2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 7 - State and City Colleges and Institutions-Cornell University › Article 125 - City University of New York › 6206 - Powers and Duties.

§ 6206. Powers  and  duties.  1.  The board of trustees shall have the
duties and powers of trustees of colleges as set forth in this  chapter,
unless otherwise specifically provided in this chapter.
2.  On or before February first, nineteen hundred eighty or six months
after their assuming their functions, whichever occurs later, the  board
of  trustees  shall  transmit  to  the  governor,  to  the mayor, to the
temporary president of the senate and to the speaker of the  assembly  a
status report concerning the functioning, the goals and the needs of the
city   university.   Included   in  the  status  report  shall  be  such
recommendations as the board of trustees sees fit to make in  regard  to
the following topics.
a.   Description  of  curricula  and  plans  for  maintenance  of  and
adjustments to curricula;
b. Description of the  conditions,  appropriateness  and  adequacy  of
facilities and plans to remedy deficiencies;
c. Description of policies with respect to student admissions; and
d.   Desired   and   potential   student  enrollments,  including  the
justification of the projections.
3. a. The board of trustees shall, once every four years, formulate  a
long-range  city  university  plan  or general revision thereof and make
recommendations  to  the  board  of  regents,  for   the   organization,
development  and  coordination  of  the  city  university.  The plan and
recommendations shall include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Plans for new curricula,
(2) Plans for new facilities,
(3) Plans for change in policies with respect to student admissions,
(4) Potential student enrollments,
(5) Comments upon its relationship to other colleges and universities,
public and private, within the state, and
(6) For informational purposes only, projection standards and  overall
expenditure projections of capital and operating costs.
The  plan  shall  be  in  such  form  as  to  provide  a basis for the
development of the  regents  statewide  plan  for  higher  education  as
defined  in  section  two hundred thirty-seven of this chapter. Prior to
transmitting their long-range plan or general revisions thereof  to  the
board  of  regents, to the temporary president of the senate, and to the
speaker of the assembly, the board of trustees shall, after  giving  due
notice, conduct one or more hearings on such plan.
b.  During  the  calendar year nineteen hundred eighty and each fourth
year thereafter the board of trustees shall transmit their proposed plan
or general revisions thereof to the board of regents, on or  before  the
first  day of June in each such year. Such plan shall be reviewed by the
board of regents and shall be subject to  approval  by  such  board.  As
approved  by the board of regents and incorporated into the regents plan
or general revision thereof for the development of higher  education  in
the state and, upon approval thereafter by the governor, such plan shall
guide  and  determine  the development, organization and coordination of
the city university.
c. By the first day of June in nineteen hundred  eighty-two  and  each
fourth year thereafter, the board of trustees shall report in writing to
the  board  of regents, a copy of which report shall be furnished to the
temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly,  the
mayor and the president of the city council for information and comment,
on  the  progress  made  in carrying out its responsibilities under such
plan and its general recommendations with respect to the city university
or its component colleges or other institutions in the city of New  York
including  recommendations  as  to  modifications of such plan which the
board of trustees deems essential to meet the then current demands  upon

public  higher  education in the city of New York. The board of trustees
may also  at  any  other  time  propose  modifications  which  it  deems
essential  or desirable with respect to such plan. The board of trustees
may,  after  giving  due  notice,  conduct  one or more hearings on such
modifications and shall transmit its  recommendations  therefor  to  the
board  of regents, to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker
of the assembly, the mayor and the president of  the  city  council  for
information and comment. Such modifications shall be subject to approval
by the regents and thereafter by the governor in the same manner as such
plan or general revisions thereof.
4.  When  a  proposed  plan  or  general  revision  thereof contains a
proposal providing for the termination or merger of a senior college  or
community  college  so  that  such college ceases to exist as a separate
educational institution that provision of a  proposed  plan  or  general
revision shall also be subject to the approval of the legislature.
