Education Law § 817 · Article 17. Instruction In Certain Subjects
Student government
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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)
* § 817. Student government. The board of education or trustees of every school district serving high school students in grades nine through twelve with no districtwide or school building peer selected student government shall establish at least one student government organization within such district or school building with the goal of ensuring all eligible students have the opportunity to participate in such student government.
* NB There are 2 § 817's
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/EDN817%2A2
- Text hash
- sha256 be6c567a2ba0d1f0f5a164c7f60342b3963aba47f1ec57ae1736e36befc4c5e1
- Composed by
- 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
- The Senate's note "There are 2 § 817's": the Legislature enacted more than one unit under that number; each is printed.
- The Legislature enacted more than one section numbered 817; this is number 2 as the Senate prints them.
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