NY Educ L § 1906 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 39 - Central High School Districts 1906 - District Meetings; Vote Upon School Taxes.

§ 1906. District  meetings;  vote  upon  school  taxes.  1. The annual   meeting and election of a central high school district shall be held  on   the  third  Tuesday  in May, provided, however, that such annual meeting   and election shall  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May  if  the   commissioner  at  the request of a local school board certifies no later   than March first  that  such  election  would  conflict  with  religious   observances,  and  any  school  budget  revote shall be held on the date   specified in subdivision three of section two  thousand  seven  of  this   title.  The  board  of  education  of every central high school district   shall hold a budget hearing prior to each annual meeting and election or   special district meeting at which a school budget vote will  occur,  and   shall  prepare  and  present  to  the  voters  at  such budget hearing a   proposed school district budget for the  ensuing  school  year.  Special   meetings  may  be called in the same manner and for the same purposes as   special meetings in union free school districts. Such meetings shall  be   held for the same purposes and in the same manner, and be subject to the   same  provisions  of  law,  except  as  may  be  provided  otherwise  in   subdivision two of this section, as like meetings in union  free  school   districts,  and  all  persons  who  are qualified electors of the school   districts included in such central high school district may vote at such   meetings.2. For any annual or special meeting the board of education may on its   own motion divide the central high school district into such  number  of   election  districts as there shall be union free school districts within   the central high  school  district.  The  boundaries  of  such  election   districts  shall  be  coterminous with the boundaries of such union free   school districts. Such meetings shall be held so far as possible in  the   public  schoolhouse within each such election district designated by the   board of education. The schoolhouse or other  place  so  designated  for   each election district shall be stated in the notice of the meeting. The   legal  voters  present  in each election district shall elect a chairman   and secretary and the chairman so elected shall appoint at  least  three   inspectors  of  election who shall canvass the result of the election in   such election district and prepare and  sign  a  statement  showing  the   results  of the voting. Each such statement shall be forthwith delivered   to the district clerk. The district clerk shall  forthwith  examine  and   tabulate  the  statements  and  prepare  a  certificate  of the combined   results of the voting,  announce  the  result  thereof  and  record  the   certificate  with  the  records  of the meeting. The proceedings, in the   event of such division, in all other respects shall be the  same  as  if   the school meeting were held in one place.3. The board of education of such district shall present at the annual   meeting  a  detailed  statement in writing of the estimated expenditures   required for the support and maintenance  of  the  central  high  school   therein  for the ensuing year. The said meeting shall vote the necessary   taxes to meet such expenditures, in the same manner as taxes  are  voted   at a district meeting in a union free school district. The provisions of   sections  seventeen hundred twenty-five and seventeen hundred sixteen to   seventeen hundred nineteen, inclusive, of this chapter,  and  all  other   provisions  relative  to  the  making  of  appropriations, the voting of   taxes, and the expenditure of moneys for the  support,  maintenance  and   expenses  of  public schools in union free school districts, shall apply   to the support, maintenance, and  expenses  of  a  central  high  school   district.4.  a.  Whenever  the  board  of  education  of  a central high school   district in the county of Nassau shall have provided  for  the  personal   registration of voters at school meetings or elections in such district,   such  board  of  education shall fix the day or days for registration by    resolution adopted not later than the fortieth day preceding each annual   or special meeting or election in such district. The last day  for  such   registration  shall  not  be  more  than eleven nor less than three days   preceding  each  annual or special meeting or election. Such board shall   forthwith notify the clerk of each component union free school  district   providing  for  personal  registration, of such registration day or days   for each annual meeting. Such board shall also notify each such clerk of   every special meeting or election in such central high  school  district   at  least  ten  days  prior  thereto.  The  board of registration of the   central high school district shall meet on the day or days fixed by such   board  of  education  for  the  purpose   of   preparing   a   register,   complementary  to  the register or registers of any component union free   school district providing for personal registration,  for  the  personal   registration  of qualified voters within any component union free school   district providing for personal  registration,  which  voters  have  not   registered  for the annual or any subsequent special meeting or election   in such union free school district, and for the personal registration of   qualified voters  of  any  component  union  free  school  district  not   providing for personal registration.b.  Whenever  personal registration of voters shall have been provided   for in any such central high school district, any qualified voter  of  a   component  union  free  school  district  who is duly registered in such   union free school district  for  the  annual  meeting  or  a  subsequent   special meeting or election therein, shall be deemed duly registered for   and  entitled  to  vote  at the annual meeting or any special meeting or   election in such central high school district occurring between the date   of such registration and the next ensuing annual meeting.c. Whenever the  board  of  education  of  such  central  high  school   district shall have so provided for registration of voters, the board of   education  of  any  component union free school district in such central   high school district, which board of education shall  have  provided  or   shall  provide for personal registration of voters at school meetings or   elections of such union free school district, shall designate the day or   days for registration so that the last day for such  registration  shall   not  be  more  than  eleven  nor less than five days preceding each such   school meeting. In designating the day or days of registration  for  the   annual meeting such board shall include the day or days which shall have   been  theretofore  designated  by  the board of education of the central   high school district as the registration day  or  days  for  the  annual   meeting  of  the  central high school district. The register prepared in   such union free school district,  in  addition  to  complying  with  the   requirements of subdivision two of section two thousand fourteen of this   chapter,  shall  include  columns  or  space  to make the proper entries   relating to any annual or special central high school  district  meeting   or election. Such register shall be delivered by the clerk of such union   free  school  district  to  the custody of the clerk of the central high   school district on the day preceding the  meeting  or  election  of  the   central  high  school  district  at  which it is to be used. It shall be   returned to the clerk of the union  free  school  district  on  the  day   following   such  meeting  or  election.  