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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1508 - Alteration Without Consent.

§ 1508. Alteration  without consent.   If the trustees of any district
  affected thereby refuse to consent, the district superintendent may make
  and file with the town clerk of the town in  which  the  property  being
  transferred is located his order making the alteration, but reciting the
  refusal,  and directing that the order shall not take effect until a day
  therein to be named, and not less than three months after  the  date  of
  such order.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1509 - Hearing of Objections to Order for Alteration Without Consent.

§ 1509. Hearing of objections to order for alteration without consent.
  1.  Within  ten  days  after  making  and filing such order the district
  superintendent shall give at least a week's notice  in  writing  to  the
  trustees  of all districts affected by the proposed alterations, that at
  a specified time, and at a named place within the town in which  one  of
  the  districts  to  be affected lies, he will hear the objections to the
  alteration.
2. The trustees of any district to  be  affected  by  such  order  may
  request the supervisor and town clerk of each of the towns, within which
  such  districts  shall  wholly  or partly lie, to join with the district
  superintendent as a local board.
3. At the time and place mentioned in the notice, such superintendent,
  with the supervisors and town clerks, if  they  shall  attend  and  act,
  shall hear and decide the matter, and the decision shall be final unless
  duly  appealed  from.    Such decision must either affirm or vacate such
  order, and must be filed with and recorded by the town clerk of the town
  in which the property to be transferred shall lie, and a tie vote  shall
  be  regarded  a  decision  for  the purposes of an appeal on the merits.
  Upon such appeal the commissioner of education  may  affirm,  modify  or
  vacate  the  order  of  the district superintendent or the action of the
  local board.
4. A supervisor and town clerk shall be entitled each  to  one  dollar
  and  fifty  cents  a  day for each day's service in any proceeding under
  this section, to be levied and paid as a charge upon their town.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1510 - Consolidation of Districts by Vote of Qualified Electors.

§ 1510. Consolidation of districts by vote of qualified electors.  Two
  or  more  common school districts may be consolidated and created as one
  common school district, or two or more union free school  districts  may
  be consolidated and created as one union free school district, or one or
  more  common school districts may be consolidated with one or more union
  free school districts and created as a union free school district, by  a
  vote  of  the qualified electors thereof as provided in sections fifteen
  hundred eleven, fifteen hundred twelve and fifteen hundred thirteen.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1513 - Order Creating Consolidated District; Effect.

§ 1513. Order  creating  consolidated district; effect.   The district
  superintendent shall thereupon, in case of an affirmative vote, issue an
  order  consolidating  such  districts  and  creating  a  common   school
  district, or union free school district, as the case may be, designating
  such  district  by  a  simplified  name in accordance with section three
  hundred fifteen of this chapter.  Such order shall take effect  at  some
  date  to be specified therein, not more than three months after the date
  of the meeting.  He shall file such order in the town clerk's office  of
  the  town  in  which  such districts are located.  If such districts are
  located in two or  more  supervisory  districts,  such  order  shall  be
  executed  jointly  by  the  district  superintendents of such districts.
  Such order shall have the same effect as an order executed by a district
  superintendent dissolving  two  or  more  common  school  districts  and
  forming  a  new  district  therefrom,  or dissolving one or more of such
  districts and uniting the territory  thereof  to  a  union  free  school
  district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1515 - Dissolution or Alteration of Joint District.

§ 1515. Dissolution  or alteration of joint district.  The majority of
  the district superintendents within whose  districts  any  joint  school
  district  lies may make an order at a meeting duly called by one of such
  superintendents altering or dissolving such district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1516 - Special Meeting of Joint District to Act Regarding Alteration or Dissolution.

§ 1516. Special  meeting of joint district to act regarding alteration
  or dissolution.  1. If a district superintendent, by notice in  writing,
  shall require the attendance of the other district superintendents, at a
  joint  meeting  for  the  purpose  of  altering  or  dissolving  a joint
  district, and a majority of all  the  superintendents  shall  refuse  or
  neglect  to  attend, such superintendents attending, or any one of them,
  may call a special meeting of such school district for  the  purpose  of
  deciding whether such district shall be altered or dissolved.
2.  If  such  special  meeting  shall  vote  to  alter or dissolve the
  district, the district superintendent or superintendents who called such
  meeting may make an order altering or dissolving the district and  shall
  recite  in  such  order  the  refusal  or  neglect of the other district
  superintendents, his call of the special meeting and the action taken at
  such meeting.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1517 - Indebtedness of Certain Dissolved Districts.

