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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2012 - Qualifications of Voters at District Meetings.

§ 2012. Qualifications of voters at district meetings.  A person shall
  be  entitled  to vote at any school meeting or election for the election
  of school district officers, and upon all other  matters  which  may  be
  brought  before  such  meeting or election, who is: 1.  A citizen of the
  United States.
2. Eighteen years of age.
3. A resident within the district for a period  of  thirty  days  next
  preceding the meeting or election at which he offers to vote.
4.  No  person  shall  have  the  right to register for or vote at any
  school meeting or election who would not be qualified to register for or
  vote at an election in accordance with the provisions of  section  5-106
  of the election law.
No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to vote at any such meeting
  or election, by reason of sex, who has the other qualifications required
  by  this  section;  and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
  section, no Indian eighteen years of age or over who, having  been  born
  in  the  United  States  to  a member of an Indian tribe, or having been
  naturalized or otherwise acquired citizenship, shall have resided on  an
  Indian  reservation  in  the  state  for  a  period  of thirty days next
  preceding the meeting or election at which he  offers  to  vote  or  the
  spouse  of  such  Indian  shall be deemed ineligible to vote at any such
  meeting or election of  the  school  district  where  the  majority,  as
  determined   by  the  commissioner,  of  the  Indian  children  of  such
  reservation are being educated under a contract pursuant to  subdivision
  two  of  section  forty-one hundred one of this chapter, except that the
  parents or guardians of Indian children  of  such  reservation  who  are
  being  educated  in  the  schools  of a district other than the district
  which educates the majority of such children, shall be eligible to  vote
  only in the district where their children are being so educated.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2015 - Register to Be Filed; Addition to and Correction of Register; Challenges.

§ 2015. Register  to be filed; addition to and correction of register;
  challenges.   1. The  register  prepared  as  provided  in  section  two
  thousand fourteen of this chapter shall, immediately upon its completion
  and not less than five days prior to the time set for the school meeting
  or  election  at  which  it is to be used, be filed in the office of the
  clerk of the district, and thereafter shall at all reasonable  times  be
  open  to  inspection  by  any qualified voter of such school district on
  each day up to and including the day set for the  meeting  or  election,
  except Sundays.
2.  The  name  of  no  voter may be placed upon a register unless such
  voter appears before the board of registration  except  if  a  qualified
  voter  is  a  resident  of  a  school district and his name appears on a
  register as a resident of another district, a  written  sworn  statement
  may  be  filed  by such voter with the clerk of the district showing his
  correct residence and the name of such voter shall thereupon be stricken
  from such register and placed upon the proper register.
3. A qualified voter may, upon the examination of such  list,  file  a
  written  challenge  of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose
  name appears on such list.
4. Statements and challenges shall be received and  preserved  by  the
  clerk  of  the  district  or  other  person  designated  by the board of
  education, and immediately upon receiving any such sworn statement of  a
  voter,  applying  to  have  his  name  placed  upon  the register or any
  challenge as to a name  already  thereon,  the  clerk  shall  file  such
  statement  or  challenge or copy thereof, with the register and hold the
  same open for inspection by any qualified voter of  the  district.  Upon
  the  face  of such statement or challenge, the clerk shall write clearly
  what action was taken with  reference  thereto,  immediately  upon  such
  action being taken.
5.  The  clerk  of  the district shall cause a copy of the register of
  such school district to be delivered  on  the  day  of  the  meeting  or
  election  before  the opening of the polls to the inspectors of election
  at each voting place within the district at the place  or  places  where
  the  meeting  or  election  is to be held. If there be not more than one
  voting place, the clerk shall produce the register at the place  of  the
  meeting  or election, at the opening thereof. The inspectors of election
  at each voting  place  shall  indicate  on  the  copy  of  the  register
  delivered  to  them, and opposite the name of each person so registered,
  whether each such person did vote in such election or at such meeting.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2016 - Review of Registration Procedure by Supreme Court or County Judge.

