Section 1125. Definitions

For the purposes of this article the following
  terms shall have the following meanings:
    1. "Child abuse" shall mean any of the following acts committed in  an
  educational  setting  by  an  employee or volunteer against a child: (a)
  intentionally or recklessly inflicting physical injury, serious physical
  injury or death, or (b) intentionally or recklessly engaging in  conduct
  which  creates  a  substantial  risk  of  such  physical injury, serious
  physical injury or death, or (c) any child sexual abuse  as  defined  in
  this  section,  or  (d) the commission or attempted commission against a
  child of  the  crime  of  disseminating  indecent  materials  to  minors
  pursuant to article two hundred thirty-five of the penal law.
    2.  "Child"  shall  mean  a  person  under the age of twenty-one years
  enrolled in a school  district  in  this  state,  other  than  a  school
  district within a city having a population of one million or more.
    3.  "Employee"  shall  mean  any  person receiving compensation from a
  school district or employee of a contracted service provider  or  worker
  placed  within  the school under a public assistance employment program,
  pursuant to title nine-B of article five of the social services law, and
  consistent with the provisions  of  such  title  for  the  provision  of
  services  to  such  district,  its  students  or  employees, directly or
  through contract, whereby such services performed by such person involve
  direct student contact.
    4. "Volunteer" shall mean any person,  other  than  an  employee,  who
  provides  services  to a school or school district, which involve direct
  student contact.
    5. "Educational setting" shall mean the  building  and  grounds  of  a
  public school district, the vehicles provided by the school district for
  the  transportation  of  students  to  and  from school buildings, field
  trips, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities  both  on  and  off
  school district grounds, all co-curricular and extra-curricular activity
  sites,  and  any other location where direct contact between an employee
  or volunteer and a child has allegedly occurred.
    6. "Administrator" or "school administrator" shall mean a principal of
  a public school, charter school  or  board  of  cooperative  educational
  services, or other chief school officer.
    7.  "Law  enforcement  authorities"  shall  mean  a  municipal  police
  department, sheriff's department, the division of state  police  or  any
  officer  thereof.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  law
  enforcement authorities shall not include any child  protective  service
  or  any  society for the prevention of cruelty to children as such terms
  are defined in section four hundred twenty-three of the social  services
  law.
    8.  "Parent"  shall  mean either or both of a child's parents or other
  persons legally responsible for the child.
    9. "Child sexual abuse" shall mean conduct prohibited by  article  one
  hundred thirty or two hundred sixty-three of the penal law.