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NY Educ L § 1709-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1709-A - Powers of Boards of Education to Ban Fraternities, Sororities and Other Secret Societies.

§ 1709-a. Powers   of   boards   of  education  to  ban  fraternities,   sororities and other secret societies.  1. In its discretion, the  board   of education of each school district, may adopt rules and regulations to   abolish and/or prohibit any fraternity, sorority or other secret society   in any secondary school under its jurisdiction.1  (a)  Prior to the adoption and promulgation of a rule or regulation   in accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of this section  by   any  board  of education of a school district, the board of education of   the school district must find that the fraternity,  sorority  or  secret   society  group  has  by  virtue  of  its  activities caused or created a   disruption of  or  interference  with  the  academic  processes  of  any   secondary  school  within  its  jurisdiction  or  caused  or created any   interference  with  or  disruption  of  the  academic  progress  of  any   individual  student  or  students  in  any  secondary  school within its   jurisdiction.2. For the purposes of this chapter a fraternity, sorority  or  secret   society shall mean any organization composed wholly or in part of pupils   enrolled in public secondary schools which exists or seeks to perpetuate   itself  by taking in additional members from the pupils enrolled in such   schools on the decision of the membership  rather  than  upon  the  free   choice of any pupil in such school but shall not be construed to include   organizations  institutionally  sponsored by agencies of public welfare,   the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl  Scouts  of  America,  the  Campfire   Girls,  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  Young  Women's  Christian   Association,  Young  Men's  Hebrew  Association,  Young  Women's  Hebrew   Association, Catholic Youth Organization, Kiwanis International, Hi-Y or   other similar organizations without limitation to the foregoing.3.  Upon  and  after  the  adoption  and  promulgation  of  a  rule or   regulation in accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of  this   section  by  the  board  of  education of any such school district, such   board of education may in any secondary school under  it's  jurisdiction   discipline any pupil who shall promise to join, or shall become a member   of,  or shall remain a member of, or shall solicit other persons to join   any such fraternity, sorority or secret society.
NY Educ L § 1710 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1710 - Boards of Education Have Powers of Trustees of Common Schools and Trustees of Academies.

§ 1710. Boards  of education have powers of trustees of common schools   and trustees of academies.   The board of  education  of  a  union  free   school  district  shall  possess  all  the powers and privileges, and be   subject to all the duties, which the trustees of common school districts   possess or are subject to under this chapter,  not  especially  provided   for  in  this  article, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this   article, including, but not limited to, those provided for  in  sections   sixteen  hundred four, sixteen hundred six to sixteen hundred seventeen,   both inclusive, and sixteen hundred nineteen of this chapter; and  shall   enjoy, whenever an academic department shall be by them established, all   the  immunities  and privileges now enjoyed by the trustees of academies   in this state.
NY Educ L § 1712 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1712 - Kindergartens; Nursery and Night Schools.

§ 1712. Kindergartens;  nursery  and  night schools.   1. The board of   education of each school district may maintain kindergartens which shall   be free to resident children between the ages of  four  and  six  years,   provided, however, such board may fix a higher minimum age for admission   to such kindergartens.2.  A  board of education may  maintain nursery schools which shall be   free to resident children and may fix the age for admission.3. Night schools wherein  the  common  branches  and  such  additional   subjects  as  may  be  adapted  to students applying for instruction are   taught on at least two nights each week, for two hours each night, shall   be maintained by the board of education  and  in  each  school  district   where  twenty  or more persons from seventeen to twenty-one years of age   are required to attend upon evening instruction, or where twenty or more   persons over the age of sixteen years make applications for  instruction   in a night school, on at least fifty nights.  All night schools shall be   free to all persons residing in the district.
NY Educ L § 1713 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1713 - Academy May Be Adopted as Academic Department.

§ 1713. Academy  may  be  adopted as academic department.   Whenever a   union free school district shall be established under the provisions  of   article  thirty-one,  and  there  shall  exist  within  the  district an   academy, the board of education, when authorized by a vote of the voters   of the district, may adopt such academy as the  academic  department  of   the  district,  with  the  consent  of  the trustees of the academy, and   thereupon the trustees by a resolution to be attested by the  signatures   of the officers of the board and filed in the office of the clerk of the   county,  shall  declare  their  offices  vacant, and thereafter the said   academy shall be the academic  department  of  such  union  free  school   district.    The board of education when thereto authorized by a vote of   the qualified voters of the district may lease said  academy  and  site,   and  maintain the academic department of such union free school district   therein and thereon.
NY Educ L § 1714 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1714 - Contracts With Academies.

