§ 40-a. Inquiry concerning religion or religious affiliations of
person seeking employment or official position in public schools
prohibited. No person, agency, bureau, corporation or association
employed or maintained to obtain or aid in obtaining positions for
teachers, principals, superintendents, clerks or other employees in the
public schools of the state of New York, and no individual or
individuals conducting or employed by or interested directly or
indirectly in such an agency, bureau, corporation or association, and no
board of education, trustee of a school district, superintendent,
principal or teacher of a public school or other official or employee of
a board of education, shall directly or indirectly ask, indicate or
transmit orally or in writing the religion or religious affiliation of
any person seeking employment or official position in the public schools
of the state of New York.