2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils › Article 61 - Teachers and Supervisory and Administrative Staff › 3011 - Contract With Teacher.

§ 3011. Contract  with  teacher.    1. Except as otherwise provided in
  sections twenty-five hundred twenty-three,  three  thousand  twelve  and
  three  thousand  thirteen, all trustees of school districts or boards of
  education who shall employ any teacher to teach shall, at  the  time  of
  such  employment,  make and deliver to such teacher, or cause to be made
  and delivered, a contract in writing, signed by them, or by some  person
  duly  authorized to represent them in the premises, in which the details
  of the agreement between the parties, and particularly the length of the
  term of employment, the amount of compensation and the  time  when  such
  compensation  shall  be  due and payable shall be clearly and definitely
  set forth.
1-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  in  a  city  with  a
  population of one million or more, all teachers, as that term is defined
  in  section  13-501  of the administrative code of the city of New York,
  and all board of education employees serving as regular  substitutes  or
  full  term per diem substitutes shall be paid the amount of compensation
  due them pursuant  to  collective  bargaining  agreements  or  to  other
  contracts on the precise date such compensation is due. If such payments
  are  not  made  on  the  dates  so required, interest shall be recovered
  beginning thirty days, following the later of the effective date of this
  act or the required payment date through the day that payment is in fact
  tendered. In the case of a salary differential, the date compensation is
  due shall be defined as thirty days following  the  date  an  employee's
  application  is filed by the employee with the board of education of the
  city of New York. Interest shall be computed at the rate  set  forth  in
  paragraph  one  of subdivision (e) of section one thousand ninety-six of
  the tax law and shall be added to any compensation amounts  referred  to
  above that have not been paid when owed.
2.  No  contract  for the employment of a teacher in a district having
  three trustees or a board of education shall be made for more  than  one
  year  in  advance  or  for  a shorter time than ten weeks unless for the
  purpose of filling an unexpired term of school; except that  a  contract
  may  be  made  in  such a district for not more than five years with any
  teacher who has been employed  in  such  district  for  at  least  three
  consecutive years immediately prior to the execution of the contract.
3.  No contract for the employment of a teacher in a district having a
  sole trustee shall be made to extend beyond the date of  the  expiration
  of  the  term  of  office  of  such  trustee. A sole trustee of a school
  district shall have full power and authority to contract  with  teachers
  for  the  term  for which he has been elected any time after the date of
  the annual meeting at which such trustee was elected.
4. No trustee shall contract with any  teacher  whose  certificate  of
  qualifications shall not cover a period at least as long as that covered
  by the contract of service.