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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2121 - Duties of District Clerk.

§ 2121. Duties  of  district clerk.  It shall be the duty of the clerk
  of each school district:
1. To record the proceedings of all meetings  of  the  voters  of  his
  district  in a book to be provided for that purpose by the district, and
  to enter therein true copies of all reports made by the trustees to  the
  district superintendent.
2.  To  give  notice,  in  the manner prescribed by subdivision two of
  section two thousand one, of the  time  and  place  of  holding  special
  district meetings called by the trustees.
3. To affix a notice in writing of the time and place of any adjourned
  meeting  in  at  least  five of the most public places of such district,
  when the meeting shall have been adjourned for a longer  time  than  one
  month.  Such  notice  shall  be so affixed at least five days before the
  time appointed for such adjourned meeting.
4. To give the required notice of every annual district meeting.
5. To give notice immediately to every person elected or appointed  to
  office  of  his  election or appointment; and also to report to the town
  clerk of the town in which the schoolhouse of his district is  situated,
  the names and post-office addresses of such officers, under a penalty of
  five dollars for neglect in each instance.
6.  To  notify  the trustees of every resignation duly accepted by the
  district superintendent.
7. To keep and preserve all records, books and papers belonging to his
  office and to deliver the same  to  his  successor.  For  a  refusal  or
  neglect  so to do, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for the benefit of the
  schools of the district, to be recovered by the trustees.
8. In the event that the district shall be dissolved, to  deposit  the
  books,  papers and records of his office with the clerk of the successor
  school district.
9. To attend all meetings of the board of trustees when notified,  and
  keep a record of their proceedings in a book provided for that purpose.
10.  To  call  special  meetings  of  the inhabitants whenever all the
  trustees of the district shall have vacated their office.
11. To immediately notify the county treasurer of the name and address
  of persons elected to the office of district treasurer, if  a  treasurer
  is elected, and to the office of district collector.
12.  To  receive,  keep  and  preserve  any and all records, books and
  papers of the respective dissolved school districts deposited  with  him
  pursuant  to  section fifteen hundred nineteen of this chapter, and such
  records  together  with  any  records  of  dissolved  school   districts
  heretofore  deposited shall be considered to be records of the successor
  school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2122 - Powers and Duties of District Treasurer in Common School District.

§ 2122.   Powers  and  duties  of  district treasurer in common school
  district.  1. The treasurer of a school  district  shall  be  the  chief
  accounting  officer  and  the  custodian  of all moneys belonging to the
  district from whatever source derived, and it is hereby made the duty of
  the trustees of such district to pay  to  such  treasurer  any  and  all
  moneys that may come into their hands belonging to such district derived
  from  sales of personal or real property of the district, from insurance
  policies, from bonds of the district issued and sold by  them,  or  from
  any other source whatever.
2.  Such  treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to receive from
  the collector of such district all moneys collected  by  such  collector
  under  and by virtue of any tax list and warrant issued and delivered to
  him.
3. Such treasurer is hereby authorized and  empowered  to  demand  and
  receive  from  the  county  treasurer of the county in which such school
  district is situated all public money apportioned to said district.
4. It shall be the duty of such treasurer  before  entering  upon  the
  discharge  of  his duties to execute and deliver to the trustees of such
  district, his official undertaking in such sum as shall have been  fixed
  by  a  district  meeting  or  as  such trustees with the approval of the
  district superintendent of  schools  shall  require,  with  a  corporate
  surety   to   be   approved   by  such  trustees  and  by  the  district
  superintendent of  schools,  conditioned  to  faithfully  discharge  the
  duties  of  his  office,  and  to  well and truly account for all moneys
  received by him, and to pay over any sums  of  money  remaining  in  his
  hands  to  his  successor  in  office. Such official undertaking when so
  executed and approved by resolution of such trustees shall be filed with
  the clerk of the district.  The  expense  of  any  undertaking  executed
  pursuant to this section shall be a school district charge.
5.  No moneys shall be paid out or disbursed by such treasurer, except
  upon the written orders  of  a  sole  trustee,  or  a  majority  of  the
  trustees.
6. Such treasurer shall, whenever required by such trustees, report to
  them  a  detailed  statement  of  the  moneys received by him and of his
  disbursements, and at the annual  meeting  of  such  district  he  shall
  render  a  full  account  of  all  moneys  received by him and from what
  source, and when received, and all disbursements made by him and to whom
  and the dates of such disbursements respectively,  and  the  balance  of
  moneys remaining in his hands.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2123 - Compensation of Clerk and Treasurer in Common School Districts.

