New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Chapter XX - Higher Education Services Corporation
Subchapter C - General Awards, Academic Performance Awards, Fellowships and Other Awards
Part 2201 - General Eligibility Criteria
Section 2201.7 - American airlines flight 587 memorial scholarship
Universal Citation: 8 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 2201.7
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Authority. The provisions contained within this regulation are made pursuant to authority granted to the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation in sections 653, 655 and 668-f of the Education Law.
(b) Definitions. As used in sections 604 and 668-f of the Education Law:
(1) the term American Airlines Flight 587
Memorial Scholarship (hereinafter scholarship) may also be known as the New
York State Flight 587 Memorial Scholarship;
(2) the term children shall be that found in
section
601 of the
Education Law;
(3) the term spouse
shall mean the legal spouse;
(4)
the term financial dependent shall mean a person who is dependent for his or
her support upon an individual who has died as a direct result of the crash of
American Airlines Flight 587 in Rockaway, Queens on November 12, 2001, upon a
showing of unilateral dependence or mutual interdependence upon such individual
which may be evidenced by a nexus of factors, including, but not limited to,
common ownership of property, common house- holding, shared budgeting, and the
length of the relationship between the financial dependent and such
individual;
(5) the term persons
who died as a direct result of the crash shall include the 260 persons aboard
the aircraft as well as the six persons on the ground at the crash site when
the crash occurred who died as a result thereof.
(c) Eligibility.
(1) Eligible recipients under section
668-f(1) of the Education
Law may be residents or non-residents of New York State and shall attend
institutions of higher education within New York State.
(2) New York State residents attending out of
state institutions of higher education may be eligible to receive scholarships
in accordance with sections
604 and
668-f of the Education Law if on August 2,
2005, they were matriculated and in attendance at an institution meeting the
eligibility requirements of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended, and were New York State residents at the time.
(d) Burden of proof.
(1) It shall be the responsibility of the
applicant or his or her agent to provide documentation establishing eligibility
for the scholarship.
(2)
Documentation may include death and birth certificates, marriage and driver's
licenses, joint bank statements or other financial statements, Federal or State
tax filings, social security cards, court documents, utility bills, or such
other documentation as may be required by the corporation.
(3) Determinations will be based on a
totality of the documentation provided.
(4) Failure to provide requested
documentation or other information may lead to ineligibility.
(5) Determination of an applicant's
ineligibility will be final on the date the notice of ineligibility is received
by the applicant; however, an ineligible applicant may be reconsidered if
additional information is provided that so warrants.
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