§ 1517. Indebtedness  of  certain  dissolved districts.   Whenever any
  school district is dissolved  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section
  fifteen  hundred  five  of  this  article  and  annexed  to an adjoining
  district or adjoining districts or consolidated as provided  in  section
  fifteen  hundred twelve, the indebtedness of any such district evidenced
  by bonds or notes or relating  to  school  building  construction  shall
  thereupon  become  a  charge  upon  the enlarged district formed by such
  annexation or consolidation.  The board of education or trustees of such
  enlarged district shall raise by tax an amount  sufficient  to  pay  any
  such indebtedness of such district as the same shall become due.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1518 - Continuance of Dissolved Districts for Payment of Debts.

§ 1518. Continuance  of  dissolved  districts  for  payment  of debts.
  Though a district be dissolved, it shall continue to exist in  law,  for
  the  purpose  of  providing for and paying all its just debts, except as
  provided in section fifteen hundred  seventeen;  and  to  that  end  the
  trustees   and   other  officers  shall  continue  in  office,  and  the
  inhabitants  may  hold  special  meetings,  elect  officers  to   supply
  vacancies  and  vote  taxes; and all other acts necessary to raise money
  and pay such debts shall be done by the inhabitants and officers of  the
  district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1519 - Deposit of Records of Dissolved District.

§ 1519. Deposit of records of dissolved district.  In the event that a
  school  district  shall  be dissolved, the clerk of the district, or any
  person in  whose  possession  the  books,  papers  and  records  of  the
  district,  or any of them, may be, shall deposit the same with the clerk
  of the successor school district, and such records shall  thereafter  be
  considered to be the records of the successor school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1520 - Sale of Property of Dissolved District and Disposition of Proceeds.

§ 1520. Sale  of  property  of  dissolved  district and disposition of
  proceeds.   1. When a district  is  divided  into  portions,  which  are
  annexed to other districts, its property shall be sold by the supervisor
  of  the  town  or  towns,  within  which its schoolhouse is situated, at
  public auction after at least five days' notice.
2. Such notice shall be given by posting the same  in  three  or  more
  public  places of the town or towns in which the schoolhouse is situated
  and in one conspicuous place in the district so dissolved.
3. The supervisor, after deducting the expenses  of  the  sale,  shall
  apply  its  proceeds  to  the  payment of the debts of the district, and
  apportion the residue, if any, among the owners or possessors of taxable
  property in the district, in the ratio of their several  assessments  on
  the  last  corrected  assessment-roll  of  the  towns,  and  pay it over
  accordingly.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1521 - Collection and Distribution of Moneys Due Dissolved District.

§ 1521. Collection  and distribution of moneys due dissolved district.
  The supervisor of the town or towns within which the schoolhouse of  the
  dissolved  district was situated may demand, sue for and collect, in the
  name of his office, any money of the district outstanding in  the  hands
  of any of its former officers, or any other person; and, after deducting
  his  costs  and  expenses,  shall  report  the  balance  to the district
  superintendent  who  shall  apportion  the  same  equitably  among   the
  districts  to which the parts of the dissolved district were annexed, to
  be by them applied as their district meeting shall determine.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1525 - Alteration of Boundaries of City School District.

§ 1525. Alteration    of   boundaries   of   city   school   district.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter  or  any  other  general,
  special,  or  local  law  to  the contrary, whenever the commissioner of
  education  shall  receive  an  application  for  an  alteration  of  the
  boundaries  of  a  city  school  district  of  a city with less than one
  hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and the board of education  of
  such city school district and the boards of education or trustees of all
  other  districts to be affected by such alteration shall consent thereto
  in writing, the commissioner of education may make an order altering the
  boundaries of such city school district, and fix in  such  order  a  day
  when the alteration shall take effect.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1527 - Payroll Deductions for Deposit to Employee Bank Accounts.

§ 1527. Payroll deductions for deposit to employee bank accounts.  The
  disbursing  officer  of the city school district of the city of Syracuse
  is authorized to deduct from the salary of members of the  teaching  and
  supervisory  staff and other employees with their prior consent sums for
  deposit to employee savings accounts.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1527-A - Prohibit Symbols of Hate.

