Laws of New York (Last Updated: November 21, 2014) |
EDN Education |
Title I. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Article 17. INSTRUCTION IN CERTAIN SUBJECTS |
Section 805. Enforcement
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1. On satisfactory evidence that any teacher has wilfully refused to teach such subjects, as provided in section eight hundred four, the commissioner of education shall revoke the license of such teacher. 2. No public money of the state shall be apportioned by the commissioner of education or paid for the benefit of any city school district of a city having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census until the superintendent of schools therein shall have filed with the treasurer or chamberlain of such city an affidavit, and with the commissioner of education a duplicate of such affidavit, that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts, and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of section eight hundred four have been complied with in all the schools under his supervision in such district during the last preceding legal school year. 3. No public money of the state shall be apportioned by the commissioner of education or by district superintendents, or paid for the benefit of any school district, including city school districts of cities having less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants according to the latest federal census, until the president of the board of education, or in the case of common school districts the trustee or any member of the board of trustees, shall have filed with the district superintendent having jurisdiction or, in the case of such a city school district, or other district having its own superintendent of schools, with the commissioner of education an affidavit that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of section eight hundred four have been complied with in such district, which affidavit shall be included in the trustees' annual report. 4. It shall be the duty of every district superintendent to file with the commissioner of education an affidavit in connection with his annual report, showing all districts in his jurisdiction that have and those that have not complied with all the provisions of section eight hundred four, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, based upon a thorough investigation by him as to the facts. 5. No public money of the state shall be apportioned or paid for the benefit of any school mentioned herein until the officer having jurisdiction or supervision thereof shall have filed with the commissioner of education an affidavit that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of section eight hundred four relative thereto have been complied with. 6. The principal of each state teachers college and state college for teachers in the state shall at the close of each school year file with the commissioner of education an affidavit that all the provisions of section eight hundred four applicable thereto have been complied with during the school year just terminated and until such affidavit shall be filed no warrant shall be issued by the commissioner of education for the payment by the treasurer of any part of the money appropriated for such school. 7. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of education to provide blank forms of affidavit required herein for use by the local school officers, and he shall include in his annual report a statement showing every school district which has failed to comply with all the provisions of section eight hundred four during the preceding school year. 8. On complaint by appeal to the commissioner of education by any patron of the schools mentioned in section eight hundred four or by any citizen that any provision of such section has not been complied with in any city or district, the commissioner of education shall make immediate investigation, and on satisfactory evidence of the truth of such complaint, shall thereupon and thereafter withhold all public money of the state to which such city or district would otherwise be entitled, until all the provisions of such section shall be complied with in said city or district.