2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 51 - City School Districts of Cities With Less Than One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants › 2511 - Purchase and Sale of Real and Personal Property.

§ 2511. Purchase and sale of real and personal property.  1. The board
  of  education  may  purchase  real  and personal property for any of the
  purposes authorized by law and shall take title thereto in the  name  of
  the school district.  The board of education is hereby empowered to sell
  and  convey  the  same,  when  it  deems it for the best interest of the
  school district, except that the purchase, acquisition and sale of  real
  property  and motor vehicles for the transportation of children shall be
  subject to the approval of the voters, to the same extent as in a  union
  free  school  district.  In  the  event  that  an owner of real property
  refuses to sell such property to the board of education or such owner is
  unable to agree with such board on  the  purchase  price  thereof,  such
  board  shall  have authority to institute such proceedings and take such
  action as may be necessary to acquire title to such property pursuant to
  the eminent domain procedure law.
2. A board of education may petition the  municipality  in  which  the
  property affected is situated to institute proceedings under the eminent
  domain procedure law, to acquire real property described in the petition
  which  the  board  of  education  has  certified  to  be  necessary  for
  educational purposes. The resolution granting  the  petition  shall  set
  forth  the  amount  to  be  paid  by  the  board  of  education  to  the
  municipality for such property or in lieu  thereof  that  the  board  of
  education shall pay to the municipality all sums expended or required to
  be expended by the municipality in the acquisition thereof, and the time
  of  payment  and the manner of securing payment thereof, and may require
  that  the  municipality  shall  receive,  before  proceeding  with   the
  acquisition   of  such  property,  such  assurances  as  to  payment  or
  reimbursement by the board of education or otherwise as the municipality
  may deem advisable. Upon the  passage  of  a  resolution  by  the  local
  legislative body of the municipality granting the petition, the board of
  education  shall  cause  four  copies of surveys or maps of the property
  described in the petition to be made, one of which shall be filed in the
  office of the board of education, one in the office of  the  corporation
  counsel  or  chief law officer of the municipality, one in the office of
  the clerk of the municipality and one in the office in which instruments
  affecting real property in the county are recorded.  The filing of  such
  copies of surveys or maps shall be conclusive evidence of the acceptance
  by  the  board  of  education  of  the  terms  and  conditions  of  such
  resolution. The municipality may proceed under  the  provisions  of  the
  eminent  domain  procedure  law for the acquisition of real property for
  public improvements. When title to the property shall have vested in the
  municipality, it shall convey the same to the board  of  education  upon
  payment  by  the  board  of  education of the sums and the giving of the
  security required by the resolution granting the petition.  As  soon  as
  title shall have vested in the municipality, the board of education may,
  upon  the  authorization  of the mayor or chief executive officer of the
  municipality by whatever name known, enter upon the property taken, take
  over and dispose of existing improvements, and carry  out  the  purposes
  for  which  the  property  was  acquired.  Whenever  in  connection with
  condemnation proceedings, requirement is made in any applicable general,
  special or local law for the performance of an act by  a  department  or
  officer  of  the  municipality, it shall be regarded for the purposes of
  this section as compliance therewith if with the approval of  the  mayor
  or  other  chief executive officer such act is performed by the board of
  education or by persons specially designated by it.