  adopt  rules  providing  for
  attendance upon such instruction and  for  such  other  matters  as  are
  required  for  carrying  into  effect  the  teaching  of  the courses of
  instruction prescribed by this section.  The commissioner  of  education
  shall be responsible for the enforcement of such section and shall cause
  to  be  inspected  and  supervise  the  instruction  to be given in such
  subjects. The commissioner may,  in  his  discretion,  cause  all  or  a
  portion  of  the  public school money to be apportioned to a district or
  city to be withheld for  failure  of  the  school  authorities  of  such
  district  or  city  to provide instruction in such courses and to compel
  attendance upon such  instruction,  as  herein  prescribed,  and  for  a
  noncompliance with the rules of the regents adopted as herein provided.
3.  Any  board  of  education or school district board is empowered to
  organize in the school over which it has control a school safety  patrol
  and,  with  the  written  consent  of  the parents, to appoint pupils as
  members thereof for the purpose of influencing and encouraging the  safe
  use  of highways and highway crossings and bicycles by the pupils of the
  school. Nothing herein contained shall  be  construed  to  authorize  or
  permit  the use of any safety patrol member for the purpose of directing
  vehicular traffic nor shall any safety patrol  member  be  stationed  in
  that  portion  of the highway intended for the use of vehicular traffic.
  Such patrol shall function only under the direction and control  of  the
  principal or teacher in charge of such school. No liability shall attach
  either  to the school district or any individual, trustee, board member,
  superintendent, principal, teacher or other school authority  by  virtue
  of  the organization, maintenance or operation of a school safety patrol
  organized, maintained and operated under authority of this section.