NY Educ L § 1511 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 31 - School Districts 1511 - Request for Meeting to Consolidate Districts; Notices of Meeting.

§ 1511. Request  for  meeting  to  consolidate  districts;  notices of   meeting.  1. Whenever two-thirds of the qualified electors  of  each  of   two  or  more  districts  in  which  there  shall  be  less than fifteen   qualified electors, or if there be fifteen or more qualified electors in   any of such districts whenever ten or more of such electors, shall  sign   a  request  for  a  meeting  to  be  held for the purpose of determining   whether such districts shall be consolidated as a common school district   or as a union free school district, as the case may be, and  submit  the   same to the trustees or board of education of each of such districts, it   shall  be the duty of such trustees or board of education 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 board of education to give public notice that a   meeting of the qualified electors of such districts will be held at some   convenient  place within such districts, as centrally located as may be,   to vote upon the question of consolidating such districts.  Such  notice   shall specify the day and hour when such meeting shall be held, not less   than  twenty  nor  more  than  thirty days after the posting, service or   publication of such notice. If the trustees or board of education  shall   refuse  or  neglect  to  give  such notice within twenty days after such   request is approved by the commissioner of education,  the  commissioner   of  education  may  authorize  and  direct  any qualified elector of the   district to give such notice.2. If any part of any of such districts is situated wholly  or  partly   within  an  incorporated  village  in  which  one or more newspapers are   published, such notice shall be published once in each  week  for  three   consecutive weeks before such meeting in all the newspapers published in   such  village,  and  shall  also be posted at least twenty days prior to   such meeting, in at least five conspicuous places in each  district.  In   all other districts such notice shall be published once in each week for   three  consecutive  weeks before such meeting, in a newspaper circulated   in said districts, and in the event no newspaper is circulated  in  said   districts,  such  notice  may  be  given  by  publication  thereof  in a   newspaper circularized and generally distributed through the district or   districts involved, and it shall be also posted  at  least  twenty  days   prior  to  such  meeting  in  at  least  five conspicuous places in each   district. In districts which by the latest census are shown  to  have  a   population of two hundred or less, the trustees or board of education of   said  districts may dispense with publication and posting as hereinabove   required, and in  the  event  that  such  publication  and  posting  are   dispensed  with,  said  trustees  or  board of education of each of said   districts shall authorize and direct  a  qualified  elector  thereof  to   notify  each  qualified  elector  of  such  district  of said 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.3.  The  reasonable  expense  of  the  publication and service of such   notice shall be chargeable upon the districts, if the vote be  in  favor   of  consolidation,  and if not, shall be paid by the persons signing the   request  for  such  meeting  as  provided  by  section  fifteen  hundred   twenty-two.