§ 225 — Unlawful acts in respect to examinations and records

§ 225. Unlawful acts in respect to examinations and records. A person\nwho shall:\n 1. Personate or attempt to offer to personate another person in\ntaking, or attempting or offering to take an examination held in\naccordance with this chapter or with the rules of the university; or\n 2. Take, or attempt or offer to take, such an examination in the name\nof any other person; or\n 3. Procure any other person to falsely personate him or to take, or\nattempt or offer to take, any such examination in his name; or\n 4. Have in his possession question papers to be used in any such\nexamination, when not contained in their sealed wrappers, or copies of\nsuch papers or questions, at any time prior to the date set for such\nexamination, unless duly authorized by the regents or the commissioner\nof education; or\n 5. Sell or offer to sell question papers or any questions prepared for\nuse in any examination held in accordance with this chapter or with the\nrules of the university; or\n 6. Use in any such examination any question papers or questions, or\nsecure or prepare the answers to such questions prior to the time set\nfor the examination; or\n 7. Willfully and wrongfully disclose or transmit to any person the\nquestions or answers to such examination prior to the time set for such\nexamination, unless duly authorized by the regents, commissioner of\neducation or appropriate school authorities or otherwise provided by\nlaw, or willfully and wrongfully destroy, falsify or conceal the records\nor results of such examination from the appropriate authorities to whom\nsuch records or results are required to be transmitted in accordance\nwith this chapter, the rules of the regents, the regulations of the\ncommissioner, or the by-laws, rules or regulations of such school\nauthorities; or\n 8. Transmit to the state education department answers to questions\nused in any such examination which are prepared or written outside of\nthe period of examination, or alter any such answers after such period\nis closed; or\n 9. Secure or attempt to secure any credential regularly issued by the\nuniversity, which is based upon such examination or based upon a course\nor courses of study in any institution of learning or educational\ninstitution approved by the university, which he has not actually passed\nor completed; or\n 9-a. Knowingly and willfully make an unauthorized and false alteration\nor representation of any official records related to a student and\nmaintained by a school or college under the supervision of the regents,\nthe commissioner, or the university of the state of New York, including\nidentifying data, grades, records of attendance, records of student\nachievement, assessment results, disciplinary records, and\nindividualized education programs.\n 10. Otherwise secure or attempt to secure the record of having passed\nsuch examination or of having been issued or of having been given credit\ntoward such credential in violation of the university rules; is guilty\nof a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for a\nfirst offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars or imprisonment\nfor not less than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,\nand for a second offense by a fine of not less than two hundred and\nfifty dollars or imprisonment for not less than six months or by both\nsuch fine and imprisonment.\n 11. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision ten of this section,\na violation of this section shall also constitute grounds for\ndisciplinary action in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,\nthe rules of the regents, the regulations of the commissioner, or the\nby-laws, rules or regulations of such school authorities.\n