§ 3213. Supervisors of attendance; attendance teachers; attendance\nofficers; appointment, compensation, powers and duties. 1. Appointment,\nremoval, compensation and supervision. a. To the end that children shall\nnot suffer through unnecessary failure to attend school for any cause\nwhatsoever, it shall be the duty of each attendance teacher and each\nattendance supervisor to secure for every child his right to educational\nopportunities which will enable him to develop his fullest\npotentialities for education, physical, social and spiritual growth as\nan individual and to provide for the school adjustment of any\nnonattendant child in cooperation with school authorities, special\nschool services and community and social agencies.\n The school authorities of each city school district, union free school\ndistrict, central school district, central high school district, or\ncommon school district whose limits include in whole or in part an\nincorporated village, shall appoint and may remove one or more\nsupervisors of attendance or attendance teachers of such district. A\nsupervisor of attendance shall be appointed in accordance with the civil\nservice law and rules, unless he or she is a licensed attendance teacher\nor a teacher licensed to teach in New York state, with such further\nqualifications as the board of regents shall establish. On and after\nJuly first, nineteen hundred fifty-five no full-time supervisor of\nattendance shall be appointed unless he or she holds a license as\nattendance teacher. Such supervisors of attendance and those holding\nfull-time positions who are similarly licensed teachers or who hold\nattendance teacher licenses shall be assigned to the step in the salary\nschedule of the school district commensurate with the salary being paid\nsuch supervisors or teachers. Such persons shall be paid thereafter in\naccordance with such schedule. If the amount of salary received on said\nJuly first, nineteen hundred fifty-five is less than the minimum step of\nthe salary schedule, such supervisor or teacher shall be paid until June\nthirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty-six at the rate of the first step and\nin accordance with the schedule thereafter.\n No supervisor of attendance or attendance teacher shall be appointed\nwho is not twenty-one years of age and in proper physical condition.\n In the establishment of an eligible list advanced education related to\nattendance service shall be taken into consideration in the grading of\nthe candidates. Experience in teaching, in social service and welfare\nwork, and in business or in the professional field shall likewise be\ntaken into consideration.\n Paragraph a of subdivision one of this section shall apply to a city\nin which attendance supervisors are appointed from an eligible list now\nprepared by a board of examiners.\n Supervisors of attendance in a city having a board of examiners shall\nbe licensed as attendance teachers only when they comply with the\nregulations for such license as established by the commissioner of\neducation and any additional requirements which may be established by\nthe board of examiners.\n The board of education shall fix the compensation of part-time\nsupervisors of attendance and prescribe their duties not inconsistent\nwith part one of this article and make rules and regulations for the\nperformance thereof. The superintendent of schools or district\nsuperintendent of schools shall supervise the enforcement of part one of\nthis article within such city or school district.\n b. The town board of each town, with the approval, in writing, of the\ndistrict superintendent, shall appoint, on or before August first of\neach year, one or more attendance officers and shall fix their\ncompensation. During the school year it shall also fill promptly any\nvacancy after notification thereof by the district superintendent. The\ndistrict superintendent shall promptly notify the town board of his\napproval or disapproval of an appointm
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