§ 2016. Review  of  registration  procedure by supreme court or county
  judge. 1. The supreme court or a justice thereof, or  the  county  judge
  within  the  county  in  which  the  school district is wholly or partly
  situated, in a proceeding instituted by any qualified voter who, at  the
  meeting  of  the  board  of  registration  provided  for  in section two
  thousand fourteen, made to the board of registration satisfactory  proof
  that  he was or would be entitled to vote at the meeting or election for
  which the board of registration was at such meeting convened to  prepare
  a register, and to whom such registration had been refused by such board
  of  registration shall, by order, compel the registration of such voter;
  and in a proceeding instituted by any qualified  voter  shall  by  order
  direct  to  be  stricken from the register any names unlawfully thereon,
  and shall order such board of registration, if necessary,  to  reconvene
  for  such  purposes not less than two nor more than four days before the
  day of the meeting or election. Written notice of an  application  under
  this  section  must  be  given  to the board of registration, by service
  thereof on two of the members thereof.
2. Such court, justice or judge in  a  proceeding  instituted  by  any
  qualified  voter  whose  application  to  vote  has  been  denied by the
  inspectors of election shall compel by order the reception of  the  vote
  within the hours established by law.
3.  An  affidavit by any officer or employee of the board of education
  or any police officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff that he or she  visited
  the  premises claimed by the applicant as his or her residence, and that
  he or she interrogated an incarcerated individual, housedweller,  keeper
  or  caretaker,  owner, proprietor, or landlord thereof or therein, as to
  the applicant's residence therein or thereat, and that  he  or  she  was
  informed by one or more of such persons, naming them, that they knew the
  persons  residing  upon  such  premises  and  that the applicant did not
  reside upon such premises thirty days before  the  meeting  or  election
  shall be presumptive evidence against the right of the voter to register
  from such premises.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2017 - Division of Union Free School District Into Election Districts.

§ 2017. Division   of   union   free  school  district  into  election
  districts.   1. In  any  union  free  school  district  having  personal
  registration of voters pursuant to section two thousand fourteen of this
  chapter,  the  board  of  education  may  upon its own motion divide the
  school district into election districts, and shall upon the petition  of
  twenty-five  qualified  voters  of  the district, or five percent of the
  voters who voted in the previous annual election of the members  of  the
  board  of  education,  whichever is greater, cause to be submitted at an
  annual or special meeting, a proposition to divide such school  district
  into  election  districts  provided,  however,  that  in  each  election
  district the number of qualified  voters  shall  at  least  equal  three
  hundred.
2. If it is determined to divide the district into election districts,
  the  board  of  education shall immediately thereafter and not less than
  thirty days prior to an annual or special meeting  or  election,  within
  such district, adopt a resolution dividing the school district into such
  number  of  election  districts as the board of education may determine.
  The school district shall be  so  divided  that  if  circumstances  will
  permit,  there shall be a schoolhouse in each election district or in as
  many of such election districts as possible. The election  districts  so
  formed  shall  continue in existence until modified by resolution of the
  board of  education.  Such  resolution  shall  accurately  describe  the
  boundaries  of  each  such  district by streets, alleys and highways, or
  otherwise. School meetings and elections shall thereafter be held so far
  as may be possible in the public schoolhouses  within  any  such  school
  election  district.  The  board  of  education shall designate the place
  within each election district where the meeting  or  election  shall  be
  held.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2018-C - Additional Voting Procedures.

§ 2018-c. Additional  voting  procedures.    a.  A school district may
  require all persons offering to vote at any school district  meeting  or
  election  for which registration is not required, to provide one form of
  proof of residency. Such form, to be determined by the school  district,
  may  include,  but  is  not limited to, a driver's license, a non-driver
  identification card, a utility bill, or a voter registration card.  Upon
  offer  of  proof  of  residency,  a school district may also require all
  persons offering to vote to provide their signature, printed  name,  and
  address.
b.  As  an  alternative  to  voting procedures provided for in section
  twenty hundred fourteen of  this  article  and  subdivision  a  of  this
  section,  a  school district may require all persons offering to vote at
  any school district meeting or  election  to  provide  their  signature,
  printed name, and address.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2019 - Declaration in Case of Challenge of Voter.

