§ 4357. School district and social services district financial
responsibility. 1. Financial responsibilities. School districts and
social services districts shall be responsible for the costs of tuition
and maintenance, respectively, for children attending the New York state
school for the deaf during the September first through June thirtieth
session. Such costs shall be established pursuant to section forty-four
hundred five of this chapter. a. The school district of which any such
child is resident at the time of admission or readmission to the New
York State school for the deaf pursuant to this article shall be
required to reimburse the state in an amount equal to the tuition
payments made to the state school by the state on behalf of the school
district. The comptroller shall deduct the appropriate tuition amounts
from any state funds which become due to a school district for each year
in which such child is in attendance at such school, and shall deposit
such funds to the special revenue accounts established for such purpose.
Any tuition amounts deducted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
included in the approved operating expense of the school district
pursuant to paragraph t of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred
two of this chapter.

b. The social services district in which any such child is resident at
the time of admission or readmission to the New York state school for
the deaf pursuant to this article shall be required to reimburse the
state in an amount equal to the maintenance payments made to the state
school by the state on behalf of the social services district. The
comptroller may deduct the appropriate maintenance amounts from any
state funds which become due to a social services district for each year
in which such child is in attendance at such school only upon
notification by the commissioner of social services after receiving
notice by the commissioner of education that such social services
district has failed to remit the required maintenance payments within
ninety days of the date on which such social services district is billed
by the state for services rendered, and shall deposit such amount to the
special revenue accounts established for such purpose.

2. Payment for preschool children with handicapping conditions. The
state share of the costs of tuition, maintenance and transportation for
preschool children attending the New York state school for the deaf
during the July and August summer session and the September through June
session shall be paid from the state moneys appropriated in support of
the provisions of section forty-four hundred ten of this chapter. The
remaining share shall be a charge on the county, or the city of New
York, of which any such child is resident at the time of admission or
readmission to such school. The state share shall be as set forth in
paragraph b of subdivision eleven of section forty-four hundred ten of
this chapter. For the purposes of this subdivision "preschool child"
shall mean a child not eligible, by reason of age, for the deaf-infant
program pursuant to section forty-two hundred four-a of this chapter and
not eligible, by reason of age, to attend the public schools pursuant to
section thirty-two hundred two of this chapter, provided that a child
shall be deemed a preschool child through the month of August of the
school year in which the child first becomes eligible to attend the
public schools. Preschool education charges on a county, or the city of
New York, pursuant to this subdivision shall be deducted by the
comptroller within thirty days of the issuance of a warrant by the
commissioner from any state funds which become due to a county, or the
city of New York, and be credited to the special revenue account
established for such purpose. Such tuition, maintenance and
transportation costs shall be determined pursuant to section forty-four
hundred five of this chapter.

3. Deaf infants. The full costs of a deaf-infant program, as
determined by the commissioner of education and approved by the director
of the budget, for children below the age of three served by the New
York state school for the deaf pursuant to section forty-two hundred
four-a of this chapter shall be paid from the state moneys appropriated
in support of such section forty-two hundred four-a.