5.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  select and acquire or cause to be
acquired all new sites hereafter to be designated for  the  purposes  of
the city university and procure and pass upon all plans for buildings on
newly  acquired  sites,  shall  supervise their erection, shall organize
their faculties, shall approve and administer their courses  leading  to
academic, professional and technical certificates, diplomas and degrees,
shall  appoint  their  officers of administration and instruction, shall
prepare all their budgets and shall generally control and administer all
public education in the colleges and  institutions  of  which  the  city
university is composed in such city, except the teacher training courses
which  are  now  conducted  by  the board of education of such city. The
board of trustees shall appoint the chancellor of  the  city  university
who  shall  be  the  chief educational and administrative officer of the
city university and who shall serve at the  pleasure  of  the  board  of
trustees.
6.  The  board of trustees shall control and keep up the buildings and
grounds occupied and used by institutions and units  controlled  by  it;
allow  and regulate the use, gratuitously or otherwise, of such property
for other than college or university purposes and prescribe the fees, if
any, that persons, associations or corporations allowed to  use  it  may
charge;  purchase  materials,  services, equipment and supplies. But the
board of trustees shall not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of  land
and buildings purchased by city funds used for the community colleges of
the  city university. It may, however, accept and administer for college
or university purposes, gifts of land, bequests, trusts, devises,  money
and  buildings  from  private  sources and erect buildings on college or
university land out of money not furnished by the city or the state; and
gifts of money, endowments, fees, interest and other income not  derived
from  public  taxation  or the public credit shall be administered by it
for collegiate or university purposes in connection with the units under
its control.
7. * (a) The board of trustees shall establish positions, departments,
divisions and faculties; appoint and in accordance with  the  provisions
of  law  fix  salaries  of instructional and non-instructional employees
therein;  establish  and  conduct  courses  and   curricula;   prescribe
conditions  of  student  admission,  attendance and discharge; and shall
have the power to determine in its discretion whether tuition  shall  be
charged  and  to  regulate  tuition charges, and other instructional and
non-instructional fees and other fees and  charges  at  the  educational
units  of  the  city  university. The trustees shall review any proposed
community college  tuition  increase  and  the  justification  for  such
increase.  The  justification provided by the community college for such
increase shall include a detailed analysis of ongoing  operating  costs,

capital, debt service expenditures, and all revenues. The trustees shall
not  impose a differential tuition charge based upon need or income. All
students enrolled in programs leading to  like  degrees  at  the  senior
colleges  shall  be  charged  a  uniform  rate  of  tuition,  except for
differential tuition rates based on state residency. Notwithstanding any
other provision of  this  paragraph,  the  trustees  may  authorize  the
setting  of  a  separate category of tuition rate, that shall be greater
than the tuition rate for resident students and less  than  the  tuition
rate  for  non-resident students, only for students enrolled in distance
learning courses who are not residents of the state; provided,  however,
that:
(i)  Commencing  with  the  two  thousand  eleven--two thousand twelve
academic year and ending  in  the  two  thousand  fifteen--two  thousand
sixteen academic year, the city university of New York board of trustees
shall  be  empowered  to  increase  the  resident  undergraduate rate of
tuition by not  more  than  three  hundred  dollars  over  the  resident
undergraduate  rate  of  tuition adopted by the board of trustees in the
prior academic year, provided  however  that  commencing  with  the  two
thousand  eleven--two  thousand twelve academic year and ending with the
two thousand sixteen--two thousand seventeen academic year if the annual
resident undergraduate  rate  of  tuition  would  exceed  five  thousand
dollars,  then a tuition credit for each eligible student, as determined
and  calculated  by  the  New  York  state  higher  education   services
corporation  pursuant  to  section  six  hundred  eighty-nine-a  of this
chapter, shall be applied toward the tuition charged for each  semester,
quarter  or term of study. Tuition for each semester, quarter or term of
study shall not be due for any student eligible to receive such  tuition
credit  until  the  tuition credit is calculated and applied against the
tuition charged for the corresponding semester, quarter or term.
