New York Education Law Part 1 - GENERAL ORGANIZATION

• 201 - Corporate Name and Objects.
  The corporation created in the year seventeen hundred eighty-four under the name of The Regents of the University of the State of New York, is...
• 202 - Regents.
  1. The University of the State of New York shall be governed and all its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents the number...
• 203 - Officers.
  The elective officers of the university shall be a chancellor and a vice-chancellor who shall serve without salary, and such other officers as are deemed...
• 204 - Meetings and Absences.
  1. (a) The regents may provide for regular meetings of the board of regents and any committee, subcommittee, task force, or other subgroups thereof. Notice...
• 205 - Quorum.
  Seven regents attending shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.
• 206 - Authority to Take Testimony and Conduct Hearings.
  The regents, any committee thereof, the commissioner of education, the deputy and any associate and assistant commissioner of education and the counsel of the department...
• 207 - Legislative Power.
  Subject and in conformity to the constitution and laws of the state, the regents shall exercise legislative functions concerning the educational system of the state,...
• 207-a - Disclosure of Gifts Made to Institutions of Higher Education by Foreign Governments, Persons and Entities.
  1. As used in this section: a. The term "foreign government" shall mean any government other than the United States government or the government of...
• 208 - General Examinations, Credentials and Degrees.
  The regents may confer by diploma under their seal such honorary degrees as they may deem proper, and may establish examinations as to attainments in...
• 208-a - Scheduling of Examinations.
  The department shall make a bona fide effort to schedule state mandated examinations on days other than days of religious observation. The commissioner may promulgate...
• 209 - Academic Examinations; Admission and Fees.
  The regents shall establish in the secondary institutions of the university, examinations in studies furnishing a suitable standard of graduation therefrom and of admission to...
• 209-a - Applications for Admission to College.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, no rule or regulation shall be adopted by the school authorities, school officers or board...
• 210 - Registrations.
  The regents may register domestic and foreign institutions in terms of New York standards, and fix the value of degrees, diplomas and certificates issued by...
• 210-a - Admission Requirements for Graduate-Level Teacher and Educational Leader Programs.
  Each institution registered by the department with graduate-level teacher and leader education programs shall adopt rigorous selection criteria geared to predicting a candidate's academic success...
• 210-b - Graduate-Level Teacher and Educational Leadership Program Deregistration and Suspension.
  1. The department shall suspend a graduate program's authority to admit new students if for three consecutive academic years, fewer than fifty percent of its...
• 210-c - Interstate Reciprocity Agreement for Post-Secondary Distance Education Programs.
  INTERSTATE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT FOR THE POST-SECONDARY DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS Article I Purpose, findings, and policy The states party to an interstate agreement desire by common...
• 211 - Review of Regents Learning Standards.
  1. The regents shall periodically review and evaluate the existing regents learning standards to determine if they should be strengthened, modified or combined so as...
• 211-a - Enhanced State Accountability System.
  To more fully implement the requirements of section one thousand one hundred eleven of the elementary and secondary education act of nineteen hundred sixty-five, as...
• 211-b - Consequences for Consistent Lack of Improvement in Academic Performance.
  In addition to taking appropriate action pursuant to the regulations of the commissioner and the requirements of federal law, the following actions shall be taken...
• 211-c - Distinguished Educators.
  The regents shall establish a distinguished educator program that recognizes educational leaders who have agreed to assist in improving the performance of low performing school...
• 211-d - Contract for Excellence.
  1. a. Every school district that, as of April first of the base year, has at least one school identified as in corrective action or...
• 211-e - Educational Partnership Organizations.
  1. The board of education of a school district, and the chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York, subject to...
• 211-f - Takeover and Restructuring Failing Schools.
  1. Eligibility for appointment of an external receiver. (a) Failing schools. The commissioner shall designate as failing each of the schools that has been identified...
• 212 - Fees.
  The department shall charge the following fees: 1. For the issuance of a qualifying certificate for admission to a professional school as required by or...
• 212-a - Return of Deposits for Professional and Graduate Schools.
