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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 372 - Purposes of Fund.

§  372. Purposes of fund. The purposes of the fund shall be to provide
  academic buildings, dormitories and other facilities including  academic
  incubator  facilities  and  a pharmaceutical research, development which
  may  also  include  a  manufacturing  facility  for  the  state-operated
  institutions  and contract and statutory colleges under the jurisdiction
  of the state university, to reduce the time lag between determination of
  need for such facilities and actual occupancy thereof, to  expedite  the
  construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement
  of  such  facilities  and  to  assure  that  the  same are ready for the
  purposes intended when needed and  when  scheduled  under  the  approved
  master  plan of the state university; with respect to university-related
  economic development projects authorized  by  law  pursuant  to  section
  three  hundred  seventy-two-a  of  this article, to act as agent for the
  state university or for a  foundation  or  other  not-for-profit  entity
  created  by  or  for  the  state  university.  In  addition to any other
  approval or permit  otherwise  required  by  law,  the  fund  shall  not
  construct  any  new  project  or  facility  on  a  campus  of  the state
  university unless the said project or facility has been approved by  the
  state  university  trustees  and  has  been  specifically  and expressly
  authorized by such section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 373-A - Jurisdiction in Actions By, Against or Involving the Fund.

§ 373-a. Jurisdiction  in  actions  by, against or involving the fund.
  The state supreme court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of any action,
  where the amount sought to  be  recovered,  exclusive  of  interest  and
  costs,  exceeds ten thousand dollars, brought by or against or involving
  the fund.   The  venue  of  any  such  action  shall  be  determined  in
  accordance with the provisions of the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 374 - Relationship With State University.

§ 374. Relationship   with  state  university.    In  order  the  most
  effectively to carry out its corporate purposes, the fund  shall  assist
  and  cooperate  with  and  shall  make  its personnel and services fully
  available to the state university in matters relating to  the  discharge
  of the capital planning responsibilities and land acquisition program of
  the  state university.   During the course of construction, acquisition,
  reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement  of  facilities  for  the
  state  university,  the  fund shall consult with the state university as
  the  work  progresses  in  matters  relating   to   changes   in   space
  requirements,  site plans, architectural concept, and detailed plans and
  specifications and in matters relating to the materials,  equipment  and
  supplies  needed  to  furnish and equip completed facilities.  The state
  university for its part shall assist and  cooperate  with  the  fund  in
  matters  relating  to  such  construction,  acquisition, reconstruction,
  rehabilitation and improvement, including the financing thereof.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 376-A - Notices of Claim and Commencement of Actions Against the Fund.

§ 376-a. Notices  of  claim  and  commencement  of actions against the
  fund.  1. In every action against the fund for damages for  injuries  to
  real  or  personal  property,  or  for  the  destruction thereof, or for
  personal injuries or death, the complaint shall  contain  an  allegation
  that at least thirty days have elapsed since the demand, claim or claims
  upon which such action is founded were presented to a trustee or officer
  of  the  fund  and  that  the  fund  has neglected or refused to make an
  adjustment or payment thereof for thirty days after such presentment.
2. Except in an action for wrongful death, an action against the  fund
  for  damages  for  injuries  to  real  or  personal property, or for the
  destruction thereof, or for personal  injuries,  alleged  to  have  been
  sustained,  shall  not  be  commenced more than one year and ninety days
  after the cause of action therefor shall  have  accrued,  nor  unless  a
  notice of claim shall have been served on the fund within the time limit
  established  by,  and  in  compliance  with  all requirements of section
  fifty-e of the general municipal law. An action  against  the  fund  for
  wrongful death shall be commenced in accordance with the notice of claim
  and  time  limitation  provisions of title eleven of article nine of the
  public authorities law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 379 - Transfer of Jurisdiction to State University.