§ 2123. Compensation   of   clerk   and  treasurer  in  common  school
  districts.  The clerk and treasurer of every common school district  may
  be  entitled to receive such compensation for their services as shall be
  fixed at an annual meeting of the district. In case  such  provision  is
  not  made  at an annual meeting for the compensation of the clerk and/or
  treasurer of such common school district, the trustees of  the  district
  may fix the same.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2124 - Collector's Official Undertaking in Common School District.

§ 2124. Collector's  official  undertaking  in common school district.
  1. It shall be the duty of  the  collector,  before  entering  upon  the
  discharge  of  his  duties to execute and deliver to the trustees of the
  district, his official undertaking,  with  a  corporate  surety,  to  be
  approved   by   a   majority   of  the  trustees  and  by  the  district
  superintendent of schools, in such amount as the district meeting  shall
  have  fixed,  or if such meeting shall not have fixed the amount then in
  such  amount  as  the  trustees  with  the  approval  of  the   district
  superintendent of schools shall deem reasonable, conditioned for the due
  and  faithful  execution  of the duties of his office and for the proper
  accounting for all moneys that may come into the hands of such collector
  from any source whatsoever.
2. The trustees, upon receiving said official undertaking,  shall,  if
  they  approve  thereof,  adopt  a  resolution to that effect, and if the
  district superintendent  also  approve  thereof  he  shall  indorse  his
  approval  thereon, whereupon the trustees or the district superintendent
  shall forthwith file the same  with  the  clerk  of  the  district.  The
  expense  of any undertaking executed pursuant to this section shall be a
  school district charge.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2125 - Collector to Disburse State Moneys.

§ 2125. Collector  to  disburse state moneys.   In any school district
  which does not have a treasurer it shall be the duty of the collector of
  such district to disburse the money apportioned by the state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2126 - Payments and Reports by Collector.

§ 2126.   Payments  and  reports by collector.  1. The collector shall
  keep in his possession all moneys received or collected by him by virtue
  of any warrant, or received by him from the county treasurer or board of
  supervisors for taxes returned as unpaid, or moneys apportioned  by  the
  state  or  raised  by  direct  taxation,  and  pay the same out upon the
  written order of a majority of the trustees.
2. When a treasurer shall have been elected or appointed in  a  school
  district,  the  collector  of  such  district  shall pay over all moneys
  collected by him under and by virtue of any tax list and warrant  issued
  and delivered to him, to said treasurer; and he shall report in writing,
  at  the annual meeting, all his collections, receipts and disbursements,
  and shall report to the county treasurer on or before the first  Tuesday
  of March in each year the amounts of school moneys in his hands not paid
  out  on trustees' orders, and shall pay over to his successor in office,
  when such successor has duly qualified and given a bond as  required  by
  section   twenty-one  hundred  twenty-four,  all  moneys  in  his  hands
  belonging to the district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2127 - Liability of Collector for Moneys Lost.

§ 2127. Liability  of collector for moneys lost.  If by the neglect of
  the collector any moneys shall be lost to a school district, which might
  have been collected within the time limited in the warrant delivered  to
  him  for  their collection, he shall forfeit to such district the amount
  of the moneys thus lost, and shall account for and pay over the same  to
  the  trustees  of  such district, in the same manner as if they had been
  collected.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2128 - Remedy of Trustees Against Collector in Default.

§ 2128.   Remedy  of  trustees  against collector in default.  For the
  recovery of all such forfeitures, and of all balances, in the  hands  of
  the  collector,  which  he shall have neglected or refused to pay to his
  successor, or to the treasurer of such district, the  trustees,  in  the
  name  of  their  office,  shall  have  their  remedy  upon  the official
  undertaking of the collector, or any action and any remedy given by law;
  and they shall apply all such moneys, when recovered, in the same manner
  as if paid without suit.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 2 - District Clerk; Treasurer; Collector › 2129 - Deposit of Moneys by Treasurer and Collector.

§ 2129. Deposit  of  moneys  by  treasurer and collector.   All moneys
  received by the treasurer and collector shall be deposited  and  secured
  in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 3 - Town and County Officials › 2140 - Duties of Town Clerks.

