N.Y. Education Law § 225: Unlawful acts in respect to examinations and records

§ 225. Unlawful acts in respect to examinations and records. A person

who shall:

1. Personate or attempt to offer to personate another person in

taking, or attempting or offering to take an examination held in

accordance with this chapter or with the rules of the university; or

2. Take, or attempt or offer to take, such an examination in the name

of any other person; or

3. Procure any other person to falsely personate him or to take, or

attempt or offer to take, any such examination in his name; or

4. Have in his possession question papers to be used in any such

examination, when not contained in their sealed wrappers, or copies of

such papers or questions, at any time prior to the date set for such

examination, unless duly authorized by the regents or the commissioner

of education; or

5. Sell or offer to sell question papers or any questions prepared for

use in any examination held in accordance with this chapter or with the

rules of the university; or

6. Use in any such examination any question papers or questions, or

secure or prepare the answers to such questions prior to the time set

for the examination; or

7. Willfully and wrongfully disclose or transmit to any person the

questions or answers to such examination prior to the time set for such

examination, unless duly authorized by the regents, commissioner of

education or appropriate school authorities or otherwise provided by

law, or willfully and wrongfully destroy, falsify or conceal the records

or results of such examination from the appropriate authorities to whom

such records or results are required to be transmitted in accordance

with this chapter, the rules of the regents, the regulations of the

commissioner, or the by-laws, rules or regulations of such school

authorities; or

8. Transmit to the state education department answers to questions

used in any such examination which are prepared or written outside of

the period of examination, or alter any such answers after such period

is closed; or

9. Secure or attempt to secure any credential regularly issued by the

university, which is based upon such examination or based upon a course

or courses of study in any institution of learning or educational

institution approved by the university, which he has not actually passed

or completed; or

9-a. Knowingly and willfully make an unauthorized and false alteration

or representation of any official records related to a student and

maintained by a school or college under the supervision of the regents,

the commissioner, or the university of the state of New York, including

identifying data, grades, records of attendance, records of student

achievement, assessment results, disciplinary records, and

individualized education programs.

10. Otherwise secure or attempt to secure the record of having passed

such examination or of having been issued or of having been given credit

toward such credential in violation of the university rules; is guilty

of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for a

first offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars or imprisonment

for not less than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,

and for a second offense by a fine of not less than two hundred and

fifty dollars or imprisonment for not less than six months or by both

such fine and imprisonment.

11. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision ten of this section,

a violation of this section shall also constitute grounds for

disciplinary action in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,

the rules of the regents, the regulations of the commissioner, or the

by-laws, rules or regulations of such school authorities.