Title EDN, Education

§ 2112. Vacating office. 1. A school district office becomes vacant by death, resignation, refusal to serve, incapacity, or removal from the district or from office. 2. The collector or treasurer vacates his office by not executing a bond to the trustees, as herein required. 3. …

§ 2113. Filling vacancy in office of trustee. 1. A vacancy in the office of trustee in any school district may be filled by election within ninety days after it occurs. If not so filled, the district superintendent of the supervisory district, within which the schoolhouse or pri…

§ 2114. Filling vacancy in office of clerk, collector or treasurer. A vacancy in the office of clerk, collector or treasurer, may be filled by appointment by the trustees of the district, and the appointees shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the…

§ 2115. Notice of appointment to fill vacancy and filing thereof. Every appointment to fill a vacancy shall be forthwith filed, by the district superintendent or trustees making it, in the office of the district clerk, who shall immediately give notice of the appointment to the …

§ 2116. District records, books, etc., are district property. The records, books and papers belonging or appertaining to the office of any officer of a school district are hereby declared to be the property of such district and shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter…

§ 2116-a. Books and records to be kept by school districts. Unless otherwise prescribed by the state comptroller pursuant to section thirty-six of the general municipal law: 1. All school districts shall be required to maintain books and records in such form as the commissioner …

§ 2116-b. Internal audit function. 1. No later than July first, two thousand six, each school district shall establish an internal audit function to be in operation no later than the following December thirty-first. Such function shall include: (a) development of a risk assessme…

§ 2116-c. Audit committees. 1. Every school district, except those employing fewer than eight teachers, shall establish by a resolution of the trustees or board of education an audit committee to oversee and report to the trustees or board on the annual audit of the district rec…

§ 2117. Reports. 1. The school authorities of each school district shall make a full report to the commissioner of education upon any particular matter relating to their schools whenever such report shall be required by said commissioner. 2. The school authorities of each such s…

§ 2118. Expenses of school district officers. All school district\nofficers, including trustees and members of boards of education, shall\nbe entitled to be reimbursed for any expenses actually and necessarily\nincurred in the performance of their official duties. Mileage rates\…

§ 2119. School district trustee not to draw draft on county treasurer in certain cases. A school district trustee who issues an order or draws a draft on a county treasurer, district treasurer or collector or other disbursing officer of such district for any money, unless there …

§ 212. Fees. The department shall charge the following fees: 1. For the issuance of a qualifying certificate for admission to a professional school as required by or pursuant to law, five dollars. 2. For admission to a special examination in English authorized or required by or …

§ 212-a. Return of deposits for professional and graduate schools. Any person who makes a deposit on tuition to a professional or graduate school for the fall semester next following the making of the deposit and who demands return of the deposit in writing by the April first pr…

§ 212-b. Return of tuition for colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools. Any person who pays tuition to a college, university, professional, proprietary or graduate school and who demands its refund in writing before the thirtieth day before the com…

§ 212-c. Teacher accreditation review fees. The costs of accreditation reviews of teacher education programs shall be borne by the institution seeking accreditation by the board of regents. The commissioner shall establish and charge fees to cover the costs of the accreditation …

§ 2121. Duties of district clerk. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each school district: 1. To record the proceedings of all meetings of the voters of his district in a book to be provided for that purpose by the district, and to enter therein true copies of all reports made…

§ 2122. Powers and duties of district treasurer in common school district. 1. The treasurer of a school district shall be the chief accounting officer and the custodian of all moneys belonging to the district from whatever source derived, and it is hereby made the duty of the tr…

§ 2123. Compensation of clerk and treasurer in common school districts. The clerk and treasurer of every common school district may be entitled to receive such compensation for their services as shall be fixed at an annual meeting of the district. In case such provision is not m…

§ 2124. Collector's official undertaking in common school district. 1. It shall be the duty of the collector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties to execute and deliver to the trustees of the district, his official undertaking, with a corporate surety, to be approve…

§ 2125. Collector to disburse state moneys. In any school district which does not have a treasurer it shall be the duty of the collector of such district to disburse the money apportioned by the state.

§ 2126. Payments and reports by collector. 1. The collector shall keep in his possession all moneys received or collected by him by virtue of any warrant, or received by him from the county treasurer or board of supervisors for taxes returned as unpaid, or moneys apportioned by …

§ 2127. Liability of collector for moneys lost. If by the neglect of the collector any moneys shall be lost to a school district, which might have been collected within the time limited in the warrant delivered to him for their collection, he shall forfeit to such district the a…

§ 2128. Remedy of trustees against collector in default. For the recovery of all such forfeitures, and of all balances, in the hands of the collector, which he shall have neglected or refused to pay to his successor, or to the treasurer of such district, the trustees, in the nam…

§ 2129. Deposit of moneys by treasurer and collector. All moneys received by the treasurer and collector shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law.