(ii) Commencing with the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen
academic year and  ending  in  the  two  thousand  twenty--two  thousand
twenty-one  academic  year  the  city  university  of  New York board of
trustees shall be empowered to increase the resident undergraduate  rate
of  tuition  by  not  more  than  two  hundred dollars over the resident
undergraduate rate of tuition adopted by the board of  trustees  in  the
prior  academic  year,  provided  however  that  if  the annual resident
undergraduate rate of tuition would exceed five thousand dollars, then a
tuition credit for each eligible student, as determined  and  calculated
by  the New York state higher education services corporation pursuant to
section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title, shall be applied toward
the tuition charged for each semester, quarter or term of study. Tuition
for each semester, quarter or term of study shall not  be  due  for  any
student eligible to receive such tuition credit until the tuition credit
is   calculated   and  applied  against  the  tuition  charged  for  the
corresponding semester, quarter or  term.  Provided,  further  that  the
revenue  resulting  from  an  increase  in  the rate of tuition shall be
allocated to each campus pursuant to a plan approved  by  the  board  of
trustees  to  support investments in new classroom faculty, instruction,
initiatives to improve student success  and  on-time  completion  and  a
tuition credit for each eligible student.
(iii)  On  or  before  November thirtieth, two thousand seventeen, the
trustees shall approve and submit to the chairs of the assembly ways and
means committee and the senate finance committee and to the director  of
the  budget  a  master tuition plan setting forth the tuition rates that
the trustees propose for resident undergraduate students  for  the  four
year  period  commencing  with  the two thousand seventeen--two thousand
eighteen academic year  and  ending  in  the  two  thousand  twenty--two
thousand  twenty-one  academic  year,  and  shall  submit  any  proposed

amendments to such plan by November thirtieth of  each  subsequent  year
thereafter through November thirtieth, two thousand twenty.
(iv)  Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twelve--two thousand
thirteen and ending in  state  fiscal  year  two  thousand  fifteen--two
thousand  sixteen,  the state shall appropriate and make available state
support for operating expenses, including fringe benefits, for the  city
university  in  an amount not less than the amount appropriated and made
available in the prior state fiscal year; provided, however, that if the
governor declares a fiscal emergency, and communicates such emergency to
the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly, state
support  for  operating  expenses  of  the  state  university  and  city
university  may be reduced in a manner proportionate to one another, and
the aforementioned provisions shall not apply.
(v)  Beginning  in  state  fiscal  year  two  thousand  seventeen--two
thousand   eighteen  and  ending  in  state  fiscal  year  two  thousand
twenty--two thousand twenty-one, the state shall  appropriate  and  make
available general fund operating support, including fringe benefits, for
the  city  university in an amount not less than the amount appropriated
and made available in the prior state fiscal  year;  provided,  however,
that  if the governor declares a fiscal emergency, and communicates such
emergency to the temporary president of the senate and  speaker  of  the
assembly,  state  support for operating expenses at the state university
and city university may be reduced in  a  manner  proportionate  to  one
another,  and  the  aforementioned  provisions shall not apply; provided
further, the state shall appropriate and  make  available  general  fund
support  to fully fund the tuition credit pursuant to subdivision two of
section six hundred sixty-nine-h of this chapter.
(vi) Notwithstanding any law, rule,  regulation  or  practice  to  the
contrary,  commencing  with  the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand
twenty-four   academic   year   and   ending   in   the   two   thousand
twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six academic year, following the review
and  approval  of  the  chancellor  of the city university or his or her
designee, the city university of New York board  of  trustees  shall  be
empowered  to annually impose differential tuition rates on non-resident
undergraduate  and  graduate  rates  of  tuition  for  senior  colleges,
provided  that  such  rates  are  competitive  with the rates of tuition
charged by peer institutions and that the  board  of  trustees  annually
provide  the  reason  and  methodology  behind  any rate increase to the
governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of  the
assembly prior to the approval of such increases.