§ 2140. Duties  of town clerks. It shall be the duty of the town clerk
  of each town: 1. To keep all books, maps, papers,  and  records  of  his
  office  touching public schools, and forthwith to report to the district
  superintendent any loss or injury to the same.
2. To receive from the district superintendent or superintendents  the
  certificates  of  apportionment of school moneys to each school district
  or part of a school district of the town, and to record them in  a  book
  to be kept for that purpose.
3. To notify forthwith the trustees of the several school districts of
  the filing of each such certificate.
4.  To furnish the district superintendent of the supervisory district
  in which his town is situated the names and postoffice addresses of  the
  school district officers reported to him by the district clerks.
5.  To  distribute  to the trustees of the school districts all books,
  blanks and circulars which shall be delivered or forwarded to him by the
  commissioner of education or district superintendent for that purpose.
6. To  receive,  file  and  record  the  descriptions  of  the  school
  districts,  and  all  papers  and  proceedings  delivered  to him by the
  district superintendent pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
7.  To  act,  when  thereto  legally  required,  in  the  erection  or
  alteration  of  a  school  district,  as  in  article thirty-one of this
  chapter provided.
8. To deliver within one year from the effective date of this  act  to
  the  clerk  of  the  successor  district  any  and  all  records  of the
  respective dissolved school districts heretofore deposited in  the  town
  clerk's  office  pursuant  to  section  fifteen  hundred nineteen of the
  education law as it existed prior to this act, and to notify in  writing
  the  district  superintendent  of the supervisory district in which such
  successor school district is situated that such  records  have  been  so
  deposited.
9.  To  perform  any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this
  chapter, or by any other law touching public schools.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 3 - Town and County Officials › 2141 - Expenses of Town Clerks.

§ 2141.   Expenses  of  town  clerks.    The  necessary  expenses  and
  disbursements of the town clerk in the performance of his  said  duties,
  are a town charge, and shall be audited and paid as such.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 3 - Town and County Officials › 2142 - Duties of Supervisors.

§ 2142. Duties  of supervisors. It is the duty of every supervisor: 1.
  To sue for and recover, in the name of his office, when the duty is  not
  elsewhere  imposed by law, all penalties and forfeitures imposed by this
  chapter, and for any default or omission of any town officer  or  school
  district  board  or  officer under this chapter; and after deducting his
  costs  and  expenses  to   report   the   balances   to   the   district
  superintendent.
2.  To  act, when legally required, in the erection or alteration of a
  school district, as provided in article thirty-one of this chapter,  and
  to  perform  any  other  duty  which  may  be  devolved upon him by this
  chapter, or any other law relating to public schools.
3. To take and hold possession of the gospel and school  lots  of  his
  town.
4. To lease the same for such time not exceeding twenty-one years, and
  upon such conditions as he shall deem expedient.
5.  To sell the same with the advice and consent of the town board or,
  if the town board shall so direct, with the advice and  consent  of  the
  inhabitants  of  the  town,  at a town election, for such price and upon
  such terms of credit as shall appear to him most advantageous.
6. To invest the proceeds of such sales in loans, secured by bond  and
  mortgage  upon  unincumbered  real  property  of the value of double the
  amount loaned.
7. To purchase the property so mortgaged upon a  foreclosure,  and  to
  hold  and  convey,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this section, the
  property so purchased whenever it shall become necessary.
8. To re-loan the amount of such loans repaid to him,  upon  the  like
  security.
9.  To  apply  the rents and profits of such lots, and the interest of
  the money arising from the sale thereof, to the support of  schools,  as
  may be provided by law, in such manner as shall be thus provided.
10. To render a just and true account of the proceeds of the sales and
  the  interest on the loans thereof, and of the rents and profits of such
  gospel and  school  lots,  and  of  the  expenditure  and  appropriation
  thereof,  on the last Tuesday next preceding the biennial town election,
  to the town board.
11. To deliver over to his successor in office, all books, papers  and
  securities  relating  to  the  same,  at  the  expiration of his term of
  office.
12. To take therefor a receipt, which shall be filed  in  the  clerk's
  office of the town.
13.  To  commence  and  prosecute  in and by the name and style of the
  supervisor of the town any suits against  any  of  his  predecessors  in
  office or against any other person to recover any debt, dues or demands,
  in anywise arising from such public lot; and no such suit shall abate by
  the death, resignation or removal from office of the said supervisor but
  the  same  shall  and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution by his
  successor in office.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 3 - Town and County Officials › 2143 - County Clerks and County Treasurers to Forward Certain Reports.