§ 379. Transfer  of  jurisdiction  to  state  university.  As  soon as
  practicable after the completion of work, the fund shall make  available
  to  the state university trustees for the purposes intended the academic
  buildings,  dormitories  and  other  facilities  constructed,  acquired,
  reconstructed,   rehabilitated   or   improved   under   this   article.
  Responsibility for the maintenance  and  routine  repair  of  facilities
  other  than  dormitories  and for the maintenance and upkeep of adjacent
  real property shall remain in the fund after the completion of work  and
  shall  be  transferred  from  the  fund to the state university trustees
  pursuant to agreement between them, and upon such  transfer  all  right,
  title  and  interest  of  the  fund  in such facilities shall terminate;
  provided  that  in  the  case  of  facilities   constructed,   acquired,
  reconstructed,  rehabilitated  or  improved solely out of appropriations
  and grants  or  gifts  of  money,  such  responsibilities  shall  be  so
  transferred  not  later  than  four months after the completion of work.
  Prior to the transfer of such  responsibilities,  the  state  university
  trustees  may  act as agent for the fund for the maintenance and routine
  repair of such facilities and for the maintenance and upkeep of adjacent
  real property. This section shall not apply when  the  state  university
  construction fund acts as agent for a foundation or other not-for-profit
  entity  created  by  or  for  the  state  university of New York or when
  providing facilities or projects authorized  by  section  three  hundred
  seventy-two-a of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 381 - Cooperation and Assistance From Other State Agencies.

§ 381. Cooperation  and  assistance  from  other state agencies.   The
  state education department, the state department of transportation,  the
  dormitory  authority,  the state housing finance agency, the division of
  the budget, the office of general services and all other state  agencies
  shall  cooperate  with  and  assist  the  fund in the fulfillment of its
  corporate purposes and in the exercise of  its  corporate  powers  under
  this  article  and  may  render  such  services to the fund within their
  respective functions as the fund may reasonably request.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 382 - Annual Report of Trustees.

§ 382. Annual  report  of  trustees.   1. The fund shall submit to the
  governor, the regents, the state university trustees,  the  legislature,
  the  chairs  of  the  senate finance committee and the assembly ways and
  means committee, annually on or before January first, a full  report  of
  its activities and operations through the thirtieth day of the preceding
  September,   including  details  as  to  state  university  construction
  projects in planning, in construction  and  completed,  the  performance
  record  of  the  fund  in completing construction in accordance with the
  desired completion dates and within the estimated costs  recommended  by
  the  governor and approved by the legislature, the architects, engineers
  and other private consultants engaged by the fund on  a  contract  basis
  and  a  statement  of  the  total  amount  paid  and  yet to be paid, or
  estimated yet to be paid, under such contract, the  letting  agency  and
  successful  bidder  for  each  construction  project,  the  moneys  made
  available for the  purposes  of  the  fund,  details  as  to  any  lease
  agreements  executed  by  the fund and the annual rentals required to be
  paid on account thereof, and  such  other  information  related  to  the
  activities and operations of the fund as it may consider pertinent. Such
  report shall also contain details as to all contracts which, pursuant to
  section  three  hundred  seventy-six  of this chapter, have been entered
  into  without  public  letting  where  an  emergency  condition  exists,
  including  the nature of such emergency condition and the state-operated
  institution at which the condition occurred.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
  on  or  before  November  fifteenth  of  each year, the state university
  construction fund shall submit, and  thereafter  may  resubmit,  to  the
  director  of  the  budget,  the  state  comptroller, the chairman of the
  senate finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means
  committee a report setting forth the amounts,  if  any,  of  all  annual
  rentals  and  other  payments  estimated to become due in the succeeding
  state fiscal year to the dormitory authority from the fund  pursuant  to
  any   leases,  subleases  or  other  agreements  between  the  dormitory
  authority and the fund entered into on or  after  July  first,  nineteen
  hundred eighty-eight, to provide state university educational facilities
  for the state university of New York. Such report shall separately state
  the  amount  of  income  earned on the investment of moneys in the state
  university construction  fund  educational  facilities  payment  account
  since the date of the last such report.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 383 - Article Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

§ 383. Article   not   affected   if   in   part  unconstitutional  or
  ineffective.  If any section, subdivision, paragraph,  sentence,  clause
  or provision of this article shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective
  in  whole  or  in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or
  ineffective, it shall be  valid  or  effective  and  no  other  section,
  subdivision,  paragraph,  sentence, clause or provision shall on account
  thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 384 - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Acts Superseded.