§ 2019. Declaration  in  case  of  challenge  of  voter.  If  a person
  offering to vote at any school district meeting  or  election  shall  be
  challenged  as  unqualified, by any legal voter in such district, either
  at such meeting or election, or by the filing of a challenge pursuant to
  section two thousand fifteen of this chapter, the chairman presiding  at
  such  meeting  or election shall require the person so offering, to make
  the following declaration: "I do declare and affirm that I am, and  have
  been,  for  the thirty days last past, an actual resident of this school
  district and that I am qualified to vote at this meeting." Every  person
  making  such  declaration  shall  be  permitted to vote on all questions
  proposed at such meeting or election; but if any person shall refuse  to
  make such declaration, his vote shall be rejected.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2020 - Penalty for False Declaration or Unauthorized Vote.

§ 2020. Penalty  for  false  declaration or unauthorized vote.   1.  A
  person who  shall  wilfully  make  a  false  statement  to  a  board  of
  registration,  or  to any member or members thereof, or the clerk of the
  district, for the purpose of having his name placed upon  the  register,
  as  provided  for  in section two thousand fifteen, shall be guilty of a
  misdemeanor.
2. A person who shall wilfully make a false declaration of  his  right
  to vote at a school district meeting or election after his right to vote
  thereat has been challenged, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
3.  Any  person not qualified to vote at such meeting or election, who
  shall vote thereat, shall thereby forfeit ten dollars, to be sued for by
  the supervisor for the benefit of the district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2023-B - Certification of Compliance With Tax Levy Limit.

§ 2023-b. Certification of compliance with tax levy limit. 1. Upon the
  adoption  of  the  budget  of  an  eligible  school  district, the chief
  executive officer of such school district shall  certify  to  the  state
  comptroller,   the   commissioner   of  taxation  and  finance  and  the
  commissioner that the budget so adopted does not  exceed  the  tax  levy
  limit  prescribed  by  section two thousand twenty-three-a of this part.
  Such certification shall be made in a form and manner prescribed by  the
  state  comptroller in consultation with the commissioner of taxation and
  finance and the commissioner.
2. If such a certification has been made and the actual  tax  levy  of
  the  school  district  exceeds the applicable tax levy limit, the excess
  amount shall be placed in reserve and used in the manner  prescribed  by
  subdivision  five  of  section two thousand twenty-three-a of this part,
  even if a tax levy in excess  of  the  tax  levy  limit  had  been  duly
  authorized for the applicable fiscal year by the school district voters.
3.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, every school
  district that is subject to  the  provisions  of  section  two  thousand
  twenty-three-a  of  this  part shall report both its proposed budget and
  its adopted budget to the  office  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
  commissioner  at  the  time  and  in  the  manner as they may prescribe,
  whether or not such budget has been or will be certified as provided  by
  this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2024 - Reference to Commissioner of Education.

§ 2024. Reference to commissioner of education.  If any question shall
  arise  as  to  what  are  ordinary  contingent  expenses the same may be
  referred to the commissioner of education, by a  statement  in  writing,
  signed by one or more of each of the opposing parties upon the question,
  and the decision of the commissioner shall be conclusive.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2025 - Procedures at School District Meetings.