§ 2143. County   clerks  and  county  treasurers  to  forward  certain
  reports.  1. The county clerk of each county shall, upon the requisition
  of the commissioner  of  education,  file  with  such  commissioner  any
  reports  of  trustees of school districts and boards of education or the
  abstract of such reports made by  district  superintendents  which  have
  been filed in the office of such county clerk pursuant to the provisions
  of  this  chapter,  whenever  it  is  necessary  for the commissioner of
  education to obtain information or data contained  in  official  reports
  which  have  been transmitted to the education department but which have
  been destroyed by fire or otherwise.
2. The county treasurer of each county shall, upon the requisition  of
  the commissioner of education, forward to said commissioner any original
  certificates  relating  to  the apportionment of school moneys which the
  commissioner of education has filed in the  office  of  such  treasurer,
  whenever  it  is necessary to obtain information on the apportionment of
  school moneys when the data  relating  thereto  in  the  office  of  the
  commissioner  of  education  have  been  destroyed by fire or otherwise.
  After  securing  such  information  as  may  be  necessary   from   such
  certificates, the commissioner of education shall return the same to the
  treasurer of such county.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2204 - Appointment of District Superintendent.

§  2204.  Appointment  of  district  superintendent.  1.  The board of
  cooperative educational services of a supervisory  district  shall  meet
  upon the direction of the commissioner of education, at a time and place
  designated by the commissioner, for the purpose of appointing a district
  superintendent of schools whenever a vacancy in such office shall occur,
  unless  the  commissioner  shall  issue  an  order  pursuant  to section
  twenty-two hundred one redistricting the county so as to provide  for  a
  lesser number of supervisory districts. Such direction shall be filed by
  the commissioner of education in the office of the clerk of the board of
  cooperative  educational services and the commissioner shall also mail a
  notice of the time and place of such meeting to each member of the board
  of cooperative educational services of the  district.  If  such  vacancy
  shall  not be filled at such meeting, such meeting may be adjourned to a
  subsequent  date,  and  the  commissioner   may   appoint   a   district
  superintendent of schools who shall serve until the board of cooperative
  educational services shall fill such vacancy.
2.  In  the appointment of such district superintendent the vote shall
  be by ballot and the person receiving a majority of all votes cast shall
  be appointed subject to the approval of the commissioner  of  education.
  Each  member  of  the board of cooperative educational services shall be
  entitled to one vote in such appointment.
3. The clerk of such board shall file a copy  of  the  proceedings  of
  each  such  meeting  and each such appointment, certified by himself and
  the president, in the office of the clerk of the county  in  which  such
  meeting  or  appointment  takes  place  and  with  the  commissioner  of
  education within five days after the close thereof.
4. Whenever a district superintendent from one supervisory district is
  appointed  to  be  a  temporary  or  acting  superintendent  in  another
  supervisory  district,  he or she shall not receive any compensation for
  duties associated with the temporary or acting position.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2205 - Qualifications of District Superintendent.

§  2205.  Qualifications of district superintendent. 1. To be eligible
  to appointment to the office of district  superintendent  of  schools  a
  person must be at least twenty-one years of age, a citizen of the United
  States  and  a  resident  of the state. No person shall be ineligible on
  account of sex.
2.  In  addition  thereto  he  shall  possess  or  be  entitled  to  a
  superintendent's certificate as provided in section three thousand three
  of this chapter.
3.  A  district superintendent who is removed from office shall not be
  eligible for appointment to such office in any supervisory district  for
  a period of five years.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2206 - District Superintendent Must Take Oath of Office.

§  2206.  District superintendent must take oath of office. A district
  superintendent of schools before entering  upon  the  discharge  of  the
  duties  of  his  office,  and not later than five days after the date on
  which his term of office is to commence, shall take the oath  of  office
  prescribed  by  the constitution. Such oath may be taken before a county
  clerk, a justice of the peace, or a notary public, and must be filed  in
  the office of the secretary of state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2208 - Vacancies in the Office of District Superintendent.

§ 2208. Vacancies in the office of district superintendent. The office
  of district superintendent of schools shall be vacant upon:
1. The death of an incumbent.
2. His removal from office by the commissioner of education.
3.  His  filing in the offices of the commissioner of education and of
  the clerk of the board of cooperative educational services  his  written
  resignation.
4.  His  acceptance of the office of supervisor, town clerk or trustee
  of a school district.
5. His failure to take and file the oath of office as provided in this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2209 - Salary of District Superintendent.

