Title EDN, Education

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

§ 409. School building regulations in relation to health and safety.\n1. All school buildings of common, union free, central, central high\nschool and city school districts other than city school districts of\ncities having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more an…

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

§ 409-b. Use of mercury vapor or metal halide lamps within school\nbuildings. 1. Every new or replacement mercury vapor or metal halide\nlamp which is used within any school building in the state, for the\npurpose of providing illumination, shall be of the safety type or\nvariet…

§ 409-c. Athletic safety equipment. The board of education or\ntrustees of every school district and the principal or other person in\ncharge of every nonpublic elementary or secondary school within the\nstate shall arrange for and require that batboys or batgirls\nparticipating…

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

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

§ 409-f. Electrically operated partition and door safety. The board of\neducation, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public\nor private school or educational institution within the state, wherein\nclassrooms or other facilities used by students are found to …

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

§ 409-h. Requirements for notification of pesticide applications. 1.\nFor purposes of this section the following terms shall have the meanings\nset forth below:\n (a) "School" shall mean any public school district or private or\nparochial school or board of cooperative education…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 4102. Rights of Indians and of state shall be guarded. Any contract\nwhich may be entered into with Indians for the use or occupancy of any\nland for school grounds, sites or buildings, shall provide proper\nprotection for the title of the Indians to their lands, and shall\nre…

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

§ 4104. Employment of teachers, salaries, et cetera. 1. The\ncommissioner of education shall employ all necessary teachers,\nattendance officers and other assistants and employees, and fix their\nsalaries within the amount of the appropriations made therefor, as shall\nbe necess…

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

§ 4106. Duties of persons in parental relation to Indian children.\nAny person in parental relation to an Indian child between six and\nsixteen years of age in proper physical and mental condition to attend\nschool, shall cause such child to attend upon instruction as provided i…

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

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

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

§ 4110. Attendance officers. 1. The principal teacher of the Indian\nschools on each reservation shall supervise the enforcement of this\narticle within said reservation and shall appoint, subject to the\napproval of the commissioner of education, and remove at pleasure such\nnu…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 4119. School district may contract to educate Indian children.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, the trustee, trustees or\nboard of education of any school district shall have power to contract\nwith the commissioner of education for the instruction of Indian\nchild…

§ 412. Condemnation of schoolhouse and erection of new schoolhouse in\nplace thereof. 1. A district superintendent, upon the direction of the\ncommissioner, may make an order condemning a school house, if he or she\nfinds upon examination that such schoolhouse is wholly unfit fo…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 419-a. Display of flags in classrooms. The commissioner shall\nencourage public school authorities in the several cities and school\ndistricts of the state to display United States flags in the classroom\nof each school, and shall be authorized to accept donations of flags\nfr…

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

§ 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\nregulations and give such directions to parents and persons in parental\nrelation, in relation to the admission of students into any institution\nspecified in this article, as will prevent students entering the…

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

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