§ 2025. Procedures  at school district meetings.  1. District meetings
  in common school districts shall be called to order by  the  trustee  or
  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees or by a person chosen by the
  trustee or trustees. The  qualified  voters  present  and  voting  shall
  nominate  and  elect  a  qualified  voter  of  the district as permanent
  chairman.
2. In union free and central school districts the board  of  education
  shall appoint a qualified voter of the district as permanent chairman of
  each meeting or election to call such meeting or election to order. When
  hours have been set for voting in the notice of meeting or election, the
  chairman  shall  declare  the  polls  open and closed at the appropriate
  time. No motions shall be in order during the  hours  specified  in  the
  notice  for  voting.  In  districts divided into election districts, the
  chief election inspector in each district shall declare the  polls  open
  and closed at the appropriate time.
3.  The clerk of the district shall serve as clerk of all meetings and
  elections.
a. In common school districts the voters present and voting may  elect
  a  clerk of the meeting if the district clerk is not present. The voters
  may also elect assistant clerks and election inspectors as required.  At
  least  two  election  inspectors shall be elected for each ballot box or
  voting machine used. The inspectors shall choose a  chief  inspector  of
  election.
b.  In  union free and central school districts the board of education
  shall appoint a qualified voter  as  acting  clerk  in  the  absence  or
  inability  to  act  of  the district clerk. The board of education shall
  also appoint assistant clerks and election inspectors  as  required.  At
  least  two election inspectors shall be appointed for each ballot box or
  voting machine. The board of education shall designate a chief  election
  inspector,  and  if  the district is divided into election districts the
  board of education shall appoint a chief  election  inspector  for  each
  election district.
4.  The clerk and assistant clerk or clerks of the meeting or election
  shall keep a true and accurate written record of all of the  proceedings
  of  the  meeting or election and shall file such written record with the
  clerk of the district within twenty-four  hours  after  the  meeting  or
  election.
5. Each assistant clerk and election inspector appointed by a board of
  education  shall  be  entitled  to  compensation at a rate fixed by such
  board of education.
6. A person seventeen years  of  age  who  is  enrolled  in  a  school
  district  and  fulfilling the requirements of section thirty-two hundred
  seven-a of this chapter shall be eligible to be  appointed  as,  and  to
  perform  the  duties of, an election inspector or poll clerk as provided
  in this part.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2029 - Poll List.

§ 2029. Poll  list.    A  poll  list  containing  the  name  and legal
  residence of every person whose vote shall be received shall be kept  by
  the clerk and the assistant clerk or clerks of the meeting or election.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2030 - Ballot Box; Voting Booth.

§ 2030. Ballot  box; voting booth.  1. The trustee, board of trustees,
  or board of education, shall, at the expense of the district, provide  a
  suitable  box,  or  boxes, in which the ballots, folded so as to conceal
  the marking thereon, shall be deposited as they are received.
2. In all union free school districts the board of  education,  shall,
  at  the  expense of the district, provide a voting booth, or booths, and
  voters shall be required to enter such booth, or booths, for the purpose
  of marking their ballots.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2031-A - Electioneering Within One Hundred Feet of Polling Place Prohibited; Distance Markers.

§ 2031-a. Electioneering  within  one  hundred  feet  of polling place
  prohibited; distance markers.  1. At every election held for the  office
  of  trustee or member of a board of education and at every vote upon any
  proposition or issue in a school district where the election or vote  is
  held at a different time from, and not during, the annual meeting of the
  district,  there  shall  be  conspicuously  placed, by the inspectors of
  election, distance markers at a distance of one hundred  feet  from  the
  polling  place.  Such  distance  markers  shall indicate the prohibition
  contained herein and shall be so placed at least  one-half  hour  before
  the opening of the polls and shall remain until the polls are closed.
2.  At such elections or voting held at a different time from, and not
  during, the annual meeting of the district, while the polls are open  no
  person  shall  do any electioneering within the polling place, or within
  one hundred feet therefrom in any public street, or within such distance
  in any place in a public manner and no  banner,  poster  or  placard  on
  behalf  of  or  in opposition to any candidate or issue to be voted upon
  shall be allowed in or upon the polling place or within one hundred feet
  therefrom during the election.  For the purposes of  this  section,  the
  one  hundred foot distance shall be deemed to include a one hundred foot
  radial measured from the entrances,  designated  by  the  inspectors  of
  election,  to a building where such election is being held. This section
  shall not be deemed to prohibit  the  board  of  trustees  or  board  of
  education  from  displaying within any polling place a copy or copies of
  any budget or proposition to be voted upon.
3. Any person who wilfully violates the  provisions  of  this  section
  shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2033 - Voting After Closing of Polls.

§ 2033. Voting  after closing of polls.  All qualified voters entitled
  to vote who are in the place where the meeting or election is held at or
  before the time of closing the polls shall be allowed to vote.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2036 - Effect of Failure to Appoint or Elect Qualified Voters as District Meeting or Election Officials.