§ 384. Inconsistent  provisions  of other acts superseded.  Insofar as
  the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the  provisions  of
  any  other act, general or special, the provisions of this article shall
  be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 391 - Optional Retirement Program Established.

§ 391. Optional  retirement  program established.   1. There is hereby
  established an optional retirement program which shall provide  for  the
  purchase  of contracts providing retirement and death benefits for or on
  behalf of electing  employees.  Under  such  program  the  state  or  an
  electing  employer  and  such  employees shall contribute, to the extent
  authorized or required, towards the purchase of  such  contracts,  which
  shall  be  issued  to,  and  become the property of, such employees. The
  board of trustees of a community college may elect to offer the optional
  retirement program to eligible employees of such college by  resolution,
  which  shall  become effective upon approval of the local sponsor acting
  through its  local  legislative  body  or  board  or  other  appropriate
  governing agency.
2.  The board shall designate the insurer or insurers to which payment
  of such contributions may be made and shall approve the form and content
  of such contracts. In making such designation and giving  such  approval
  the  board  shall give due consideration to (i) the nature and extent of
  the rights and benefits to be provided by such  contracts  for  electing
  employees  and their beneficiaries, (ii) the relation of such rights and
  benefits to the amount of contributions to be made under  this  article,
  (iii)  the  suitability  of  such  rights  and benefits to the needs and
  interests of electing employees and to the interests of state university
  and of electing employers in the employment and  retention  of  eligible
  employees,  and (iv) the authority and ability of the designated insurer
  or insurers to provide rights and benefits under such contracts.
3. The board is hereby authorized to provide for the administration of
  such optional  retirement  program  and  to  perform  or  authorize  the
  performance  of  such functions as may be necessary for such purposes in
  accordance with this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 394 - Survivor's Benefits.

§ 394. Survivor's  benefits.  In the case of the death of any electing
  employee,  after  the  effective  date  of  this  election  and   before
  retirement,  the value of the death benefits provided by the contract or
  contracts purchased under  the  optional  retirement  program  which  is
  attributable  to  the  state's  contribution as determined by the board,
  shall be deemed to be an ordinary death benefit provided under a  public
  pension plan within the meaning of section one hundred fifty-four of the
  civil  service  law.   Notwithstanding the provisions of such section of
  the civil service law, a survivors benefit payable thereunder on account
  of the death of any electing employee  while  in  the  employ  of  state
  university,  after  the  effective  date  of  such  election  and before
  retirement,  including  an  employee  subject  to  the   provisions   of
  subdivision three of section three hundred ninety-three of this article,
  shall  be  paid  to  such  person or persons as such employee shall have
  nominated to receive the death benefits  provided  by  the  contract  or
  contracts purchased under the optional retirement program.  In the event
  such   designated  beneficiary  or  beneficiaries  do  not  survive  the
  employee, or if a beneficiary  was  not  so  designated,  the  survivors
  benefit  shall  be paid to the deceased employee's estate or as provided
  in section one hundred three-a of the decedent estate law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 395 - Social Security.

§ 395. Social  security.   Every electing employee shall have old-age,
  survivors, and disability insurance coverage  provided  by  the  federal
  social  security  act in accordance with the provisions of article three
  of the retirement and social security law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 396 - Employer Not Liable for Payment of Benefits.

§ 396. Employer  not  liable  for  payment  of benefits.   Neither the
  state, nor state university, nor any  electing  employer  or  its  local
  sponsor  shall  be a party to any contract purchased in whole or in part
  with  contributions  made  under   the   optional   retirement   program
  established  and  administered pursuant to this article.  No retirement,
  death, or other benefits shall be payable by  the  state,  or  by  state
  university,  or by any electing employer or its local sponsor under such
  optional retirement program.  Such benefits shall be  paid  to  electing
  employees  or  their beneficiaries by the designated insurer or insurers
  in accordance with the terms of their contracts.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 397 - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Acts Superseded.

§ 397. Inconsistent  provisions  of other acts superseded.  Insofar as
  the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the  provisions  of
  any  other act, general or special, the provisions of this article shall
  be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-C - Special Annuity › 398 - Definitions.

