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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 235-B - New York State Biological Survey.

§ 235-b. New  York  state  biological  survey.   1. The New York state
biological survey is hereby established in the New  York  state  science
service  within  the  state  museum  to inventory, research, analyze and
disseminate information about all the biota of New York. The  biological
survey shall:
(a)  Develop  and maintain an inventory of the biological resources of
New York state, with special emphasis  on  identifying  those  resources
that  are  important  to  biological  diversity,  have real or potential
economic significance, or have  particular  scientific,  systematic,  or
environmental importance;
(b)  Conduct  research  on and advance the knowledge of the biological
and ecological characteristics and processes that constitute  or  affect
New York state's environment;
(c)  Interpret and publish the results of research on New York state's
biological resources, thereby making information available to  citizens,
teachers,  industry, and government for educational purposes and for use
in decision making;
(d) Insure the preservation and appropriate expansion of  the  state's
collection  of  scientific  specimens and artifacts, conduct research on
these collections, and make specimens and data available for  biological
resource studies, ecosystem analyses, and other research projects; and
(e)  Cooperate  with  the  department  of  environmental conservation,
office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, and  other  state
and   federal   agencies,   private   organizations   and  institutions,
corporations, and individuals interested in biological resources.
2. The survey shall not be authorized to  enter  any  privately  owned
lands without the written consent of the landowner, lessee, or person in
control.  The  survey  shall be authorized to enter into agreements with
landowners to enter private lands on such terms as may be acceptable.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 238 - Chair on Geriatrics in the State University.

§ 238. Chair  on  geriatrics  in  the  state university.   1. There is
  hereby established in the  state  university  of  New  York,  under  the
  jurisdiction  of  its  board  of  trustees,  one  distinguished chair on
  geriatrics at a state operated institution in the state  university  for
  professional education in medicine.
2. The state university board of trustees shall select the location of
  such  chair  and  shall determine the fields of knowledge to be included
  within the term "geriatrics" as used in this section.
3. The state university  board  of  trustees  are  hereby  authorized,
  within   annual   appropriations  made  for  this  purpose,  to  appoint
  outstanding scholars to fill the chair on geriatrics established by this
  section, on such terms and conditions and for such duration  as  may  be
  agreed upon by the parties.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 238-A - Statewide Resource Centers for Geriatric Education.

§ 238-a. Statewide  resource centers for geriatric education. 1. There
  is hereby established in the state university of  New  York,  under  the
  jurisdiction  of  its board of trustees, a statewide resource center for
  geriatric  education   as   established   by   chapter   seven   hundred
  seventy-seven  of  the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-one, and the acts
  supplemental thereto.
2. The state university board of trustees is hereby authorized  within
  annual appropriations made for this purpose to designate the SUNY Health
  Science  Center  at  Syracuse and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York
  city to implement the provisions of this section.
3. The statewide resource centers for  geriatric  education  shall  be
  charged with developing a clearinghouse based on information gathered on
  educational  programs  in existence throughout the state and nation. The
  centers shall make available information on model curricula,  textbooks,
  resource   materials,   medical   residencies,   internships,   clinical
  rotations,  conferences,  continuing  education  programs,  funding  for
  research  and  training  and  other  information  that  may be useful in
  improving geriatric training in medical schools within the  state.  They
  may also provide such services to allied professions.
4.  The centers shall periodically disseminate information of interest
  to each of the medical schools and allied professions within the  state.
  The  centers  shall  also be available to assist the medical schools and
  allied  professions  within  the  state  with  individual  requests  for
  improving  their programs in geriatric education. Efforts should be made
  to utilize an interdisciplinary approach in disseminating  the  centers'
  information.
5.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  submit  a  report annually to the
  governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the
  director  of  the  state  office  for  the aging and the commissioner of
  health.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 239-A - Collection and Distribution of Student's Residual Consumer Goods.

