Title EDN, Education

§ 409. School building regulations in relation to health and safety. 1. All school buildings of common, union free, central, central high school and city school districts other than city school districts of cities having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more and b…

§ 409-a. Eye safety devices for certain students and teachers. 1. The board of education, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public or private school or educational institution within the state, wherein shops or laboratories are conducted providing instructio…

§ 409-b. Use of mercury vapor or metal halide lamps within school buildings. 1. Every new or replacement mercury vapor or metal halide lamp which is used within any school building in the state, for the purpose of providing illumination, shall be of the safety type or variety wh…

§ 409-c. Athletic safety equipment. The board of education or trustees of every school district and the principal or other person in charge of every nonpublic elementary or secondary school within the state shall arrange for and require that batboys or batgirls participating in …

§ 409-d. Comprehensive public school building safety program. 1. Program establishment. The commissioner is authorized and directed to establish, develop and monitor a comprehensive public school building safety program which shall include a uniform inspection, safety rating and…

§ 409-e. Uniform code of public school buildings inspection, safety rating and monitoring. 1. Code development, rules and regulations. The commissioner shall, after at least one public hearing, promulgate a uniform code of public school building inspections, safety rating and mo…

§ 409-f. Electrically operated partition and door safety. The board of education, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public or private school or educational institution within the state, wherein classrooms or other facilities used by students are found to hav…

§ 409-g. Purchase and use of paradichlorobenzene deodorizers. 1. No board of education or trustees, principal or other person in charge of any public or private, elementary or secondary school shall authorize the purchase of or purchase any urinal or toilet deodorizer containing…

§ 409-h. Requirements for notification of pesticide applications. 1. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: (a) "School" shall mean any public school district or private or parochial school or board of cooperative educational se…

§ 409-i. Procurement and use of environmentally-sensitive cleaning and maintenance products. 1. For the purpose of this section the following terms shall mean: (a) "Elementary or secondary school" means a facility used for instruction of elementary or secondary students by: (i) …

§ 409-j. Emergency alert notification system in public schools; cities with a population of one million or more. On or before January first, two thousand ten, a city school district located in a city of one million or more inhabitants shall, pursuant to rules and regulations pro…

§ 409-k. Pesticide alternatives. 1. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: (a) "School" shall mean any public school district or private or parochial school or board of cooperative educational services. (b) "Pesticide" shall hav…

§ 409-l. Posting child abuse hotline telephone number. 1. Every public school including charter schools shall post in English and in Spanish the toll-free telephone number operated by the office of children and family services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect establi…

§ 409-m. Gender neutral single-occupancy bathroom facilities. The board of education or trustees of every school district or, in the case of the city school district of New York, the chancellor, and every board of cooperative educational services, charter school and nonpublic sc…

§ 409-n. Maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities. All common, union free, central, central high schools, city school districts and boards of cooperative educational services shall develop a policy for ensuring the health and safety of students, faculty, and other…

§ 410. Officials not to be interested in sales, leases or contracts. A public officer or school officer, who is authorized to sell or lease any property, or to make any contract in his official capacity, or to take part in making any such sale, lease or contract, who voluntarily…

§ 4101. Duties of commissioner regarding Indian children. 1. The commissioner of education shall establish schools in such places and maintain such courses of instruction therein for the education of the Indian children of the state as he or she shall deem necessary. He or she s…

§ 4102. Rights of Indians and of state shall be guarded. Any contract which may be entered into with Indians for the use or occupancy of any land for school grounds, sites or buildings, shall provide proper protection for the title of the Indians to their lands, and shall reserv…

§ 4103. Indian children not entitled to free tuition in public schools. Indian children residing on a reservation are not entitled to free tuition in districts outside the reservation but may be received into the schools of such districts on the approval of the trustees thereof …

§ 4104. Employment of teachers, salaries, et cetera. 1. The commissioner of education shall employ all necessary teachers, attendance officers and other assistants and employees, and fix their salaries within the amount of the appropriations made therefor, as shall be necessary …

§ 4105. Required attendance upon instruction. 1. Every Indian child between six and sixteen years of age, in proper physical and mental condition to attend school, shall regularly attend upon instruction at a school in which at least the common school branches of reading, spelli…

§ 4106. Duties of persons in parental relation to Indian children. Any person in parental relation to an Indian child between six and sixteen years of age in proper physical and mental condition to attend school, shall cause such child to attend upon instruction as provided in t…

§ 4107. Penalty for failure to send children to school. A violation of section forty-one hundred six shall be a misdemeanor, punishable for the first offense by a fine not exceeding five dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days, and for each subsequent offense, by a fin…

§ 4108. Persons employing Indian children unlawfully to be fined. A person, firm, association or corporation shall not employ any Indian child residing on any Indian reservation between six and fourteen years of age, in any business or service whatever during any part of the ter…

§ 4109. Teachers' record of attendance. An accurate record of attendance of all Indian children between six and sixteen years of age shall be kept by the teacher of every Indian school, showing each day, by the year, month, day of the month and day of the week, such attendance, …