§ 1714. Contracts  with academies.   The board of education of a union   free  school  district,  with  the  approval  of  the  commissioner   of   education,  may adopt an academy as the academic department thereof, and   contract for the  instruction  therein  of  pupils  of  academic  grade,   residing  in  the district.   The academy thereupon becomes the academic   department of such union free  school  district,  and  the  district  is   entitled  to  the  same  rights  and  privileges, is subject to the same   duties, and the apportionment and distribution  of  state  school  money   shall  be  made to it, as if an academic department had been established   in such district.
NY Educ L § 1715 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1715 - Retransfer of Academy to Its Former Trustees.

§ 1715. Retransfer  of academy to its former trustees.  If there shall   be, in a dissolved union free school district, an  academy  which  shall   have  been  adopted  as the academic department of the union free school   district, under the provisions  of  title  nine,  chapter  five  hundred   fifty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-four, and any amendment   thereof, or title eight of chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of   eighteen  hundred  ninety-four, and any amendment thereof, or under this   chapter, it shall, upon the application of a majority of  the  surviving   resident former trustees or stockholders, be transferred by the board of   education to said former trustees or stockholders.
NY Educ L § 1717 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1717 - Corporate Authorities Must Raise Tax Certified by Board of Education.

§ 1717. Corporate  authorities  must  raise  tax certified by board of   education.  1. The corporate authorities of any incorporated village  in   which  any  such  union free school district shall be established, shall   have power, and it shall be their duty, to raise, from time to time,  by   tax,  to be levied upon all the real property in said village, as by law   provided for the defraying of the expenses of its municipal  government,   such  sum  as  the  board of education established therein shall declare   necessary for teachers' salaries and the ordinary contingent expenses of   supporting the schools of said district.2. The sums so declared necessary shall be set  forth  in  a  detailed   statement  in  writing,  addressed  to  the corporate authorities by the   board  of  education,  giving  the  various  purposes   of   anticipated   expenditure,  and  the amount necessary for each; and the said corporate   authorities shall have no power to withhold the sums so declared  to  be   necessary;  and such corporate authorities as aforesaid shall have power   and it shall be their duty to raise,  from  time  to  time,  by  tax  as   aforesaid,  any such further sum to be set forth in a detailed statement   in writing, addressed to the  corporate  authorities  by  the  board  of   education,  giving the various purposes of the proposed expenditure, and   the amount necessary for each which may have been or which may hereafter   be authorized by a majority of the voters  of  such  union  free  school   district  present  and  voting  at  any  special  district  meeting duly   convened for any of the purposes stated in section four hundred  sixteen   of this chapter.
NY Educ L § 1718 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1718 - Limitation Upon Expenditures.

§ 1718. Limitation  upon expenditures.  1. No board of education shall   incur a district liability in excess of the  amount  appropriated  by  a   district  meeting  unless  such  board is specially authorized by law to   incur such liability.2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,   grants  in  aid  received  from  the  state  and federal governments for   specific  purposes,  other  state  grants  in  aid  identified  by   the   commissioner  for  general  use  as specified by the board of education,   other gifts which are required to be spent  for  particular  objects  or   purposes  and insurance proceeds received for the loss, theft, damage or   destruction of real or personal property, when proposed to  be  used  or   applied  to  repair  or  replace  such  property, may be appropriated by   resolution of the board of education at any time  for  such  objects  or   purposes.
NY Educ L § 1720 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1720 - Moneys and Accounts in Union Free School Districts.