§  1527-a.  Prohibit  symbols  of hate. 1. A school district shall not
  sell or display any symbols of hate or any similar  image,  or  tangible
  personal property, inscribed with such an image unless the image appears
  in a book, digital medium, museum, or otherwise serves an educational or
  historical purpose.
2.  For the purposes of this section, the term "symbols of hate" shall
  include, but not be limited to, symbols  of  white  supremacy,  neo-Nazi
  ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1527-C - Shared Superintendent Program.

§  1527-c.  Shared  superintendent  program. Notwithstanding any other
  provision of law, rule or regulation  to  the  contrary,  the  governing
  board  of a school district with an enrollment of less than one thousand
  students in the previous year shall be authorized to enter into a school
  superintendent sharing contract with no more than two additional  school
  districts  each  of which had fewer than one thousand in enrolled pupils
  in the previous year. Each shared superintendent  arrangement  shall  be
  governed   by   the   boards   of  education  of  the  school  districts
  participating in  the  shared  contract.  Provided  however,  that  this
  section shall not be construed to alter, affect or impair any employment
  contract  which  is  in  effect  on  or  before July first, two thousand
  thirteen.  Any  school  district  which  has  entered  into   a   school
  superintendent  sharing program will continue to be eligible to complete
  such contract notwithstanding that the enrollment of the school district
  exceeded  one  thousand  students   after   entering   into   a   shared
  superintendent contract.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 32 - Filing of Expenditure Statements by Candidates for Membership on Board of Education › 1529 - Times for Filing Statements.

§ 1529. Times  for  filing  statements.  1.  The  times for filing the
  statements prescribed by section fifteen hundred  twenty-eight  of  this
  article shall be as follows:
a.  A  first  statement  shall be filed on or before the thirtieth day
  next preceding the election to which it relates.
b. A second statement shall be filed on or before the fifth  day  next
  preceding the election to which it relates.
c. A third statement shall be filed within twenty days next succeeding
  the election to which it relates.
2. Unless otherwise provided, each statement shall cover the period up
  to and including the day next preceding the day herein specified for the
  filing  thereof;  provided,  however,  that  any contribution or loan in
  excess of one thousand dollars, if  received  after  the  close  of  the
  period to be covered in the last statement filed before the election but
  before  such  election,  shall  be reported, in the same manner as other
  contributions, within twenty-four hours after receipt.
3. It shall not be necessary to itemize  in  any  statement  the  data
  previously  reported  in  any  prior  statement but each statement shall
  include a summary  of  all  expenditures  and  contributions  and  other
  particulars reported in any previous statements.
4.  A  statement  shall  be deemed properly filed when deposited in an
  established  post-office  within  the  prescribed  time,  duly  stamped,
  registered  and directed to the clerk of the school district in which he
  is a candidate and to the commissioner of education, but in the event it
  is not received, a duplicate of such statement shall be  promptly  filed
  upon  notice  by  the  school district administrative officer and/or the
  commissioner of its non-receipt. Each statement shall be preserved for a
  period of three years from the date  of  filing  thereof  and  it  shall
  constitute  a  part  of  the  public records and shall be open to public
  inspection.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 32 - Filing of Expenditure Statements by Candidates for Membership on Board of Education › 1530 - Proceedings to Compel Filing of Statements or Corrected Statements of Campaign Expenditures and Contributions.

§ 1530. Proceedings  to  compel  filing  of  statements  or  corrected
  statements of campaign expenditures and contributions.   1. The  supreme
  court  or a justice thereof, in a proceeding instituted by any candidate
  voted for at the election or by any five qualified voters may compel  by
  order,  any  candidate  required under the provisions of this chapter to
  file a statement of expenditures or contributions for campaign purposes,
  who has not filed any such statement within the time prescribed by  this
  chapter,  to  file  such  statement within five days after notice of the
  order.
2. The supreme court or a justice thereof, in a proceeding  instituted
  by  any  candidate  voted  for  at the election or by any five qualified
  voters, may compel by order any candidate or  other  person  or  persons
  required  under  the  provisions  of this chapter to file a statement of
  expenditures or contributions for campaign purposes,  who  has  filed  a
  statement  which does not conform to the requirements of this chapter in
  respect to its truth, sufficiency in detail or otherwise, to file a  new
  or  supplemental  statement which shall make the statement or statements
  true and complete within five days after notice of the order.
3. In every proceeding instituted under this section,  the  court  may
  confer  immunity  in  accordance with the provisions of section 50.20 of
  the criminal procedure law; provided, however, that no immunity shall be
  conferred except upon twenty-four hours prior written notice to both the
  attorney  general  and  the  appropriate  district  attorney  having  an
  official interest therein.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 32 - Filing of Expenditure Statements by Candidates for Membership on Board of Education › 1531 - Procedure.

