N.Y. Education Law § 3206: Attendance of minors upon part time instruction

§ 3206. Attendance of minors upon part time instruction. 1. The board

of education of a city or district shall have power to require each

employed minor from sixteen to seventeen years of age to attend upon

part time instruction in accordance with the provisions of this section.

2. A minor who is a graduate of a four-year high school course of

study shall not be required to attend upon part time instruction.

3. The attendance of an employed minor required to attend upon part

time instruction by a board of education in accordance with the

provisions of this section shall be for not less than four, nor more

than eight hours per week, and on such day or days of the week as the

school authorities may determine.

4. An employed minor, while temporarily unemployed, or a minor

attending part time school under the provisions of subdivision two,

paragraph b, of section thirty-two hundred five, required to attend part

time instruction by a board of education in accordance with the

provisions of this section, shall attend upon part time instruction for

not less than twenty hours a week. An employed minor shall be deemed to

be temporarily unemployed until he reenters lawful employment or attends

upon full time day instruction.

5. The absence of an employed minor during a rush season may be

permitted by the school authorities on condition that the minor attend a

greater number of hours per week thereafter until the absence is made

up, and provided that the minor's employer is a party to such an

agreement.

6. An absence due to unlawful cause may be required to be made up by

attendance in excess of the number of hours per week otherwise required.

7. The school authorities of a city or district shall have power after

a hearing to establish a half-time system or program of employment and

required attendance at part time schools for minors who are included by

the provisions of this section.

8. Each minor above the age of sixteen years and under the age of

eighteen years, who is not in regular full-time day attendance at a

public, private or parochial school or who is regularly and lawfully

employed in some occupation or service, unless such minor has completed

a four year secondary course of instruction approved by the regents of

the university, shall attend a part-time school or class in the city or

district in which such minor resides or may be employed, provided the

board of education of such city or district has enacted appropriate

rules and regulations requiring attendance at such part-time schools

under the provisions of section forty-six hundred one. Such attendance

shall be subject to the provisions of article ninety-three of this

chapter.