2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2014 - Registration of Voters.

§ 2014. Registration of voters.  1. In any union free school district,
  the  board of education may upon its own motion provide for the personal
  registration of voters at school meetings or elections in such  district
  as provided in this section.
In  such  event,  the  board  of  education  in  such  district  shall
  immediately  designate  four  qualified  voters  of  such  district   to
  constitute  a board of registration for such district to serve until the
  thirtieth day following the next annual  meeting  or  election  of  such
  district.  Thereafter,  the  board  of  education of such district shall
  annually designate, not later  than  the  thirtieth  day  following  the
  annual  meeting  or  election of such district, four qualified voters of
  such district to constitute a board of registration for  such  district.
  Such members of the board of registration so appointed shall serve until
  the  thirtieth day after the annual meeting or election of such district
  in the following year. In the event that a vacancy shall  occur  on  the
  board  of registration, the board of education at any time may designate
  a qualified voter  of  such  district  as  a  member  of  the  board  of
  registration for such district to fill the vacancy.
Each  member  of  the  board  of  registration  shall  be  entitled to
  compensation at a rate to be fixed by the board of  education  for  each
  day actually and necessarily spent upon the duties of his office.
2.  The  board  of registration of such district shall meet during the
  annual meeting or election of such district  at  the  place  where  such
  annual  meeting  or  election  is  held  for  the purpose of preparing a
  register for meetings  or  elections  held  subsequent  to  such  annual
  meeting  or election. Such board of registration of such district shall,
  in addition, meet on such day or days as shall be fixed by the board  of
  education,  the  last  day  of  which,  however,  shall not be more than
  fourteen nor less than  five  days  preceding  each  school  meeting  or
  election  in  such district at such place in the school district, and at
  such hours, as the board of education  shall  by  resolution  designate,
  which  hours shall include at least four consecutive hours between seven
  o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening, for the purpose
  of preparing a register for such meeting or election provided,  however,
  that  at  any  annual  meeting  the  majority  of the voters may adopt a
  resolution authorizing the registration of voters during the  hours  for
  enrollment  of  children  for  a school term; provided further, however,
  that  such  voters  may  also  authorize  registration  during   certain
  specified  hours  of the school day, at the office of the district clerk
  or business office  of  the  school  district  by  the  district  clerk,
  assistant  district clerk or a member of the board of registration. Such
  registration shall not take place less  than  five  days  preceding  any
  school  meeting  or  election.  Such  registration shall be effective to
  include the next annual meeting and shall take place at  the  school  or
  schools  within  the district designated in the resolution. The register
  shall, so far as practical, be in the  same  form  as  the  register  of
  voters  in  an  election  district  for  general  elections in a city or
  village having five thousand inhabitants or  more,  under  the  election
  law.  The register shall be arranged alphabetically by the surnames, and
  the place of residence by street and number or otherwise of each  person
  named  on  the  list  shall  be  given,  or  if  none,  some description
  accurately locating such place of  residence  shall  be  given  on  such
  register.  In  addition,  the register shall have a column or columns in
  which the inspectors of election may indicate whether each person  named
  on  the  list  shall  have  voted in any election or elections or at any
  meeting or meetings. The district clerk of such  district  shall  attend
  with  the  board  of  registration.  The  board  of registration and the
  district clerk, shall, for the annual meeting or election of the  school

  district,  prepare  a  register  of  the qualified voters of such school
  district who shall present themselves personally for registration.  Such
  board  of  registration shall in like manner prepare a register for each
  special  school  meeting or election within such school district, except
  that the register prepared at the last annual meeting  or  election  and
  the  register or registers for any subsequent special meeting, meetings,
  election, or elections in such school district shall be used by them  as
  the  basis therefor.  The register so prepared shall include all persons
  who shall have  presented  themselves  personally  for  registration  in
  accordance  herewith  and  may  include  all persons who shall have been
  previously registered hereunder for any annual  or  special  meeting  or
  election  and  who  shall have voted at any annual or special meeting or
  any election held or conducted during the four calendar years  prior  to
  the  year  in  which  such  register is being prepared; and the board of
  registration shall remove from the register all persons who are known to
  be deceased, who have moved out  of  the  school  district  or  who  are
  otherwise  not qualified as school district electors. The district clerk
  shall furnish the necessary blank books and blanks  at  the  expense  of
  such  school  district.  School  meetings  and  elections in such school
  district shall be thereafter conducted in the manner  provided  by  this
  chapter,  except  that no person shall be entitled to vote thereat whose
  name does not appear upon the register of the school district  in  which
  he  claims  to be entitled to vote. In all cases, the board of education
  shall  cause  the  district  clerk  to  give  the  notice  required   by
  subdivision four of section two thousand four of this chapter.
3.  The  board  of education may, upon its own motion and at least two
  months prior to a school district meeting or election at which the  same
  is  to  be  effective,  revoke  the provisions for personal registration
  adopted as provided in this section. However, the board of education may
  not thereafter provide for personal registration  unless  authorized  by
  the voters at a district meeting or election.
4.   Whenever  any  union  free  school  district  in  which  personal
  registration of voters  at  school  meetings  or  elections  therein  is
  required  as provided in subdivision one of this section shall have been
  divided  into  election  districts  pursuant  to  section  two  thousand
  seventeen  of this chapter, the board of education shall appoint a board
  of registration pursuant to the provisions of subdivision  one  of  this
  section  consisting  of  as  many  members as shall provide two for each
  election district,  shall  designate  a  place  in  each  such  election
  district and shall designate two members of the board of registration to
  attend thereat for the purpose of preparing a register for such election
  district.  At  the same time, the board of education shall designate the
  registration place  at  which  the  district  clerk  shall  attend.  The
  provisions  of  subdivisions  one,  two  and three of this section shall
  apply with respect to the registration of  voters  in  such  union  free
  school  districts,  except  as  may  be  inconsistent with the foregoing
  provisions of this subdivision, and except that the notice  provided  to
  be  given  by  the district clerk in subdivision two of this section and
  subdivision five and six of section two thousand four  of  this  chapter
  shall describe each of the election districts as required in subdivision
  two of section two thousand seventeen and subdivision six of section two
  thousand four of this chapter.
5.  The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to any
  person registered to vote pursuant to the provisions  of  section  three
  hundred fifty-two of the election law.
6. In any case where a union free school district has provided for the
  registration  of  voters during specified hours of the school day at the
  office of the district clerk, assistant clerk or a member of  the  board

  of  registration,  such  school district's board of registration, at the
  discretion of the board of education, may not be required to meet  prior
  to  the  annual  meeting  or  election, or prior to a special meeting or
  special election pursuant to subdivision two of this section, solely for
  the purposes of registering voters.