§  239-a.  Collection  and distribution of student's residual consumer
  goods. 1. For purposes of this section, the following terms  shall  have
  the following meanings:
a.  "consumer  goods" shall mean goods that are used or bought for use
  primarily for personal, family or household purposes including, but  not
  limited   to,   home   furnishings,  canned  and  non-perishable  foods,
  factory-sealed   and/or   originally-packaged   toiletries,    clothing,
  cookware, and electronics.
b. "university" and "college" shall have the same meaning as set forth
  in section two of this title.
c.  "city  university"  shall  have  the  same meaning as set forth in
  section sixty-two hundred two of this chapter.
2. The administration of the individual state  and  city  universities
  and  colleges  and every public or private college, community college or
  university within the state,  are  hereby  authorized  to  facilitate  a
  campus-wide  charitable  donation  program for local area not-for-profit
  organizations  utilizing  students'   residual   consumer   goods.   The
  administration:
a.  shall  designate  a collection area for students to drop-off their
  unused or surplus goods two weeks before the end of the school year;
b. shall either develop a direct  donation  program  of  the  residual
  consumer  goods  or  organize  a  charitable  event  to collect residual
  consumer  goods  and  donate  such   goods   to   local   not-for-profit
  organizations; and
c.  may  involve  student  organizations for the implementation of the
  program.
3. The consumer goods collected:
a. shall be from those college  students  residing  in  campus-related
  residential facilities;
b.  shall  be consumer goods that would be discarded at the end of the
  school year by college students;
c. shall be in useable and good working condition.
4.  In  the  event  that  there  is  no  viable  local  not-for-profit
  organization  able  to  accept the residential consumer goods collected,
  the administration of the individual state or city university or college
  or public or private college, community college or university within the
  state may organize a campus-wide sale of such goods. The profits of such
  sale may be dedicated by the student organizations or by the  individual
  state  or  city  university  or  college  or  public or private college,
  community college or university facilitating  the  program  to  a  local
  not-for-profit organization.
5.  The  administration  of any individual state or city university or
  college or public or private college, community  college  or  university
  may  grant  credit to student members of organizations involved with the
  program, pursuant to subdivision two of this section, in the amount  and
  form that such administration deems appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 239-B - Research Dogs and Cats.

§  239-b.  Research  dogs  and  cats.  1.  A higher education research
  facility that receives public money, including tax-exempt status,  or  a
  facility that provides research in collaboration with a higher education
  facility shall after the completion of any testing or research involving
  a  dog or cat, assess the health of the dog or cat and determine whether
  it is  suitable  for  adoption.  Such  facility  shall  thereafter  make
  reasonable efforts to offer for adoption the dog or cat determined to be
  suitable  for  adoption,  either through private placement or through an
  animal rescue and shelter organization, a duly incorporated society  for
  the  prevention  of  cruelty  to  animals,  a  duly  incorporated humane
  society, or a  duly  incorporated  animal  protective  association  that
  operates physical animal sheltering facilities and offers household pets
  to  the  public  for adoption by way of an established adoption program,
  prior to euthanizing such dog or cat.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall
  create  a  duty  upon  such  an  organization, association or society to
  accept a dog or cat offered by a higher education research facility  for
  adoption.
2.  A  facility  that  is  required to offer dogs or cats for adoption
  under this section may enter into an agreement with an animal rescue and
  shelter organization, a duly incorporated society for the prevention  of
  cruelty  to  animals,  a  duly  incorporated  humane  society, or a duly
  incorporated animal protective association that operates physical animal
  sheltering facilities and  offers  household  pets  to  the  public  for
  adoption by way of an established adoption program.
3.  The  attending or institutional veterinarian at a facility that is
  required to offer dogs or cats for adoption  under  this  section  shall
  have  the  authority  to  assess  the  health of an animal and determine
  whether an animal is suitable for adoption.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1-A - Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities › 240 - The Stony Brook University Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Stony Brook University.

§  240.  The  Stony  Brook  university  Cody  center  for  autism  and
  developmental disabilities at Stony Brook university.  The  Stony  Brook
  university   Cody  center  for  autism  and  developmental  disabilities
  (hereinafter  the  "Cody  center")  is  hereby  established  under   the
  jurisdiction  of the state university of New York. The Cody center shall
  be administered as a program of the state university in accordance  with
  the policies of the trustees of the state university.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1-A - Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities › 241 - Purposes of the Cody Center.

