2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1523 - Proceedings at Meeting and Effect of Affirmative Vote.

§ 1523.   Proceedings  at  meeting and effect of affirmative vote.  1.
  Any such meeting held pursuant to  section  fifteen  hundred  twenty-two
  shall  be  organized  by the election of a chairman and clerk and may be
  adjourned from time to time, by a  majority  vote,  provided  that  such
  adjournment shall not be for a longer period than ten days; and whenever
  at  any  such  meeting  duly  called  and  held  under the provisions of
  subdivisions  one  to  four,  inclusive,  of  section  fifteen   hundred
  twenty-two,  at least fifteen qualified voters of the districts shall be
  present; or at such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of
  subdivisions five and six of  section  fifteen  hundred  twenty-two,  at
  least  fifteen  qualified  voters  of  each of the two or more adjoining
  districts, joining in the request, shall be present, such  meeting  may,
  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  a  majority  present and voting, adopt a
  resolution to establish a union free school district in  said  district,
  or  to consolidate the two or more adjoining districts by establishing a
  union free school district in said districts pursuant to the  notice  of
  said  meeting. If said meeting shall determine to establish a union free
  school district in said districts as aforesaid, 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 chapter.
2. The district superintendent in whose district the union free school
  district is thus organized shall designate such district by a simplified
  name  in  accordance  with section three hundred fifteen of this chapter
  and the said board shall have  the  name  and  style  of  the  board  of
  education of (adding the designation aforesaid).
3.   Copies   of  said  request,  notice  of  meeting,  order  of  the
  commissioner  of  education  directing  some  inhabitant  to  call  said
  meeting,  if  any,  and  minutes  of said meeting, duly certified by the
  chairman  and  clerk  thereof,  shall  be  transmitted  and   deposited,
  immediately  after such meeting by one of such officers, one to and with
  the town clerk, one to and with the  district  superintendent  in  whose
  jurisdiction  said  districts  are  located,  and  one  to  and with the
  commissioner of education.
4. If at any such meeting, the question as to the establishment  of  a
  union  free  school district shall not be decided in the affirmative, as
  aforesaid, then 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.
5.  When  any  such meeting shall have established a union free school
  district in said districts, such union free school district shall not be
  dissolved within the period of one year from the first Tuesday of August
  next after such meeting.