§ 1531. Procedure.      A   special  proceeding  under  the  foregoing
  provisions of this article shall be heard upon a verified  petition  and
  such  oral  or  written proof as may be offered, and upon such notice to
  such officers, persons or candidates as  the  court,  justice  or  judge
  shall direct and shall be summarily determined.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1601 - Trustees Constitute a Board and Body Corporate.

§ 1601. Trustees  constitute  a  board  and body corporate.   The sole
  trustee or the trustees of a common school district shall  constitute  a
  board  for  such  district  and  such  board  is  hereby  created a body
  corporate.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1602 - Number of Trustees; Determination of Change.

§ 1602. Number  of trustees; determination of change.  1. At the first
  annual meeting next after the erection of a common school  district  the
  electors shall determine, by resolution, whether the district shall have
  one or three trustees; and if they resolve to have three trustees, shall
  elect  the  three  for one, two and three years, respectively, and shall
  designate by their votes for which term each is elected;  thereafter  in
  such  district,  one  trustee  shall  be elected for three years at each
  annual meeting to fill the office of the outgoing trustee; and  if  they
  resolve  to  have  one  trustee,  shall elect the trustee for a one-year
  term; thereafter in such district a trustee shall  be  elected  for  one
  year at each annual meeting to fill the office of the outgoing trustee.
2.  The  electors  of any common school district having three trustees
  shall have power to decide at any annual meeting by a majority  vote  of
  those present and voting, whether the district shall have a sole trustee
  or  three trustees. If they resolve to have a sole trustee, the trustees
  in office shall continue in office until their  terms  of  office  shall
  expire.  No election of a trustee shall be had in the district until the
  offices of such trustees shall become vacant by the expiration of  their
  terms  of  office  or otherwise, and thereafter but one trustee shall be
  elected for said district.
3. The electors of a common school district having but one trustee may
  determine at an annual meeting, by a two-thirds vote of the legal voters
  present and voting  thereat,  to  have  three  trustees;  and  upon  the
  adoption  of  a  resolution to that effect, shall proceed to elect three
  trustees or such number as may be necessary to form  a  board  of  three
  trustees,  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  in  this section for the
  election of three  trustees  at  the  first  annual  meeting  after  the
  erection  of  a  district;  and thereafter in such district, one trustee
  shall be elected for three years, at each annual meeting,  to  fill  the
  office of the outgoing trustee.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1603 - Property Held by Trustees as Corporation.

§ 1603. Property  held by trustees as corporation.  All property which
  is now vested in, or shall hereafter be transferred to the trustees of a
  common school district, for the use of schools in the district, shall be
  held by them as a corporation.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1604-A - Temporary Investment of School Moneys.

§ 1604-a. Temporary  investment  of  school  moneys.    The  board  of
  trustees of any  common  school  district  may  authorize  the  district
  treasurer  or  other officer having custody of district moneys to invest
  moneys of the district in the manner provided by section eleven  of  the
  general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1605 - Powers and Duties of a Sole Trustee.

§ 1605. Powers  and  duties  of a sole trustee.  The sole trustee of a
  common school district shall possess all the powers and  be  subject  to
  all  the  duties, liabilities and penalties which the law imposes upon a
  board of three trustees.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1606 - Mode of Exercise of Trustees' Powers.

§ 1606. Mode of exercise of trustees' powers.  1. The powers committed
  by  law to the trustees of a common school district must be exercised by
  them as a board. The board must meet for the transaction of business  in
  accordance with notice of time and place.
2.  In  a  board  composed  of  three  trustees, when two only meet to
  deliberate upon any matter, and the third, if notified, does not attend,
  or the three meet and deliberate thereon, the conclusion of two upon the
  matter, and their order, act or proceeding in relation thereto, shall be
  as valid as though it were the conclusion, order, act or  proceeding  of
  the  three;  and a recital of the two in their minute of the conclusion,
  act or proceeding, or in their order, act or proceeding of the  fact  of
  such  notice,  or  of such meeting and deliberation, shall be conclusive
  evidence thereof.
3. A meeting of the board may be ordered by  any  member  thereof,  by
  giving not less than twenty-four hours' notice of the same.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1607 - Powers of Trustees When Vacancies on Board Exist.

