§ 1704. Length of school year, and expenditure of funds. 1. No board
of education or community board in the city school district of the city
of New York, except as otherwise provided by law, shall authorize or
permit the expenditure of funds under its control at a rate which will
exhaust the amount appropriated prior to the conclusion of the period or
the completion of the purpose for which such funds were appropriated.

2. Except as otherwise provided by law, no board of education or
community board in the city school district of the city of New York
shall provide for a school year consisting of fewer than one hundred
eighty days of school.