§  241.  Purposes  of the Cody center. The purposes of the Cody center
shall be to:
1. Advance the standards of care for individuals with autism  spectrum
disorders and other developmental disabilities.
2.  Provide  an  educational  setting  for  professionals working with
families of individuals with developmental disabilities.
3. Contribute significant research outcomes to  the  body  of  science
surrounding   cause,  identification,  and  treatment  of  developmental
disabilities.
4. Practice a multidisciplinary  approach  when  serving  people  with
developmental disabilities.
5.  Support  and  advance  developed  programs  that  form the core of
community services and education including the  social  skills  program,
the  resource center, the school consultation program, undergraduate and
graduate courses, the parent education program and case management.
(a) The social skills program at the Cody center:
(i) Curriculum is primarily geared  toward  children  and  adolescents
with pervasive developmental disorders.
(ii) The program uses a positive teaching approach, in a group format,
to promote the development of pro-social behaviors.
(iii)  Clinical  psychologists  and  behavior  specialists  facilitate
groups.
(b) Resource center services: The Cody center occupies a  facility  in
Port  Jefferson  Station  designed  to provide evaluation and continuing
treatment by a multidisciplinary staff including psychiatry, psychology,
neurology, genetics, social work and other specialties. The Cody  center
provides the following services:
(i) Community outreach.
(ii)  Individualized  information/support sessions with family members
of newly diagnosed children.
(iii) Medicaid service coordination.
(iv) Non-medicaid service coordination.
(v) Sponsorship of parent and professional training seminars.
(c)  School  consultation  services:  Children  with  autism  spectrum
disorders face a number of challenges in mainstream educational systems.
Often,  school  district  personnel  do  not  have  the special training
required to make inclusion a rewarding and  successful  experience.  The
school  consultation  program  aims to support teachers and other school
personnel in their efforts to educate and work effectively with children
with autism spectrum disorders. The program provides:
(i) Proactive and ongoing technical assistance to school districts and
private educational facilities throughout Long Island.
(ii) Consultation services by  Cody  center  autism  specialists  with
extensive  experience  and  training  in  addressing  the  learning  and
behavioral needs of children with autism spectrum disorders.
(d) Services include:
(i) Program planning and staff development.
(ii) Parent training.
(iii) Technical assistance to classroom teams to address the needs  of
a particular child or children.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1-A - Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities › 242 - Site.

§  242.  Site.  The  site  of the Cody center shall be at the Matt and
  Debra Cody center for autism and developmental disabilities at the state
  university at Stony Brook.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1-A - Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities › 243 - Funding and Reporting.

§  243.  Funding  and reporting. Funds shall be made available for the
  support of the Cody center in the amounts appropriated for this purpose.
  The Cody center shall annually submit a  complete  and  detailed  report
  setting  forth  its  operations and accomplishments to the chancellor of
  the state university, the president of the  state  university  at  Stony
  Brook,  the  director of the budget, and the chairs of the senate higher
  education committee, the senate finance committee, the  assembly  higher
  education committee and the assembly ways and means committee.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 245 - State Library, How Constituted.

§ 245. State   library,   how  constituted.    All  books,  pamphlets,
  manuscripts,  records,  archives  and  maps,  and  all  other   property
  appropriate  to  a general library, if owned by the state and not placed
  in other custody  by  law,  shall  be  in  charge  of  the  regents  and
  constitute the state library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 246 - State Medical Library.

§ 246. State  medical  library.   The state medical library shall be a
  part of the New  York  state  library  under  the  same  government  and
  regulations  and  shall be open for consultation to every citizen of the
  state at all hours when the state library is open and shall be available
  for borrowing books to every accredited physician residing in the  state
  of  New  York,  who  shall  conform to the rules made by the regents for
  insuring proper protection and the largest usefulness to the  people  of
  the said medical library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 247 - State Law Library; Legislative Reference Library.

§ 247. State  law  library;  legislative reference library.  The state
  law library and the legislative reference library shall be parts of  the
  New  York  state  library  under the same government and regulations and
  shall be open for consultation to every citizen  of  the  state  at  all
  hours  when  the  state  library  is  open  and the law library shall be
  available for borrowing books to every duly admitted  attorney  residing
  in  the  state  of  New York, who shall conform to the rules made by the
  regents for insuring proper protection and the largest usefulness to the
  people of the said law library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 248 - Manuscript and Records "On File".

