N.Y. Education Law § 342-a: Special administrations

§ 342-a. Special administrations. 1. When regular test

administrations are given on days of religious observance which prevent

attendance by test subjects at such regular administrations special

administrations shall be offered with the same frequency as regular

administrations as soon after or before as is possible, at comparable

times, places and cost.

2. Provided, however, a test agency shall not be required to offer a

greater number of special administrations than were offered during the

base year commencing August first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight and

ending July thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine unless the

number of regular administrations is increased in any subsequent testing

year, in which case the provisions of subdivision one shall apply.

3. No test subject shall by reason of religious belief be denied by a

test agency, the opportunity to take a test which shall be disclosed

pursuant to subdivisions one and two of section three hundred forty-two

of this article during any twelve month period.