§ 2036. Effect  of  failure  to  appoint  or elect qualified voters as
  district meeting or election officials. The proceedings of no annual  or
  special  school  district  meeting or election shall be held illegal for
  failure to appoint or elect a qualified voter (or  a  person  satisfying
  the  requirements  of subdivision eight of section 3-400 of the election
  law) as an official at such district  meeting  or  election,  unless  it
  shall  appear  that the acts of such official or officials were improper
  or that the action of such meeting or election was prejudiced thereby.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2037 - Determination of Meeting or Election Disputes.

§ 2037. Determination  of  meeting or election disputes.  All disputes
  concerning the validity of any district meeting or election or of any of
  the acts of the officers of such meeting or election shall  be  referred
  to  the commissioner of education for determination and his decisions in
  the matter shall be final and not subject to review.   The  commissioner
  may in his discretion order a new meeting or election.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2038 - Transmission of Publicly Available Data to the New York Voting and Elections Database.

* § 2038. Application  of article.  The provisions of part one of this
  article shall apply to all school districts except as otherwise provided
  by article fifty-three of  this  chapter,  and  except  to  city  school
  districts of cities with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or
  more.
* NB Effective until April 1, 2026
* § 2038. Transmission  of  publicly  available  data  to the New York
  voting and  elections  database.  Upon  the  certification  of  election
  results  and  the  completion  of  the  voter  history  file  after each
  election,  each  school  district  that  holds  school  board  elections
  pursuant  to  this article shall transmit copies of the records required
  to be transmitted pursuant to section 3-112 of the  election  law  in  a
  manner and time provided for in such section.
* NB Effective April 1, 2026
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2039 - Application of Article.

* § 2039. Application  of  article. The provisions of part one of this
  article shall apply to all school districts except as otherwise provided
  by article fifty-three of  this  chapter,  and  except  to  city  school
  districts of cities with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or
  more.
* NB Effective April 1, 2026
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 2 - Contract System › 2040 - District Meeting to Authorize Contract System.

§ 2040. District  meeting  to authorize contract system. 1. Any school
  district may decide by a majority vote of the qualified  voters  present
  and voting at a district meeting:
a.  To contract for the education of all the elementary pupils of such
  district in another school district in this state or  in  any  adjoining
  state, instead of maintaining a home school.
b.  To  contract for the education of part of the elementary pupils of
  such district in  another  school  district  in  this  state  or  in  an
  adjoining state and maintain a home school;
c.  To  contract  for  a period of not less than two and not more than
  five years for the education of all the high  school  pupils  of  grades
  seven  to twelve, inclusive, of such district in another school district
  in this state or in an adjoining state, instead of  maintaining  a  home
  high school for such grades.
d.  To  contract  for  a period of not less than two and not more than
  five years for the education of some of the pupils of  grades  seven  to
  twelve,  inclusive,  of such district in another school district in this
  state or in an adjoining state provided that such district  maintains  a
  home  high  school  for  such  grades.  Nothing  herein  shall require a
  district to enter into a written contract for the education of its  high
  school pupils where the term is for a period of less than two years.
2.  Such  contract  may be made with one or more school districts. The
  designation of the school districts with which  such  contracts  may  be
  made shall be made pursuant to the commissioner's regulations.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 2 - Contract System › 2040-A - Contributions to School Districts Containing Migrant Labor Camps.

§ 2040-a.   Contributions to school districts containing migrant labor
  camps.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and for the  purpose
  of  sharing the extra expense incurred by a school district in providing
  temporary educational facilities for children living in a migrant  labor
  camp located therein which supplies labor to employers residing in other
  school  districts,  the  board of education, trustee, or trustees of any
  adjoining school district, or other school district in  the  same  town,
  where  employers  residing  therein  are  supplied  with labor from such
  migrant labor camp, may contribute not more than three  hundred  dollars
  annually  to  the  school  district  in which such migrant labor camp is
  located.  The moneys so contributed shall be used only for the  purposes
  hereinbefore stated.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 2 - Contract System › 2041 - Trustees or Boards of Education May Contract to Receive Such Children.

§ 2041. Trustees  or  boards of education may contract to receive such
  children.  The trustees or board of education of any  district  or  city
  may  enter into a contract to receive and educate in the schools of such
  district or city the children of any district which shall authorize  its
  trustees  or  board  of  education  to contract for the education of its
  children as provided by section two thousand thirty of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 2 - Contract System › 2042 - Form and Validity of Contract.