* NB Effective until July 1, 2027
* (a)   (i)   The   board   of  trustees  shall  establish  positions,
departments, divisions and faculties; appoint and in accordance with the
provisions of law fix salaries of  instructional  and  non-instructional
employees   therein;   establish  and  conduct  courses  and  curricula;
prescribe conditions of student admission, attendance and discharge; and
shall have the power to determine  in  its  discretion  whether  tuition
shall   be   charged   and   to  regulate  tuition  charges,  and  other
instructional and non-instructional fees and other fees and  charges  at
the  educational units of the city university. The trustees shall review
any proposed community college tuition increase  and  the  justification
for  such  increase. The justification provided by the community college
for such increase shall include a detailed analysis of ongoing operating
costs,  capital,  debt  service  expenditures,  and  all  revenues.  The
trustees  shall not impose a differential tuition charge based upon need
or income. All students enrolled in programs leading to like degrees  at
the  senior  colleges shall be charged a uniform rate of tuition, except
for differential tuition rates based on state residency. Notwithstanding

any other provision of this paragraph, the trustees  may  authorize  the
setting  of  a  separate category of tuition rate, that shall be greater
than the tuition rate for resident students and less  than  the  tuition
rate  for  non-resident students, only for students enrolled in distance
learning courses who are not residents of the state. The trustees  shall
further  provide that the payment of tuition and fees by 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, shall be  paid  at  a
rate  or  charge  no  greater  than  that  imposed  for students who are
residents of the state if such student:
(1) 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 city  university
within five years of receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
(2)   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 city university within five years
of receiving a general equivalency diploma issued within New York state;
or
(3) was enrolled in an institution or educational  unit  of  the  city
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.
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.  The  trustees  shall not adopt changes in tuition
charges prior to the enactment  of  the  annual  budget.  The  board  of
trustees  may  accept  as  partial  reimbursement  for  the education of
veterans of the armed forces of the  United  States  who  are  otherwise
qualified  such  sums  as may be authorized by federal legislation to be
paid for such education. The board of trustees  may  conduct  on  a  fee
basis  extension  courses and courses for adult education appropriate to
the field of higher education. In all courses and courses  of  study  it
may,  in  its  discretion,  require students to pay library, laboratory,
locker, breakage and other instructional and non-instructional fees  and
meet  the  cost  of  books  and  consumable supplies. In addition to the
foregoing fees and charges, the board of trustees may impose and collect
fees and charges for student government and other student activities and
receive and expend them as agent or trustee.
(ii) Notwithstanding any law, rule,  regulation  or  practice  to  the
contrary,  commencing  with  the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand
twenty-four   academic   year   and   ending   in   the   two   thousand
twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six academic year, following the review
and  approval  of  the  chancellor  of the city university or his or her
designee, the city university of New York board  of  trustees  shall  be
empowered  to annually impose differential tuition rates on non-resident
undergraduate  and  graduate  rates  of  tuition  for  senior  colleges,
provided  that  such  rates  are  competitive  with the rates of tuition
charged by peer institutions and that the  board  of  trustees  annually
provide  the  reason  and  methodology  behind  any rate increase to the
governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of  the
assembly prior to the approval of such increases.
* NB Effective July 1, 2027
* (a-1) The trustees shall further provide that the payment of tuition
and  fees  by 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,
shall  be  paid  at  a  rate  or charge no greater than that imposed for
students who are residents of the state 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 city  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 city 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  city
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.
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. Except as otherwise authorized in paragraph (a) of
this subdivision, the  trustees  shall  not  adopt  changes  in  tuition
charges  prior  to  the  enactment  of  the  annual budget. The board of
trustees may accept  as  partial  reimbursement  for  the  education  of
veterans  of  the  armed  forces  of the United States who are otherwise
qualified such sums as may be authorized by federal  legislation  to  be
paid  for  such  education.  The  board of trustees may conduct on a fee
basis extension courses and courses for adult education  appropriate  to
the  field  of  higher education. In all courses and courses of study it
may, in its discretion, require students  to  pay  library,  laboratory,
locker,  breakage and other instructional and non-instructional fees and
meet the cost of books and  consumable  supplies.  In  addition  to  the
foregoing fees and charges, the board of trustees may impose and collect
fees and charges for student government and other student activities and
receive and expend them as agent or trustee.