§ 398. Definitions. Whenever used in this article:
1.  The  term  "employer"  means the state university of New York, the
  board of higher education of the  city  of  New  York,  or  a  community
  college established and operated under article one hundred twenty-six of
  this chapter.
2.   The  term  "employee"  means  a  person  employed  by  the  state
  university, the board of higher education of the city of New York, or  a
  community  college  established  and  operated under article one hundred
  twenty-six of this chapter.
3. The term "comptroller" means the comptroller of the  state  of  New
  York  with  respect  to  the  state university or the appropriate fiscal
  officer with respect to other employers.
4. The term "salary" means that amount fixed by or pursuant to law and
  paid by or for an employer to an employee as compensation  for  services
  rendered by the employee to the employer.
5.  The  term  "insurer"  means  a life insurance corporation or other
  corporation subject to department of financial services supervision.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-C - Special Annuity › 398-A - Reduction of Salaries for Investment in Custodial Accounts.

§ 398-a. Reduction  of  salaries for investment in custodial accounts.
  Each employer, in his discretion, may enter  into  a  written  agreement
  with  any  employee  to reduce the annual salary as otherwise payable by
  law of such employee for the purpose of investing in a custodial account
  as permitted under section 403(b) of the United States Internal  Revenue
  Code,  as  amended,  for  such  employee.  Any  such  agreement  may  be
  terminated at any time upon written notice by either  such  employee  or
  employer and shall be governed by the otherwise consistent provisions of
  section  three hundred ninety-nine of this article. 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 8-C - Special Annuity › 399-A - Reduction of Salaries for Tax-Deferred Annuities.

§ 399-A. Reduction  of salaries for tax-deferred annuities.  The board
  of higher education of a city having a  population  of  one  million  or
  more,  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 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 401 - Sites; Designation and Change.

§ 401. Sites; designation and change.  1. The designation of a site by
  any  school district meeting shall be by written resolution containing a
  description thereof by  metes  and  bounds,  and  such  resolution  must
  receive  the  assent  of  a majority of the qualified voters present and
  voting at said meeting, to be ascertained by taking  and  recording  the
  ayes and noes, or by ballot.
2.  A  board of education in a union free school district containing a
  population of five thousand or more may, without a vote of the qualified
  voters of said district, designate sites or additions thereto for school
  houses or for any other school purpose.
3. No site of a schoolhouse shall be changed unless a majority of  the
  legal  voters  present  and  voting  at a district meeting shall adopt a
  resolution designating a new site and describing such site by metes  and
  bounds.   Such resolution shall be adopted either by ballot or by taking
  and recording the ayes and noes.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 403 - Application of Proceeds of Sale.

§ 403. Application  of  proceeds of sale.  All moneys arising from any
  sale made in pursuance of the last preceding section, shall  be  applied
  to  the  expenses  incurred  in procuring a new site, and in removing or
  erecting thereon a schoolhouse, and improving and furnishing  such  site
  and  building  and their appurtenances, so far as such application shall
  be necessary; and the surplus, if any, shall be devoted to the  purchase
  of  school apparatus and the support of the school, as the voters of the
  district at any meeting shall direct.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 403-A - Leasing of School Property.

§ 403-a. Leasing  of  school  property.   1. The board of education or
trustees  of  a  school  district  are  hereby  authorized  to  adopt  a
resolution providing that specific real property of such district is not
currently  needed  for  school district purposes and that the leasing of
such real property is in the best interest of the school  district.  The
terms of such lease shall be subject to the following:
(a)  The  rental payment shall not be less than the fair market rental
value as determined by the board of education.
(b) The term of the lease shall not exceed ten years.
(c) Upon termination, the lessee shall be  obligated  to  restore  the
real  property  to  its  original  condition less ordinary depreciation,
provided that the school district may  waive  such  requirement  if  the
tenant  has  made  improvements  to  such real property which may not be
removed without causing substantial damage to such real property.
2. Upon the consent of the commissioner, renewal of  a  lease  may  be
made for a period of up to ten years.
3.  The board of education or trustees of a school district are hereby
authorized to lease real property upon such terms and conditions as  the
board  of  education  or  trustees  may  deem appropriate to any person,
partnership or corporation such board of  education  or  trustees  shall
have determined who will provide the most benefit to the school district
for periods not to exceed ten years. Such leases may also be renewed for
a period of up to ten years upon the consent of the commissioner.
4.  Upon  termination  of  the  lease,  if  the school district incurs
expenses in restoring the real property to  school  use,  such  expenses
shall  not  be included in computing any apportionment or state building
aid to such district.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivision  one
hereof  the  board  of  education  or  trustees of a school district are
hereby authorized to enter into a lease agreement in accordance with the
provisions of this section for a period in excess of ten years  subject,
however, to voter approval by referendum.
6.  Nothing  contained  herein shall prevent the board of education or
trustees of a school district from entering into a lease agreement which
provides for the cancellation of the same  by  such  board  or  trustees
upon:
(a) a substantial increase or decrease in pupil enrollment; or
(b)  a  substantial  change  in the needs and requirements of a school
district with respect to facilities; or
(c)  any  other  change  which  substantially  affects  the  needs  or
requirements  of  a  school  district  or  the  community in which it is
located.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 404 - Acquisition of Real Property.

