Title EDN, Education

§ 3805. Penalty for falsely claiming to represent commissioner of education, regents or other school officer. It shall be a misdemeanor for any employee, agent or representative of a firm, company or corporation engaged in selling, publishing or manufacturing papers, periodicals…

§ 3806. Penalty for failure to render an account or pay over any balance. Every school officer in the city of New York who shall refuse or neglect to render an account or to pay over any balance in his hands at the expiration of his term of office shall for each offense forfeit …

§ 3807. Penalty for false reports and misapplication of public funds. Every person in the employ of the board of education of the city of New York, and every school officer and every officer or teacher of a school or society, who shall wilfully sign a false report to such board …

§ 3808. Forfeiture of amount of penalty where suit is neglected. Where any penalty for the benefit of a school district, or of the schools of any school district, town, supervisory district or county, shall be incurred, and the officer, whose duty it is by law to sue for the sam…

§ 3809. Forfeiture of amount of moneys lost by neglect. Whenever the share of school moneys or any portion thereof, apportioned to any school district, or any money to which a town or school district would have been entitled, shall be lost, in consequence of any wilful neglect o…

§ 381. Cooperation and assistance from other state agencies. The state education department, the state department of transportation, the dormitory authority, the state housing finance agency, the division of the budget, the office of general services and all other state agencies…

§ 3810. No costs to plaintiffs in certain cases. 1. In any action against school officers, including supervisors of towns, in respect to their duties and powers under this chapter, for any act performed by virtue of or under the color of their offices, or for any refusal or omis…

§ 3811. Costs, expenses and damages a district charge in certain cases. 1. Whenever the trustees or board of education of any school district, or any school district officers, have been or shall be instructed by a resolution adopted at a district meeting to defend any action bro…

§ 3812. Payment of costs, charges and expenses by vote of district meeting. 1. Whenever the trustees or board of education or any school district officer shall have brought or defended any such action or proceeding, without any such resolution of the district meeting, and after …

§ 3813. Presentation of claims against the governing body of any school district or certain state supported schools. 1. No action or special proceeding, for any cause whatever, except as hereinafter provided, relating to district property or property of schools provided for in a…

§ 3814. Appeal to county judge. 1. Whenever any officer mentioned in section thirty-eight hundred twelve shall have complied with the provisions of such section and the meeting shall have refused to direct the trustees or board of education to levy a tax for the payment of the c…

§ 3815. Hearing before county judge. 1. Upon the appearance of the parties, or upon due proof of service of the notice and copy of the account, the county judge shall examine into the matter and hear the proofs and allegations presented by the parties, and decide by order whethe…

§ 3816. Duty of trustees or board of education to carry out order. It shall be the duty of the trustees or board of education of any school district, within thirty days after service upon them or upon the district clerk of a copy of an order of the county judge and notice thereo…

§ 382. Annual report of trustees. 1. The fund shall submit to the governor, the regents, the state university trustees, the legislature, the chairs of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee, annually on or before January first, a full report of it…

§ 383. Article not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective. If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or provision of this article shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffec…

§ 384. Inconsistent provisions of other acts superseded. Insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this article shall be controlling.

§ 390. Definitions. Wherever used in this article: 1. The term "board" means the board of trustees of the state university of New York. 2. The term "state university" means the state university of New York and the term "community college" means a college established and operated…

§ 391. Optional retirement program established. 1. There is hereby established an optional retirement program which shall provide for the purchase of contracts providing retirement and death benefits for or on behalf of electing employees. Under such program the state or an elec…

§ 392. Rates of contribution. 1. Employer contributions. In the case of any electing employee initially appointed on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-two, the state, with respect to employees of state university, and the electing employer, with respect to employ…

§ 393. Election. 1. Election of the optional retirement program.\n (a) Each eligible employee initially appointed on or after July first,\nnineteen hundred sixty-four, within thirty days of his entry into\nservice, shall elect (i) to join either the New York state teachers'\nret…

§ 394. Survivor's benefits. In the case of the death of any electing employee, after the effective date of this election and before retirement, the value of the death benefits provided by the contract or contracts purchased under the optional retirement program which is attribut…

§ 395. Social security. Every electing employee shall have old-age, survivors, and disability insurance coverage provided by the federal social security act in accordance with the provisions of article three of the retirement and social security law.

§ 396. Employer not liable for payment of benefits. Neither the state, nor state university, nor any electing employer or its local sponsor shall be a party to any contract purchased in whole or in part with contributions made under the optional retirement program established an…

§ 396-a. Deductions from benefits of certain retired members. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an electing employee who is retired from the optional retirement system shall have the right, at any time after such electing employee's retirement, to execute and file a…

§ 397. Inconsistent provisions of other acts superseded. Insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this article shall be controlling.