§ 2042.   Form  and  validity  of  contract.    Every contract for the
  education of school children  shall  be  in  writing  and  in  the  form
  prescribed by the commissioner of education, and before such contract is
  executed  the same shall be submitted for approval to the superintendent
  of schools having jurisdiction over  said  district  and  such  contract
  shall  not become effective until approved by such superintendent.  Such
  contract shall not be valid or binding upon either party thereto until a
  copy thereof is filed with the commissioner of education and approved by
  him.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 2 - Contract System › 2044 - Report of Pupils From Other Districts.

§ 2044. Report of pupils from other districts.  The children attending
  a school under any contract for the education of elementary pupils shall
  be reported to the commissioner of education by the trustees or board of
  education of the district or city wherein such children attend school as
  though they were residents of such city or school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 3 - Professional Services Providers › 2050 - Definition.

§  2050.  Definition.  As  used in this part, a "lawyer" shall mean an
  attorney or counselor governed by article fifteen of the judiciary  law,
  who  receives  remuneration or other compensation from a school district
  or board of cooperative  educational  services  in  exchange  for  legal
  services provided to such district or board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 3 - Professional Services Providers › 2051 - Charging for Professional Services.

§  2051.  Charging  for  professional  services. 1. A lawyer shall not
  simultaneously be an independent contractor and an employee of a  school
  district or board of cooperative educational services for the purpose of
  providing legal services to such school district or board of cooperative
  educational services.
2.  A  lawyer  who is not an employee of a school district or board of
  cooperative educational services, shall not seek to be or be considered,
  treated or otherwise reported  by  the  school  district,  or  board  of
  cooperative  educational services as an employee thereof for purposes of
  compensation,  remuneration,   health   insurance,   pension   and   all
  employment-related benefits and emoluments associated therewith.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 3 - Professional Services Providers › 2052 - Enforcement.

§  2052.  Enforcement. 1. Any lawyer who violates section two thousand
fifty-one of this part, shall be liable  for  a  civil  penalty  not  to
exceed  three  times  the  charges  and  fees for contracted services or
salary received by the lawyer and paid by such school district or  board
of cooperative educational services for legal services, and in addition,
may  be  enjoined  from  continuing  such violation. Civil penalties and
injunctive relief provided in this section shall be  recoverable  in  an
action brought by the attorney general.
2. Any person who shall knowingly:
(a)  violate subdivision two of section two thousand fifty-one of this
part;
(b) make a false statement of material fact; or
(c) falsify or permit to be falsified any record  or  records  of  the
retirement system established in this chapter
in  an  attempt  to  defraud  the  retirement system established in this
chapter as a result of such act for the purpose of  obtaining  a  credit
towards  pension  benefits,  or  a  benefit  or payment in excess of one
thousand dollars from such retirement system for a professional services
provider to which such  professional  services  provider  would  not  be
entitled, shall be guilty of a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 3 - Professional Services Providers › 2053 - Reports Regarding Lawyers.

§  2053. Reports regarding lawyers. Every school district and board of
  cooperative educational services shall, on or before the forty-fifth day
  after the commencement of its fiscal year, file with the department, the
  comptroller and the  attorney  general  a  report  specifying:  (a)  all
  lawyers  who  provide  legal  services  to  such  district or board; (b)
  whether such district or board hired such lawyers as employees; and  (c)
  all remuneration and compensation paid for legal services.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 3 - Professional Services Providers › 2054 - Non-Exclusivity of Rights or Remedies.

§  2054.  Non-exclusivity  of rights or remedies. Nothing in this part
  shall be construed to limit, in  any  matter,  any  rights  or  remedies
  otherwise  available  under  law  against  any party or to any person or
  entity, including, but not limited  to,  the  attorney  general  or  the
  comptroller of the state of New York.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2101 - Officers of District.