§ 248. Manuscript  and records "on file". Manuscript or printed papers
  of the legislature, usually termed "on file," and which shall have  been
  on  file  more  than  five  years  in custody of the senate and assembly
  clerks, and all public records of the state not placed in other  custody
  by  a  specific law shall be part of the state library and shall be kept
  in rooms assigned and suitably arranged for that purpose by the trustees
  of public buildings. The regents shall cause such papers and records  to
  be so classified and arranged that they can be easily found. No paper or
  record  shall  be  removed from such files except on a resolution of the
  senate and assembly withdrawing them for a  temporary  purpose,  and  in
  case  of  such removal a description of the paper or record and the name
  of the person removing the same shall be entered in a book provided  for
  that purpose, with the date of its delivery and return.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 249 - State Library, When Open; Use of Books.

§ 249. State library, when open; use of books. The state library shall
  be  kept  open  at least eight hours each day on five days every week in
  the  year  except  the  legal  holidays  known  as   Independence   day,
  Thanksgiving  day  and  Christmas  day.  Nothing  in  this section shall
  prohibit the regents from opening the state library on  other  days  and
  times.  Members  of  the  legislature,  judges  of the court of appeals,
  justices of the supreme court and heads of state departments may  borrow
  from  the  library books for use in Albany, but shall be subject to such
  restrictions and penalties as may be prescribed by the regents  for  the
  safety  or  greater  usefulness  of  the  library.  Under such rules and
  conditions as the regents may prescribe, the state library may lend  its
  books  and  printed material for a limited time to other individuals and
  institutions conforming to said rules and conditions. Such service shall
  be free to residents of this  state  as  far  as  practicable,  but  the
  regents may, in their discretion, charge a proper fee to nonresidents or
  for  assistance of a personal nature or for other reason not properly an
  expense to the state, but which may be authorized for the  accommodation
  of users of the library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 249-A - Libraries of Public Institutions of Higher Education; Access and Use.

§ 249-a. Libraries  of public institutions of higher education; access
  and use.   The  state  university  trustees  and  the  board  of  higher
  education  of  the  city  of New York are hereby authorized to establish
  such rules and regulations as may be necessary and appropriate  to  make
  provision  for  access  and  use  by  the  residents of the state of the
  libraries and library facilities of the public  institutions  of  higher
  education under their respective jurisdictions.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 250 - Duplicate Department.

§ 250. Duplicate  department.    The  regents shall have charge of the
  preparation, publication and distribution, whether by sale, exchange  or
  gift,  of  the  colonial  history,  natural  history and all other state
  publications not otherwise assigned by law.  To guard against  waste  or
  destruction  of state publications, and to provide for the completion of
  sets to be permanently preserved in American and foreign libraries,  the
  regents  shall  maintain  a  duplicate  department  to  which each state
  department, bureau, board, commission, authority,  division,  office  or
  public benefit corporation shall send after completing its distribution,
  any  remaining  copies which it no longer requires.  The above, with any
  other publications not  needed  in  the  state  library,  shall  be  the
  duplicate  department, and rules for sale, exchange or distribution from
  it shall be fixed by the regents, who shall use all receipts  from  such
  exchanges  or sales for the expenses of and for increasing the duplicate
  department or depository of the state library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 251 - Transfers From State Officers.

§ 251. Transfers  from  state officers.   The librarian of any library
  owned by the state, or the officer in charge of  any  state  department,
  bureau,  board, commission or other office may, with the approval of the
  regents, transfer to the permanent  custody  of  the  state  library  or
  museum any books, papers, maps, manuscripts, specimens or other articles
  which,  because  of  being  duplicates or for other reasons, will in his
  judgment be more useful to the state in the state library or museum than
  if retained in his keeping.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 252 - Other Libraries Owned by the State.

§ 252. Other  libraries  owned  by the state.  The report of the state
  library to the legislature shall include a statement of the total number
  of volumes or pamphlets, the  number  added  during  the  year,  with  a
  summary  of operations and conditions, and any needed recommendation for
  safety or usefulness for each of the other libraries owned by the state,
  the custodian of which shall furnish such information or facilities  for
  inspection  as  the regents may require for making this report.  Each of
  these libraries shall be under the sole control now provided by law, but
  for the annual report of the total number of books owned  by  or  bought
  each  year by the state, it shall be considered as a branch of the state
  library and  shall  be  entitled  to  any  facilities  for  exchange  of
  duplicates, inter-library loans or other privileges properly accorded to
  a branch.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 253 - Public and Association Libraries and Museums.