§ 1607. Powers  of  trustees when vacancies on board exist.  1.  While
  there is one vacancy in the office of trustee, the  two  trustees  shall
  have  all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of
  the three.   And while there are two  such  vacancies,  the  trustee  in
  office  shall  have  all the powers and be subject to all the duties and
  liabilities of the three, as though he were a sole trustee.
2. When a vacancy shall occur in the  office  of  trustee,  the  board
  shall  immediately  call  a special meeting of the district to fill such
  vacancy.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1609 - Annual Report of Trustees of Certain Joint Districts.

§ 1609. Annual report of trustees of certain joint districts.  Where a
  common  school district lies in two or more counties, its trustees shall
  file their annual report in the office of  the  district  superintendent
  having  jurisdiction over the schools of the town in which the principal
  schoolhouse of the district is situated.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1610 - Trustees' Annual Report to District.

§ 1610. Trustees'  annual  report  to  district.    The trustees shall
  render to the district, at its annual meeting, a  just,  full  and  true
  account  in writing, of all moneys received by them respectively for the
  use of the district, or raised or collected by taxes, in  the  preceding
  year,  and of the manner in which the same shall have been expended, and
  showing to which of them an unexpended balance, or any part thereof,  is
  chargeable;  and  of  all  drafts or orders made by them upon the county
  treasurer, collector, treasurer or other  custodian  of  moneys  of  the
  district;  and  a  full  statement  of all appeals, actions or suits and
  proceedings brought by or against them,  and  of  every  special  matter
  touching the condition of the district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1611 - Penalty for Failure of Trustee to Account.

§ 1611. Penalty  for  failure  of  trustee  to  account.   By a wilful
  neglect or refusal to  render  such  account,  a  trustee  forfeits  any
  unexpired term of his office, and becomes liable to the trustees for any
  district moneys in his hands.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1613 - Trustees' Right of Action Against Predecessor.

§ 1613. Trustees'  right  of action against predecessor.  The trustees
  in office shall sue for and recover any district moneys in the hands  of
  any  former  trustee, or of his personal representatives, and apply them
  to the use of the district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1614 - Notice of Non-Payment of Moneys Apportioned.

§ 1614. Notice  of  non-payment of moneys apportioned.  If any portion
  of the moneys apportioned to the district  shall  not  be  paid  by  the
  collector  or treasurer of the district, upon the due requirement of the
  trustees, they shall forthwith notify the treasurer of  the  county  and
  the  commissioner of education of the fact.  In case of such non-payment
  by the county  treasurer,  such  notification  shall  be  given  to  the
  commissioner of education.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1615 - Taxation for Expenses Incurred by Trustees.

§ 1615. Taxation for expenses incurred by trustees.  When trustees are
  required  or authorized by law, or by a vote of their district, to incur
  any expenses for such district, and when any expenses incurred  by  them
  are made, by express provision of law, a charge upon such district, they
  may  raise  the  amount  thereof  by  tax  in  the same manner as if the
  definite sum to be raised had been voted by a district meeting.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1616 - Issuing Order in Excess of Available Funds a Misdemeanor.

§ 1616. Issuing  order in excess of available funds a misdemeanor.  1.
  The trustees of a common school district shall not  issue  an  order  or
  draft  upon  a  county treasurer, collector or treasurer of the district
  for the payment of the salary of a teacher unless there shall be in  the
  hands  of  such  county  treasurer,  collector  or treasurer at the time
  sufficient money belonging to the district to meet such order or draft.
2. A violation of this section by the trustees of a district shall  be
  a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1618 - New York State School Boards Association, Inc.

§ 1618. New  York  State  School Boards Association, Inc. The trustee,
  trustees or board of education of any school district may  determine  to
  expend  and  raise  by  taxation  annually  such sums as may be required
  toward defraying the actual and necessary expenses  of  maintaining  and
  continuing  the  New York State School Boards Association, Inc., and any
  of its activities in this state for the purpose  of  devising  practical
  ways  and  means  for  obtaining  greater  economy and efficiency in the
  administration of school district affairs and projects.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 33 - Common School Districts › 1619 - Advertising for Bids; Letting of Contracts.

