Title EDN, Education

* § 2590-q. Budgetary and fiscal processes. 1. The chancellor shall annually advise the community district education councils with respect to the form and content of the budget requests and accompanying fiscal estimates required to be submitted by the mayor of the city of New Yo…

* § 2590-r. School based budgeting and expenditure reporting. The chancellor shall, in consultation with the city board and community district superintendents, establish in regulations a comprehensive process of school-based budgeting and expenditure reporting no later than Nove…

§ 2590-s. Prompt payment of salaries. In a city with a population of\none million or more, all employees of the board of education shall be\npaid the amount of compensation due them pursuant to collective\nbargaining agreements, except as is otherwise provided in section three\n…

* § 2590-t. New York city comptroller audits. The comptroller of the city of New York shall have the authority to conduct operational and programmatic audits, in addition to financial audits, of the city district to the same extent that such comptroller has such authority for ag…

* § 2590-u. New York city independent budget office reports. 1. The independent budget office of the city of New York shall be authorized to provide analysis and issue public reports regarding financial and educational matters of the city district, to enhance official and public…

§ 2590-v. Notice to students regarding certain test scores. The office of the chancellor shall include a notice in the official score report of all students who received a score of "advanced" on the seventh grade state assessment in either English Language Arts or Mathematics, i…

§ 260. Trustees. 1. Public libraries authorized to be established by action of the voters or their representatives shall be managed by trustees who shall have all the powers of trustees of other educational institutions of the university as defined in this chapter; provided that…

§ 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 a…

§ 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…

§ 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 sala…

§ 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 educa…

§ 2601. Application of article. This article shall apply to each city school district of a city which has less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, according to the latest federal census, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-six hundred one-a of this chap…

§ 2601-a. Procedures for adoption of school budgets in small city school districts. 1. The board of education of each city school district subject to this article shall provide for the submission of a budget for approval of the voters pursuant to the provisions of this section a…

§ 2602. Annual and special school district meetings. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, including the provisions of this article, an annual school election shall be held on the same day as the annual budget vote pursuant to the provisions of article forty-one of th…

§ 2603. Qualifications of voters. A person shall be entitled to vote at a school election in a city school district who is: 1. A citizen of the United States. 2. Eighteen years of age. 3. a. A resident of the state and of the city school district for thirty days next preceding t…

§ 2604. Division of city school district into school election districts; elections held in schoolhouses. The board of education of each city school district shall adopt a resolution on or before the first day of April, preceding the first annual school election held hereunder, d…

§ 2606. Registration of voters. 1. The board of education except in those city school districts which have adopted a resolution pursuant to section twenty-five hundred thirty-one of this chapter, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of February in each year, appoint a board of …

§ 2607. Inspectors of election; organization. Not less than ten days prior to each special or annual election, the board of education shall appoint for each election district three qualified voters residing therein to act as inspectors of election in such election district at su…

§ 2608. Nomination and ballot. 1. Candidates for members of the board of education in a city school district shall be nominated by petition directed to the board of education and signed by at least one hundred persons qualified to vote at school elections in such district. Such …

§ 2609. Conduct of election; challenges. 1. Such elections shall be conducted, so far as may be, in accordance with the provisions of the election law, relative to general elections, except as otherwise provided herein. Ballot boxes shall be provided by the board of education fo…

§ 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.

§ 2610. Canvass of votes and return to board of education; declaration of result. 1. Immediately upon the close of the polls the inspectors of each school election district shall count the ballots found in the ballot box without unfolding them, except so far as is necessary to a…

§ 2611. Use of voting machines. The board of education of a city school district may authorize the use of voting machines at a school election. When such voting machines are used the provisions of section two thousand thirty-five of this chapter shall apply to and govern the use…

§ 2613. Absentee, early mail, and military ballots. The board of education of each city school district to which this article applies shall provide for absentee ballots in accordance with the provisions of section two thousand eighteen-a of this title, early mail ballots in acco…

§ 2614. Transmission of publicly available data to the New York voting and elections database. Upon the certification of election results and the completion of the voter history file after each election, each school district that holds elections pursuant to this article shall tr…

§ 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 …

§ 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, an…

§ 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 …

§ 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, gi…

§ 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 pre…

§ 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, incorporat…

§ 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 …

§ 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 reserv…

§ 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, …

§ 270. Acceptance of surplus library books or property. The state education department is hereby authorized to cooperate with the United States commissioner of education, the war assets administration, and/or other federal officers and officials in the administration of any stat…

§ 271. Apportionment of state aid to Indian libraries. Any Indian library chartered by the regents or in the absence of such library any tribal government contracting for service from a chartered and registered library or approved library system, shall be entitled to receive sta…

§ 272. Conditions under which library systems are entitled to state\naid. 1. Public library systems. a. The term "public library system" as\nused in this article means:\n (1) A library established by one or more counties.\n (2) A group of libraries serving an area including one …

§ 273. Apportionment of state aid to libraries and library systems. 1.\nAny public library system providing service under an approved plan\nduring a calendar year shall be entitled to receive during that calendar\nyear state aid consisting of the following amounts:\n a. An annua…

§ 273-a. State aid for library construction. 1. State aid shall be\nprovided for up to fifty percent of the total project approved costs,\nexcluding feasibility studies, plans or similar activities, for projects\nfor the installation and infrastructure of broadband services, and…

§ 274. Use and care of school library. The school library shall be a part of the school equipment and shall be kept in the school building at all times. Such library shall be devoted to the exclusive use of the school, except as otherwise provided by the rules of the commissione…

§ 275. Librarians of school libraries. In a school district maintaining an academic department or high school the board of education may employ, and fix the compensation of, a person to act as school librarian who may be engaged for all or a part of the time in performance of th…

§ 276. Existing rules continued in force. All existing provisions of law and rules established by the commissioner of education for the management of public school libraries shall hold good as to the management of such school libraries until altered by or in pursuance of law.

§ 277. Authority to raise and receive money for school library. Each city and school district in the state is hereby authorized to raise moneys by tax in the same manner as other school moneys are raised, or to receive moneys by gift or devise, for starting, extending or caring …

§ 278. Authority to transfer school library property to a free library. The board of education in any city or union free school district or the electors of any other district, by legal vote duly approved by the regents, may give to any free library any of the books or other publ…

§ 279. Fees. A fee of five dollars shall be paid for each public librarian's certificate or school librarian's certificate issued under part two of this article.

§ 280. Penalty for disobedience to library law, rules or orders. The commissioner of education is hereby authorized to withhold its share of public school moneys from any city or district which uses school library moneys for any other purpose than that for which they are provide…

§ 2801. Codes of conduct on school property. 1. For purposes of this section, school property means in or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground, parking lot or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public elementary or secondary …

§ 2801-a. School safety plans. 1. The board of education or trustees, as defined in section two of this chapter, of every school district within the state, however created, and every board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension board an…

§ 2801-b. New York state school safety improvement teams. The governor shall establish New York state school safety improvement teams, which may be composed of representatives from the division of homeland security and emergency services, the division of state police, the divisi…

§ 2802. Uniform violent incident reporting system. 1. The commissioner, in conjunction with the division of criminal justice services, shall promulgate regulations defining "violent or disruptive incidents" for the purposes of this section. 2. The commissioner, in conjunction wi…