§   2209.   Salary   of  district  superintendent.  1.    Each  district
  superintendent  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  from  the  state  of
  forty-three  thousand  four  hundred ninety-nine dollars, payable by the
  commissioner of education from moneys appropriated therefor, and  in  no
  event  shall  any  moneys  in  excess  of  such  amount be paid for such
  salaries unless this section is amended or explicitly notwithstood.
2.  The supervisors of the towns composing  any  supervisory  district
  may  by  adopting a resolution by a majority vote increase the salary to
  be  paid  by  such  district  to  its  district  superintendent.    Such
  supervisors  must  thereupon  file  with  the  clerk  of  the  board  of
  supervisors a certificate showing the amount  of  such  increase.    The
  board  of  supervisors of each county shall levy such amount annually by
  tax on the towns composing such supervisory district within the county.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2211 - Salary of District Superintendent May Be Withheld.

§  2211.  Salary  of  district  superintendent  may  be  withheld. The
  commissioner of education may, whenever he is satisfied that a  district
  superintendent  of  schools  has  persistently  neglected  to perform an
  official duty, withhold payment  of  the  whole  or  any  part  of  such
  superintendent's  salary as it shall become due and he may also withhold
  any sum to which such superintendent shall be entitled for expenses  and
  the  amount  thus withheld shall be forfeited; but said commissioner may
  in his discretion remit such forfeiture in whole or in part
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2212 - Removal of District Superintendent From Office.

§  2212.  Removal  of district superintendent from office.  A district
  superintendent  may  be  removed  from  office  at  any  time  upon  the
  affirmative  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  board  of
  cooperative educational services, or by  the  commissioner  pursuant  to
  section three hundred six of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2212-B - Mandatroy Withholding of Excess Salaries and Benefits; Removal From Office for Violations of Salary and Benefit Caps.

§  2212-b.  Mandatory  withholding  of  excess  salaries and benefits;
  removal from office for violations of salary and benefit caps. 1.    The
  commissioner  shall annually review whether district superintendents are
  in full compliance with the provisions of subparagraph two of  paragraph
  a  of  subdivision four of section nineteen hundred fifty of this title.
  It shall be the duty of each such superintendent  to  report  each  such
  violation.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  withhold from the state salary paid to a
  district superintendent pursuant to this article twice the value of each
  such violation, unless the commissioner determines  that  the  violation
  was inadvertent, in which case the commissioner shall withhold the value
  of such violation.
3.  In  addition  to  the  remedy described in subdivision two of this
  section, a district superintendent shall be removed from office, and the
  office deemed vacated,  upon  a  finding  by  the  commissioner  that  a
  district  superintendent  has  intentionally,  knowingly  or  repeatedly
  violated  the  provisions  of  subparagraph  two  of  paragraph   a   of
  subdivision four of section nineteen hundred fifty of this title, or has
  knowingly  failed  to  report  such  violation  voluntarily  pursuant to
  subdivision one of this section. Upon such a finding and after affording
  the  district  superintendent  the  opportunity  for  a   hearing,   the
  commissioner  shall  take  all  necessary  steps  to remove the district
  superintendent from office.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2213 - District Superintendent Not to Engage in Other Business.

§  2213.  District  superintendent  not to engage in other business. A
  district superintendent of schools shall devote his whole  time  to  the
  performance  of  the  duties  of  his office and shall not engage in any
  other occupation or profession. Such time as shall  not  necessarily  be
  devoted  by  a  district superintendent of schools to the performance of
  the clerical and administrative work of his office shall be  devoted  to
  the   visitation  and  inspection  of  the  schools  maintained  in  his
  supervisory district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2214 - District Superintendent Not to Be Interested in Certain Business.

§  2214.  District  superintendent  not  to  be  interested in certain
  business. A district superintendent of schools shall not: 1. Be directly
  or  indirectly  interested  otherwise  than  as  author  in  the   sale,
  publication,  or  manufacture  of  school books, maps, charts, or school
  apparatus or in the sale or manufacture of school furniture or any other
  school or library supplies.
2. Be directly or indirectly interested in any contract  made  by  the
  trustees of a school district.
3.  Be  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in  any agency or bureau
  maintained to obtain or aid  in  obtaining  positions  for  teachers  or
  superintendents.
4.  Directly or indirectly receive any emolument, gift, pay, reward or
  promise of pay or reward for recommending or procuring the sale, use  or
  adoption  or  aiding in procuring the sale, use or adoption of any book,
  map, chart, school apparatus or furniture  or  other  supplies  for  any
  school  or  library or for recommending a teacher or aiding a teacher in
  obtaining an appointment to teach.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2216 - District Superintendent Subject to Regulations of Commissioner of Education.