§ 404. Acquisition of real property.  Real property may be acquired in
  any  school  district  and in any city having less than seventy thousand
  inhabitants, for school purposes and for any  other  purpose  for  which
  such property may be acquired as provided in this chapter, as follows:
1. By gift, grant, devise or purchase.
2. By involuntary acquisition, if an agreement cannot be made with the
  owner  for  the purchase thereof.   Such proceedings shall be instituted
  and conducted by the trustee or board of education, in the name  of  the
  district under the provisions of the eminent domain procedure law.
3.  This  section  does  not permit the acquisition by condemnation of
  less than the whole of a city or village  lot  with  the  erections  and
  improvements thereon.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 405 - Conveyance of Property to Public Corporations.

§  405. Conveyance of property to public corporations.  In addition to
  any other power conferred or possessed by virtue of  any  provisions  of
  this  chapter, the board of education, trustee or trustees of any school
  district may convey any school site or lot and the buildings thereon and
  appurtenances or any part thereof,  provided  that  title  to  any  such
  school  property  is  in  such  board,  trustee or trustees, and when no
  longer needed, either without consideration or  for  such  consideration
  and  upon  terms  and  conditions as such board, trustee or trustees may
  determine  to  a  public  corporation,  as  defined   in   the   general
  construction law, provided that such real property is to be used by such
  corporation for the purposes of the corporation or for a public use.  In
  any  school  district,  except a city school district in a city having a
  population of one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more, such
  sale and conveyance shall be submitted to the voters of the district for
  approval at an annual or special district meeting in the same manner  as
  is  now  provided by law for the submission of propositions.  A board of
  cooperative educational  services  or  a  board  of  education,  without
  approval   of   the   voters  of  the  school  district  and  upon  such
  consideration as the board may determine,  may  convey  an  easement  or
  right  of  way  over  school property for public utility services to any
  municipality, municipal district, authority or public utility.   In  any
  city  of  over  one  hundred twenty-five thousand population any sale or
  conveyance shall be subject to approval by the local governing  body  of
  such city.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 406 - Vesting of Title of Lands in Certain Cases.

§ 406. Vesting  of  title  of  lands  in  certain  cases.    Boards of
  education in cities having less than seventy  thousand  inhabitants  are
  hereby clothed with all the powers of trustees, and the title to any and
  all  lands  acquired  in  any  city under the provisions of section four
  hundred four of this chapter  shall  vest  in  the  board  of  education
  thereof, or such other corporate body as is by law vested with the title
  to the school lands in such city.  But nothing herein contained shall be
  construed  to  limit  or  circumscribe  the powers and duties heretofore
  lodged in such board of education by law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 407 - Application to Certain Districts.

§ 407. Application  to  certain  districts.   The provision of section
  four hundred four of this article  shall  apply  to  union  free  school
  districts  and  to  districts  organized  under  special  laws;  and the
  trustees of such districts and the boards of education  organized  under
  special  laws shall be and are hereby clothed with all the powers vested
  in trustees in the three preceding sections.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 408-A - Plans and Specifications for Construction of New School Buildings.

