Title EDN, Education

§ 3636. Passage of school buses across railroad crossings. 1. No school bus transporting pupils between home and school or between schools which such pupils regularly attend either within or outside the district which operates or contracts for the operation of such bus, or trans…

* § 3637. Idling school buses on school grounds. 1. On or before July first, two thousand eight, the commissioner shall promulgate regulations requiring school districts to minimize, to the extent practicable, the idling of the engine of any school bus, as defined in section one…

§ 3638. Zero-emission school buses. 1. For the purposes of this section "zero-emission school bus" shall mean a school bus that: is propelled by an electric motor and associated power electronics which provide acceleration torque to the drive wheels during normal vehicle operati…

§ 364. Separability. If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part of this article be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operat…

§ 3640. Application. Part IV of this article shall apply to the apportionment of public moneys for certain special apportionments and grants-in-aid to school districts that are payable to the special aid fund of the school district, and for certain grants-in-aid to other entitie…

§ 3641. Special apportionments and grants-in-aid to school districts. 1. General provisions. a. The commissioner shall be authorized to provide funds for the programs included in this section only to the extent that an appropriation is available for the purpose of the specific p…

§ 3641-a. Excelsior scholars program for grade seven mathematics and science students. The commissioner shall establish an excelsior scholars program for grade seven mathematics and science students pursuant to this section and regulations of the commissioner adopted for such pu…

§ 3641-b. Grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers. The commissioner shall establish a program of competitively awarded grants within the amount appropriated for such purpose, to public and independent colleges and universities offering teacher education…

§ 3642. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this part shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid and after exhaustion of all further judicial review, the judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof…

§ 365. Construction. The powers enumerated in this article shall be interpreted broadly to effectuate the purposes thereof and shall not be construed as a limitation of powers.

§ 3650. Comprehensive school bus driver safety training program. 1. The commissioner, in consultation with the state comprehensive school bus driver safety training council and subject to appropriation by the legislature, shall: a. Develop a uniform and comprehensive school bus …

§ 3650-a. State comprehensive school bus driver safety training council. 1. There is hereby created and established in the department of education a council, to be known as the state comprehensive school bus driver safety training council. The council shall advise and assist the…

§ 3650-b. Drivers and instructors; training and safety. 1. The commissioner shall establish training and safety technique requirements for school bus drivers and school bus safety training instructors and shall make rules and regulations implementing such requirements on a state…

§ 3650-c. Accident report data base. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles, shall establish an electronic data file containing accident reports relating to school buses.

§ 3651. Reserve fund. 1. A reserve fund may be established by the school authorities of any school district, provided, however, that no such fund shall be established (a) until approved by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the district voting on a proposition therefor s…

§ 3652. Investment of moneys in reserve funds. The school authorities of any school district or the district treasurer or other officer having custody of the moneys, if the school authorities shall delegate such duty to him, may invest moneys in any fund established pursuant to …

* § 3653. Insurance reserve funds. In addition to the provisions of this article and to the provisions of section six-n of the general municipal law, any school district that establishes and maintains an insurance reserve fund to make expenditures from such reserve fund for any …

* § 3653. Reserves funded by resolution. In addition to any other requirements, no monies shall be paid or transferred into any reserve fund, established pursuant to this chapter or any other chapter of law, for the purpose of increasing the funding of such reserve fund, unless …

§ 370. Definitions. As used or referred to in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller. 2. "Director of the budget" shall mean the state director of the budget. 3. "Dormitory" shall mean a housin…

§ 3701. Property to be held in trust for public schools. Real and personal estate may be granted, conveyed, devised, bequeathed and given in trust and in perpetuity or otherwise, to the state, or to the regents or to the commissioner of education for the support or benefit of th…

§ 3702. Control and supervision of trusts for public schools. The legislature may control and regulate the execution of all such trusts; and the commissioner of education shall supervise and advise the trustees, and hold them to a regular accounting for the trust property and it…

§ 3703. Report of trusts to commissioner of education. The common council or other legislative body of every city, the board of supervisors or other governing elective body of every county, the trustees of every village, the supervisor of every town, the trustees or board of edu…

§ 3704. Report of supervisor regarding gospel or school lots. Every supervisor of a town shall report to the commissioner of education whether there be, within the town, any gospel or school lot, and, if any, shall describe the same, and state to what use, if any, it is put by t…

§ 3705. Apportionment of gospel funds. It shall be lawful for the supervisor of any town having money arising from the sale of gospel lands, and known as gospel funds, to apportion such funds among the several school districts of his respective town when authorized under the pro…

