2006 New York Code - Education Department; Regents Of The University.

 
    § 101. Education  department;  regents of the university.  There shall
  continue to be in the state government an  education  department.    The
  department is charged with the general management and supervision of all
  public  schools  and all of the educational work of the state, including
  the operations of The University of  the  State  of  New  York  and  the
  exercise  of  all  the  functions  of  the  education department, of The
  University of the State of New York, of the regents  of  the  university
  and  of  the  commissioner of education and the performance of all their
  powers and duties, which were transferred to the education department by
  section three hundred twelve of the state departments law or shall  have
  been   prescribed  by  law  before  March  sixteenth,  nineteen  hundred
  twenty-seven, whether in terms vested in such department  or  university
  or  in  any  sub-department,  division  or  bureau  thereof  or  in such
  commissioner, board or officer, and such functions,  powers  and  duties
  shall  continue  to  be  vested in the education department continued by
  this chapter and shall continue to be exercised and performed therein by
  or through the appropriate officer, sub-department, division  or  bureau
  thereof,  together  with  such functions, powers and duties as hereafter
  may be conferred or imposed upon  such  department  by  law.    All  the
  provisions  of this chapter, in so far as they are not inconsistent with
  the provisions of  this  chapter  as  hereby  amended  or  may  be  made
  applicable,  shall  apply  to the education department continued by this
  chapter as hereby amended and to The University  of  the  State  of  New
  York,  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university, the commissioner of
  education and to the divisions, bureaus and officers in such department.
  The head of the department shall continue  to  be  the  regents  of  The
  University  of the State of New York, who shall appoint, and at pleasure
  may remove, the commissioner  of  education.    The  commissioner  shall
  continue  to be the chief administrative officer of the department.  The
  regents also may appoint and, at pleasure, remove a deputy  commissioner
  of education, who shall perform such duties as the regents may assign to
  him by rule and who, in the absence or disability of the commissioner or
  when  a vacancy exists in the office of commissioner, shall exercise and
  perform the functions, powers and duties conferred  or  imposed  on  the
  commissioner  by  this  chapter.    The regents of The University of the
  State of  New  York  shall  continue  to  constitute  a  board  and  The
  University of the State of New York, which was continued under such name
  by  section two of article eleven of the constitution, shall continue to
  be governed and all its corporate powers to be exercised by such board.