§ 408-a. Plans  and  specifications  for  construction  of  new school
  buildings.  1. The commissioner of general services, after  consultation
  with  the  commissioner  of education and subject to the approval of the
  director of the budget, shall promptly prepare or acquire as many master
  sets of complete plans and specifications for the  construction  of  new
  school  buildings  and  appurtenant facilities as shall be sufficient to
  provide at least six different master sets each for  elementary,  junior
  high  and high schools, based on the number of pupils to be accommodated
  therein. Such plans and  specifications  shall  be  prepared  so  as  to
  provide  adequate classrooms and other necessary space and facilities at
  the lowest  cost  consistent  with  sound  construction  principles  and
  practices,  and  the  attainment  of  educational  objectives, and shall
  provide for heating, ventilation, lighting, sanitation and health,  fire
  and  accident  protection  adequate  to  maintain  healthful,  safe, and
  comfortable conditions therein. Such plans and specifications  shall  be
  so  prepared  that  any  possible  future  addition  to  any such school
  building may be economically effectuated. In addition, the  commissioner
  of  general  services shall, as often as he deems advisable but at least
  annually, review such master  sets  and,  after  consultation  with  the
  commissioner  of  education,  and subject to approval of the director of
  the budget, may revise or cancel any of such sets or prepare new sets.
2. The commissioner shall cause duplicates of such  master  plans  and
  specifications  to  be made, and he shall furnish the same to any school
  district making a request therefor for a reasonable charge sufficient to
  cover the cost of reproducing such plans and specifications.
3. Plans and specifications prepared and  furnished  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  this  section  may  be  adopted  and  used in any school
  district as the plans and specifications for the construction of any new
  school building or appurtenant facility hereafter to be erected.
4. Nothing herein contained shall preclude any  school  district  from
  retaining  an  architect  and/or  engineer in connection with the use of
  such master plans and specifications.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 408-B - Submitting Plans and Specifications of School Buildings With Local Fire and Law Enforcement Officials.

§  408-b. Submitting plans and specifications of school buildings with
  local fire and law enforcement officials.  The  appropriate  authorities
  for  each  public  and private school building in the state shall submit
  the most current plans and specifications for each school building under
  their responsibility to the fire and law enforcement  officials  in  the
  city,  towns  or  village  where  the  school  building  is located. The
  commissioner may adopt such rules and regulations as are  necessary  and
  appropriate  to  implement  the provisions of this section to facilitate
  its purpose of providing quick and easy access to  and  passage  through
  school  buildings  should  it  be  necessary for fire or law enforcement
  reasons. Such regulations shall authorize submittal of simplified  plans
  showing  access  and passage ways for older schools where original plans
  or blueprints may not exist or where the school authorities can  justify
  a claim of hardship in meeting the requirements of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409 - School Building Regulations in Relation to Health and Safety.

§ 409. School  building  regulations in relation to health and safety.
  1.  All school buildings of common, union free,  central,  central  high
  school  and  city  school  districts other than city school districts of
  cities having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or  more  and
  boards  of  cooperative  educational  services  shall  comply  with such
  regulations as the commissioner shall adopt from time to  time  for  the
  purpose  of  insuring  the  health  and  safety  of  pupils and staff in
  relation  to  proper  heating,  lighting,  ventilation,  sanitation  and
  health, fire and accident protection.
2.   Notwithstanding   the  provisions  of  any  other  law,  rule  or
  regulation, tobacco use shall not be permitted and no person  shall  use
  tobacco   on  school  grounds.  "School  grounds"  means  any  building,
  structure and surrounding outdoor grounds, including entrances or exits,
  contained  within  a  public  or  private  pre-school,  nursery  school,
  elementary  or secondary school's legally defined property boundaries as
  registered in a county clerk's office.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-A - Eye Safety Devices for Certain Students and Teachers.

