2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2018 - Nomination of Candidates for the Office of Member of the Board of Education in All Union Free School Districts or for the Office of Member of the Boar

§ 2018. Nomination of candidates for the office of member of the board
  of  education  in  all  union free school districts or for the office of
  member of the board of trustees in all  common  school  districts  which
  have  elected  to vote for trustees at a time or place separate from the
  annual meeting. a. In all union free school districts candidates for the
  office of member of  the  board  of  education  shall  be  nominated  by
  petition. Each vacancy upon the board of education to be filled shall be
  considered  a  separate  specific  office.  A separate petition shall be
  required to nominate a candidate to each separate office. Each  petition
  shall  be  directed to the clerk of the school district, shall be signed
  by at least twenty-five qualified voters of the district, or two percent
  of the voters who voted in the previous annual election of  the  members
  of  the  board  of  education,  whichever  is greater, such number to be
  determined by the number of persons recorded on the poll list as  having
  voted  at  such election shall state the residence of each signer, shall
  state the name and residence of the candidate  and  shall  describe  the
  specific  vacancy  on  the board of education for which the candidate is
  nominated, which description shall include at least the  length  of  the
  term  of office and the name of the last incumbent, if any. In the event
  that any  such  nominee  shall  withdraw  his  candidacy  prior  to  the
  election,  such  person shall not be considered a candidate unless a new
  petition nominating such person in the same manner and within  the  same
  time  limitations applicable to other candidates is filed with the clerk
  of the district. Each petition shall 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 nominated are to be elected. No person shall be nominated
  by petition for more than one separate office.
b.  At  any school election in such district, the electors may adopt a
  proposition providing that, in all subsequent elections, vacancies  upon
  the board of education shall not be considered separate specific offices
  and  that  the  nominating  petitions  shall  not  describe any specific
  vacancy  upon  the  board  of  education  for  which  the  candidate  is
  nominated.  Such  procedure  shall  be  followed  with  respect  to  all
  nominations and elections in subsequent  years  until  and  unless  such
  proposition  is  repealed  by  the electors of the district at a regular
  election by the adoption of a proposition to repeal the same.
c. In all common school districts, candidates for the office of member
  of the board of trustees shall be nominated by petition.  Such  petition
  shall  not  describe any specific vacancy on the board of trustees. Each
  petition shall be directed to the clerk of the school district and shall
  be signed by at least twenty-five qualified voters of  the  district  or
  two  percent  of the voters who voted in the previous annual election of
  the members of the board of  trustees,  whichever  is  greater.  Such  a
  petition shall state the residence of each signer, and shall contain the
  name and residence of the candidate.
d.  If  a  candidate  for whom a nominating petition for the office of
  member of a board of  education  has  been  duly  filed  withdraws  such
  petition,  dies or becomes otherwise ineligible to hold such office at a
  time which is later than fifteen days before the last day for the filing
  of nominating petitions as provided in subdivision a  of  this  section,
  the  time  for  filing  nominating  petitions  for  such office shall be
  extended to five p.m. on the fifteenth day after the day on  which  such
  candidate  withdrew,  died,  or otherwise became ineligible to hold such
  office, provided that no such nominating petition  may  be  filed  after
  five p.m. on the seventh day preceding the date of the election.