  Any person who makes a deposit on tuition to a professional or graduate school for the fall semester next following the making of the deposit...
• 212-b - Return of Tuition for Colleges, Universities, Professional, Proprietary and Graduate Schools.
  Any person who pays tuition to a college, university, professional, proprietary or graduate school and who demands its refund in writing before the thirtieth day...
• 212-c - Teacher Accreditation Review Fees.
  The costs of accreditation reviews of teacher education programs shall be borne by the institution seeking accreditation by the board of regents. The commissioner shall...
• 213 - Extension of Educational Facilities.
  1. The regents may extend to the people at large increased educational opportunities and facilities, stimulate interest therein, recommend methods, designate suitable teachers and lecturers,...
• 213-b - Unlawful Sale of Dissertations, Theses and Term Papers.
  1. No person shall, for financial consideration, or the promise of financial consideration, prepare, offer to prepare, cause to be prepared, sell or offer for...
• 214 - Institutions in the University.
  The institutions of the university shall include all secondary and higher educational institutions which are now or may hereafter be incorporated in this state, and...
• 215 - Visitation and Reports.
  The regents, or the commissioner of education, or their representatives, may visit, examine into and inspect, any institution in the university and any school or...
• 215-a - Annual Report by Regents to Governor and Legislature.
  1. The regents of the university of the state of New York shall prepare and submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate,...
• 215-b - Annual Report by Commissioner to Governor and Legislature.
  The commissioner shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president pro tem of the senate and the speaker of the assembly not later than...
• 215-c - Promoting Cost-Effectiveness in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools.
  1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "cost-effectiveness" shall mean one or more measures of...
• 215-d - State University of New York Report on Economic Development Activities.
  The chancellor of the state university of New York shall report to the governor and to the legislature, on or before January first, two thousand...
• 216 - Charters.
  Under such name, with such number of trustees or other managers, and with such powers, privileges and duties, and subject to such limitations and restrictions...
• 216-a - Applicability of Not-For-Profit Corporation Law.
  1. The term "education corporation" as used in this section means a corporation (a) chartered or incorporated by the regents or otherwise formed under this...
• 216-b - Private Foundations, As Defined in the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954: Provisions Included in the Charter.
  1. The following provisions are hereby included in the charter, heretofore or hereafter granted under this chapter, to incorporate an institution or association (chartered organization)...
• 216-c - Special Provisions for Cutlery and Knife Museums that Exhibit Automatic Knifes.
  216-c. Special provisions for cutlery and knife museums that exhibit automatic knives. 1. For the purposes of this section: a. "automatic knife" has the meaning...
• 217 - Provisional Charters.
  On evidence satisfactory to the regents that the conditions for an absolute charter will be met within a prescribed time, they may grant a provisional...
• 218 - Conditions of Incorporation.
  1. No institution shall be given power to confer baccalaureate or higher degrees in this state unless it shall have financial resources which, in the...
• 219 - Change of Name or Charter.
  1. The regents may, at any time, for sufficient cause, by an instrument under their seal and recorded in their office, change the name, or...
• 220 - Distribution of Assets.
  1. Whenever the regents have revoked the charter of any educational corporation or dissolved such corporation pursuant to section two hundred nineteen of this chapter...
• 221 - Dissolution of Educational Institution by Stockholders.
  1. Meeting to consider application for dissolution, when to be called. The trustees of any educational corporation chartered by regents or subject to their visitation...
• 222 - Suspension of Operations.
  If any institution in the university shall discontinue its educational operations without cause satisfactory to the regents, it shall surrender its charter to them, subject,...
• 223 - Consolidation or Merger of Corporations.
  Any two or more corporations chartered under the powers of the regents or incorporated under a special act of the legislature or under a general...
• 224 - Prohibitions.
  1. a. No individual, association, partnership or corporation not holding university, college or other degree conferring powers by special charter from the legislature of this...
• 224-a - Students Unable Because of Religious Beliefs to Register or Attend Classes on Certain Days.