§ 2101. Officers  of  district.   1. Each common school district shall
  have one or three trustees  as  the  district  determines,  a  collector
  except  in  first class towns and except as may be otherwise provided by
  law, and if the district so decides a treasurer.
2. Each union free school district shall have  a  board  of  education
  consisting  of  from  three  to  nine  trustees  as  the  district shall
  determine.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2102 - Qualifications of Officers.

§ 2102. Qualifications  of  officers.    Every school district officer
  must be able to read and write and must be  a  qualified  voter  of  the
  district; and each member of a board of education of a union free school
  district, common school district or a central school district shall have
  been  a  resident  of  the  school  district, or in the case of a person
  qualified by subdivision three of section twenty hundred twelve of  this
  chapter  to  vote  in a district election, a resident of the district or
  reservation,  for  at  least   one   year   prior   to   the   election.
  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of any other general or special law to
  the contrary, a school district treasurer, collector or clerk  need  not
  be  a  resident  of  the  school  district  to  hold such office in such
  district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2103 - Ineligibility to Office.

§ 2103. Ineligibility  to  office.    1. No district superintendent or
  supervisor is eligible to the office of trustee or member of a board  of
  education, and no trustee or member of a board of education can hold the
  office  of  district clerk, collector, treasurer or librarian, except as
  otherwise provided by section twenty-one hundred thirty.
2. A person removed from a school district office shall be  ineligible
  to  appointment  or  election to any district office for a period of one
  year from the date of such removal.
3. Not more than one member of a family shall be a member of the  same
  board of education in any school district.
4.  No employee of a board of education may be a member of such board;
  provided, however, that in a city with a population of  one  million  or
  more nothing herein shall prohibit an employee of the board of education
  of  a  community  school board from being a member of a community school
  board except that such employee may not be a  member  of  any  community
  school board that directly employs him.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2103-A - Police Officers and Firefighters on Boards of Education.

§ 2103-a. Police  officers  and  firefighters  on boards of education.
  Notwithstanding any general, special or local law, ordinance or  charter
  provision  to  the  contrary, or any rule or regulation, police officers
  and firefighters employed by any municipal subdivision of the  state  or
  police  district provided they are otherwise eligible, may be candidates
  for election and serve as members  of  boards  of  education  in  school
  districts located: (1) other than in the municipality where they perform
  their  duties as police officers and firefighters on a regular basis, or
  (2) unless  prohibited  by  the  legislative  body  for  whom  they  are
  employed, in school districts located in the locality where they perform
  their duties as police officers and firefighters.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2106 - Terms of Officers of Newly Created District.

§ 2106. Terms of officers of newly created district.  The terms of all
  officers  other  than  trustees  elected at the first meeting of a newly
  created district  shall  expire  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  May,  next
  thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2108 - Notice and Acceptance of Election.

§ 2108. Notice  and  acceptance  of  election.   1. The district clerk
  shall forthwith notify in writing each person elected to office  of  his
  election and the date thereof.
2.  Such  person  shall  be deemed to have accepted the office, unless
  within five days after the service of such notice,  he  shall  file  his
  written  refusal with the clerk.  The presence of any such person at the
  meeting which elects him to office, shall be deemed a sufficient  notice
  to him of his election.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2109 - Refusal of Trustee to Serve.

§ 2109.  Refusal of trustee to serve.  A trustee of a common school or
  union free school district who publicly declares that he will not accept
  or  serve  in  the  office  of trustee, or refuses or neglects to attend
  three successive meetings of the board, of which he  is  duly  notified,
  without rendering a good and valid excuse therefor to the other trustees
  vacates his office by refusal to serve.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2110 - Penalty for Refusal to Serve or Perform Duty.

§ 2110. Penalty for refusal to serve or perform duty.  1. Every person
  elected  or  appointed  to  a  school  district  office  and  being duly
  qualified to fill the same who  shall  refuse  to  serve  therein  shall
  forfeit the sum of five dollars.
2.  Every  person elected or appointed to a school district office and
  not refusing to accept the same who shall wilfully neglect or refuse  to
  perform  any  duty  thereof  shall by such neglect or refusal vacate his
  office and also forfeit the sum of ten dollars.
3. The district superintendent of the supervisory district wherein any
  such person resides may accept his written resignation  of  the  office,
  and  the  filing of such resignation and acceptance in the office of the
  district clerk shall be a bar to the recovery of  either  penalty  under
  this section.
4.  These penalties shall be for the benefit of the district for which
  such officer was appointed or elected.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2111 - Resignation of District Officers.