§ 409-a. Eye safety devices for certain students and teachers.  1. The
  board  of  education,  trustees,  principal or other person in charge of
  every public or private school or  educational  institution  within  the
  state,   wherein   shops   or   laboratories   are  conducted  providing
  instructional or experimental programs involving:
a. Hot solids, liquids or molten metals; or
b. Milling, sawing, turning, shaping,  cutting,  or  stamping  of  any
  solid materials; or
c.  Heat  treatment,  tempering,  or kiln firing of any metal or other
  materials; or
d. Gas or electric arc welding; or
e. Repair or servicing of any vehicle; or
f. Caustic or explosive chemicals or materials, shall arrange for  and
  require,  in accordance with regulations of the commissioner, that every
  student and teacher participating in any such program  wear  eye  safety
  devices  at  the  times  and  under  the  conditions  prescribed in such
  regulations.
2. The commissioner shall by regulation prescribe the safety standards
  to be met before the use of any eye safety device may  be  required  and
  shall include in such regulations requirements relating to the times and
  conditions when and under which such eye safety devices shall be worn.
3.  Visitors to such shops or laboratories shall be furnished with and
  required to wear such eye safety devices at  the  times  and  under  the
  conditions  prescribed  in  such  regulations  while  in  such  shops or
  laboratories.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-B - Use of Mercury Vapor or Metal Halide Lamps Within School Buildings.

§ 409-b. Use  of  mercury  vapor  or  metal halide lamps within school
  buildings.  1. Every new or replacement mercury vapor  or  metal  halide
  lamp  which  is  used  within  any school building in the state, for the
  purpose of providing illumination,  shall  be  of  the  safety  type  or
  variety  which  self-extinguishes upon the breaking, cracking or removal
  of the outer shield protecting the lamp or  if  such  self-extinguishing
  variety  is  not  available,  each  such  lamp  or  its fixture shall be
  equipped with a  shield  adequate  to  protect  against  and  to  absorb
  ultraviolet  radiation  if  the  lamp  were to break or become defective
  within the shielded fixture.
2. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the commissioner  in  order  to
  provide   for   the  enforcement  of  this  section  through  rules  and
  regulations which the commissioner shall establish.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-C - Athletic Safety Equipment.

§ 409-c. Athletic  safety  equipment.    The  board  of  education  or
  trustees of every school district and the principal or other  person  in
  charge  of  every  nonpublic  elementary  or secondary school within the
  state  shall  arrange  for  and  require  that   batboys   or   batgirls
  participating  in  baseball  or  softball  competition  conducted  as an
  activity  of  such  school  district  or  nonpublic  school  shall  wear
  protective headgear at all times when a game is in play and such batboys
  or batgirls are on the playing field.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-F - Electrically Operated Partition and Door Safety.

§ 409-f. Electrically operated partition and door safety. The board of
  education, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public
  or  private  school or educational institution within the state, wherein
  classrooms or other facilities  used  by  students  are  found  to  have
  electrically  operated partitions, doors or room dividers, shall arrange
  for, and require, that:
1. Appropriate and conspicuous notice regarding the  safe  and  proper
  operation  and  supervision  of  the  electrical  device  operating such
  partition, door or room divider is posted in the immediate  vicinity  of
  the operating mechanism;
2. There is established a procedure for the notification of all school
  employees and all other persons who regularly make use of the area where
  such  device  is  located  of  the  safe  and  proper  procedure for the
  operation of the mechanism and of the applicable penalties for disabling
  safety equipment required pursuant to this section; and
3. Every electrically operated partition  or  room  divider  shall  be
  equipped  with safety devices which, subject to standards established in
  rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner, stop the  forward
  motion  of the partition or room divider and stop the stacking motion of
  the partition or room divider when a body  passes  between  the  leading
  panel of such partition or divider and a wall, or when a body is present
  in the stacking area of such partition or divider.
Any  person  who  disables  or  directs  another person to disable any
  safety equipment required pursuant to this section shall be guilty of  a
  violation  punishable  by  not more than fifteen days imprisonment, or a
  fine  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars,  or  both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-G - Purchase and Use of Paradichlorobenzene Deodorizers.

§  409-g.  Purchase  and use of paradichlorobenzene deodorizers. 1. No
  board of education or trustees, principal or other person in  charge  of
  any  public  or  private, elementary or secondary school shall authorize
  the purchase of or purchase any urinal or toilet  deodorizer  containing
  paradichlorobenzene.
2.  No  public or private, elementary or secondary school shall use or
  authorize  the  use  of  any  toilet  or  urinal  deodorizer  containing
  paradichlorobenzene  in  any  toilet or urinal in any school building or
  any other facility under the control of such school.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-J - Emergency Alert Notification System in Public Schools; Cities With a Population of One Million or More.