§ 1619. Advertising  for  bids;  letting  of contracts.   The trustees
  shall let all contracts for public work and all  purchase  contracts  to
  the  lowest  responsible  bidder  after  advertisement for bids where so
  required by section one hundred three of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1701 - Boards of Education Corporate Bodies.

§  1701.  Boards of education corporate bodies. The board of education
  of each union free school district is hereby created  a  body  corporate
  and  it  shall,  at  its  first  meeting  and  at  each  annual  meeting
  thereafter, elect one of its members president.   It may  also,  in  its
  discretion,  elect one of its members vice president, who shall have the
  power to exercise the duties of the president in case of the absence  or
  disability  of  the  president.    In  case  of vacancy in the office of
  president, the vice president shall act as president until  a  president
  shall  be  elected.    All  property  which  is  now vested in, or shall
  hereafter be transferred to the board  of  education  of  a  union  free
  school  district,  for the use of schools in the district, shall be held
  by them as a corporation.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1703 - Change in Number of Members of Board of Education.

§ 1703. Change  in  number  of members of board of education.  1.  The
  number of members of the board of  education  of  a  union  free  school
  district  may  be  increased  or  decreased  at  an  annual meeting by a
  majority  vote  of  the  qualified  voters  present  and  voting  to  be
  ascertained  by taking and recording the ayes and noes or by ballot. The
  number of members of such board shall not be increased to more than nine
  nor decreased to less than three.
2. No vote shall be taken upon the proposition to increase or decrease
  the number of members of such board of education unless  the  notice  of
  the  annual  meeting  shall  contain  a statement to the effect that the
  voters of such district will vote upon such proposition.  The  board  of
  education  of  any such district shall, upon the application of at least
  twenty-five voters or five percent of the number of voters who voted  in
  the  previous  annual election of the members of the board of education,
  whichever is greater, such number to be  determined  by  the  number  of
  persons  recorded  on  the  poll  list as having voted at such election,
  include in the notice  of  the  annual  meeting  a  statement  that  the
  proposition  to increase or decrease such board will be presented to the
  annual meeting for determination. If the board refuses or fails to  give
  such  notice, the notice may be given in such manner as the commissioner
  of education may direct.
3. The additional members first elected shall be elected at a  special
  meeting  which  shall  be  called by the board and be held not less than
  thirty nor more than sixty days following the annual  meeting  at  which
  the  number  was  increased,  and  pending  the  first  election of such
  additional members no vacancy shall be deemed to exist  in  the  offices
  thereof  except  for  the  purpose  of  filling  the  same  by election,
  notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1704 - Length of School Year, and Expenditure of Funds.

§ 1704. Length  of school year, and expenditure of funds.  1. No board
  of education or community board in the city school district of the  city
  of  New  York,  except  as otherwise provided by law, shall authorize or
  permit the expenditure of funds under its control at a rate  which  will
  exhaust the amount appropriated prior to the conclusion of the period or
  the completion of the purpose for which such funds were appropriated.
2.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law, no board of education or
  community board in the city school district of  the  city  of  New  York
  shall  provide  for  a  school year consisting of fewer than one hundred
  eighty days of school.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1706 - Power of Removal of Member of Board of Education.

§ 1706. Power  of  removal of member of board of education.  For cause
  shown, and after giving notice of the charge and opportunity of defense,
  the commissioner of education may  remove  any  member  of  a  board  of
  education.    Wilful  disobedience  of  any  lawful  requirement  of the
  commissioner of education, or a want of due diligence  in  obeying  such
  requirement or wilful violation or neglect of duty is cause for removal.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1707 - Annual Organizational Meetings of Boards of Education.

§ 1707. Annual organizational meetings of boards of education. 1.  The
  annual  organizational  meeting of the board of education of every union
  free school district shall be held on the first Tuesday in July of  each
  year,  unless said day shall be a legal holiday, in which event it shall
  fall on the first Wednesday in July.
2.  The board of education may, however, by resolution, determine that
  the annual meeting be held at any time during the first fifteen days  in
  the month of July.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1708 - Regular Meetings; Visitation of Schools.