* NB Repealed July 1, 2027
(a-2)  The  trustees shall further provide that the payment of tuition
and fees by any student who is not a resident of New York state shall be
paid at a rate or charge no greater than that imposed for  students  who
are residents of the state if such student is enrolled in any college or
educational  unit  of  the  city university of New York and is attending
such college or educational unit in accordance with the federal GI bills
and in compliance with all applicable eligibility requirements thereof.
(a-3) The trustees shall further provide that the payment  of  tuition
and fees by any student who is not a resident of New York state shall be
paid  at  a rate or charge no greater than that imposed for students who
are residents of the state if such student is enrolled in any college or
educational unit of the city university of New York and is the spouse or
the dependent of a member of the armed forces of the  United  States  on
full-time  active  duty  and  not  stationed  in  this state immediately
following being stationed therein.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other  general,  special  or
local  law, rule or regulation, the board of trustees may permit persons

sixty years of age or  over  to  audit  courses  given  therein  without
tuition,  examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available
basis, as determined by the president of each such institution, provided
that  such  audit attendance does not deny course attendance at the city
university of New York by an individual who is otherwise qualified under
this section.
* (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special  or
local  law,  rule  or regulation, the board of trustees shall promulgate
regulations to permit members of the New  York  city  police  department
employed  in  the  rank  of police officer, who are enrolled in programs
leading to baccalaureate or higher degrees at a senior  college  of  the
city university to attend one course without tuition, provided that such
course  is  related to their employment as police officers and that such
tuition-waived attendance does not deny course attendance  at  a  senior
college  of  the  city  university  by  an  individual  who is otherwise
qualified under this section.
* NB Repealed July 1, 2024
* (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special  or
local  law,  rule  or regulation, the board of trustees shall promulgate
regulations to permit firefighters and fire officers employed by the New
York city fire department, who  are  enrolled  in  programs  leading  to
baccalaureate  or  higher  degrees  at  a  senior  college  of  the city
university to attend one course  without  tuition,  provided  that  such
course  is related to their employment as firefighters and fire officers
and that such tuition-waived attendance does not deny course  attendance
at  a  senior  college  of  the  city university by an individual who is
otherwise qualified under this section.
* NB Repealed July 1, 2024
* (e) The trustees shall further provide that any student who is not a
legal resident of New York state but  is  a  United  States  citizen,  a
permanent  lawful  resident,  an  individual  who  is  granted  U  or  T
non-immigrant status pursuant to the Victims of Trafficking and Violence
Protection Act of 2000, a  person  granted  temporary  protected  status
pursuant  to  the  Federal  Immigration  Act of 1990, an individual of a
class of refugees paroled by the attorney general of the  United  States
under  his  or  her  parole  authority  pertaining  to  the admission of
noncitizens to  the  United  States,  or  an  applicant  without  lawful
immigration  status  may  have the payment of tuition and other fees and
charges reduced by state-aided programs, scholarships or other financial
assistance  awarded  under  the   provisions   of   articles   thirteen,
thirteen-A,  fourteen  and fourteen-A of this chapter, provided that the
student meets  the  requirements  set  forth  in  subparagraph  (ii)  of
paragraph  a  or subparagraph (ii) of paragraph b of subdivision five of
section six hundred sixty-one of this chapter, as applicable.
* NB There are 2 par (e)'s
* (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special  or
local law, rule or regulation, the board of trustees shall be authorized
to set a reduced rate of tuition and/or fees, or to waive tuition and/or
fees  entirely,  for  students  participating  in any dual or concurrent
enrollment program with no reduction in other  state,  local,  or  other
support  for  such  students  earning  college  credit  that such higher
education partner would otherwise be eligible to receive; provided that,
for purposes of this provision, a dual or concurrent enrollment  program
shall  mean  one  or more college courses taken by a high school student
through a community college or a senior college of the  city  university
while  such  student  is still enrolled in high school and for which the
student may receive both high school and college credit.
* NB There are 2 par (e)'s
(f)  In  state  fiscal  year  two  thousand  twenty-two--two  thousand
twenty-three  and  thereafter,  the  state  shall  appropriate  and make
available general fund operating support in the amount  of  the  tuition
credit  calculated pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this
chapter annually.
