2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1501 - Existing School Districts Continued.

§ 1501. Existing  school districts continued.  1. All school districts
  organized either by special laws or pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  a
  general law are hereby continued.
2.  a.  Common  school  districts  and  union free school districts so
  organized may be altered or dissolved as provided in this article.
b. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or of any other
  general or special law to the contrary, all school  districts  which  do
  not  maintain  a home school on March first, nineteen hundred sixty-six,
  and had not prior to October first, nineteen hundred sixty-five voted to
  reopen  such  home  school  and  expended  monies  for  construction  or
  rehabilitation  of  such home school, provided that they are contiguous,
  either directly, or through other  such  districts,  to  a  union  free,
  central or city school district maintaining a twelve grade school system
  (not  counting  kindergarten)  and  with which such school districts are
  scheduled to be reorganized  pursuant  to  the  state  plan  for  school
  district  reorganization  under  section  three hundred fourteen of this
  chapter, are  hereby  abolished  as  of  July  first,  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-nine,  and  are  hereby made a part of such contiguous union free,
  central or city school  district.  The  provisions  of  section  fifteen
  hundred fourteen, fifteen hundred seventeen and fifteen hundred eighteen
  of this chapter shall apply in all such cases.
c.  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph b of this subdivision,
  any such district desiring a change in such state plan may petition  the
  commissioner  for  such  change  as  provided  in  section three hundred
  fourteen  of  this  chapter.  The  status  of  such  district  shall  be
  maintained  pending  such  proceeding, and if any other such district or
  districts is or are contiguous to a union free, central or  city  school
  district only through such petitioning district, then and in that event,
  the  status of such other district or districts shall also be maintained
  pending  such  proceeding.  The  petitioning  district  and  such  other
  district  or  districts  contiguous  with  a union free, central or city
  school district only through such petitioning district  shall  become  a
  part  of  such  other union free, central or city school district as the
  commissioner or the court may order; in  such  case  the  provisions  of
  paragraph  b  of  this  subdivision  shall  become  applicable,  and the
  abolition of such school districts shall become  effective  as  of  July
  first  next  following  the  final determination of the petition; if, in
  such case, any other school district or districts indirectly  contiguous
  to such union free, central or city school district loses its contiguity
  therewith,  the  commissioner  or  the court, as the case may be, in the
  order, shall  make  an  appropriate  disposition  of  such  district  or
  districts.
3.  Central school districts may be organized under and are subject to
  the provisions of article thirty-seven.
4. Central high school districts may be altered under and are  subject
  to the provisions of article thirty-nine.