§ 1708. Regular  meetings;  visitation of schools.  1. It shall be the
  duty of each board of education elected pursuant to  the  provisions  of
  this article to have a regular meeting at least once in each quarter.
2.  Each  board  shall  appoint one or more committees, to visit every
  school or  department  under  its  supervision  and  such  committee  or
  committees  shall  visit such schools at least once annually, and report
  at the next regular meeting of the board on the condition thereof.
3. The meetings of all such boards shall be open to  the  public,  but
  said  boards  may  hold  executive  sessions, at which sessions only the
  members of such boards or the persons invited shall be present.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1709-A - Powers of Boards of Education to Ban Fraternities, Sororities and Other Secret Societies.

§ 1709-a. Powers   of   boards   of  education  to  ban  fraternities,
  sororities and other secret societies.  1. In its discretion, the  board
  of education of each school district, may adopt rules and regulations to
  abolish and/or prohibit any fraternity, sorority or other secret society
  in any secondary school under its jurisdiction.
1  (a)  Prior to the adoption and promulgation of a rule or regulation
  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of this section  by
  any  board  of education of a school district, the board of education of
  the school district must find that the fraternity,  sorority  or  secret
  society  group  has  by  virtue  of  its  activities caused or created a
  disruption of  or  interference  with  the  academic  processes  of  any
  secondary  school  within  its  jurisdiction  or  caused  or created any
  interference  with  or  disruption  of  the  academic  progress  of  any
  individual  student  or  students  in  any  secondary  school within its
  jurisdiction.
2. For the purposes of this chapter a fraternity, sorority  or  secret
  society shall mean any organization composed wholly or in part of pupils
  enrolled in public secondary schools which exists or seeks to perpetuate
  itself  by taking in additional members from the pupils enrolled in such
  schools on the decision of the membership  rather  than  upon  the  free
  choice of any pupil in such school but shall not be construed to include
  organizations  institutionally  sponsored by agencies of public welfare,
  the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl  Scouts  of  America,  the  Campfire
  Girls,  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  Young  Women's  Christian
  Association,  Young  Men's  Hebrew  Association,  Young  Women's  Hebrew
  Association, Catholic Youth Organization, Kiwanis International, Hi-Y or
  other similar organizations without limitation to the foregoing.
3.  Upon  and  after  the  adoption  and  promulgation  of  a  rule or
  regulation in accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of  this
  section  by  the  board  of  education of any such school district, such
  board of education may in any secondary school under  it's  jurisdiction
  discipline any pupil who shall promise to join, or shall become a member
  of,  or shall remain a member of, or shall solicit other persons to join
  any such fraternity, sorority or secret society.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1710 - Boards of Education Have Powers of Trustees of Common Schools and Trustees of Academies.

§ 1710. Boards  of education have powers of trustees of common schools
  and trustees of academies.   The board of  education  of  a  union  free
  school  district  shall  possess  all  the powers and privileges, and be
  subject to all the duties, which the trustees of common school districts
  possess or are subject to under this chapter,  not  especially  provided
  for  in  this  article, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this
  article, including, but not limited to, those provided for  in  sections
  sixteen  hundred four, sixteen hundred six to sixteen hundred seventeen,
  both inclusive, and sixteen hundred nineteen of this chapter; and  shall
  enjoy, whenever an academic department shall be by them established, all
  the  immunities  and privileges now enjoyed by the trustees of academies
  in this state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1712 - Kindergartens; Nursery and Night Schools.

§ 1712. Kindergartens;  nursery  and  night schools.   1. The board of
  education of each school district may maintain kindergartens which shall
  be free to resident children between the ages of  four  and  six  years,
  provided, however, such board may fix a higher minimum age for admission
  to such kindergartens.
2.  A  board of education may  maintain nursery schools which shall be
  free to resident children and may fix the age for admission.
3. Night schools wherein  the  common  branches  and  such  additional
  subjects  as  may  be  adapted  to students applying for instruction are
  taught on at least two nights each week, for two hours each night, shall
  be maintained by the board of education  and  in  each  school  district
  where  twenty  or more persons from seventeen to twenty-one years of age
  are required to attend upon evening instruction, or where twenty or more
  persons over the age of sixteen years make applications for  instruction
  in a night school, on at least fifty nights.  All night schools shall be
  free to all persons residing in the district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1713 - Academy May Be Adopted as Academic Department.

