NY Educ L § 1522 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 31 - School Districts 1522 - Notice of Meeting for Establishment of Union Free School District.

§  1522.  Notice  of  meeting  for  establishment of union free school   district. 1. Whenever fifteen persons entitled to vote at any meeting of   the inhabitants of any common school district in this state, shall  sign   a  request  for  a  meeting,  to  be held for the purpose of determining   whether a union free school district shall  be  established  therein  in   conformity  with the provisions of this article, it shall be the duty of   the trustees of such district, within ten days after such request  shall   have been presented to them, to give public notice that a meeting of the   inhabitants  of  such district entitled to vote thereat will be held for   such purpose as aforesaid, at the schoolhouse, or  other  more  suitable   place  in such district, on a day and at an hour to be specified in such   notice not less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  thirty  days  after  the   publication of such notice.2.  If the trustees shall refuse to give such notice, or shall neglect   to give the same for twenty days,  the  commissioner  of  education  may   authorize and direct any inhabitant of such district to give the same.3.  Whenever  such district shall correspond wholly or in part with an   incorporated village, in which there  shall  be  published  a  daily  or   weekly  newspaper, the notice required in this section shall be given by   posting the same in five conspicuous places in said district,  at  least   twenty  days  prior  to  such  meeting,  and  by  causing the same to be   published once a week for three consecutive weeks before  such  meeting,   in all the newspapers published in said district.4.  In  other such districts the said notice shall be given by posting   the same as aforesaid, and in addition thereto,  the  trustees  of  such   district  shall  authorize and require any taxable inhabitant thereof to   notify every other qualified voter in such district of such  meeting  by   delivering  to  him a copy of such notice or in case of his absence from   home, by leaving a copy thereof, or so much thereof as  relates  to  the   time,  place  and  object  of  the meeting, at the place of his abode at   least twenty days prior to the time of such meeting.5. Whenever fifteen persons, entitled as aforesaid, from each  of  two   or  more  adjoining districts, shall unite in a request for a meeting of   the inhabitants of such districts, to determine whether  such  districts   shall  be  consolidated  by  the  establishment  of  a union free school   district therein,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  such   districts,  or a majority of them, to submit such proposed consolidation   to the commissioner of  education  for  approval.  If  the  commissioner   approve  such  proposed  consolidation,  it  shall  be  the duty of such   trustees, or a majority of them, to give public notice of such  meeting,   at  some  convenient  place within such districts, and as central as may   be, within the time and to be published and served  in  the  manner  set   forth  in this section, in each of such districts and to provide for the   use  of  absentee  ballots  as  provided  under  section  two   thousand   eighteen-a  or  two thousand eighteen-b of this chapter, whichever shall   apply.6. The commissioner of education may  order  such  meeting  under  the   conditions and in the manner prescribed in this section.7.  The  reasonable  expense  of  the  publication and service of such   notice shall be chargeable upon the  district,  in  case  a  union  free   school  district is established by the meeting so convened, to be levied   and collected by the trustees, as in case of  taxes  levied  for  school   purposes;  but  in  the event that such union free school district shall   not be established, then the said expense shall be chargeable  upon  the   inhabitants  signing the request, jointly and severally, to be sued for,   if necessary, in any court having jurisdiction of the same.