NY Educ L § 1505 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 31 - School Districts 1505 - Dissolution, Reformation and Construction of Districts.

§ 1505. Dissolution,  reformation  and  construction of districts.  1.   Any district superintendent by order may dissolve one or more  districts   and  may from such territory form a new district. He may also unite such   territory or a portion  thereof,  by  order,  to  any  adjoining  school   district  including  a union free school district having a population of   forty-five hundred or more and employing a superintendent of schools but   excepting a city school district. He shall  file  such  order  with  the   clerks of the school districts affected and also with the town clerks of   the  towns  in  which  the  districts  are  located, and a copy with the   commissioner of education. Such order  shall  designate  the  date  upon   which  it  shall  take  effect, which shall be not less than ninety days   after the date of filing. If such action is  to  affect  a  district  or   districts within the territory of more than one superintendent, it shall   be  taken by a majority of them, at a meeting duly called by one or more   of them.2. Within thirty days after the  filing  of  the  order  any  district   affected thereby may at a meeting duly called, by a majority vote of the   legally  qualified  voters  thereof  present and voting at such meeting,   present to the county judge of the  county  in  which  the  district  is   located,  a statement in writing that such district objects to the order   and requests the appointment of a committee as provided in this section.   Such judge, within ten days after  the  filing  of  such  statement  and   request,  shall  appoint  a  committee  of  three disinterested persons,   residents of the county or counties in which the districts affected  are   located  but nonresidents of such school districts, at least two of whom   shall reside outside of an incorporated village or village district, and   shall designate one of such committee to act as  chairman  thereof,  and   shall,  at  the  time  of  the appointment, file with such chairman such   statement and  request  and  a  certificate  of  such  appointments  and   designation.  Within thirty days after the receipt of such papers by the   chairman, such committee shall call a hearing and decide the matter, and   the decision shall be final unless duly  appealed  from  as  hereinafter   provided.  Such decision shall either affirm, vacate or modify the order   of the district superintendent or superintendents,  and,  together  with   the  papers  and  evidence  in  the  matter,  shall  be  filed  with the   commissioner of education  by  the  chairman  of  such  committee.  Such   committee  also shall file a copy of its decision with the clerks of the   school districts affected, and also with the town clerks of the towns in   which the districts are located and with the district superintendent  or   superintendents  who  made  the  original  order. In the event that such   committee does not make and file its decision as hereinbefore  provided,   then  the  order of the district superintendent or superintendents shall   become effective in accordance with its terms, and the members  of  such   committee  shall  not  be  entitled to receive their fees as hereinafter   provided. The members of such committee shall each be  entitled  to  ten   dollars  for  each day actually and necessarily spent in the business of   the committee, and the amount thereof shall be a charge upon the  school   districts  affected,  in  proportion  to  the  actual  valuation of such   districts. Within twenty  days  from  the  making  and  filing  of  such   decision,  any  district  affected  may  at  a meeting duly called, by a   majority vote of  the  legally  qualified  voters  thereof  present  and   voting,  appeal  to the commissioner of education as provided in article   seven of this chapter.