§ 253. Public   and   association  libraries  and  museums.    1.  All
  provisions of this section and of sections two hundred fifty-four to two
  hundred seventy-one inclusive shall apply equally to libraries, museums,
  and to combined libraries and museums, and the word "library"  shall  be
  construed to mean reference and circulating libraries and reading rooms.
2.  The  term  "public"  library  as  used  in  this  chapter shall be
  construed to mean a  library,  other  than  professional,  technical  or
  public  school library, established for free public purposes by official
  action of a municipality or district or the legislature, where the whole
  interests belong to the public; the term "association" library shall  be
  construed  to  mean a library established and controlled, in whole or in
  part, by a group of private individuals  operating  as  an  association,
  closed corporation or as trustees under the provisions of a will or deed
  of trust; and the term "free" as applied to a library shall be construed
  to mean a library maintained for the benefit and free use on equal terms
  of all the people of the community in which the library is located.
3.  The  term  "Indian  library"  shall  be construed to mean a public
  library established by the tribal government of the Saint  Regis  Mohawk
  tribe,  the  Seneca Nations of Indians or the Tonawanda Seneca tribe and
  located on their respective reservations, to serve Indians  residing  on
  such  reservations  and  any  other  persons  designated by its board of
  trustees.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 254 - Standards of Library Service.

§ 254. Standards  of library service.  The regents shall have power to
  fix standards of library service for every free association, public  and
  hospital   library  or,  with  the  advice  of  the  appropriate  tribal
  government and library board of trustees, Indian library which  receives
  any  portion  of  the  moneys  appropriated  by  the  state  to aid such
  libraries, or which is supported in whole or in part by  tax  levied  by
  any  municipality  or  district.  In the case of a hospital library or a
  library serving a hospital,  such  standards  shall  be  established  in
  consultation  with the commissioner of health. If any such library shall
  fail to comply with the regents requirements,  such  library  shall  not
  receive  any  portion  of the moneys appropriated by the state for free,
  hospital or Indian  libraries  nor  shall  any  tax  be  levied  by  any
  municipality  or  district  for  the support in whole or in part of such
  library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 256 - Contracts.

§ 256. Contracts.    1.  Any  authority  named  in section two hundred
  fifty-five may,  individually  or  jointly  with  another  municipal  or
  district  body  or tribal government, grant money for the support of the
  cost of maintaining or the  cost  of  any  capital  improvements  to  or
  expenditure  for one or more:  free association libraries, provided such
  libraries are registered by the regents; public libraries, provided such
  libraries are registered by the regents; and cooperative library systems
  approved by the commissioner;  or  may,  individually  or  jointly  with
  another  municipal  or district body or tribal government, contract with
  the trustees of a free association library registered by the regents, or
  with any municipal or district body having control of such a library, or
  with the trustees  of  the  cooperative  library  system,  or  with  the
  trustees  of  a  public  library  registered  by  the regents to furnish
  library  services  to  the  people  of  the  municipality,  district  or
  reservation for whose benefit the contract is made, under such terms and
  conditions  as  may be stated in such contract.  The amount agreed to be
  paid for such services under such contract shall be a  charge  upon  the
  municipal  or  district  bodies or tribal government which agree to make
  the payment and shall be paid directly to  the  treasurer  of  the  free
  association  library,  public  library  or  of  the  cooperative library
  system.
2. When the municipality agreeing to make the payment or  grant  is  a
  town in which there are one or more incorporated villages, which village
  or  villages  jointly  with  such  town  contract with the trustees of a
  cooperative library system, a free association library or  with  another
  municipal district or body having control of a public library whether or
  not  such  district or body is an incorporated village in such town, the
  amount appropriated by the town board in such town  shall  be  a  charge
  upon  the  taxable property of that part of the town outside of any such
  incorporated village.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 257 - Acceptance of Conditional Gift.