  1. No person shall be expelled from or be refused admission as a student to an institution of higher education for the reason that he...
• 225 - Unlawful Acts in Respect to Examinations and Records.
  A person who shall: 1. Personate or attempt to offer to personate another person in taking, or attempting or offering to take an examination held...
• 226 - Powers of Trustees of Institutions.
  The trustees of every corporation created by the regents, unless otherwise provided by law or by its charter, may: 1. Number and quorum. Fix the...
• 227 - Colleges May Construct Water-Works and Sewer Systems.
  1. Every incorporated college in this state is duly authorized and empowered to construct and maintain a system of water-works for the purpose of supplying...
• 228 - The Hamilton College Sewer District.
  The Hamilton college sewer district established in the town of Kirkland, Oneida county, outside the village of Clinton, is hereby continued and all the provisions...
• 229 - County Educational Institutions.
  The board of supervisors of a county, having a population of over five hundred thousand and adjacent to a city having a population of over...
• 230 - Municipal Training Institute.
  The municipal training institute of the state of New York, a corporation created by the regents pursuant to section two hundred sixteen of the education...
• 231 - Town and County Officers Training School.
  The town and county officers training school of the state of New York, a corporation created by the regents pursuant to section two hundred sixteen...
• 232 - Departments and Their Government.
  The state library and state museum shall be departments of the university, and the regents may establish such other departments and divisions therein as they...
• 233 - State Museum; Collections Made by the Staff.
  1. All scientific specimens and collections, works of art, objects of historic interest and similar property appropriate to a general museum, if owned by the...
• 233-a - Property of the State Museum.
  1. As used in this section: (a) The term "museum" shall mean the New York state museum. (b) The term "deaccession" shall mean the permanent...
• 233-Aa - Property of Other Museums.
  1. As used in this section: (a) The term "museum" means any institution, including but not limited to museums, historical societies, zoological gardens, aquariums, botanical...
• 233-b - New York State Freedom Trail Commission.
  1. a. There is hereby established within the department the New York state freedom trail commission. The commission shall consist of twelve members, to be...
• 233-c - Study.
  The commissioner shall conduct a study which shall include, but not be limited to, documenting the history of the freedom trail and underground railroad including...
• 234 - Indian Collection.
  There shall be made, as the Indian section of the state museum, as complete a collection as practicable of the historical, ethnographic and other records...
• 235 - State Science Service.
  There shall be maintained in the university a science service which shall be known as the state science service and the state geologist, paleontologist, botanist...
• 235-a - New York State Biodiversity Research Institute.
  1. The New York state biodiversity research institute is hereby created within the New York state museum within the education department. The purposes of the...
• 235-b - New York State Biological Survey.
  1. The New York state biological survey is hereby established in the New York state science service within the state museum to inventory, research, analyze...
• 236 - Public Television and Radio.
  1. Short title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Public Television and Radio Act of nineteen hundred seventy-eight". 2. Legislative...
• 237 - Regents Plan for Higher Education Including Approved Plans of State University and City University of New York and Plans of Independent Institutions of Higher Education.
  1. Purposes of planning. Master planning for higher education in New York State should: a. Define and differentiate the missions and objectives of higher education....
• 238 - Chair on Geriatrics in the State University.
  1. There is hereby established in the state university of New York, under the jurisdiction of its board of trustees, one distinguished chair on geriatrics...
• 238-a - Statewide Resource Centers for Geriatric Education.
  1. There is hereby established in the state university of New York, under the jurisdiction of its board of trustees, a statewide resource center for...
• 239 - Albert Einstein Chairs in Science and Albert Schweitzer Chairs in the Humanities.
  1. Legislative finding and declaration of policy. The public and private colleges in this state enjoy a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and intellectual vitality....
• 239-a - Collection and Distribution of Student's Residual Consumer Goods.
  1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. "consumer goods" shall mean goods that are used or bought...
• 239-b - Research Dogs and Cats.
  1. A higher education research facility that receives public money, including tax-exempt status, or a facility that provides research in collaboration with a higher education...

Last modified: February 3, 2019