2010 New York Code
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 15 - (701 - 705) TEXT-BOOKS
704 - Text-books containing seditious or disloyal matter.

§ 704. Text-books   containing  seditious  or  disloyal  matter.    No
  text-book in any subject used in the public schools in this state  shall
  contain  any  matter  or  statements  of any kind which are seditious in
  character, disloyal to the United States or favorable to  the  cause  of
  any  foreign  country  with  which the United States may be at war.  The
  commission, consisting of the  commissioner  of  education  and  of  two
  persons  to  be  designated  by  the  regents, whose duty it shall be on
  complaint to examine text-books used in the public schools of the state,
  in the subjects of civics, economics,  English,  history,  language  and
  literature,  for  the  purpose  of  determining  whether such text-books
  contain any matter or statements of any  kind  which  are  seditious  in
  character,  disloyal  to  the United States or favorable to the cause of
  any foreign country with which the United  States  may  be  at  war,  is
  hereby  continued.    Any person may present a written complaint to such
  commission that a text-book in any of the aforesaid subjects for use  in
  the  public  schools  of  this  state or offered for sale for use in the
  public schools of this state contains matter or statements in  violation
  of  this section, specifying such matter or statements in detail. If the
  commission determine that the text-book against which complaint is  made
  contains  any  such  matter  or statements, it shall issue a certificate
  disapproving the use of such text-book in the  public  schools  of  this
  state,  together  with  a  statement of the reasons for its disapproval,
  specifying the matter found unlawful.  Such certificate  of  disapproval
  of  a  text-book,  with  a  detailed  statement  of  the reasons for its
  disapproval, shall be duly forwarded to the boards of education or other
  boards or authorities having jurisdiction of the public schools  of  the
  school   districts  of  this  state,  and  after  the  receipt  of  such
  certificate the use of a text-book so disapproved shall be  discontinued
  in such school district.
    Any  contract  hereafter  made by any such board of education or other
  school authorities for the purchase  of  a  text-book  in  any  of  such
  subjects,  which  has  been  so disapproved, shall be void.   Any school
  officer or teacher who permits a text-book  in  any  of  such  subjects,
  which  has  been so disapproved, to be used in the public schools of the
  state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.