§ 257. Acceptance  of  conditional  gift.    By  majority  vote at any
  election or at a meeting of the electors, duly held, any municipality or
  district or by three-fourths vote  of  its  council  any  city,  or  any
  library  or  any designated branch thereof if so authorized by such vote
  of a municipality, district or  council,  or  any  combination  of  such
  voting bodies, may accept gifts, grants, devises or bequests for library
  purposes  or  for  kindred  affiliated  educational,  social  and  civic
  agencies on  condition  that  a  specified  annual  appropriation  shall
  thereafter be made for the maintenance of a library or branches thereof,
  or  of such kindred affiliated agencies, by the municipality or district
  or combination so  authorizing  such  acceptance,  or  upon  such  other
  conditions  as  may  be  stipulated  in  the  terms  of the gift.   Such
  acceptance when approved by the regents of the university under seal and
  recorded in its book of charters shall be a binding contract,  and  such
  municipality  or  district  shall  levy and collect yearly in the manner
  prescribed for other taxes the amount stipulated and shall maintain  any
  so  accepted  gift,  grant,  devise  or bequest intact and make good any
  impairment thereof, and shall comply with all other conditions set forth
  in the stated terms of the gift.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 258 - Closing of Museum; Admission Fee During Certain Hours.

§ 258. Closing  of  museum;  admission  fee during certain hours.  The
  trustees of any institution  supported  under  this  chapter  by  public
  money,  in  whole or in part, may, so far as consistent with free use by
  the public at reasonable or specified hours, close  any  of  its  museum
  collections  at  certain  other hours, for study, to meet the demands of
  special students or for exhibition purposes, and may charge an admission
  fee at such hours, provided that all receipts from such  fees  shall  be
  paid into the treasury and be used for the maintenance or enlargement of
  the institution.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 258-A - Purchases by Museums, Historical Societies, Zoological Gardens, Aquariums, Botanical Gardens and Arboreta Through Office of General Services.

§ 258-a. Purchases   by   museums,  historical  societies,  zoological
  gardens, aquariums, botanical gardens and  arboreta  through  office  of
  general  services.  Museums,  historical  societies, zoological gardens,
  aquariums,  botanical  gardens  and  arboreta  which  are  chartered  or
  incorporated  by the regents or otherwise formed pursuant to section two
  hundred sixteen of this chapter or otherwise pursuant  to  the  laws  of
  this  state  and are also non-profit organizations may make purchases of
  commodities and services through the office of general services  subject
  to  such  rules  as  may  be  established  from time to time pursuant to
  section one hundred sixty-three of the state finance law; provided  that
  each such purchase shall have a cost of five hundred dollars or more and
  that  said  museum,  historical  society,  zoological  garden, aquarium,
  botanical garden or arboreta shall accept sole  responsibility  for  any
  payment of such cost due the vendor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 260-A - Meetings of Board of Trustees.

§ 260-a. Meetings  of  board of trustees.   Every meeting, including a
  special district meeting, of a board of trustees  of  a  public  library
  system,  cooperative  library system, public library or free association
  library, including every committee meeting and subcommittee  meeting  of
  any  such board of trustees in cities having a population of one million
  or more, shall be open to the general public.   Such meetings  shall  be
  held  in  conformity  with and in pursuance to the provisions of article
  seven  of  the  public   officers   law.      Provided,   however,   and
  notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of section ninety-nine
  of  the  public  officers  law, public notice of the time and place of a
  meeting scheduled at least two weeks prior thereto shall be given to the
  public and news media at least one week before such meeting.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 260-B - Reduction of Salaries for Purchase of Annuities.

§ 260-b. Reduction  of salaries for purchase of annuities.  Each board
  of trustees of a library  system,  cooperative  library  system,  public
  library  or free association library in its discretion, may enter into a
  written agreement with any employee of such board to reduce  the  annual
  salary  as  otherwise payable by law of such employee for the purpose of
  purchasing an annuity for such  employee.  Any  such  agreement  may  be
  terminated  at  any  time upon written notice by either such employee or
  such board.  Nothing contained in this section  shall  be  construed  to
  diminish  or  impair  any  benefits  to which such employee or his legal
  representatives or beneficiaries would be otherwise  entitled  had  such
  salary  reduction agreement not been entered into in accordance with the
  provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 260-C - Reduction of Salaries for Tax-Deferred Annuities.

