N.Y. Education Law § 4112: Commissioner of education to contract for keeping of truants

§ 4112. Commissioner of education to contract for keeping of truants.

The commissioner of education may contract with any city or district

having a school for delinquents, for the confinement, maintenance and

instruction therein of any child who shall be committed to such school

as a truant by any magistrate before whom such child shall have been

examined upon the charge of truancy. The costs and expenses attending

the support and maintenance of any truant, as herein provided, shall be

audited by the commissioner of education and paid in the same manner as

the expenses of supporting and maintaining the schools on a reservation

are paid.