N.Y. Education Law § 712: Loan of school library materials

§ 712. Loan of school library materials. 1. In the several cities and

school districts of the state, boards of education, trustees or such

body or officers as perform the function of such boards shall have the

power and duty to loan upon request of an individual or a group of

individual pupils, to all pupils defined in subdivision three of section

seven hundred eleven of this article, school library materials. School

library materials loaned to such pupils attending private schools shall

be school library materials which are designated for use in any public

elementary or secondary schools of the state or are approved by any

board of education, trustees or other school authorities. Such school

library materials are to be loaned free to such children subject to such

rules and regulations as are or may be prescribed by the board of

regents and such boards of education, trustees or other school

authorities.

2. No school district shall be required to loan school library

materials in excess of the school library materials owned or acquired by

such district pursuant to section seven hundred eleven of this article.

Such school library materials shall be loaned on an equitable basis to

children defined in subdivision three of section seven hundred eleven of

this article attending in the current year. The payment of tuition under

article eighty-nine of this chapter is deemed to be an equitable loan to

children for whom such tuition is paid.