§ 2216. District superintendent subject to regulations of commissioner
  of  education.  A  district  superintendent  shall  be  subject  to such
  regulations and directions as the commissioner of education  shall  from
  time to time prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 45 - Supervisory Districts › 2217 - Appeals From Acts of District Superintendent.

§ 2217. Appeals from acts of district superintendent. Appeals from the
  official  acts  of  a  district  superintendent  of  schools or from his
  refusal or failure to act in any matter in which he may legally act, may
  be taken to the commissioner of education. All questions in  controversy
  relating  to  the  election  of  such  district  superintendent shall be
  determined by the  commissioner  of  education  on  proper  appeal.  The
  provisions  of  article  seven of this chapter shall apply to and govern
  such appeals and decisions therein.
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 › 2501 - Application of Article.

§ 2501. Application  of  article.    This  article  shall apply to the
  school district of each city  which  according  to  the  latest  federal
  census has less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants.
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 › 2503-A - Powers of Boards of Education to Ban Fraternities, Sororities and Other Secret Societies.

§ 2503-a. Powers   of   boards   of  education  to  ban  fraternities,
  sororities and other secret societies.  1. In its discretion, the  board
  of education of each school district, may adopt rules and regulations to
  abolish and/or prohibit any fraternity, sorority or other secret society
  in any secondary school under its jurisdiction.
2.  Prior  to the adoption and promulgation of a rule or regulation in
  accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of this section by any
  board of education of a school district, the board of education  of  the
  school  district  must  find  that  the  fraternity,  sorority or secret
  society group has by virtue  of  its  activities  caused  or  created  a
  disruption  of  or  interference  with  the  academic  processes  of any
  secondary school within  its  jurisdiction  or  caused  or  created  any
  interference  with  or  disruption  of  the  academic  progress  of  any
  individual student or  students  in  any  secondary  school  within  its
  jurisdiction.
3.  For the purposes of this chapter a fraternity, sorority, or secret
  society shall mean any organization composed wholly or in part of pupils
  enrolled in public secondary schools which exists or seeks to perpetuate
  itself by taking in additional members from the pupils enrolled in  such
  schools  on  the  decision  of  the membership rather than upon the free
  choice of any pupil in such school but shall not be construed to include
  organizations institutionally sponsored by agencies of  public  welfare,
  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  the Girl Scouts of America, the Campfire
  Girls,  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  Young  Women's  Christian
  Association,  Young  Men's  Hebrew  Association,  Young  Women's  Hebrew
  Association, Catholic Youth Organization, Kiwanis International, Hi-Y or
  other similar organizations without limitation to the foregoing.
4. Upon  and  after  the  adoption  and  promulgation  of  a  rule  or
  regulation  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of this
  section by the board of education of  any  such  school  district,  such
  board  of  education  may in any secondary school under its jurisdiction
  discipline any pupil who shall promise to join, or shall become a member
  of, or shall remain a member of, or shall solicit other persons to  join
  any such fraternity, sorority or secret society.
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 › 2504 - Meetings of Board of Education.

§ 2504. Meetings  of  board of education. 1. The annual meeting of the
  board of education shall be held during the first week in July, at  four
  o'clock  in the afternoon or such other hour as the board may determine,
  at which meeting the board shall select  a  president  for  the  ensuing
  year.  At  such  meeting  the board may also select a vice-president who
  shall be authorized to act for the president in case of the  president's
  absence or inability to act during such year.
2.  The board of education may, however, by resolution, determine that
  the annual meeting be held at any time during the first fifteen days  in
  the month of July, at a time to be decided by the board.
3.  Such  board  shall  also  fix the day and hour for holding regular
  board meetings which shall be at least as often as once each  month  and
  shall  also  prescribe  a  method  for  calling special meetings of such
  board.
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 › 2507 - Superintendent of Schools; Associate Superintendents.