§ 213. Extension of educational facilities. 1. The regents may extend to the people at large increased educational opportunities and facilities, stimulate interest therein, recommend methods, designate suitable teachers and lecturers, conduct examinations and grant credentials, …

§ 213-b. Unlawful sale of dissertations, theses and term papers. 1. No person shall, for financial consideration, or the promise of financial consideration, prepare, offer to prepare, cause to be prepared, sell or offer for sale to any person any written material which the selle…

§ 2130. Clerk, treasurer and collector in union free school district. 1. In every union free school district the board of education shall have the power to appoint one of their number, or some other individual as clerk of the board of education of such district. 2. Such clerk sh…

§ 214. Institutions in the university. The institutions of the university shall include all secondary and higher educational institutions which are now or may hereafter be incorporated in this state, and such other libraries, museums, institutions, schools, organizations and age…

§ 2140. Duties of town clerks. It shall be the duty of the town clerk of each town: 1. To keep all books, maps, papers, and records of his office touching public schools, and forthwith to report to the district superintendent any loss or injury to the same. 2. To receive from th…

§ 2141. Expenses of town clerks. The necessary expenses and disbursements of the town clerk in the performance of his said duties, are a town charge, and shall be audited and paid as such.

§ 2142. Duties of supervisors. It is the duty of every supervisor: 1. To sue for and recover, in the name of his office, when the duty is not elsewhere imposed by law, all penalties and forfeitures imposed by this chapter, and for any default or omission of any town officer or s…

§ 2143. County clerks and county treasurers to forward certain reports. 1. The county clerk of each county shall, upon the requisition of the commissioner of education, file with such commissioner any reports of trustees of school districts and boards of education or the abstrac…

§ 215. Visitation and reports. The regents, or the commissioner of education, or their representatives, may visit, examine into and inspect, any institution in the university and any school or institution under the educational supervision of the state, and may require, as often …

§ 215-a. Annual report by regents to governor and legislature. 1. The regents of the university of the state of New York shall prepare and submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly, not later than the first day of January, nin…

§ 215-b. Annual report by commissioner to governor and legislature. The commissioner shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president pro tem of the senate and the speaker of the assembly not later than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-six and by the first day of Ja…

§ 215-c. Promoting cost-effectiveness in public elementary and secondary schools. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "cost-effectiveness" shall mean one or more measures of the efficient use of school dist…

§ 215-d. State university of New York report on economic development activities. The chancellor of the state university of New York shall report to the governor and to the legislature, on or before January first, two thousand fifteen, on economic development activities undertake…

§ 216. Charters. Under such name, with such number of trustees or other managers, and with such powers, privileges and duties, and subject to such limitations and restrictions in all respects as the regents may prescribe in conformity to law, they may, by an instrument under the…

§ 216-a. Applicability of not-for-profit corporation law. 1. The term "education corporation" as used in this section means a corporation (a) chartered or incorporated by the regents or otherwise formed under this chapter, or (b) formed by a special act of this state with its pr…

§ 216-b. Private foundations, as defined in the United States internal revenue code of 1954: provisions included in the charter. 1. The following provisions are hereby included in the charter, heretofore or hereafter granted under this chapter, to incorporate an institution or a…

§ 216-c. Special provisions for cutlery and knife museums that exhibit automatic knives. 1. For the purposes of this section: a. "automatic knife" has the meaning defined therefor in subdivision five-c of section 265.00 of the penal law. b. "cutlery and knife museum" means eithe…

§ 217. Provisional charters. On evidence satisfactory to the regents that the conditions for an absolute charter will be met within a prescribed time, they may grant a provisional charter which shall be replaced by an absolute charter when the conditions have been fully met; oth…

§ 218. Conditions of incorporation. 1. No institution shall be given power to confer baccalaureate or higher degrees in this state unless it shall have financial resources which, in the judgment of the regents, are adequate to insure satisfactory conduct of its degree program an…

§ 219. Change of name or charter. 1. The regents may, at any time, for sufficient cause, by an instrument under their seal and recorded in their office, change the name, or alter, suspend or revoke the charter or certificate of incorporation of any domestic corporation which the…

§ 22. Applicability. Nothing in this section is intended to infringe upon any right to exercise free expression or the free exercise of religion or religiously based views protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, section eight of article I of the Ne…

§ 220. Distribution of assets. 1. Whenever the regents have revoked the charter of any educational corporation or dissolved such corporation pursuant to section two hundred nineteen of this chapter or whenever a provisional charter has expired, if the corporation has assets the …

§ 2201. Supervisory districts. 1. All supervisory districts in existence on the date this section, as hereby amended, takes effect, are hereby continued and may be altered or dissolved as provided in subdivisions two and three of this section. 2. Whenever a vacancy hereafter occ…

§ 2202. Office of district superintendent of schools continued. The office of district superintendent of schools is hereby continued.

§ 2204. Appointment of district superintendent. 1. The board of cooperative educational services of a supervisory district shall meet upon the direction of the commissioner of education, at a time and place designated by the commissioner, for the purpose of appointing a district…

§ 2205. Qualifications of district superintendent. 1. To be eligible to appointment to the office of district superintendent of schools a person must be at least twenty-one years of age, a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state. No person shall be ineligible on…