2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1512 - Proceedings at Meeting for Consolidation; Adoption of Resolution; Proceedings to Be Filed.

§   1512.  Proceedings  at  meeting  for  consolidation;  adoption  of
  resolution; proceedings to be filed.  1. Such meeting shall be organized
  as provided in section fifteen hundred twenty-three.  Such  meeting  may
  adopt  a  resolution  to consolidate such districts if two-thirds of the
  qualified electors of each district having less  than  fifteen  of  such
  electors  are  present,  or  in case of districts having fifteen or more
  qualified electors if ten or  more  are  present.  The  vote  upon  such
  resolution  shall  be  by ballot or by taking and recording the ayes and
  noes. If the vote shall be by taking and recording the  ayes  and  noes,
  the  clerk and such assistants as may be provided for him by the meeting
  shall keep a poll-list upon which shall be recorded  the  names  of  all
  qualified  electors  voting  upon the resolution, the districts in which
  such electors reside, and how each elector voted. If the vote  shall  be
  by ballot, one or more inspectors of election shall be appointed in such
  manner as the meeting shall determine, who shall receive the votes cast,
  canvass  the same and announce the result of the ballot to the chairman.
  If the vote shall be by ballot then voting machines may be used  in  the
  manner  prescribed by section two thousand thirty-five of this title and
  provision shall be made for absentee ballots as provided in section  two
  thousand  eighteen-a or two thousand eighteen-b of this title, whichever
  shall apply, and early mail ballots as provided in section two  thousand
  eighteen-e  or  two  thousand  eighteen-f of this title, whichever shall
  apply. If it shall appear that a  majority  of  the  qualified  electors
  present  and  voting from each district are in favor of such resolution,
  it shall be declared adopted and where at least  one  of  the  districts
  consolidated is a union free school district it shall be lawful for such
  meeting thereafter to proceed to the election of a board of education as
  provided in sections seventeen hundred two and seventeen hundred four of
  this  title.  If a majority of the qualified electors present and voting
  from each district are not in favor  of  such  resolution,  all  further
  proceedings  at  such meeting, except a motion to reconsider or adjourn,
  shall be dispensed with and no such meeting shall be again called within
  one year thereafter.
2.  Copies  of  such  request,  notice  of  meeting,  order   of   the
  commissioner  of  education  directing  a qualified elector to call such
  meeting, if any, and the minutes of the meeting, including the record of
  the vote upon the resolution and where at least  one  of  the  districts
  consolidated  is  a  union  free  school  district if such resolution be
  adopted a record of the declaration  of  the  election  of  a  board  of
  education,   duly   certified  by  the  chairman  and  clerk,  shall  be
  transmitted by either the chairman or clerk, one to the commissioner  of
  education,  and  one  to the district superintendent of schools in whose
  jurisdiction such districts are located.