§ 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.