§ 549. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares that: 1. The state has a primary responsibility to ensure the health, welfare and safety of children attending both public and nonpublic schools. 2. The state discharges this responsibility to public school children through substantial amounts of per pupil financial assistance to local school districts. […]
§ 550. Definitions. In this article: 1. “Commissioner” shall mean the state commissioner of education. 2. “Qualifying school” shall mean a nonprofit elementary or secondary school in the state of New York, other than a public school, which (a) is providing instruction in accordance with article seventeen and section thirty-two hundred four of this chapter, […]
§ 551. Apportionment. 1. In order to meet proper health, welfare and safety standards in qualifying schools for the benefit of the pupils enrolled therein, there shall be apportioned health, welfare and safety grants by the commissioner to each qualifying school for the school years beginning on and after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, an […]
§ 552. Applications, reports, regulations. Each qualifying school which seeks an apportionment pursuant to this article shall submit to the commissioner an application therefor, at such times, in such form and containing such information as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe in order to carry out the purposes of this article. Such applications shall include […]
§ 553. Installments. The amount to be apportioned to a qualifying school in any current year shall be paid in two equal installments, the first to be made on or before January fifteenth and the other not later than June fifteenth of such year, except that for the school year commencing July first, nineteen hundred […]
