§ 664. Concurrent awards. 1. a. No person shall receive benefits
concurrently from more than one academic performance award under this
chapter, except for the regents scholarship in Cornell university. Nor
shall any person receive benefits from an academic performance award
under this chapter concurrently with any scholarship, grant, or
educational assistance under federal law that, in the judgment of the
commissioner would duplicate the purpose of such academic performance
award, except United States war orphan educational benefits or benefits
under the veterans' readjustment benefits act of nineteen hundred
sixty-six.

b. A person may receive concurrently a tuition assistance program
award, a regents award for children of deceased and disabled veterans
and a regents award for children of deceased police officers,
firefighters and volunteer firefighters, and correction officers of the
state or any political subdivision thereof, and may also receive
benefits under one or all of these awards concurrently with an academic
performance award or federal or other awards. However, in the case of
the regents awards for children of deceased state correction officers
and state civilian employees of a correctional facility received
pursuant to the provisions of section six hundred sixty-nine of this
article, no person shall receive benefits under this award concurrently
with any other general or academic performance award under this chapter,
or with any scholarship, grant, or educational assistance under federal
law that, in the judgment of the commissioner would duplicate the
purposes of such award.

c. A person may receive concurrently a tuition assistance award and a
scholarship for academic achievement pursuant to subdivision eighteen of
section three hundred fifty-five of this chapter.

2. Where concurrent use of two or more awards is not permitted under
this section, a student qualifying for two or more awards must choose
which award he wishes to accept.

3. The board shall promulgate, subject to the approval of the regents,
rules and regulations which shall govern the use of state awards and
loans concurrently with awards and loans granted to a student by any
other political entity or subdivision, institute, corporation, agency,
or foundation.