§ 260-c. Reduction  of salaries for tax-deferred annuities.  The board
  of trustees of a library  system,  cooperative  library  system,  public
  library or free association library, in its discretion, may enter into a
  written agreement with any of its employees to reduce the annual salary,
  as otherwise earned and payable by law, of such employee for the purpose
  of  providing  a  tax-deferred  annuity  for  such  employee  under  the
  retirement system in which such employee is currently a member, but only
  if such retirement system specifically provides  for  such  tax-deferred
  annuities,  and  subject  to  any  provisions and limitations applicable
  thereto. Any such agreement may be terminated  upon  written  notice  by
  either  such  employee  or such board. Nothing contained in this section
  shall be construed to diminish or impair  any  benefits  to  which  such
  employee   or  his  legal  representatives  or  beneficiaries  would  be
  otherwise entitled had such salary reduction agreement not been  entered
  into in accordance with the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 260-D - Board of Trustees Continuing Education.

§ 260-d. Board  of trustees continuing education. 1. Beginning January
first, two thousand twenty-three, each member, elected or appointed,  of
a  board  of  trustees  of  a public, free association or Indian library
shall be required  to  complete  a  minimum  of  two  hours  of  trustee
education  annually, from a provider approved by the commissioner on the
financial oversight, accountability, fiduciary responsibilities and  the
general  powers  and duties of a library trustee. Such trustee education
may be  delivered  online  or  in  person,  and  may  include  lectures,
workshops,  regional  or  national  library association programs, or any
other format approved by the commissioner.
2. Each member shall demonstrate compliance with the  requirements  of
this  section  by  filing  with  the  president of the board of trustees
evidence of completion of trustee education from an  approved  provider.
Actual  and  necessary  expenses  incurred by a member in complying with
this section shall be a charge against the library. Such evidence  shall
include one of the following:
(a)  certificates  of  completion  issued  by  one  or  more  approved
providers; or
(b) a  signed  self-assurance  of  completion.  Such  assurance  shall
identify  the approved trustee education providers, a description of the
format and content of the completed instruction activities, the date and
time such member began and completed each instruction  activity  and  an
explanation  of  why  a certificate of completion was not available from
such approved providers.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 261 - Incorporation.

§ 261. Incorporation.  Within one month after taking office, the first
  board  of  trustees  of  any such public library or Indian library shall
  apply to  the  regents  for  a  charter  in  accordance  with  the  vote
  establishing the library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 262 - Use of Public and Indian Libraries.

§ 262. Use  of public and Indian libraries.  Every library established
  under section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter  shall  be  forever
  free  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  municipality  or district or Indian
  reservation, which establishes  it,  subject  always  to  rules  of  the
  library  trustees  who  shall  have  authority to exclude any person who
  wilfully  violates  such  rules;  and  the  trustees  may,  under   such
  conditions as they think expedient, extend the privileges of the library
  to  persons  living  outside  such  municipality  or  district or Indian
  reservation.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 263 - Reports.

§ 263. Reports.  Every library or museum, other than a school library,
  which  enjoys any exemption from taxation or receives state aid or other
  privilege not usually accorded to business corporations shall  make  the
  report required by section two hundred fifteen of this chapter, and such
  report shall relieve the institution from making any report now required
  by  statute  or  charter  to  be  made  to  the  legislature  or  to any
  department, court or other authority of the state.  These reports  shall
  be summarized and transmitted to the legislature by the regents with the
  annual reports of the university.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 264 - Injuries to Property.

§ 264. Injuries  to property.   Whoever intentionally injures, defaces
  or destroys any property belonging to or deposited in  any  incorporated
  library, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, shall be
  punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  state  prison for not more than three
  years, or in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a  fine  of
  not   more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  by  both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 265 - Detention.

§ 265. Detention.    Whoever  wilfully  detains  any  book, newspaper,
  magazine, pamphlet, manuscript or other property belonging to any public
  or incorporated  library,  reading-room,  museum  or  other  educational
  institution, for thirty days after notice in writing to return the same,
  given  after  the  expiration  of  the  time  which by the rules of such
  institution, such article or  other  property  may  be  kept,  shall  be
  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than one nor more than twenty-five
  dollars, or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding six  months,  and  the
  said notice shall bear on its face a copy of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 265-A - Defense of Lawful Detention.

