2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 6 - SPECIAL SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION
Article 87 - (4301 - 4318) NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
4302 - Object of institution.

 4302. Object of institution.  The primary object of the school shall
  be,  to  furnish  to  the  blind  children  of  the state the best known
  facilities for acquiring a thorough education, and to train them in some
  useful profession or manual art, by means of which they may  be  enabled
  to  contribute to their own support after leaving the school; but it may
  likewise, through its industrial department, provide such of  them  with
  appropriate  employment  and  boarding accommodations as find themselves
  unable, after completing their course of instruction  and  training,  to
  procure  these  elsewhere  for themselves.   It shall, however, be in no
  sense an asylum for those  who  are  helpless  from  age,  infirmity  or
  otherwise, or a hospital for the treatment of blindness.