Title EDN, Education

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

* § 2590-r. School based budgeting and expenditure reporting. The\nchancellor shall, in consultation with the city board and community\ndistrict superintendents, establish in regulations a comprehensive\nprocess of school-based budgeting and expenditure reporting no later\nthan …

§ 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\ncity of New York shall have the authority to conduct operational and\nprogrammatic audits, in addition to financial audits, of the city\ndistrict to the same extent that such comptroller has such authority for…

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

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

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

§ 260-a. Meetings of board of trustees. Every meeting, including a\nspecial district meeting, of a board of trustees of a public library\nsystem, cooperative library system, public library or free association\nlibrary, including every committee meeting and subcommittee meeting o…

§ 260-b. Reduction of salaries for purchase of annuities. Each board\nof trustees of a library system, cooperative library system, public\nlibrary or free association library in its discretion, may enter into a\nwritten agreement with any employee of such board to reduce the ann…

§ 260-c. Reduction of salaries for tax-deferred annuities. The board\nof trustees of a library system, cooperative library system, public\nlibrary or free association library, in its discretion, may enter into a\nwritten agreement with any of its employees to reduce the annual s…

§ 260-d. Board of trustees continuing education. 1. Beginning January\nfirst, two thousand twenty-three, each member, elected or appointed, of\na board of trustees of a public, free association or Indian library\nshall be required to complete a minimum of two hours of trustee\ne…

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

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

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

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

§ 2604. Division of city school district into school election\ndistricts; elections held in schoolhouses. The board of education of\neach city school district shall adopt a resolution on or before the\nfirst day of April, preceding the first annual school election held\nhereunde…

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

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

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

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

§ 261. Incorporation. Within one month after taking office, the first\nboard of trustees of any such public library or Indian library shall\napply to the regents for a charter in accordance with the vote\nestablishing the library.\n

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

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

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

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

§ 262. Use of public and Indian libraries. Every library established\nunder section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter shall be forever\nfree to the inhabitants of the municipality or district or Indian\nreservation, which establishes it, subject always to rules of the\nlibr…

§ 263. Reports. Every library or museum, other than a school library,\nwhich enjoys any exemption from taxation or receives state aid or other\nprivilege not usually accorded to business corporations shall make the\nreport required by section two hundred fifteen of this chapter,…

§ 264. Injuries to property. Whoever intentionally injures, defaces\nor destroys any property belonging to or deposited in any incorporated\nlibrary, reading-room, museum or other educational institution, shall be\npunished by imprisonment in a state prison for not more than thr…

§ 265. Detention. Whoever wilfully detains any book, newspaper,\nmagazine, pamphlet, manuscript or other property belonging to any public\nor incorporated library, reading-room, museum or other educational\ninstitution, for thirty days after notice in writing to return the same,…

§ 265-a. Defense of lawful detention. In any action for false arrest,\nfalse imprisonment, unlawful detention, defamation of character,\nassault, trespass or invasion of civil rights brought by any person by\nreason of having been detained on or in the immediate vicinity of the\…

§ 266. Transfer of libraries. By vote similar to that required by\nsection two hundred fifty-five of this chapter any municipality or\ndistrict or tribal government or combination of districts, or by action\nof its trustees at a meeting duly held any association library,\nincorp…

§ 267. Local neglect. If the local authorities of any library\nsupported wholly or in part by state money fail to provide for the\nsupport of such library and the public usefulness of its books, the\nregents shall in writing notify the trustees of said library what is\nnecessary…

§ 268. Abolition. Any library established by public vote of any\nmunicipality or district, or by vote of the common council of any city,\nor by vote of the board of trustees of any village, or by action of\nschool authorities, or by vote of the tribal government of an Indian\nre…

§ 269. Library extension service. By such means, in such manner and\nupon such conditions as the regents may prescribe, they shall make\nprovision for a library extension service for the promotion,\norganization and supervision of free libraries; for supplying\ninformation, advi…

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

§ 271. Apportionment of state aid to Indian libraries. Any Indian\nlibrary chartered by the regents or in the absence of such library any\ntribal government contracting for service from a chartered and\nregistered library or approved library system, shall be entitled to\nreceive…

§ 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\npart of the school equipment and shall be kept in the school building at\nall times. Such library shall be devoted to the exclusive use of the\nschool, except as otherwise provided by the rules of the commissi…

§ 275. Librarians of school libraries. In a school district\nmaintaining an academic department or high school the board of education\nmay employ, and fix the compensation of, a person to act as school\nlibrarian who may be engaged for all or a part of the time in\nperformance o…

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

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

§ 278. Authority to transfer school library property to a free\nlibrary. The board of education in any city or union free school\ndistrict or the electors of any other district, by legal vote duly\napproved by the regents, may give to any free library any of the books\nor other …

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

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

§ 2801. Codes of conduct on school property. 1. For purposes of this\nsection, school property means in or within any building, structure,\nathletic playing field, playground, parking lot or land contained within\nthe real property boundary line of a public elementary or seconda…

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

§ 2801-b. New York state school safety improvement teams. The governor\nshall establish New York state school safety improvement teams, which\nmay be composed of representatives from the division of homeland\nsecurity and emergency services, the division of state police, the\ndi…

§ 2802. Uniform violent incident reporting system. 1. The\ncommissioner, in conjunction with the division of criminal justice\nservices, shall promulgate regulations defining "violent or disruptive\nincidents" for the purposes of this section.\n 2. The commissioner, in conjuncti…