Education Law § 247 · Part 2. Libraries
State law library; legislative reference library
Text — Law content up to date as of October 2, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 247. State law library; legislative reference library. The state law library and the legislative reference library shall be parts of the New York state library under the same government and regulations and shall be open for consultation to every citizen of the state at all hours when the state library is open and the law library shall be available for borrowing books to every duly admitted attorney residing in the state of New York, who shall conform to the rules made by the regents for insuring proper protection and the largest usefulness to the people of the said law library.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of October 2, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/EDN247
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- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
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