NY Educ L § 2105 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials Part 1 - General Provisions 2105 - Terms of Office.

§ 2105. Terms of office.  1. In a common school district having a sole   trustee the term of office of trustee shall be one year.2.  In a common school district having three trustees the full term of   office of trustee shall be three years.3. In a central school district or a union-free school  district,  the   full  term of office of trustee shall be three, four or five years.  Any   such school district may decrease the full term of a school  trustee  to   three  or  four  years  or increase the full term of a school trustee to   four or five years by adopting a proposition at any  annual  meeting  or   election  to  do  so; provided, however, that the term of office of each   incumbent trustee shall not  be  increased  or  decreased  thereby;  and   provided,  further,  that  whenever  a  proposition  shall be adopted to   increase the term of office from three or four years to five  years,  or   to  decrease  the term of office from four or five years to three years,   such proposition shall provide that one or more of the vacancies  to  be   filled,  during  each of the three years next succeeding the adoption of   such proposition, shall be for three or four years only in  order  that,   as  nearly  as possible, an equal number of trustees shall be elected to   the board each year.4. Trustees may be elected for shorter periods as  otherwise  provided   in this chapter.5.  The  term of office of a trustee elected at the first meeting of a   newly created common school district having a sole trustee shall  expire   on the first Tuesday of May next thereafter.6.  The  term  of  office  of all other district officers shall be one   year.7. One year, within the meaning of this section, is a school year.8. When a new union free school district is formed, the meeting, after   determining the number of members  of  the  board  of  education  to  be   elected,  shall  proceed  to elect members of the board of education for   various terms not in excess of five years so that as nearly as  possible   an  equal number of vacancies shall occur on the board of education each   year.9. When the number of members of the board of  education  of  a  union   free  school  district  is  increased,  the  additional members shall be   elected for such terms not in excess of five years so that thereafter as   nearly as possible an equal number of terms shall expire each year.10. When the number of members of the board of education  of  a  union   free  school  district is decreased, no election shall be held until the   number of members of the board of education shall be equal to or be less   than the number of members to which the board of education is decreased.   At elections thereafter, the members of the board of education shall  be   elected  for such terms not in excess of five years so that as nearly as   possible an equal number of members shall be elected to the  board  each   year.11.  a. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary,   in any union free school district whose boundaries are  not  coterminous   with those of an incorporated village, except a central school district,   which  under  the  provisions  of  law  in effect on May first, nineteen   hundred fifty-seven, elected members to the board  of  education  for  a   term  of  three  years, the qualified voters of the district present and   voting at the annual meeting of  such  district  held  during  the  year   nineteen  hundred  fifty-eight,  may adopt a resolution determining that   members of the board of education of such district shall be elected  for   a  term  of  three  years.  A certified copy of such resolution shall be   filed with the commissioner of education  on  or  before  August  first,   nineteen  hundred  fifty-eight.    The  voters  of any such district may    rescind such resolution by a majority vote of  the  voters  present  and   voting at a special or annual meeting of the district.b.  Notwithstanding  any provision of this section to the contrary, in   any central school district whose boundaries are  not  coterminous  with   those  of  an incorporated village, the qualified voters of the district   present and voting at the annual meeting of such  district  held  during   the  year nineteen hundred fifty-nine may adopt a resolution determining   that members of the board of education of such district shall be elected   for a term of three years. A certified copy of such resolution shall  be   filed  with  the  commissioner  of  education on or before August first,   nineteen hundred fifty-nine.   The  voters  of  any  such  district  may   rescind any such resolution by a majority vote of the voters present and   voting at a special or annual meeting of the district.c.  Notwithstanding  any provision of this section to the contrary, in   any union free school district, the boundaries of which are  coterminous   with those of an incorporated village, which under the provisions of law   in  effect  on  April twenty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, elected   members of the  board  of  education  for  terms  of  three  years,  the   qualified  voters  of  the  district  present  and  voting at the annual   meeting  of  such  district  held  during  the  year  nineteen   hundred   sixty-one,  may adopt a resolution determining that members of the board   of education of such district shall be  elected  for  a  term  of  three   years.  A  certified  copy  of  such  resolution shall be filed with the   commissioner of education on or before August  first,  nineteen  hundred   sixty-one.  The  voters of any such district may rescind such resolution   by a majority vote of the voters present and  voting  at  a  special  or   annual meeting of the district.12.  The  term  of  office  of  trustees of union free school district   number one of the town of Tonawanda, Erie county, shall be three years.13. Until the terms of all members of the  board  of  education  of  a   union  free school district, have become five years, or three years when   a resolution pursuant to subdivision three or subdivision eleven of this   section has been adopted, members of such board of  education  shall  be   elected  in such numbers and for such terms not in excess of five years,   or three years when  a  resolution  pursuant  to  subdivision  three  or   subdivision  eleven of this section has been adopted, so that as soon as   practicable an equal number of members of such board of  education  will   be elected each year.14.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this  chapter  to the   contrary, where a term of office expires at the end of a school year and   such position is or becomes vacant at the time of the annual meeting  or   election, the person elected to fill the full term vacancy shall also be   deemed  elected  to  fill  the  remainder  of  the  term  preceding  the   commencement of the full term.