8.  The  board of trustees shall, on the recommendation of its faculty
or faculties, grant the certificates, diplomas and  degrees  which  were
announced in the bulletins of the existing public institutions of higher
learning  published  for  the  term beginning immediately prior to April
sixteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-six, and also such other degrees  and
honors   as  the  regents  thereafter  specifically  authorized  or  may
hereafter authorize it to grant.
9. When a center is first opened, the board of trustees  shall  submit
an  initial  estimate of the sum needed for its support, maintenance and
operation, based on an estimated original enrollment  of  students,  for
the  fiscal year or portion thereof immediately following. Such estimate
shall be acted  upon  as  hereinbefore  prescribed  for  current  annual
budgets; and in the event that an initial appropriation be for a part of
the  fiscal  year  only,  then  in making calculation for the succeeding
annual appropriation, the initial appropriation shall be  taken  as  the
appropriate fractional base.
10.  Money  appropriated  by  the  city  to  the board of trustees for
college or university purposes, shall be placed in the  custody  of  the
comptroller  of the city to the credit of such board of trustees and all
disbursements from such funds shall be made by  the  comptroller  acting
for  and  in  behalf  of  such  board of trustees upon requisitions duly
audited and signed by the board of trustees or by a  person  or  persons
appointed  by  such  board  of  trustees,  by  resolution filed with the
comptroller, to act for it. The comptroller shall audit such account  of
the board of trustees in the same manner as he audits the account of the
board  of  education  of the city of New York. Any balance of any annual
appropriation made by the city to the board of trustees,  which  may  be
unallocated  for college or university purposes by the board of trustees
ninety days after the expiration of the  calendar  year  for  which  the
appropriation  was  made,  shall  revert  to  the  city  treasury and be
credited to such uses as the city may direct.
11. The board of trustees may, in its discretion,  compensate  members
of  the  instructional  staff  and  non-instructional  staff for loss of
personal property. With respect to members of  the  instructional  staff
and  other  employees  who  are not covered by the workers' compensation
law, the board of trustees may provide in its discretion for payment  of
reasonable  medical and hospital expenses arising from injuries incurred
in actual performance of duty on or after July first,  nineteen  hundred
sixty-five.
12. The board of trustees, under such by-laws as it deems appropriate,
shall  provide  for  the eligibility for sabbatical leaves of absence to
members of its permanent instructional  staff  provided,  however,  that
when  such  leaves are for one half year, they shall be at full pay, and
when such leaves are for one year, they shall be at half pay.
13. The board of trustees shall provide standards for the granting  of
advanced standing to veterans applying for college admissions at schools
in  the  city  university  who have successfully completed United States
Armed Forces Institute or other comparable course work.
14. Notwithstanding the provisions of  section  forty-four,  fifty  or
fifty-one  of the state finance law or any other provision of law to the
contrary, the city university trustees are authorized and  empowered  to
increase  or  decrease  appropriations  by  transfer  or  interchange as
follows:
a. Amounts appropriated for the programs or purposes or for  any  item
or  items  within  such  programs  or  purposes of any individual senior
college  of  the   city   university   and   city   university   central
administration  within  the schedules of such senior colleges or central
administration  from  a particular fund or funds in a fiscal year may be
interchanged between such programs or purposes of such senior college or
central administration of city university, or between items  within  the
same program or purpose, or with other items appropriated from such fund
not in the same program or purpose, but which are contained in the state
comptroller's  classification of items as last promulgated pursuant to a
certificate of allocation. Such certificate shall be submitted  by  such
senior college or central administration to the board of trustees of the
city  university.  Such  certificate  shall be submitted by the board of
trustees to the state comptroller with copies to be sent to  the  chairs
of  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  assembly  ways  and means
committee and the director of  the  budget  for  informational  purposes
only.  The  total  amount appropriated for any program or purpose may be
decreased by not more  than  the  aggregate  of  five  percent  of  such
appropriation  for  a program or purpose with the approval of the senior
college or central administration or such amounts may  be  decreased  by
more  than  the aggregate of five percent of such appropriation with the
approval of the city university trustees.
