NY Educ L § 2021 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 2 - School District Organization Article 41 - District Meetings Part 1 - General Provisions 2021 - Powers of Voters.

§ 2021. Powers  of voters. The inhabitants entitled to vote, when duly   assembled in any district meeting, shall have power, by  a  majority  of   the votes of those present and voting:1. In common school districts, to appoint a chairman.2. To appoint a clerk for the time if the district clerk is absent.3.  To  adjourn from time to time as occasion may require, except that   where a special district meeting shall have been called by  a  board  of   education  for the purpose of voting upon an appropriation and the hours   of voting shall have been fixed by the board as provided in  subdivision   three of section four hundred sixteen of this chapter, the meeting shall   not  be  adjourned  until  after  the  vote  shall  have  been taken and   canvassed upon the proposition submitted.4. To elect one or three  trustees  as  provided  in  section  sixteen   hundred two and a district collector, and in any district which shall so   determine, as hereinafter provided, to elect a treasurer, at their first   meeting,  and  so  often  as such offices or any of them become vacated,   except as hereinafter provided.5. To adopt by a vote of a majority of such voters present and  voting   at  the  first  meeting,  or at any subsequent annual meeting, or at any   special  meeting  duly  called  for  that  purpose,  such  vote  to   be   ascertained  by  taking and recording the ayes and noes, a resolution to   elect a treasurer of said district. If such resolution shall be adopted,   such voters shall  thereupon  elect  by  ballot  a  treasurer  for  said   district.  Any  person  elected  treasurer  at any meeting other than an   annual meeting, shall hold office until the next  annual  meeting  after   such  election,  and  until his successor shall be elected or appointed,   and thereafter a treasurer shall be elected at each annual  meeting  for   the term of one year.6.  To  fix the amount in which the collector and treasurer shall give   bonds for the due and  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  their   offices.7.  To  designate  a site for a schoolhouse, or for grounds to be used   for playgrounds, or for agricultural, athletic center and social  center   purposes, or, with the consent of the district superintendent of schools   within  whose  district the school district lies, to designate sites for   two or more schoolhouses for the district. Such designation  of  a  site   for  a  schoolhouse,  or for such grounds, can be made only at a special   meeting of the district, duly called  for  such  purpose  by  a  written   resolution  in  which  the proposed site shall be described by metes and   bounds, and which resolution must receive the assent of  a  majority  of   the qualified voters present and voting, to be ascertained by taking and   recording the ayes and noes, or by ballot.8.  To  vote  a  tax  upon  the  taxable  property of the district, to   purchase, lease and improve such sites or an addition to such sites  and   grounds for the purposes specified in the preceding subdivision, to hire   or  purchase  rooms or buildings for school rooms or schoolhouses, or to   build schoolhouses;  to  keep  in  repair  and  furnish  the  same  with   necessary  fuel,  furniture  and  appurtenances,  and  to  purchase such   implements, apparatus and  supplies  as  may  be  necessary  to  provide   instruction  in agriculture and other subjects, and for the organization   and conduct of athletic, playground and other social center work.9. To designate any former schoolhouse and appurtenances, or any  part   thereof,  the title to which is vested in the board, as a public library   building, and to vote a tax on the taxable  property  of  the  district,   pursuant  to  section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter, to pay the   cost of necessary alterations and equipment to convert such  schoolhouse   or part thereof to library use. 10.  To vote a tax, not exceeding twenty-five dollars in any one year,   for the purchase of maps, globes, reproductions  of  standard  works  of   art,  blackboards  and  other  school apparatus, and for the purchase of   text-books and other school necessaries for the use of needy  pupils  of   the district.11.  To  vote  a tax for the establishment of a school library and the   maintenance thereof, or for the support of any  school  library  already   owned by said district, and for the purchase of books therefor, and such   sum  as  they  may  deem  necessary  for  the  purchase of a bookcase or   bookcases.12. To vote a tax to supply a deficiency in  any  former  tax  arising   from such tax being, in whole or in part, uncollectible.13.  To  authorize  the  trustees to cause the schoolhouses, and their   furniture, appurtenances and school  apparatus  to  be  insured  by  any   insurance  company  created  by  or under the laws of this state, or any   other insurance company authorized by law to transact business  in  this   state.14.  To alter, repeal and modify their proceedings, from time to time,   as occasion may require.15. To vote a tax for the purchase  of  a  book  for  the  purpose  of   recording their proceedings.16. To vote a tax to replace moneys of the district, lost or embezzled   by  district  officers;  and  to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by   district officers in defending suits or appeals brought against them for   their official acts, or in prosecuting suits or appeals by direction  of   the district against other parties.17. To vote a tax to pay whatever deficiency there may be in teachers'   salaries  after  the public money apportioned to the district shall have   been applied thereto.18. To vote a tax to pay and satisfy of  record  any  judgments  of  a   competent court which may have been or shall hereafter be obtained in an   action  against  the  trustees  of  the  district  for  unpaid teachers'   salaries, where the time  to  appeal  from  said  judgments  shall  have   lapsed,  or  there  shall  be  no  intent  to appeal on the part of such   district, or the said judgments are or shall be of  the  court  of  last   resort.19.  To  provide,  by  tax  or otherwise, for the conveyance of pupils   residing in a school district, (a) to the elementary or high schools, or   both, maintained in such district and/or (b) to the elementary  or  high   schools,  or  both,  in  any  city  or  district with which an education   contract shall have been made, and/or (c)  to  the  elementary  or  high   schools,  or both, other than public, situated within the district or an   adjacent district or city, whenever such district shall have  contracted   with  the  school  authorities  of  any  city,  or  with  another school   district, for the education therein  of  the  pupils  residing  in  such   school district, or whenever in any school district pupils of school age   shall reside so remote from the schoolhouse therein or the elementary or   high  school  they  legally attend, within or without the district, that   they are practically deprived of school advantages during any portion of   the school year.20. To authorize the trustees or board of education, with the  consent   of  the  commissioner  of transportation, to furnish lighting facilities   and janitorial care for  any  highway  underpass  located  within  their   distrct  and  supervision  thereof  during  the time the same is used by   pupils in arriving at or leaving  the  school  premises,  whenever  such   highway  underpass has been constructed by the state and the use thereof   is essential for the safety of pupils. 21. To vote a tax to provide funds  which  may  be  utilized  to  meet   expenses  during  the  first  one hundred twenty days of the fiscal year   following the fiscal year in which such tax is collected.