Such  register  shall  at  all   reasonable times be open to inspection by any  qualified  voter  of  the   central high school district, even though in the possession of the clerk   of such union free school district.d. The provisions of sections two thousand four, two thousand fourteen   and  two  thousand  fifteen  of  this chapter shall be applicable in any   central high school district providing for personal registration, except   as otherwise provided in this subdivision. e. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be  deemed  to  require   the  board  of  education of any component union free school district to   provide for personal registration of voters for meetings or elections in   such union free school district.5.  a. The board of education of a central high school district in the   county of Nassau, which has provided for the  personal  registration  of   voters  at  school  meetings  and  elections in such central high school   district, may, by resolution duly adopted and entered upon its  minutes,   on  its own motion divide the central high school district into election   districts.  The  boundaries  of  such  election   districts   shall   be   coterminous  with  the  boundaries  of  the  union free school districts   within the central high school district, except that where  a  component   union  free  school  district,  in turn, shall have been or hereafter is   divided into school election districts pursuant to section two  thousand   seventeen  of this chapter, such school election districts of such union   free school districts shall in such case, without further action of  the   board  of  education  of the central high school district, become and be   election districts of the central high school district.b. Where the board of education shall have so divided the central high   school district into election districts pursuant to  the  provisions  of   this subdivision, notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and   three  of this section, the vote upon the appropriation of the necessary   funds to meet the estimated expenditures  of  the  central  high  school   district and upon any propositions involving the expenditure of money by   the  central  high  school  district  or upon any other matter which may   properly be brought before the annual meeting or election of the central   high school district, shall be held at  the  same  time  as  the  annual   meetings  or elections of the component union free school districts. The   clerk of the  central  high  school  district  shall  give  the  notices   required  by  subdivision  one  of  section  two  thousand  four of this   chapter, in relation to such annual meeting.c. Where the procedure of this  subdivision  is  used,  the  board  of   education  of the central high school district shall notify the clerk of   each component union free school district  of  such  determination,  not   later  than  thirty  days  preceding the date of such annual meeting. In   such case, also, the board of  education  of  the  central  high  school   district  shall  complete  the  statement  required by section seventeen   hundred sixteen of this chapter and shall forward a sufficient number of   copies thereof to the clerk of each component union free school district   therein, not later than  ten  days  preceding  such  annual  meeting  or   election, and such copies shall thereupon be made available by the clerk   of  each  such  component  union free school district, together with the   copies of the statement relating to such  component  union  free  school   district, provided, however, that an additional supply of copies of such   statement  shall  also  be  made  available to the annual meeting of the   central high school district by the clerk of such district.d. Each  clerk  of  a  component  union  free  school  district  shall   thereupon  include  in the notices required by section two thousand four   of this chapter, relating to the annual  meeting  or  election  in  such   component union free school district, a statement to the effect that the   meeting or election will also vote on the appropriation of the necessary   funds  to  meet  the  estimated  expenditures of the central high school   district and upon any propositions involving the expenditure  of  moneys   by  the  central high school district or upon any other matter which may   be properly brought before the annual meeting or election of the central   high school district. Such appropriation and propositions, if any, shall   then appear separately upon the ballot or voting machines used  at  such   meetings or elections in such component union free school districts. The    canvass  of  the  result  of  the  vote  on  each such appropriation and   proposition relating to the central high school district shall forthwith   be certified to the clerk of  each  such  component  union  free  school   district,  who in turn shall forthwith certify such canvass to the clerk   of the central high school district. Such clerk shall forthwith  examine   and  tabulate  such statements and prepare a certificate of the combined   results of the vote,  announce  the  result  thereof  to  the  board  of   education of the central high school district and record the certificate   with the records of the meeting or election.e.  Where  the  board  of  education of a central high school district   proceeds under the provisions of this subdivision, the registration of a   qualified voter of a component  union  free  school  district  upon  the   register  of  such  union  free  school  district  shall be a sufficient   registration  for  the  purpose  of  the  vote  of  such  voter  on  the   appropriation and propositions of the central high school district.f.  When  the  board of education of such central high school district   calls a  special  meeting  or  election  of  such  central  high  school   district,  the  respective boards of registration of the component union   free school districts shall meet on such day or days as shall  be  fixed   by  the  board  of education of the central high school district and the   provisions of section two thousand fourteen of  this  chapter  shall  be   applicable  to the registration for special meetings or elections of the   central high school district,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this   subdivision.  The  canvass  of  the result of the voting at such special   meeting or election shall forthwith be certified to  the  clerk  of  the   central  high  school  district  who shall forthwith proceed in the same   manner as hereinbefore provided in the case  of  an  annual  meeting  or   election.g.  If  voting  machines  are  used in any component union free school   district of such central high school district,  the  rules  printed  and   distributed pursuant to section two thousand thirty-five of this chapter   in  such  union  free  school  district  shall  also  contain  the rules   similarly adopted or to be adopted by the  board  of  education  of  the   central  high  school district with respect to any propositions relating   to such central high school district.h. All the provisions of articles thirty-nine and  forty-one  of  this   chapter shall be applicable to any annual or special meeting or election   held  pursuant to this subdivision, except as otherwise provided in this   subdivision either expressly or by necessary implication.i. Upon an  appeal  to  the  commissioner  of  education,  substantial   compliance  with  the  procedures herein required shall be sufficient to   meet the intent of this subdivision.6. The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to  any   person  registered  to  vote pursuant to the provisions of section three   hundred fifty-two of the election law.