§ 1720. Moneys  and  accounts in union free school districts.  1.  All   moneys raised in a union free school district or apportioned thereto  by   the education department or otherwise, shall be paid to the treasurer of   the district entitled to receive the same, and be applied to the uses of   the  district  and the board shall annually render their accounts of all   moneys received and expended by them for the use of said schools.2. No money shall be drawn from  such  funds  in  possession  of  such   treasurer,  unless  in  pursuance  of a resolution of said board, and on   voucher-order checks signed by the treasurer, payable to  the  order  of   the persons entitled to receive such money and stating on their face the   purpose or service for which said moneys have been authorized to be paid   by  the  said  board  of  education.   The board of education may in its   discretion require that such checks be countersigned by another  officer   of  such  district.    When  authorized  by  resolution  of the board of   education such checks may be signed with the facsimile signature of  the   treasurer  and  other  district  officer whose signature is required, as   reproduced by a machine or device  commonly  known  as  a  check-signer.   Such  board  may  by  resolution designate one of its members other than   said other officer whose signature  is  required  or  appoint  a  deputy   treasurer  who  shall serve at the discretion of the board, to sign such   checks in lieu of either the treasurer or other officer whose  signature   is  required,  in  case of their absence or inability, provided that any   board member or deputy treasurer so authorized shall, before  acting  in   the  place  and  stead  of  the  treasurer, execute and file an official   undertaking in an amount and in the manner required as to such treasurer   pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.  No resolution of the board,   however, shall be necessary for the payment of compensation for services   of an officer or employee engaged at agreed  wages  by  the  hour,  day,   week,  month or year, where the name of such officer or employee appears   upon a duly certified payroll, or of the principal  of  or  interest  on   indebtedness of the district.  By resolution duly adopted, the board may   determine  to  enter  into  a contract to provide for the deposit of the   periodic payroll of the school district in a bank or trust  company  for   disbursal by it in accordance with provisions of section ninety-six-b of   the banking law.
NY Educ L § 1721 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1721 - Records; Reports.

§ 1721. Records;  reports.    It  shall  be  the  duty of the board of   education of a union free school district to keep an accurate record  of   all  its  proceedings in books provided for that purpose.  It shall also   be the duty of said board to cause to be published once  in  each  year,   during  the month of July or during the month of August, in at least one   public newspaper, published in such district or, if one public newspaper   is not published in such district, then in  a  public  newspaper  having   general circulation within such district, a full and detailed account of   all  moneys received by the board or the treasurer of said district, for   its account and use, and of all the moneys expended therefor, giving the   items of expenditure in full; should there be no paper published  in  or   having general circulation within said district said board shall publish   such  account  by  notice to the taxpayers, by posting copies thereof in   five public places in said district.
NY Educ L § 1722 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1722 - Application of Article.

§ 1722. Application  of article.  The provisions of this article shall   apply to all union free school districts heretofore  organized  pursuant   to  the  provisions  of chapter four hundred thirty-three of the laws of   eighteen hundred fifty-three, and the amendments thereof,  chapter  five   hundred  fifty-five  of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-four, and the   amendments thereof, and of chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of   eighteen hundred ninety-four and the amendments  thereof;  and  sections   seventeen  hundred  seventeen,  four  hundred one, subdivision one, four   hundred sixteen and seventeen hundred nineteen,  subdivision  three,  of   this  chapter are made applicable to all school districts established by   and organized under  special  statutes,  except  those  of  cities;  and   sections seventeen hundred eleven and four hundred one, subdivision two,   of  this  chapter  are  made  applicable to all school districts, except   those of cities, having  a  population  of  five  thousand  and  upwards   established by and organized under special statutes.
NY Educ L § 1723-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1723-A - Temporary Investment of School Moneys.

§ 1723-a. Temporary  investment  of  school  moneys.    The  board  of   education of any union free school district may authorize  the  district   treasurer  or  other officer having custody of district moneys to invest   moneys of the district in the manner provided by section eleven  of  the   general municipal law.
NY Educ L § 1724 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1724 - Form and Audit of Claims.

