2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 5 - TAXATION AND FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Article 75 - (3701 - 3713) TRUSTS FOR SCHOOLS; GOSPEL AND SCHOOL LOTS
3713 - Acceptance of funds appropriated by federal government.

 3713.   Acceptance  of funds appropriated by federal government.  1.
  The state, any school district or its trustees or board of education  is
  hereby  authorized  and empowered to accept the provisions of any law of
  the United States making appropriations for the purpose of defraying the
  cost of providing  the  public  education,  the  cost  of  planning  and
  constructing public school facilities or any other educational purpose.
2.  The  commissioner  of  education,  hereby  designated as the state
  educational agency, is authorized and empowered to cooperate  with  such
  agency  as  the  federal  government  shall  designate  to carry out the
  provisions of such law.
3. The commissioner of taxation and finance and the state  comptroller
  are appointed as joint custodians of all money given to the state by the
  United  States  under the authority of such law, and such money shall be
  paid out in the manner provided by such act  for  the  purposes  therein
  specified.