§ 1713. Academy  may  be  adopted as academic department.   Whenever a
  union free school district shall be established under the provisions  of
  article  thirty-one,  and  there  shall  exist  within  the  district an
  academy, the board of education, when authorized by a vote of the voters
  of the district, may adopt such academy as the  academic  department  of
  the  district,  with  the  consent  of  the trustees of the academy, and
  thereupon the trustees by a resolution to be attested by the  signatures
  of the officers of the board and filed in the office of the clerk of the
  county,  shall  declare  their  offices  vacant, and thereafter the said
  academy shall be the academic  department  of  such  union  free  school
  district.    The board of education when thereto authorized by a vote of
  the qualified voters of the district may lease said  academy  and  site,
  and  maintain the academic department of such union free school district
  therein and thereon.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1714 - Contracts With Academies.

§ 1714. Contracts  with academies.   The board of education of a union
  free  school  district,  with  the  approval  of  the  commissioner   of
  education,  may adopt an academy as the academic department thereof, and
  contract for the  instruction  therein  of  pupils  of  academic  grade,
  residing  in  the district.   The academy thereupon becomes the academic
  department of such union free  school  district,  and  the  district  is
  entitled  to  the  same  rights  and  privileges, is subject to the same
  duties, and the apportionment and distribution  of  state  school  money
  shall  be  made to it, as if an academic department had been established
  in such district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1715 - Retransfer of Academy to Its Former Trustees.

§ 1715. Retransfer  of academy to its former trustees.  If there shall
  be, in a dissolved union free school district, an  academy  which  shall
  have  been  adopted  as the academic department of the union free school
  district, under the provisions  of  title  nine,  chapter  five  hundred
  fifty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-four, and any amendment
  thereof, or title eight of chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of
  eighteen  hundred  ninety-four, and any amendment thereof, or under this
  chapter, it shall, upon the application of a majority of  the  surviving
  resident former trustees or stockholders, be transferred by the board of
  education to said former trustees or stockholders.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1717 - Corporate Authorities Must Raise Tax Certified by Board of Education.

§ 1717. Corporate  authorities  must  raise  tax certified by board of
  education.  1. The corporate authorities of any incorporated village  in
  which  any  such  union free school district shall be established, shall
  have power, and it shall be their duty, to raise, from time to time,  by
  tax,  to be levied upon all the real property in said village, as by law
  provided for the defraying of the expenses of its municipal  government,
  such  sum  as  the  board of education established therein shall declare
  necessary for teachers' salaries and the ordinary contingent expenses of
  supporting the schools of said district.
2. The sums so declared necessary shall be set  forth  in  a  detailed
  statement  in  writing,  addressed  to  the corporate authorities by the
  board  of  education,  giving  the  various  purposes   of   anticipated
  expenditure,  and  the amount necessary for each; and the said corporate
  authorities shall have no power to withhold the sums so declared  to  be
  necessary;  and such corporate authorities as aforesaid shall have power
  and it shall be their duty to raise,  from  time  to  time,  by  tax  as
  aforesaid,  any such further sum to be set forth in a detailed statement
  in writing, addressed to the  corporate  authorities  by  the  board  of
  education,  giving the various purposes of the proposed expenditure, and
  the amount necessary for each which may have been or which may hereafter
  be authorized by a majority of the voters  of  such  union  free  school
  district  present  and  voting  at  any  special  district  meeting duly
  convened for any of the purposes stated in section four hundred  sixteen
  of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 35 - Union Free School Districts › 1718 - Limitation Upon Expenditures.

§ 1718. Limitation  upon expenditures.  1. No board of education shall
  incur a district liability in excess of the  amount  appropriated  by  a
  district  meeting  unless  such  board is specially authorized by law to
  incur such liability.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
  grants  in  aid  received  from  the  state  and federal governments for
  specific  purposes,  other  state  grants  in  aid  identified  by   the
  commissioner  for  general  use  as specified by the board of education,
  other gifts which are required to be spent  for  particular  objects  or
  purposes  and insurance proceeds received for the loss, theft, damage or
  destruction of real or personal property, when proposed to  be  used  or
  applied  to  repair  or  replace  such  property, may be appropriated by
  resolution of the board of education at any time  for  such  objects  or
  purposes.