§ 1724. Form and audit of claims. 1. No claim against a central school   district  or  a  union free school district, except for compensation for   services of an officer or employee engaged at agreed wages by the  hour,   day,  week,  month  or  year  or  for  the  principal  of or interest on   indebtedness of the district, shall be paid unless an  itemized  voucher   therefor approved by the officer whose action gave rise or origin to the   claim,  shall  have  been  presented  to  the  board of education of the   district and shall have been audited and allowed. The board of education   shall be authorized, but not required, to prescribe  the  form  of  such   voucher.2.  The  board of education, in considering any claim, may require any   person presenting the same to be sworn before it or  before  any  member   thereof  and  to give testimony relative to the justness and accuracy of   such claim, and may take evidence and examine witnesses  under  oath  in   respect  to  the claim, and for that purpose may issue subpoenas for the   attendance of witnesses. When a claim has been finally  audited  by  the   board  of  education  the  clerk of such board shall endorse or attach a   certificate of such audit upon the claim or upon an  abstract  on  which   such  claims  are  listed  and  file  the same as a public record in his   office. When any claim has been so audited and a certificate thereof  so   filed,  the  clerk  of  the  board  of  education  shall  draw a warrant   specifying the name of the claimant, the amount allowed  and  the  fund,   function  and  object chargeable therewith and such other information as   may be deemed necessary and essential, directed to the treasurer of  the   district,  authorizing  and  directing  him  to  pay to the claimant the   amount allowed upon his claim. A copy of such warrant shall be filed  in   the office of the clerk.3.  The  board of education may by resolution authorize the payment in   advance of audit of claims for public utility services, postage, freight   and express charges. All such claims shall  be  presented  at  the  next   regular meeting for audit, and the claimant and the officer incurring or   approving  the same shall be jointly and severally liable for any amount   disallowed by the board of education.As used in this subdivision, the term public  utility  services  shall   mean electric, gas, water, sewer and telephone services.
NY Educ L § 1725 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1725 - Lease of Personal Property.

§ 1725. Lease  of  personal  property.   1. Notwithstanding any incon-   sistent provision of law, a board of education of any union free  school   district may enter into agreements for the lease of personal property.2.  Before  executing  any such agreement, the board of education must   adopt a resolution determining  that  such  agreement  is  in  the  best   financial interests of the school district and stating the bases of that   determination.3. No agreement for the lease of personal property shall be for a term   of  more  than  the  current  school year unless such agreement shall be   approved by the voters of the district, either as a separate proposition   or as an appropriation with indication  that  a  lease  is  intended  or   possible,  or  unless  the board of education shall have determined that   such lease of property is an ordinary contingent expense.4. Such agreements shall be subject to the bidding requirements of the   general municipal law for purchase contracts.
NY Educ L § 1725-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 35 - Union Free School Districts 1725-A - Powers of Boards of Education; Instructional Equipment.

§ 1725-a. Powers  of  boards  of  education;  instructional equipment.   Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  board   of   education  of  any school district is hereby authorized and empowered to   enter into agreements for the lease-purchase of instructional equipment,   with the payments to be  applied  against  the  purchase  price  of  the   equipment.  The  term  "instructional  equipment"  shall  be  defined in   regulations by the  commissioner.  Any  such  lease-purchase  agreements   shall  have  the  prior  written  approval  of  the  commissioner before   execution. Such agreements shall be subject to the bidding  requirements   of the general municipal law.
NY Educ L § 1805 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 37 - Central School Districts 1805 - Powers of Central School District; Officers of Component Districts; Transition State Aid.

§ 1805. Powers  of  central  school  district;  officers  of component   districts; transition state aid.   All central  school  districts  shall   have the same powers and be subject to the same limitations that are now   conferred or imposed by law upon union free school districts as provided   by  this  chapter.    The  district  officers  of  the  several existing   districts shall remain in  office  until  August  first  next  following   organization  of  such  central  school  district  for  the  purpose  of   conducting and maintaining school in the several districts, the carrying   out of contracts in force at  the  time  of  the  organization  of  such   central  school  district,  of  paying all just debts and obligations of   such existing districts due and payable  on  or  prior  to  said  August   first,  and  of  levying  and collecting taxes raised or necessary to be   raised for any of said purposes.  For the purposes of the  apportionment   and  payment  of  public moneys, notwithstanding any other provisions of   this article, any apportionments and payments  made  during  the  school   year  in  which  such  central  school  district  was organized shall be   apportioned and credited to the existing districts.  Any  apportionments   made  and  paid  during  the school year next succeeding the date of the   organization of such central school district shall be made and  credited   to  the  central  school  district  but  the  amounts  thereof  shall be   determined upon the basis of the continuance of the  existing  districts   as  separate  districts  during  the  entire  school  year in which such   central school district was organized.