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N.Y. Education Law § 3028-a: Students under twenty-one years of age suspected of alcohol abuse or narcotic addiction

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  1. Education Law
  2. Title 4. Teachers and Pupils
  3. Article 61. Teachers and Supervisory and Administrative Staff

§ 3028-a. Students under twenty-one years of age suspected of alcohol

abuse or narcotic addiction. Any teacher, school administrator, school

guidance counselor, school psychologist, school drug counselor, school

nurse, supervisor of attendance, attendance teacher or attendance

officer having reasonable cause to suspect that a secondary or

elementary student under twenty-one years of age is a substance or

alcohol abuser or substance dependent, who report such information to

the appropriate secondary or elementary school officials pursuant to the

school's drug policy or if the school has no drug policy to the school's

principal or the parents or legal guardians of such student under

twenty-one years of age shall have immunity from any civil liability

that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the making of

such a report.

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