2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 7 - (301 - 318) COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
306 - Removal of school officers; withholding public money.

 306. Removal  of  school  officers;  withholding  public money.   1.
  Whenever it shall be proved to his satisfaction that any trustee, member
  of  a  board  of  education,  clerk,  collector,   treasurer,   district
  superintendent,  superintendent  of schools or other school officer is a
  member of an organization listed as subversive by the board  of  regents
  pursuant  to the provisions of section three thousand twenty-two of this
  chapter, or has been guilty of any wilful violation or neglect  of  duty
  under  this  chapter,  or  any other act pertaining to common schools or
  other educational institution participating in state funds, or  wilfully
  disobeying  any decision, order, rule or regulation of the regents or of
  the commissioner of education, said commissioner,  after  a  hearing  at
  which  the  school  officer  shall  have  the right of representation by
  counsel, may, by an order under his hand and seal, which order shall  be
  recorded in his office, remove such school officer from his office.
2.  Said commissioner of education may also withhold from any district
  or city its share  of  the  public  money  of  the  state  for  wilfully
  disobeying  any provision of law or any decision, order or regulation as
  aforesaid.