§ 3706. Authorization of apportionment of gospel funds. 1. The town board of any town having a gospel fund of five hundred dollars or less may authorize the supervisor of the town to apportion such fund among the several school districts of the town. 2. The voters of any town ha…

§ 3707. Payment of apportionment of gospel funds. 1. When such apportionment is authorized the supervisor shall pay to the collector, or if the district has a treasurer to the treasurer, of the several school districts of his town its pro rata share according to the aggregate sc…

§ 3708. Bond required of collector or treasurer. The collector or the treasurer, if the district has a treasurer, of each of such school districts shall execute and file with the supervisor of such town a bond of twice the amount of such apportionment with sufficient sureties, t…

§ 3709. Penalties of certain bonds. Whenever a school district officer is required to furnish a bond under the provisions of section thirty-seven hundred eight in the penalty of double the amount of moneys apportioned or to be received, and such district officer furnishes the bo…

§ 371. State university construction fund. 1. There is hereby created within the state university the "state university construction fund". The fund shall be a corporate governmental agency constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall be administered by three trustees app…

§ 3710. Application of moneys. Such moneys shall be held by such collector or treasurer and paid upon the written order of the trustee or board of education of the district for such purposes as the annual or a special meeting of the district shall direct.

§ 3711. Sale of gospel or school lots on division of town. 1. Whenever a town having lands assigned to it for the support of the gospel or of schools, shall be divided into two or more towns, or shall be altered in its limits by the annexing of a part of its territory to other t…

§ 3712. State agency for surplus property. The commissioner of education, or such other state officer as may, from time to time, be designated by the governor, shall be the state agency for surplus property and is hereby authorized and empowered (1) to acquire from the United St…

§ 3712-a. Transfer of gospel funds to general fund of town. In lieu of the apportionment and payment of gospel funds as otherwise authorized by this article, the town board of any town may, by resolution duly adopted by it and approved by the voters of such town at any regular o…

§ 3713. Acceptance of funds appropriated by federal government. 1. The state, any school district or its trustees or board of education is hereby authorized and empowered to accept the provisions of any law of the United States making appropriations for the purpose of defraying …

§ 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 in…

§ 372-a. University-related economic development facilities. 1. Notwithstanding subdivisions one through six and eight through ten of section three hundred seventy-six of this article, the provisions of this section shall apply to the fund when it acts pursuant to the authorizat…

§ 373. General powers and duties of fund. The fund shall have the following powers in addition to those specifically conferred elsewhere in this article: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; 3. To make and alter by-laws for its organization an…

§ 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…

§ 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 ca…

§ 375. Capital construction planning. 1. Construction standards. On or before July first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, the state university trustees shall cause to be prepared with the assistance of the fund, the dormitory authority, the state department of transportation and the…

§ 376. Letting of construction contracts. 1. After May first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, the fund as agent for the state university shall construct, acquire, reconstruct, rehabilitate and improve, or cause to be constructed, acquired, reconstructed, rehabilitated and improved, …

§ 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…

§ 377. Resources of fund. 1. The fund may receive, accept, invest, administer, expend and disburse for its corporate purposes appropriation from the capital construction fund and the state purposes fund of the state, and other revenues and moneys made available or to be made ava…

§ 378. Lease agreements. 1. Any agreement entered into between the fund and a state retirement system pursuant to section three hundred seventy-six of this chapter shall provide for (i) the construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of one or more f…

§ 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, reco…

§ 380. Tax exemption of moneys and property of fund. The moneys and\nproperty of the fund and its operations shall be exempt from taxation.\n

§ 3801. Disposition of fines for benefit of common schools. Whenever, by any statute, a penalty or fine is imposed for the benefit of common schools, and not expressly of the common schools of a town or school district, it shall be taken to be for the benefit of the common schoo…

§ 3802. Disposition of fines for benefit of schools of town, district or city. Whenever a fine or penalty is inflicted or imposed for the benefit of the common schools of a town or school district, the magistrate, constable or other officer collecting or receiving the same shall…

§ 3803. Disposition of fines in case of joint district. Whenever a penalty or fine is imposed upon any school district officer for a violation or omission of official duty, or upon any person for any act or omission within a school district, or touching property or the peace and…

§ 3804. Report and payment of fines. Every district attorney shall report, annually, to the board of supervisors or other governing elective body, all such fines and penalties imposed in any prosecution conducted by him during the previous year; and all moneys collected or recei…