Title EDN, Education

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

§ 2113. Filling vacancy in office of trustee. 1. A vacancy in the\noffice of trustee in any school district may be filled by election\nwithin ninety days after it occurs. If not so filled, the district\nsuperintendent of the supervisory district, within which the schoolhouse\nor…

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 2117. Reports. 1. The school authorities of each school district\nshall make a full report to the commissioner of education upon any\nparticular matter relating to their schools whenever such report shall\nbe required by said commissioner.\n 2. The school authorities of each 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\nin certain cases. A school district trustee who issues an order or\ndraws a draft on a county treasurer, district treasurer or collector or\nother disbursing officer of such district for any money, unless the…

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

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

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

§ 212-c. Teacher accreditation review fees. The costs of accreditation\nreviews of teacher education programs shall be borne by the institution\nseeking accreditation by the board of regents. The commissioner shall\nestablish and charge fees to cover the costs of the accreditati…

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

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

§ 2123. Compensation of clerk and treasurer in common school\ndistricts. The clerk and treasurer of every common school district may\nbe entitled to receive such compensation for their services as shall be\nfixed at an annual meeting of the district. In case such provision is\nn…

§ 2124. Collector's official undertaking in common school district.\n1. It shall be the duty of the collector, before entering upon the\ndischarge of his duties to execute and deliver to the trustees of the\ndistrict, his official undertaking, with a corporate surety, to be\napp…

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

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

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

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

§ 2129. Deposit of moneys by treasurer and collector. All moneys\nreceived by the treasurer and collector shall be deposited and secured\nin the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law.\n

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

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

§ 2130. Clerk, treasurer and collector in union free school district.\n1. In every union free school district the board of education shall\nhave the power to appoint one of their number, or some other individual\nas clerk of the board of education of such district.\n 2. Such cle…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 215. Visitation and reports. The regents, or the commissioner of\neducation, or their representatives, may visit, examine into and\ninspect, any institution in the university and any school or institution\nunder the educational supervision of the state, and may require, as\nof…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 219. Change of name or charter. 1. The regents may, at any time, for\nsufficient cause, by an instrument under their seal and recorded in\ntheir office, change the name, or alter, suspend or revoke the charter\nor certificate of incorporation of any domestic corporation which …

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

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

§ 2201. Supervisory districts. 1. All supervisory districts in\nexistence on the date this section, as hereby amended, takes effect, are\nhereby continued and may be altered or dissolved as provided in\nsubdivisions two and three of this section.\n 2. Whenever a vacancy hereafte…

§ 2202. Office of district superintendent of schools continued. The\noffice of district superintendent of schools is hereby continued.\n

§ 2204. Appointment of district superintendent. 1. The board of\ncooperative educational services of a supervisory district shall meet\nupon the direction of the commissioner of education, at a time and place\ndesignated by the commissioner, for the purpose of appointing a distr…

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