New York Education Law Article 9 - SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND SITES

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: February 3, 2019