N.Y. Education Law § 669: Regents awards for children of deceased state correction officers and state civilian employees of a correction facility

§ 669. Regents awards for children of deceased state correction

officers and state civilian employees of a correction facility. 1.

Eligible students. Awards shall be made to resident children of state

correction officers and state civilian employees of a correctional

facility who died as a result of an injury sustained in the line of duty

during the period from September ninth, nineteen hundred seventy-one

through September thirteenth, nineteen hundred seventy-one, inclusive.

2. Amount and duration. The award shall not exceed the sum of

tuition, educational fees, room and board charged by the state

university of New York nor shall it be for more than four academic years

of undergraduate study or five academic years if a program of study

normally requires five years, as defined by the commissioner pursuant to

article thirteen.

3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter, no

child of a state correction officer who is receiving an award under the

provisions of section six hundred sixty-eight-a of this article shall

receive an award under the provisions of this section.