N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 40-a: Inquiry concerning religion or religious affiliations of person seeking employment or official position in public schools prohibited

§ 40-a. Inquiry concerning religion or religious affiliations of

person seeking employment or official position in public schools

prohibited. No person, agency, bureau, corporation or association

employed or maintained to obtain or aid in obtaining positions for

teachers, principals, superintendents, clerks or other employees in the

public schools of the state of New York, and no individual or

individuals conducting or employed by or interested directly or

indirectly in such an agency, bureau, corporation or association, and no

board of education, trustee of a school district, superintendent,

principal or teacher of a public school or other official or employee of

a board of education, shall directly or indirectly ask, indicate or

transmit orally or in writing the religion or religious affiliation of

any person seeking employment or official position in the public schools

of the state of New York.