VACCINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

CHAPTER 661, LAWS OF 1893

AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH, CONSTITUTING CHAPTER 25 OF

THE GENERAL LAWS

Section 200. No child or person not vaccinated shall be admitted or received into any of the public schools of the state, and the trustees or other officers having the charge, management or control of such schools shall cause this provision of law to be enforced. They may adopt a resolution excluding such children and persons not vaccinated from such school until vaccinated, and when any such resolution has been adopted, they shall give at least ten days' notice thereof, by posting copies of the same in at least two public and conspicuous places within the limits of the school government, and shall announce therein that due provision has been made, specifying it, for the vaccination of any child or person of suitable age desiring to attend the school, and whose parents or guardians are unable to procure vaccination for them, or who are, by reason of poverty, exempted from taxation in such district.

Section 201. Such trustees or board may appoint a competent physician and fix his compensation, who shall ascertain the number of children or persons in a school district, or in a subdivision of a city school government, of suitable age to attend the common schools, who have not been vaccinated and furnish such trustees or board a list of their names. Every such physician' shall provide himself with good and reliable vaccine virus with which to vaccinate such children or persons* such trustees or board shall direct, and give certificates of vaccination when required, which shall be evidence that the child or person to whom given has been vaccinated. The expenses incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this and the preceding section, shall be deemed a part of the expense of maintaining such school, and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other school expenses. The trustees of the several school districts of the state shall include in their annual report the number of vaccinated and unvaccinated children of school age in their respective districts.

*So in original.

JAMAICA NORMAL SCHOOL

CHAPTER 524, LAWS OF 1905

AN ACT TO TRANSFER TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK THE NORMAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS, CITY OF NEW YORK, FORMERLY IN THE VILLAGE OF JAMAICA AND COUNTY OF QUEENS

Section 1. The normal and training school heretofore established in the former village of Jamaica, in the county of Queens, pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three entitled "An act to establish a normal and training school in the village of Jamaica and county of Queens," including all the lands, buildings and appurtenances thereunto belonging, shall be transferred and conveyed to The City of New York, for the use of the said city as a training school and public school on the first day of January nineteen hundred and six upon terms to be fixed and agreed upon by a commission consisting of the mayor, comptroller and president of the board of education of The City of New York and the commissioner of education and the comptroller of the state of New York.

Section 2. Upon the transfer of the said school under the terms fixed by the said commission, the conduct, management and support thereof shall be regulated by chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixtysix of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, known as the Greater New York charter, and the board of education shall have and exercise the same rights and powers in respect to said school as said board possesses in respect to other public schools in The City of New York. i

Section 3. The principals, teachers, janitors and other employees of the said school shall be transferred from the service of the state to the service of the city in the respective positions to which they have been appointed, and shall be entitled to such compensation as is now provided or may hereafter be pro

vided for similar positions in the schools of The City of New York by the lawful authority, subject to change of title and to transfer, reassignment or removal for cause, as may be provided by law; and all such principals, teachers, janitors and other employees shall be eligible for reappointment, subject, however, to the right of the board of education of The City of New York to abolish unnecessary positions, and subject also to their complying, in the case of teachers, with the provisions of the board of education of The City of New York with regard to renewal and permanence of license, and, in the case of janitors, with the provisions of the law relating to the civil service, that are applicable to The City of New York.

Section 4. Provision for the maintenance of said school and the payment of salaries shall be made by the board of estimate and apportionment in the budget for nineteen hundred and six.

Section 5. All acts or portions of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 230, LAWS OF 1874

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM

Section 4. The trustees, for the time being, of said corporation shall have the sole and exclusive custody and control of the persons of such orphans, half-orphans or indigent children of the age not exceeding thirteen years, as they may agree to maintain, provide for, educate, and instruct during the minority of such orphans, half-orphans and indigent children, provided, that in respect to any orphan, its legal guardian or nearest relative, or one of the governors of the almshouse, and in respect to any half-orphans or indigent children, the parents or surviving parent, or legal guardian, shall consent, in writing, to such child being maintained, provided for, educated and instructed by said society, or that such half-orphan or indigent child shall be committed to the care and custody of said society by any court, magistrate, or police justice of the city of New York, in any case where such court, magistrate, or police justice shall acquire jurisdiction under any law of this state; and in such case such court, magistrate, or police justice shall have the like power and authority, with the consent of said trustees, to commit to the care and custody of said corporation as can now be exercised in regard to any other public institution; and the said corporation can, by agreement and transfer from every other institution having the legal custody of any orphan, half-orphan, or indigent children, obtain the care and custody of such child or children in like manner as by such aforesaid consent or commitment, and the said trustees shall have the power and authority, on the arrival of any such orphan, halforphan or indigent child at the age of thirteen years and upwards, to bind them out to be taught and instructed in some necessary or useful employment, on such terms and restrictions, and to such persons, and upon such conditions as the said trustees may deem proper; and the said corporation is hereby vested, in respect to the persons of all such orphans, half-orphans, and indigent children, with all the powers and authority conferred upon, and shall enjoy the same benefits, and receive for the care, education and maintenance of said orphans, half-orphans, and indigent children the like compensation now paid, and in the same manner as authorized by law, to the New York Juvenile Asylum by the acts passed June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, passed July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, passed April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and passed March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, so far as they are applicable to this section.

CHAPTER 835, LAWS OF 1872

AN ACT RELATING TO THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED

Section 3. The school established and maintained by the above-named society, for the education of crippled children, shall participate in the distribution of the common school fund, in the same manner and degree as the common schools of the city and county of New York.

CHAPTER 598, LAWS OF 1880

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AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR BEFRIENDING CHILDREN" TO "THE ASSOCIATION FOR BEFRIENDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG GIRLS," AND IN RELATION TO SAID ASSOCIATION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE PERSONS CARED FOR BY SUCH ASSOCIATION

Section 4. The schools established and maintained by the said association shall participate in the apportionment and distribution of the moneys apportioned to the County of New York for the support and encouragement of common schools therein, and also of the moneys mentioned in the fifteenth section as it now stands amended, of an act to amend, consolidate and reduce to one act the various acts relative to the Common Schools of the City of New York, passed July third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as well as of the moneys mentioned in the sixteenth section, and in the first subdivision of the third section of said act, as the same now stands amended, in the same manner and degree as the Common or Public Schools of the City and County of New York, and shall be subject to the Board of Education of the City of New York, and shall report thereto as do the schools of the New York Juvenile Asylum, Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, The Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The American Female Guardian Society, and other (so-called) Corporate Schools.