To meet the minimum statutory requirement, attendance shall be computed on the basis of an hour equaling 50 minutes. The instruction periods may be longer than 50 minutes. Course offerings must include a break in instruction of 10 minutes for every hour of instruction. The time of the breaks shall be left to the discretion of the individual education coordinators, but shall not be considered optional, nor may they be used to release the class earlier than scheduled.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 19 § 196.9