2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2004 - Notice of Annual Meeting in Union Free School District.

§ 2004. Notice of annual meeting in union free school district. 1. The
  clerk  of  each  union  free  school  district  shall give notice of the
  availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions
  of section seventeen hundred sixteen of this chapter and shall also give
  notice of the time and place  of  the  annual  meeting  and  the  notice
  required  by  section  seventeen  hundred  sixteen  of  this  chapter by
  publishing a notice four times within the  seven  weeks  next  preceding
  such  district  meeting, the first publication to be at least forty-five
  days before said meeting, in two newspapers if there shall be two, or in
  one newspaper if there shall be  but  one,  having  general  circulation
  within  such  district.  But  if  no  newspaper  shall then have general
  circulation therein, the said notice shall be posted in at least  twenty
  of  the  most  public places in said district forty-five days before the
  time of such meeting.
2. Such notice shall also state that petitions  nominating  candidates
  for  the office of member of the board of education must be filed in the
  office of the clerk of the district between the hours of nine  a.m.  and
  five p.m., not later than the thirtieth day preceding the school meeting
  or election at which the candidates so nominated are to be elected.
5.  If  the  district  has personal registration of voters pursuant to
  section two thousand fourteen of this chapter, and has not been  divided
  into  election  districts  pursuant to section two thousand seventeen of
  this chapter, such notice shall also state:
a. the place and hour or hours at  which  the  board  of  registration
  shall meet to prepare the register of the school district and any person
  shall  be  entitled to have his name placed upon such register, provided
  that at such meeting of the board of registration, he is known or proven
  to the satisfaction of  such  board  of  registration,  to  be  then  or
  thereafter  entitled to vote at the school meeting or election for which
  such register is prepared,
b. that  the  register  prepared  pursuant  to  section  two  thousand
  fourteen of this chapter will be filed in the office of the clerk of the
  district;  that  such  register  will  be  open  for  inspection  by any
  qualified voter of the district and the hours during which such register
  will be open for inspection on each of the five days prior  to  and  the
  day set for the meeting or election, except Sundays.
6.  If  the district has been divided into election districts pursuant
  to section two thousand seventeen of this  chapter,  such  notice  shall
  also state:
a.  the place and hour or hours in each election district at which the
  members of the board of registration shall meet to prepare the  register
  of  the  school district for each election district and any person shall
  be entitled to have his name placed upon such register, provided that at
  such meeting of the members of the board of registration he is known  or
  proven  to  the  satisfaction  of  such members to be then or thereafter
  entitled to vote at the  school  meeting  or  election  for  which  such
  register is prepared,
b.  the  place in each election district where the meeting or election
  shall be held,
c. that  the  register  prepared  pursuant  to  section  two  thousand
  fourteen of this chapter will be filed in the office of the clerk of the
  district;  that  such  register  will  be  open  for  inspection  by any
  qualified voter of the district and the hours during which such register
  will be open for inspection on each of the five days prior  to  and  the
  day set for the meeting or election, except Sundays,
d.  if  the  district  is  divided  into election districts and voting
  machines are used, that  a  statement  of  estimated  expenses  for  the
  ensuing  year  will  be  completed  and  copies  made  available at each

  schoolhouse in the district in which school is maintained during certain
  designated hours on each day other than a Saturday,  Sunday  or  holiday
  during  the  fourteen  days immediately preceding such meeting, together
  with the text of any resolution which will be presented to the voters.
7.  Such  notice shall also state that applications for early mail and
  absentee ballots for election of board members may be applied for at the
  office of the clerk of the district. Such notice, in  such  case,  shall
  further state that a list of all persons to whom early mail and absentee
  ballots  shall have been issued, will be available in the said office of
  the clerk on each of the five days prior to  the  day  of  the  election
  except  Sundays,  and  that such list will also be posted at the polling
  place or places at the election of members of the board of education.
8. Such notice and all  other  notices  and  reports  required  to  be
  published  in  newspapers  under the provisions of this chapter shall be
  printed at the rates and for the  fees  prescribed  in  section  fifteen
  hundred  fifty-one  of  the  civil  practice  act. In the event that the
  publishers of one or both of the newspapers having  general  circulation
  in  such  district  shall  refuse  to  print  and publish the notices or
  reports at the rates and for the fees so prescribed, publication in such
  newspaper or newspapers so refusing may be omitted, in  which  case  the
  notices  or  reports shall be posted as required by this section in lieu
  of such publication.