§ 2507. Superintendent  of schools; associate superintendents.  1. The
  superintendent and any  associate  superintendent  of  schools  in  each
  school  district  shall hold his position subject to the pleasure of the
  board of education, except that the superintendent  of  schools  may  be
  appointed  for  a  term  of  not to exceed five years, provided that the
  terms  or  provisions   of   any   employment   contract   between   the
  superintendent  and  the  board  of education relating to an increase in
  salary, compensation or other benefits, shall not be based on or tied to
  the terms of any contract or collective bargaining  agreement  that  the
  board  of  education  has  or  will  enter  with  the  teachers or other
  employees of the school district.
2. A superintendent or an  associate  superintendent  may  vacate  his
  position  by  filing  a written resignation with the board of education.
  No person shall  be  eligible  to  the  position  of  superintendent  of
  schools,  deputy  superintendent of schools, associate superintendent of
  schools, assistant superintendent of schools or other superintendent  of
  schools  in  such  city  school  district  unless he shall possess or be
  entitled to a superintendent's certificate as provided in section  three
  thousand three of this chapter.
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 › 2510 - Abolition of Office or Position.

§ 2510. Abolition of office or position.  1. If the board of education
abolishes  an  office or position and creates another office or position
for the performance of duties similar to those performed in  the  office
or position abolished, the person filling such office or position at the
time  of  its  abolishment  shall be appointed to the office or position
thus created without reduction in  salary  or  increment,  provided  the
record of such person has been one of faithful, competent service in the
office or position he has filled.
2.  Whenever  a  board  of  education  abolishes a position under this
chapter, the services of the teacher having the least seniority  in  the
system   within   the   tenure   of  the  position  abolished  shall  be
discontinued.
3. (a) If an office or position is abolished or if it is  consolidated
with  another  position  without  creating  a  new  position, the person
filling such position at the time of its  abolishment  or  consolidation
shall  be  placed  upon  a  preferred  eligible  list  of candidates for
appointment to a vacancy that then exists or that may  thereafter  occur
in  an  office  or  position similar to the one which such person filled
without reduction in salary or increment, provided the  record  of  such
person  has  been  one  of  faithful, competent service in the office or
position he has filled.  The persons on such  preferred  list  shall  be
reinstated  or  appointed  to  such  vacancies  in such corresponding or
similar positions in the order of their length of service in the  system
at   any  time  within  seven  years  from  the  date  of  abolition  or
consolidation of such office or position.    Notwithstanding  any  other
provision  of law to the contrary, in the event that a member of the New
York state teachers' retirement system, who is  receiving  a  disability
retirement  allowance,  shall  have such disability retirement allowance
rescinded, such member shall be placed upon such preferred eligible list
as of the effective date of his or her disability retirement.
(b) The persons  on  such  preferred  list  shall  be  reinstated,  in
accordance  with the terms of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, to such
substitute positions of five months or more in  duration,  as  may  from
time  to  time occur without losing their preferred status on such list.
Declination  of  such  reinstatement  shall  not  adversely  affect  the
persons' preferred eligibility status.
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 › 2513 - Contracts; Advertisement for Bids.

§ 2513. Contracts;  advertisement  for  bids.   The board of education
  shall let all contracts for public work and all  purchase  contracts  to
  the  lowest  responsible  bidder  after  advertisement for bids where so
  required by section one hundred three of the general municipal law.
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 › 2514 - Kindergartens, Nursery and Night Schools.

§ 2514. Kindergartens,  nursery  and  night schools.   1. The board of
  education of each city school district may maintain kindergartens  which
  shall  be  free  to  resident  children between the ages of four and six
  years, provided, however, such board may fix a higher  minimum  age  for
  admission to such kindergartens.
2.  A  board  of education may maintain nursery schools which shall be
  free to resident children and may fix the age for admission.
3. Night schools, which shall be free to all persons residing  in  the
  city  school  district,  and  wherein  the  common  branches and, in the
  discretion of the board of education, such additional subjects as may be
  adapted to students applying for instruction are taught on at least  two
  nights  each  week, for two hours each night, shall be maintained by the
  board of education:
a. In city school districts of a  city  having  a  population  of  one
  hundred  thousand  or more, according to the latest federal census on at
  least one hundred nights.
b. In city school districts of a city having  a  population  of  fifty
  thousand  but  less  than  one hundred thousand, according to the latest
  federal census, on at least seventy-five nights.
c. In each other city school district, on at least fifty nights.
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 › 2515 - Fiscal Year.

§  2515.  Fiscal  year.  The fiscal year for  city school districts of
  cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants shall
  be the period commencing with July first and ending with June  thirtieth
  next following.
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 › 2522 - General Budgetary Controls; Lapse of Appropriations.