§ 4110. Attendance officers. 1. The principal teacher of the Indian schools on each reservation shall supervise the enforcement of this article within said reservation and shall appoint, subject to the approval of the commissioner of education, and remove at pleasure such number…

§ 4111. Arrest of truants. Any attendance officer may arrest without warrant anywhere within the state any Indian child between six and sixteen years of age, found away from his home and who is then a truant from instruction upon which he is lawfully required to attend within th…

§ 4112. Commissioner of education to contract for keeping of truants. The commissioner of education may contract with any city or district having a school for delinquents, for the confinement, maintenance and instruction therein of any child who shall be committed to such school…

§ 4113. Census. The commissioner of education shall cause to be taken a complete annual census of the Indian children between birth and eighteen years of age on any reservation; such census shall be taken between the first day of May and the last day of August and shall include …

§ 4114. Payment of services herein required. Each of the attendance officers herein provided for shall receive such sum per day as shall be fixed by the commissioner of education for each day necessarily employed in enforcing this article; and each person employed in taking and …

§ 4115. Apportionment. 1. If the education of Indian children of a reservation is being provided pursuant to the provisions of subdivision two of section forty-one hundred one of this article, such Indian children in attendance on the date construction is commenced shall be incl…

§ 4116. Co-operation of Indians shall be sought. In the discharge of the duties imposed by this article, the said commissioner shall endeavor to secure the co-operation of all the several bands of Indians, and for this purpose, shall visit, by himself or his authorized represent…

§ 4117. Payment of cost of education of physically handicapped Indian children. Any claims for providing home-teaching, transportation, scholarships in non-residence schools, tuition and maintenance for physically handicapped children which are, ultimately or in the first instan…

§ 4118. Attendance at post-secondary institutions by Native American students. 1. The education department shall select students for attendance at post-secondary institutions from the several Indian tribes located within this state. In making such selection, due regard shall be …

§ 4119. School district may contract to educate Indian children. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the trustee, trustees or board of education of any school district shall have power to contract with the commissioner of education for the instruction of Indian children …

§ 412. Condemnation of schoolhouse and erection of new schoolhouse in place thereof. 1. A district superintendent, upon the direction of the commissioner, may make an order condemning a school house, if he or she finds upon examination that such schoolhouse is wholly unfit for u…

§ 413. Use of school buildings for examinations. The use of a school building shall be granted for any examination. No charge shall be made therefor, provided always that due and proper care shall be maintained and the school building be left in such condition as found in relati…

§ 414. Use of schoolhouse and grounds. 1. Schoolhouses and the grounds connected therewith and all property belonging to the district shall be in the custody and under the control and supervision of the trustees or board of education of the district. The trustees or board of edu…

§ 415. No schoolhouse shall be built on town line. No schoolhouse shall be built so as to stand on the division line of any two towns unless the commissioner of education approves such location.

§ 416. School taxes and school bonds. 1. A majority of the voters of any school district, present and voting at any annual or special district meeting, duly convened, may authorize such acts and vote such taxes as they shall deem expedient for making additions, alterations, repa…

§ 417. Allocation of moneys by regents for extraordinary relief to school districts. The regents may allocate moneys, out of any sums appropriated for such purpose, to school districts of the state for the repair, reconstruction or replacement of buildings or equipment from time…

§ 418. Purchase and display of flag. It shall be the duty of the school authorities of every public school in the several cities and school districts of the state to purchase a United States flag, flag-staff and the necessary appliances therefor, and to display such flag upon or…

§ 419. Display of flags in assembly rooms. It shall be the duty of the school authority of every public school in the several cities and school districts of the state to purchase a sufficient number of United States flags and the necessary holders and appliances therefor for dis…

§ 419-a. Display of flags in classrooms. The commissioner shall encourage public school authorities in the several cities and school districts of the state to display United States flags in the classroom of each school, and shall be authorized to accept donations of flags from i…

§ 420. Rules and regulations. The said school authorities shall establish rules and regulations for the proper custody, care and display of the flag, and when the weather will not permit it to be otherwise displayed, it shall be placed conspicuously in the principal room in the …

§ 4201. Duties of commissioner of education. 1. The following\ninstitutions for the instruction of the deaf and of the blind shall be\nsubject to the visitation of the commissioner of education: a. The New\nYork school for the deaf;\n b. The Lexington school for the deaf;\n c. S…

* § 4202. Regulations for admission. The commissioner may make such regulations and give such directions to parents and persons in parental relation, in relation to the admission of students into any institution specified in this article, as will prevent students entering the sa…

§ 4203. Persons eligible for appointment as pupils to institutions for instruction of the deaf. All deaf children resident in this state, of the age of three years and upwards and of suitable capacity, and who shall have been resident in this state for one year immediately prece…

§ 4204. Support and term of instruction of deaf state pupils. 1. Each deaf pupil so received into any of the institutions aforesaid shall be provided with board, lodging and tuition; and the directors of the institution shall receive an appropriation for each pupil so provided f…

§ 4204-a. Deaf-infant program. (1) All deaf children resident in this state, below the age of three, of suitable age and capacity, who shall have been resident in this state for one year immediately preceding the application, or is an orphan whose nearest friend shall have been …