b. Amounts appropriated to senior colleges of the city university from
a particular fund or funds in a fiscal year for the programs or purposes
of such senior colleges  of  the  city  university  may  be  transferred
between  and  among  such  senior  colleges pursuant to a certificate of
allocation, submitted directly by  the  city  university  to  the  state
comptroller, with copies of such certificates to be sent to the chairmen
of  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  assembly  ways  and means
committee and the director of  the  budget  for  informational  purposes
only.  The  total  amount appropriated for any senior college may not be
decreased  by  more  than  the  aggregate  of  three   percent   of   an
appropriation for a senior college.
c.  Amounts  appropriated  for  programs  or purposes, or for any item
within such programs or purposes,  within  the  university-wide  program
schedule  of city university from a particular fund or funds in a fiscal
year shall not be decreased by means of transfer or interchange by  more
than  the aggregate of four percent of an appropriation for a program or
purpose within such schedule.
d. Amounts appropriated for the central  administration  of  the  city
university  within the central administration schedule from a particular
fund or funds in a fiscal year for programs or purposes  including,  but
not  limited  to,  administration of senior colleges and university-wide
programs of the city university shall  not  be  increased  by  means  of
transfer  or  interchange  by  more  than  five percent of the aggregate
appropriation within such schedule.
e. Notwithstanding  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this  subdivision,
whenever  the  director of the budget, pursuant to section forty-nine of
the state finance law, shall establish an  aggregate  amount  less  than
that  contained in the local assistance appropriations act, the trustees
may transfer or interchange any or all of such lesser amount  among  any
of  the programs or purposes or items without regard to the restrictions
provided in this subdivision.
f. The allocation of lump sum appropriations from a fund or funds made
to the city university for later distribution to senior colleges  and/or
the  central  administration of the city university or the allocation of
lump sum appropriations made to all state departments and  agencies  for
later  allocation  for  specific programs or purposes or senior colleges

and/or central administration of the city university shall not be deemed
to be part of any total increase or decrease authorized by this section.
15.  a.  The  board  of trustees shall adopt rules requiring that each
institution of the city university, on  or  before  January  first,  two
thousand,  adopt and implement a plan providing for the investigation of
any violent felony offense occurring at or on the grounds of  each  such
institution,  and  providing  for  the  investigation of a report of any
missing student. Such plans shall provide for the  coordination  of  the
investigation  of  such  crimes  and  reports with local law enforcement
agencies. Such plans shall include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  written
agreements with appropriate local law enforcement agencies providing for
the prompt investigation of such crimes and reports and requirement that
the  institution  shall notify the appropriate law enforcement agency as
soon as practicable but in no case more than twenty-four hours  after  a
report  of  a  violent  felony  or that a student who resides in housing
owned or operated by such institution is  missing;  provided  that  each
institution  shall:  (1) inform each victim of a sexual offense of their
options  to  notify  proper  law  enforcement   authorities,   including
on-campus and local police; (2) inform the victim of a sexual offense of
the  right  to  report  or  not  to  report  such  offense  to local law
enforcement agencies; and (3) offer the option to be assisted by  campus
authorities  in  notifying  such  authorities,  if  the victim of sexual
assault so chooses, all  in  compliance  with  applicable  federal  law,
including,  but  not  limited  to,  the  federal  Campus  Sexual Assault
Victims' Bill of Rights under Title 20 U.S. Code Section 1092(f).
b. As used in this subdivision, the following  terms  shall  have  the
following meanings:
(i)  "Local  law  enforcement  agencies"  means any agency or agencies
employing peace officers or police officers for the enforcement  of  the
laws  of  the state, and which has or have jurisdiction under provisions
of the criminal procedure law over  offenses  occurring  at  or  on  the
grounds   of   any   institution  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this
subdivision.
(ii) "Missing student" means any student of an institution subject  to
the  provisions  of this subdivision, who resides in a facility owned or
operated by such institution and who is reported to such institution  as
missing from his or her residence.