§ 409-j. Emergency alert notification system in public schools; cities
  with  a  population  of one million or more. On or before January first,
  two thousand ten, a city school  district  located  in  a  city  of  one
  million  or  more  inhabitants  shall, pursuant to rules and regulations
  promulgated  by  the  chancellor  of  such  city  school  district   and
  consistent  with  section  twenty-eight  hundred  one-a of this chapter,
  implement an  emergency  alert  notification  system  to  convey  timely
  information concerning emergency incidents or occurrences, as defined by
  such chancellor, that pose an imminent threat to the health or safety of
  a  substantial  number  of  students,  faculty and staff at a particular
  educational facility  or  program.  Such  emergency  alert  notification
  system  shall  employ  a  variety of communication methods including the
  automated delivery of text messages, phone calls and/or electronic  mail
  and  shall  notify  and  advise parents or persons in parental relation,
  faculty, staff, and elected representatives, who  volunteer  to  receive
  emergency alert notifications.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-K - Pesticide Alternatives.

§  409-k.  Pesticide alternatives. 1. For purposes of this section the
following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
(a) "School" shall mean any  public  school  district  or  private  or
parochial school or board of cooperative educational services.
(b)   "Pesticide"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as  set  forth  in
subdivision  thirty-five  of  section  33-0101  of   the   environmental
conservation law, provided however that it shall not include:
(i)  the  application  of anti-microbial pesticides and anti-microbial
products as defined by FIFRA in 7 U.S.C. Section 136 (mm) and 136 q  (h)
(2);
(ii)  the  use  of  an  aerosol  product  with  a  directed  spray, in
containers of eighteen fluid  ounces  or  less,  when  used  to  protect
individuals  from  an  imminent threat from stinging and biting insects,
including venomous spiders, bees, wasps and hornets;
(iii) the use of non-volatile  insect  or  rodent  bait  in  a  tamper
resistant container;
(iv)  the  application  of a pesticide classified by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency as an exempt material under 40 CFR  Part
152.25;
(v) the use of boric acid and disodium octaborate tetrahydrate; or
(vi)  the  use  of  horticultural  soap  and  oils that do not contain
synthetic pesticides or synergists.
2. No school shall apply pesticide to any playgrounds, turf,  athletic
or  playing  fields, except that an emergency application of a pesticide
may be made as determined by the  county  health  department  or  for  a
county  not  having  a  health  department  such authority as the county
legislature shall designate, the commissioner of health or  his  or  her
designee,  the  commissioner of environmental conservation or his or her
designee, or, in the case of a public school, the school board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-L - Posting Child Abuse Hotline Telephone Number.

§ 409-l. Posting child abuse hotline telephone number. 1. Every public
  school  including  charter  schools shall post in English and in Spanish
  the toll-free telephone number operated by the office  of  children  and
  family services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect established
  under  section  four  hundred  twenty-two of the social services law and
  directions for accessing the office  of  children  and  family  services
  website.
2.  The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations relating to the
  posting required by subdivision one of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 409-M - Gender Neutral Single-Occupancy Bathroom Facilities.

§  409-m.  Gender  neutral  single-occupancy  bathroom facilities. The
  board of education or trustees of every school district or, in the  case
  of the city school district of New York, the chancellor, and every board
  of cooperative educational services, charter school and nonpublic school
  within  the  state  shall develop policies and procedures requiring that
  all  single-occupancy  bathroom  facilities  are  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.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites › 410 - Officials Not to Be Interested in Sales, Leases or Contracts.

§ 410. Officials  not  to be interested in sales, leases or contracts.
  A public officer or school officer, who is authorized to sell  or  lease
  any  property,  or  to make any contract in his official capacity, or to
  take part in making any such sale, lease or  contract,  who  voluntarily
  becomes  interested  individually  in  such  sale,  lease  or  contract,
  directly or indirectly, except  in  cases  where  such  sale,  lease  or
  contract,  or payment under the same, is subject to audit or approval by
  the commissioner  of  education,  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor.    The
  provisions  of  this  section  shall not apply to municipal officers and
  employees subject to article eighteen of the general municipal law.