§ 4313. School district and social services district financial responsibility. 1. Financial responsibilities. School districts and social services districts shall be responsible for the cost of tuition and maintenance, respectively, for children in attendance at the New York state school for the blind 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 blind 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 blind 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 to the state within ninety days of the date on which such social services district was billed by the state for services rendered, and shall deposit such funds to the special revenue accounts established for such purpose.