§ 2522. General  budgetary  controls;  lapse of appropriations.  1.  A
  separate account shall be kept of each appropriation.  Each such account
  shall show the amount of the  appropriation,  the  encumbrances  against
  such  account,  the  amounts  expended  therefrom  and  the unencumbered
  balance.
2. No expenditure, or  contract  which  in  any  manner  involves  the
  expenditure  of money or the incurring of any pecuniary liability, shall
  be made or entered into by the school district, or officer  or  employee
  thereof,  unless  an  amount  has  been  appropriated  and  is available
  therefor or has been authorized to be borrowed  pursuant  to  the  local
  finance  law.    This  subdivision  shall  not  prevent  the making of a
  contract or lease for a term exceeding one year when authorized by  law;
  nor  shall  this subdivision require a school district which has entered
  into a contract or lease for a term exceeding one year to pay during the
  current fiscal year any amounts larger than those which become  due  and
  owing during that year under the terms of such lease or contract.
3.  Appropriations,  to  the  extent  that  they  shall  not have been
  expended or encumbered, shall lapse at the close of the fiscal year  for
  which  made,  except  that appropriations for capital improvements shall
  continue in force until the purposes for which they were made shall have
  been accomplished or abandoned.
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 › 2523 - Moneys; Custody and Disbursement.

§ 2523. Moneys;  custody  and  disbursement.  1. The treasurer of each
  city school district shall demand, collect, receive and  have  the  care
  and  custody  of  moneys  belonging  to  or  due the district from every
  source. On the business day next following the day of their receipt  the
  treasurer  shall  deposit  in  his name, as treasurer of the city school
  district, all such moneys in or with such banks or  trust  companies  as
  shall  have  been  designated  as  depositaries  of  the  moneys of such
  district. Where the board of education with the written consent  of  the
  city  authorities,  has appointed a city officer as city school district
  treasurer, such treasurer may not commingle school district  funds  with
  city funds.
2.  Such  moneys  shall  be  disbursed  only  on the signature of such
  treasurer by checks payable to the person or persons  entitled  thereto.
  The  board  of  education  may  in  its  discretion  require  that  such
  checks-other than  checks   for  salary,  be  countersigned  by  another
  officer  of such district. When authorized by resolution of the board of
  education such checks may be signed with the facsimile signature of  the
  treasurer  and  other  district  officer whose signature is required, as
  reproduced by a machine or device commonly known as a check-signer. Each
  check drawn by the treasurer shall state the fund against  which  it  is
  drawn.  No fund shall be overdrawn nor shall any check be drawn upon one
  fund to pay a claim chargeable to another. No money shall be paid out by
  the treasurer except upon the warrant of  the  clerk  of  the  board  of
  education  after  audit  and  allowance  by  such  board, or if a claims
  auditor shall have been appointed,  except  upon  the  warrant  of  such
  claims  auditor  after  audit  and allowance thereof; provided, however,
  when provision for payment has  been  made  in  the  annual  budget  the
  treasurer  may  pay,  without such warrant or prior audit and allowance,
  (a) the principal of and interest on bonds, notes or other evidences  of
  indebtedness  of  the  district or for the payment of which the district
  shall be liable, and  (b)  compensation  for  services  of  officers  or
  employees  engaged at agreed wages by the hour, day, week, month or year
  upon presentation of  a  duly  certified  payroll.  By  resolution  duly
  adopted, the board may determine to enter into a contract to provide for
  the  deposit of the periodic payroll of the school district in a bank or
  trust company for disbursal by  it  in  accordance  with  provisions  of
  section ninety-six-b of the banking law.
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 › 2524 - Form of Claims.

§ 2524. Form  of claims.   1. No claim against a city school district,
  except for compensation for services of an officer or  employee  engaged
  at  agreed  wages  by  the  hour,  day,  week,  month or year or for the
  principal of or interest on indebtedness of the district, shall be  paid
  unless an itemized voucher therefor approved by the officer whose action
  gave rise or origin to the claim, shall have been presented to the board
  of  education  or  claims  auditor of the city school district and shall
  have  been  audited  and  allowed.  The  board  of  education  shall  be
  authorized, but not required, to prescribe the form of such voucher.
2.  The  board of education may by resolution authorize the payment in
  advance of audit of claims for public utility services, postage, freight
  and express charges. All such claims shall  be  presented  at  the  next
  regular meeting for audit, and the claimant and the officer incurring or
  approving  the same shall be jointly and severally liable for any amount
  disallowed by the board of education.
As used in this subdivision, the term public  utility  services  shall
  mean electric, gas, water, sewer and telephone services.