§ 265-a. Defense of lawful detention.  In any action for false arrest,
  false   imprisonment,   unlawful  detention,  defamation  of  character,
  assault, trespass or invasion of civil rights brought by any  person  by
  reason  of  having  been detained on or in the immediate vicinity of the
  premises of a public library or association library for the  purpose  of
  investigation  or  questioning  as to the ownership of any materials, it
  shall be a defense to such action that the  person  was  detained  in  a
  reasonable manner and for not more than a reasonable time to permit such
  investigation  or  questioning by a peace officer or by the librarian in
  charge, his or her authorized employee or agent,  and  that  such  peace
  officer,  librarian, employee or agent has reasonable grounds to believe
  that the person so detained  was  committing  or  attempting  to  commit
  larceny  on  such  premises  of such materials. As used in this section,
  "reasonable grounds" shall include, but not  be  limited  to,  knowledge
  that  a person has concealed, unauthorized possession of  material owned
  or belonging to  the  public  library  or  association  library,  and  a
  "reasonable  time"  shall  mean  the time necessary to permit the person
  detained to make a statement or to refuse to make a statement,  and  the
  time necessary to examine employees and records of the public library or
  association library relative to the ownership of the materials.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 266 - Transfer of Libraries.

§ 266. Transfer  of  libraries.    By vote similar to that required by
  section two hundred fifty-five  of  this  chapter  any  municipality  or
  district  or tribal government or combination of districts, or by action
  of its  trustees  at  a  meeting  duly  held  any  association  library,
  incorporated or registered by the regents, may, when such vote or action
  has  been  duly  approved  by  the  regents,  transfer, conditionally as
  provided  in  section  two  hundred  fifty-seven  of  this  chapter,  or
  otherwise,  the  ownership  and  control  of  its  library  with all its
  property, real and personal, or any part thereof, to  any  municipality,
  or  district, or institution providing for free library service; and the
  trustees or body making the transfer shall thereafter be relieved of all
  responsibility pertaining to property thus transferred.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 267 - Local Neglect.

§ 267. Local  neglect.    If  the  local  authorities  of  any library
  supported wholly or in part by state  money  fail  to  provide  for  the
  support  of  such  library  and  the public usefulness of its books, the
  regents shall in writing notify the trustees of  said  library  what  is
  necessary  to meet the state's requirements, and on such notice all said
  library's rights to further grants of money  or  books  from  the  state
  shall  be suspended until the regents certify that the requirements have
  been met; and if said trustees shall refuse or neglect  to  comply  with
  such  requirements  within  sixty days after service of such notice, the
  regents may remove them from office and thereafter all books  and  other
  library  property  wholly or in part paid for from state moneys shall be
  under the full and direct control of the regents who, as shall seem best
  for public interests, may appoint new trustees to carry on the  library,
  or may store it, or distribute its books to other libraries.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 268 - Abolition.

§ 268. Abolition.    Any  library  established  by  public vote of any
  municipality or district, or by vote of the common council of any  city,
  or  by  vote  of  the  board of trustees of any village, or by action of
  school authorities, or by vote of the tribal  government  of  an  Indian
  reservation,  or  under  section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter,
  may be abolished by majority vote at an election, or at a meeting of the
  electors duly held, provided that due  public  notice  of  the  proposed
  action  shall have been given, or by vote of such tribal government.  If
  any such library is abolished, its  property  shall  be  used  first  to
  return  to  the  regents,  for  the benefit of other free association or
  public or school libraries in that locality, the equivalent of such sums
  as it may have received from the state or from other  sources  as  gifts
  for public use.  After such return any remaining property may be used as
  directed  in  the vote abolishing the library, but if the entire library
  property does not exceed in value the amount of such gifts,  it  may  be
  transferred  to  the  regents  for  public  use,  and the trustees shall
  thereupon be free from further responsibility.  No abolition of a public
  library shall be lawful until the regents grant a certificate  that  its
  assets  have  been  properly  distributed and its abolition completed in
  accordance with law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 269 - Library Extension Service.

§ 269. Library  extension service.   By such means, in such manner and
  upon such conditions as the  regents  may  prescribe,  they  shall  make
  provision   for   a   library   extension  service  for  the  promotion,
  organization  and  supervision  of   free   libraries;   for   supplying
  information,  advice, assistance or instruction on any matter pertaining
  to library methods or  practice  or  to  the  establishment,  equipment,
  organization  or  administration  of  libraries;  for  the  acquisition,
  preparation and circulation of traveling libraries and other educational
  material; for aiding and encouraging study clubs; and for the employment
  of all suitable efforts to bring within the reach of all the  people  of
  the  state,  and  awaken  their  desire for, increased opportunities and
  facilities for reading and study.