N.Y. Education Law § 608: World trade center memorial scholarships

§ 608. World trade center memorial scholarships. 1. Notwithstanding

subdivisions three and five of section six hundred sixty-one of this

title, children, spouses and financial dependents of innocent victims

who have died or have been severely and permanently disabled, or those

innocent victims who have become severely and permanently disabled as a

direct result of an injury sustained in the impact area of the September

eleventh, two thousand one attack on the United States of America, shall

be eligible to receive a scholarship in an annual amount determined

pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred sixty-eight-d of this

title. The attack on the United States of America shall consist of the

attack on the world trade center, the attack on the Pentagon and the

hijackings and crashes of United Airlines flights 93 and 175 and

American Airlines flights 11 and 77.

2. Awards under this section shall be payable for each of not more

than four academic years of undergraduate study or five academic years

if a program normally requires five years, as defined by the

commissioner pursuant to this article.