§ 2111.   Resignation of district officers.  A school district officer
  may resign to a district meeting.  Such officer shall also be deemed  to
  have  resigned  if  he  filed  a  written  resignation with the district
  superintendent of his district and such superintendent endorses  thereon
  his approval and files the same with the district clerk.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2112 - Vacating Office.

§ 2112.   Vacating office.  1. A school district office becomes vacant
  by death, resignation, refusal to serve, incapacity, or removal from the
  district or from office.
2. The collector or treasurer vacates his office by  not  executing  a
  bond to the trustees, as herein required.
3. A trustee or a member of a board of education vacates his office by
  the  acceptance  of  either  the office of district superintendent or of
  supervisor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2113 - Filling Vacancy in Office of Trustee.

§ 2113. Filling  vacancy  in  office  of  trustee. 1. A vacancy in the
  office of trustee in any school  district  may  be  filled  by  election
  within  ninety  days  after  it  occurs.  If not so filled, the district
  superintendent of the supervisory district, within which the schoolhouse
  or principal schoolhouse of the district  is  situated,  may  appoint  a
  competent person to fill it.
2.  If  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of trustee in a union free school
  district exists, the commissioner  of  education  may  order  a  special
  election for filling such vacancy. When such special election is ordered
  the vacancy shall not be filled otherwise.
3.  If  such  vacancy is filled by a district meeting, it shall be for
  the balance of the unexpired term; but when such vacancy  is  filled  by
  appointment  by  a  district  superintendent, it shall be only until the
  next annual meeting of the district.
4. A vacancy in the office of trustee in union  free  school  district
  number  one  of  the  town of Tonawanda, Erie county, shall be filled by
  appointment by the remaining members of the board  to  serve  until  the
  next annual election at which the vacancy may be filled.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2114 - Filling Vacancy in Office of Clerk, Collector or Treasurer.

§ 2114. Filling vacancy in office of clerk, collector or treasurer.  A
  vacancy in the office of clerk, collector or treasurer, may be filled by
  appointment  by  the  trustees of the district, and the appointees shall
  hold their respective offices until  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the
  district, and until their successors are elected and have qualified.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2115 - Notice of Appointment to Fill Vacancy and Filing Thereof.

§ 2115. Notice  of  appointment  to  fill  vacancy and filing thereof.
  Every appointment to fill a vacancy shall be  forthwith  filed,  by  the
  district  superintendent  or  trustees  making  it, in the office of the
  district clerk, who shall immediately give notice of the appointment  to
  the person appointed.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2116 - District Records, Books, etc., Are District Property.

§ 2116.   District  records,  books, etc., are district property.  The
  records, books and papers belonging or appertaining to the office of any
  officer of a school district are hereby declared to be the  property  of
  such district and shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of
  the district at all reasonable hours, and any such voter may make copies
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2118 - Expenses of School District Officers.

§ 2118. Expenses  of  school  district officers.   All school district
  officers, including trustees and members of boards of  education,  shall
  be  entitled  to be reimbursed for any expenses actually and necessarily
  incurred in the performance of their official  duties.    Mileage  rates
  established for the use of personally owned cars in lieu of auditing and
  allowing  claims  for  actual and necessary expenses of travel under the
  provisions of subdivision twenty-seven of section sixteen  hundred  four
  of this chapter, shall apply to claims under this section.  This section
  shall not apply to district superintendents of schools.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2119 - School District Trustee Not to Draw Draft on County Treasurer in Certain Cases.

§ 2119. School  district trustee not to draw draft on county treasurer
  in certain cases.   A school district trustee who  issues  an  order  or
  draws  a draft on a county treasurer, district treasurer or collector or
  other disbursing officer of such district for any money, unless there is
  at the time sufficient money in the  hands  of  such  county  treasurer,
  district treasurer or collector or other disbursing officer belonging to
  the district to meet such order or draft, is guilty of a misdemeanor.