§ 398. Definitions. Whenever used in this article: 1. The term "employer" means the state university of New York, the board of higher education of the city of New York, or a community college established and operated under article one hundred twenty-six of this chapter. 2. The t…

§ 398-a. Reduction of salaries for investment in custodial accounts.\nEach employer, in his discretion, may enter into a written agreement\nwith any employee to reduce the annual salary as otherwise payable by\nlaw of such employee for the purpose of investing in a custodial acc…

§ 399. Special annuity and custodial account programs authorized. 1.\nAn employer is hereby authorized to establish by resolution special\nannuity and custodial account programs which shall provide for the\npurchase of contracts or establishment of custodial accounts providing\n…

§ 399-A. Reduction of salaries for tax-deferred annuities. The board of higher education of a city having a population of one million or more, in its discretion, may enter into a written agreement with any of its employees to reduce the annual salary, as otherwise earned and pay…

§ 4001. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall be defined as follows:\n 1. "Authorized agency" shall have the meaning defined in section three\nhundred seventy-one of the social services law.\n 2. "Child care institution" shall mean any facility serving…

§ 4002. Educational services. 1. Each child between the ages of five and twenty-one who resides in a child care institution and who has not yet graduated from high school shall be entitled to receive a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment for that …

§ 4003. Annual tuition and maintenance reimbursement procedures. 1. The commissioner of education, the commissioner of social services, and, when appropriate, the commissioner of mental health shall develop reimbursement methodologies for the tuition and maintenance components o…

§ 4004. Financial responsibility. 1. Tuition expenses for a child placed by a school district in a special act school district or in a private school operated by a child care institution pursuant to this article shall be the responsibility of such school district pursuant to sec…

§ 4005. Placement and evaluation of children. 1. a. Children placed by the family court. When the placement of a child is being considered by the family court pursuant to section 353.3, seven hundred fifty-six or one thousand fifty-five of the family court act and such child is …

§ 4006. Notification procedures for determination of residence. 1. Within thirty days of the placement of a child, determined to be handicapped pursuant to subdivision one of section forty hundred five of this article, in a child care institution, the local social services commi…

§ 401. Sites; designation and change. 1. The designation of a site by any school district meeting shall be by written resolution containing a description thereof by metes and bounds, and such resolution must receive the assent of a majority of the qualified voters present and vo…

§ 402. Sale of former schoolhouse or site. 1. Whenever the site of a schoolhouse shall have been changed, as herein provided, and after the value of such property has been appraised by the local assessor or a qualified private real property appraiser, the inhabitants of a distri…

§ 402-a. Procedures for closing a school building. 1. At least six months in advance of a proposed school closing, the trustees or board of education of a school district in which such building is located are hereby authorized and recommended to establish an advisory committee o…

§ 403. Application of proceeds of sale. All moneys arising from any sale made in pursuance of the last preceding section, shall be applied to the expenses incurred in procuring a new site, and in removing or erecting thereon a schoolhouse, and improving and furnishing such site …

§ 403-a. Leasing of school property. 1. The board of education or trustees of a school district are hereby authorized to adopt a resolution providing that specific real property of such district is not currently needed for school district purposes and that the leasing of such re…

§ 403-b. Leasing of school buildings and facilities. 1. The board of education of any union free or central school district is hereby authorized to enter into a lease with any other union free or central school district providing for the use and occupancy by any such school dist…

§ 404. Acquisition of real property. Real property may be acquired in any school district and in any city having less than seventy thousand inhabitants, for school purposes and for any other purpose for which such property may be acquired as provided in this chapter, as follows:…

§ 405. Conveyance of property to public corporations. In addition to any other power conferred or possessed by virtue of any provisions of this chapter, the board of education, trustee or trustees of any school district may convey any school site or lot and the buildings thereon…

§ 406. Vesting of title of lands in certain cases. Boards of education in cities having less than seventy thousand inhabitants are hereby clothed with all the powers of trustees, and the title to any and all lands acquired in any city under the provisions of section four hundred…

§ 407. Application to certain districts. The provision of section four hundred four of this article shall apply to union free school districts and to districts organized under special laws; and the trustees of such districts and the boards of education organized under special la…

§ 407-a. Authorization for dormitory authority financing of capital facilities for special act school districts. 1. The legislature declares that it is in the interest of the state, the school districts and the children of the state to assure that special act school districts ed…

§ 407-b. Authorization for dormitory authority financing of capital facilities for state-supported schools for blind and deaf students. 1. The legislature declares that it is in the interest of the state and the children of the state to assure that state-supported schools for th…

§ 408. Plans and specifications of school buildings must be approved by commissioner of education. 1. No schoolhouse shall hereafter be erected, purchased, repaired, enlarged or remodeled nor shall the advertisement for bids for the execution of the plans and specifications for …

§ 408-a. Plans and specifications for construction of new school buildings. 1. The commissioner of general services, after consultation with the commissioner of education and subject to the approval of the director of the budget, shall promptly prepare or acquire as many master …

§ 408-b. Submitting plans and specifications of school buildings with local fire and law enforcement officials. The appropriate authorities for each public and private school building in the state shall submit the most current plans and specifications for each school building un…