N.Y. Education Law § 807-c: Transmission of fire alarm to fire department

§ 807-c. Transmission of fire alarm to fire department. 1. The school

authorities designated in subdivision eight of section eight hundred

seven-a of this article in charge of the operation of any public school

or of any private school designated in subdivision nine of such section,

located in an area within which a fire department or fire company is

responsible for fire protection and within which there is no

electrically or electronically operated fire alarm reporting system

provided for public use may cause the internal fire alarm, fire

detection, or fire extinguishing system of each building in which is

contained classroom, dormitory, laboratory, physical education, dining

or recreational facilities for student use to be interconnected with the

fire alarm reporting location or system which is provided for such fire

department or fire company to receive alarms from the public so that

upon activation of such internal fire alarm, fire detection, or fire

extinguishing system a signal will be automatically transmitted to such

fire alarm reporting location or system.

2. School authorities and the governing body having jurisdiction of

any fire department or fire company are hereby authorized, by agreement

between them, to apportion the costs of installing and maintaining any

such interconnection, and such costs are hereby deemed appropriate

expenditures from the funds of such school authorities and governing

bodies.