Education Law § 496 · Article 10-D. Regional College Cooperative Services Board
Legislative declaration
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Text — Law content up to date as of October 2, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 496. Legislative declaration. The legislature hereby finds and declares that the scarcity of higher educational facilities within the state poses a serious threat to the future of the state's citizens. Recognizing this scarcity and the threat posed thereby, it is the sense of the members of the legislature that the higher educational needs of our citizens can best be served by the enactment of legislation that will allow for the wider use of existing educational facilities within the state.
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/EDN496
- Text hash
- sha256 91c19004b9234d784dce4fdbbfcc85065665fc8d5e5bd5f7f985d1650ae4f04f
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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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