N.Y. Education Law § 1704: Length of school year, and expenditure of funds

§ 1704. Length of school year, and expenditure of funds. 1. No board

of education or community board in the city school district of the city

of New York, except as otherwise provided by law, shall authorize or

permit the expenditure of funds under its control at a rate which will

exhaust the amount appropriated prior to the conclusion of the period or

the completion of the purpose for which such funds were appropriated.

2. Except as otherwise provided by law, no board of education or

community board in the city school district of the city of New York

shall provide for a school year consisting of fewer than one hundred

eighty days of school.