N.Y. Education Law Section 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: Section 496 — Legislative declaration, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EDN/496 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 6, 2025).

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