(iii)  "Violent  felony  offense"  means  a  violent felony offense as
defined in subdivision one of section 70.02 of the penal law.
16. The board of trustees shall appoint for the city university campus
officers who shall have the powers of peace officers as set forth in the
criminal procedure law within the geographical area of the city  of  New
York.  A  campus  officer  designated  as  a  peace  officer  must  have
satisfactorily completed or complete, within one year  of  the  date  of
such designation, a course of law enforcement training prescribed by the
municipal   police  training  council  in  consultation  with  the  city
university board of trustees.
18. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the  contrary,  the
city university of New York board of trustees shall pass a resolution by
June first, two thousand fifteen, to develop a plan to make available to
students  enrolled  in an academic program of the city university of New
York beginning in  the  two  thousand  sixteen--two  thousand  seventeen
academic  year,  approved  experiential  or applied learning activities.
Such experiential or applied learning activities may include  completion
of  activities related to students' program of study, including, but not
limited to, service-learning activities completed as part of  a  course,
paid  or  unpaid  internships, faculty-supervised undergraduate projects
and activities leading to publication of research in journals or similar

publications, production or performance of creative works, and iterative
"co-op" partnerships that explicitly link the curricula to a  temporary,
paid  position  in  industry  or  the  public  sector.  Such plan, to be
completed  by  June  first,  two thousand sixteen, shall be developed in
consultation with university  faculty  senate,  the  university  student
senate   and   other  stakeholders.  Such  plan  shall  define  approved
experiential  or  applied  learning  activities,  methods   of   faculty
oversight  and  assessment,  responsibilities  of  business,  corporate,
non-profit or other entities hosting students, and include a requirement
for collecting and reporting data associated with such  experiential  or
applied  learning  activities. Such plan shall have each college examine
the feasibility of  including  such  experiential  or  applied  learning
activities  as  a  degree  requirement.  Such  college shall examine its
ability to administer and provide such opportunities  to  students;  the
local  community's  capacity  to  support  such  experiential or applied
learning activities; the impact such requirement would have on the local
workforce, if any; potential for such a requirement to enhance  learning
outcomes for students; and whether adding such a requirement would cause
potential delays in graduation for students.
19.  The  city  university  trustees  shall annually report on how the
revenue generated has been invested in faculty, instruction, initiatives
to improve student success and on-time completion and student  financial
assistance  for the duration of the four year tuition plan. The trustees
shall submit the report by September first of each subsequent year.
20. The board of  trustees  shall  adopt  rules  requiring  that  each
institution  of  the  city university of New York adopt written policies
requiring  that  all  public  single-occupancy  bathroom  facilities  be
designated  as  gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a
time or for  family  or  assisted  use.  Such  gender  neutral  bathroom
facilities shall be clearly designated by the posting of such on or near
the  entry  door  of  each  facility.  For  purposes  of  this  section,
"single-occupancy bathroom" shall have the same meaning as paragraph (d)
of subdivision one of section  one  hundred  forty-five  of  the  public
buildings law.
21.  The  board  of  trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that each
institution  of  the  city  university  of  New  York  collaborate  with
students,  faculty  and staff to encourage campuses to eliminate the use
of certain plastic items generally recognized by  the  public  as  being
designed  for  single use. Such plastic items may include, but shall not
be limited to,  tableware,  straws,  stirrers,  cups  and  food  service
containers.  In  establishing such a policy, the trustees shall consider
the following:
a. the availability of affordable alternatives;
b. the accessibility of alternatives to  all  students,  faculty,  and
staff;
c. an evaluation of the effectiveness of reusable alternatives; and
d. benchmarks for assessing progress.
22.  Notwithstanding  any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
board of trustees shall establish a policy authorizing  senior  colleges
and  community  colleges within the city university of New York to grant
posthumous degrees to enrolled matriculated students whose death  occurs
prior  to  graduation. Such policy shall provide that, upon terms set in
the policy, any remaining credit requirements shall be  waived  for  any
student  who  dies  and  who  otherwise  would  have  been  eligible for
graduation had they been able to complete their academic career.