Section 4210. Aid for blind or deaf students

1. a. Whenever a blind or deaf
  person,  who  is  a  citizen  of  this  state  and  a  student in actual
  attendance at a college, university, technical or  professional  school,
  including  agriculture  and technical institutes and state institutes of
  applied arts and sciences, located in this state and authorized  by  law
  to  grant degrees, other than an institution established for the regular
  instruction of the blind or deaf, shall be designated  by  the  trustees
  thereof  as  a  fit  person to receive the aid hereinafter provided for,
  there shall be paid by the state for the use of such student a  sum  not
  to  exceed  one  thousand  dollars  per  annum, within the limits of the
  appropriation therefor, with which to employ persons  to  read  to  such
  blind  student from text-books and pamphlets used by such student in his
  or her studies at such college, university or school, or to aid  a  deaf
  student  in  receiving  instruction  in  such  studies.  In  case such a
  college, university, technical or professional school as will  meet  the
  needs  or  requirements  of  such  a  student is not located within this
  state, such a sum shall be paid by  this  state  for  the  use  of  such
  student  attending such a college, university, technical or professional
  school which shall conform  to  the  requirements  of  this  section  in
  another  state. Such a sum shall also be available to aid a deaf student
  in receiving instruction in a regularly  approved  institution  for  the
  deaf  located outside of the state but within one hundred fifty miles of
  the borders thereof.
    b. The trustees of any institution meeting the  requirements  of  this
  section  shall  submit  reports  in  such  form  and  at  such  times as
  prescribed by  the  commissioner  identifying  the  number  of  students
  eligible  to receive aid pursuant to this subdivision and shall estimate
  the funds needed to  support  such  students  as  provided  herein.  The
  commissioner  shall  advance  twice  during the school year to each such
  institution such estimated amounts  within  the  limits  of  the  annual
  appropriation provided therefore.
    d.  At  the  conclusion  of the academic year for which such funds are
  provided, each institution receiving funds pursuant to this  subdivision
  shall  submit to the commissioner a final accounting for the use of such
  funds and shall return any unspent funds.
    2. Such moneys shall be paid annually,  after  the  beginning  of  the
  school  year  of  such  institution, by the commissioner of taxation and
  finance on the warrant of the comptroller,  to  the  treasurer  of  such
  institution,  on  his presenting an account showing the actual number of
  blind or deaf students matriculated and attending the institution, which
  account shall be verified  by  the  president  of  the  institution  and
  accompanied  by  his  certificate that the trustees have recommended the
  students named in said account as hereinbefore provided.
    3. The trustees of any of the said  institutions  shall  recommend  no
  blind  or deaf person, who is not regularly matriculated, and who is not
  in good and regular standing, and who is not working for a  degree  from
  the institution in which he or she is matriculated; and no blind or deaf
  person  shall  be  recommended,  who  is  not  doing  the work regularly
  prescribed by the institution for the degree for which he or  she  is  a
  candidate. The moneys so paid to any such institution shall be disbursed
  for  the  purposes  aforesaid by and under the direction of its board of
  trustees.