11 - Definitions. - New York Statutes

* § 11. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "School property" shall mean in or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground, parking lot, or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public elementary or secondary school; or in or on a school bus, as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law. 2. "School function" shall mean a school-sponsored extra-curricular event or activity. 3. "Disability" shall mean disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law. 4. "Employee" shall mean employee as defined in subdivision three of section eleven hundred twenty-five of this title. 5. "Sexual orientation" shall mean actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. 6. "Gender" shall mean actual or perceived sex and shall include a person's gender identity or expression. 7. "Harassment" shall mean the creation of a hostile environment by conduct or by verbal threats, intimidation or abuse that has or would have the effect of unreasonably and substantially interfering with a student's educational performance, opportunities or benefits, or mental, emotional or physical well-being; or conduct, verbal threats, intimidation or abuse that reasonably causes or would reasonably be expected to cause a student to fear for his or her physical safety; such conduct, verbal threats, intimidation or abuse includes but is not limited to conduct, verbal threats, intimidation or abuse based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex. * NB Effective July 1, 2012