2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 37 - Central School Districts › 1801 - Formation and Changes of Central School Districts.

§ 1801.   Formation  and  changes of central school districts.  1. The
  commissioner of education is hereby authorized and empowered to lay  out
  central  school  districts  for  the establishment of central schools to
  give instruction in elementary or elementary and  high  school  subjects
  and  to  fix,  determine  and define the boundaries of said districts as
  hereinafter provided.
2. The commissioner is authorized and empowered to make and  enter  in
  his  office  orders laying out territory in new central school districts
  or annexing to existing central school districts territory not contained
  within a city school district in a city having a population of more than
  ten thousand  inhabitants,  and  not  contained  within  a  city  school
  district  having  a  full  valuation  of  taxable real estate per public
  school pupil residing in the district  of  more  than  fifteen  thousand
  dollars;  provided,  however,  that no territory contained within a city
  school  district  in  a  city  having  a  population  of  ten   thousand
  inhabitants  or  less may be included in new central school districts or
  annexed to existing central school districts after July first,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-five.  The  commissioner  of  education is authorized and
  empowered to make and enter in his office orders dissolving and annexing
  a central  school  district  or  districts  to  another  central  school
  district,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  subdivision two of section
  eighteen hundred two of this chapter.   The commissioner in  laying  out
  such  central school districts and in fixing and defining the boundaries
  thereof shall include  only  territory  of  suitable  size  conveniently
  located  for  the attendance of pupils and having a sufficient number of
  pupils for the establishment of a central school. The commissioner shall
  designate all central school districts by such  simplified  name  as  he
  shall deem proper.
3. Within ten days after the making and entry of the order pursuant to
  this  section,  the commissioner shall transmit a certified copy thereof
  to the clerk, or in the event there is  no  clerk,  to  the  trustee  or
  trustees  of  each school district the territory of which is affected by
  said order. The clerk, the trustee or trustees,  as  the  case  may  be,
  shall, within five days after receipt of such order, post a copy thereof
  in five conspicuous places in such district.
4.  No  central  school district laid out by order of the commissioner
  shall operate as a central school district, nor be entitled  to  receive
  the benefits of a central school district until it has been organized by
  the  qualified  voters of the district in accordance with the provisions
  of this article, provided, however, a central school district which  was
  organized  prior  to  April  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-four, or
  pursuant to the provisions of this section and to which territory may be
  annexed shall not be required to again organize.
5. The commissioner of education is hereby authorized and empowered to
  make and enter in his office an order annexing the territory  of  common
  school  district number three of the town of Wilmington, Essex county to
  central school district number two of the  town  of  North  Elba,  Essex
  county,  together  with  such territory of common school district number
  one of the town of Wilmington, Essex county as will  provide  contiguity
  between  the  aforementioned  Wilmington  common  school district number
  three and North Elba central school district number two.