2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 43 - School District Officers--Town and County Officials › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2105 - Terms of Office.

§ 2105. Terms of office.  1. In a common school district having a sole
  trustee the term of office of trustee shall be one year.
2.  In a common school district having three trustees the full term of
  office of trustee shall be three years.
3. In a central school district or a union-free school  district,  the
  full  term of office of trustee shall be three, four or five years.  Any
  such school district may decrease the full term of a school  trustee  to
  three  or  four  years  or increase the full term of a school trustee to
  four or five years by adopting a proposition at any  annual  meeting  or
  election  to  do  so; provided, however, that the term of office of each
  incumbent trustee shall not  be  increased  or  decreased  thereby;  and
  provided,  further,  that  whenever  a  proposition  shall be adopted to
  increase the term of office from three or four years to five  years,  or
  to  decrease  the term of office from four or five years to three years,
  such proposition shall provide that one or more of the vacancies  to  be
  filled,  during  each of the three years next succeeding the adoption of
  such proposition, shall be for three or four years only in  order  that,
  as  nearly  as possible, an equal number of trustees shall be elected to
  the board each year.
4. Trustees may be elected for shorter periods as  otherwise  provided
  in this chapter.
5.  The  term of office of a trustee elected at the first meeting of a
  newly created common school district having a sole trustee shall  expire
  on the first Tuesday of May next thereafter.
6.  The  term  of  office  of all other district officers shall be one
  year.
7. One year, within the meaning of this section, is a school year.
8. When a new union free school district is formed, the meeting, after
  determining the number of members  of  the  board  of  education  to  be
  elected,  shall  proceed  to elect members of the board of education for
  various terms not in excess of five years so that as nearly as  possible
  an  equal number of vacancies shall occur on the board of education each
  year.
9. When the number of members of the board of  education  of  a  union
  free  school  district  is  increased,  the  additional members shall be
  elected for such terms not in excess of five years so that thereafter as
  nearly as possible an equal number of terms shall expire each year.
10. When the number of members of the board of education  of  a  union
  free  school  district is decreased, no election shall be held until the
  number of members of the board of education shall be equal to or be less
  than the number of members to which the board of education is decreased.
  At elections thereafter, the members of the board of education shall  be
  elected  for such terms not in excess of five years so that as nearly as
  possible an equal number of members shall be elected to the  board  each
  year.
11.  a. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary,
  in any union free school district whose boundaries are  not  coterminous
  with those of an incorporated village, except a central school district,
  which  under  the  provisions  of  law  in effect on May first, nineteen
  hundred fifty-seven, elected members to the board  of  education  for  a
  term  of  three  years, the qualified voters of the district present and
  voting at the annual meeting of  such  district  held  during  the  year
  nineteen  hundred  fifty-eight,  may adopt a resolution determining that
  members of the board of education of such district shall be elected  for
  a  term  of  three  years.  A certified copy of such resolution shall be
  filed with the commissioner of education  on  or  before  August  first,
  nineteen  hundred  fifty-eight.    The  voters  of any such district may

  rescind such resolution by a majority vote of  the  voters  present  and
  voting at a special or annual meeting of the district.
b.  Notwithstanding  any provision of this section to the contrary, in
  any central school district whose boundaries are  not  coterminous  with
  those  of  an incorporated village, the qualified voters of the district
  present and voting at the annual meeting of such  district  held  during
  the  year nineteen hundred fifty-nine may adopt a resolution determining
  that members of the board of education of such district shall be elected
  for a term of three years. A certified copy of such resolution shall  be
  filed  with  the  commissioner  of  education on or before August first,
  nineteen hundred fifty-nine.   The  voters  of  any  such  district  may
  rescind any such resolution by a majority vote of the voters present and
  voting at a special or annual meeting of the district.
c.  Notwithstanding  any provision of this section to the contrary, in
  any union free school district, the boundaries of which are  coterminous
  with those of an incorporated village, which under the provisions of law
  in  effect  on  April twenty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, elected
  members of the  board  of  education  for  terms  of  three  years,  the
  qualified  voters  of  the  district  present  and  voting at the annual
  meeting  of  such  district  held  during  the  year  nineteen   hundred
  sixty-one,  may adopt a resolution determining that members of the board
  of education of such district shall be  elected  for  a  term  of  three
  years.  A  certified  copy  of  such  resolution shall be filed with the
  commissioner of education on or before August  first,  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-one.  The  voters of any such district may rescind such resolution
  by a majority vote of the voters present and  voting  at  a  special  or
  annual meeting of the district.
12.  The  term  of  office  of  trustees of union free school district
  number one of the town of Tonawanda, Erie county, shall be three years.
13. Until the terms of all members of the  board  of  education  of  a
  union  free school district, have become five years, or three years when
  a resolution pursuant to subdivision three or subdivision eleven of this
  section has been adopted, members of such board of  education  shall  be
  elected  in such numbers and for such terms not in excess of five years,
  or three years when  a  resolution  pursuant  to  subdivision  three  or
  subdivision  eleven of this section has been adopted, so that as soon as
  practicable an equal number of members of such board of  education  will
  be elected each year.
14.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this  chapter  to the
  contrary, where a term of office expires at the end of a school year and
  such position is or becomes vacant at the time of the annual meeting  or
  election, the person elected to fill the full term vacancy shall also be
  deemed  elected  to  fill  the  remainder  of  the  term  preceding  the
  commencement of the full term.