2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 31 - School Districts › 1522 - Notice of Meeting for Establishment of Union Free School District.

§  1522.  Notice  of  meeting  for  establishment of union free school
  district. 1. Whenever fifteen persons entitled to vote at any meeting of
  the inhabitants of any common school district in this state, shall  sign
  a  request  for  a  meeting,  to  be held for the purpose of determining
  whether a union free school district shall  be  established  therein  in
  conformity  with the provisions of this article, it shall be the duty of
  the trustees of such district, within ten days after such request  shall
  have been presented to them, to give public notice that a meeting of the
  inhabitants  of  such district entitled to vote thereat will be held for
  such purpose as aforesaid, at the schoolhouse, or  other  more  suitable
  place  in such district, on a day and at an hour to be specified in such
  notice not less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  thirty  days  after  the
  publication of such notice.
2.  If the trustees shall refuse to give such notice, or shall neglect
  to give the same for twenty days,  the  commissioner  of  education  may
  authorize and direct any inhabitant of such district to give the same.
3.  Whenever  such district shall correspond wholly or in part with an
  incorporated village, in which there  shall  be  published  a  daily  or
  weekly  newspaper, the notice required in this section shall be given by
  posting the same in five conspicuous places in said district,  at  least
  twenty  days  prior  to  such  meeting,  and  by  causing the same to be
  published once a week for three consecutive weeks before  such  meeting,
  in all the newspapers published in said district.
4.  In  other such districts the said notice shall be given by posting
  the same as aforesaid, and in addition thereto,  the  trustees  of  such
  district  shall  authorize and require any taxable inhabitant thereof to
  notify every other qualified voter in such district of such  meeting  by
  delivering  to  him a copy of such notice or in case of his absence from
  home, by leaving a copy thereof, or so much thereof as  relates  to  the
  time,  place  and  object  of  the meeting, at the place of his abode at
  least twenty days prior to the time of such meeting.
5. Whenever fifteen persons, entitled as aforesaid, from each  of  two
  or  more  adjoining districts, shall unite in a request for a meeting of
  the inhabitants of such districts, to determine whether  such  districts
  shall  be  consolidated  by  the  establishment  of  a union free school
  district therein,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  such
  districts,  or a majority of them, to submit such proposed consolidation
  to the commissioner of  education  for  approval.  If  the  commissioner
  approve  such  proposed  consolidation,  it  shall  be  the duty of such
  trustees, or a majority of them, to give public notice of such  meeting,
  at  some  convenient  place within such districts, and as central as may
  be, within the time and to be published and served  in  the  manner  set
  forth  in this section, in each of such districts and to provide for the
  use  of  absentee  ballots  as  provided  under  section  two   thousand
  eighteen-a  or  two  thousand  eighteen-b of this title, whichever shall
  apply, and early mail  ballots  as  provided  in  section  two  thousand
  eighteen-e  or  two  thousand  eighteen-f of this title, whichever shall
  apply.
6. The commissioner of education may  order  such  meeting  under  the
  conditions and in the manner prescribed in this section.
7.  The  reasonable  expense  of  the  publication and service of such
  notice shall be chargeable upon the  district,  in  case  a  union  free
  school  district is established by the meeting so convened, to be levied
  and collected by the trustees, as in case of  taxes  levied  for  school
  purposes;  but  in  the event that such union free school district shall
  not be established, then the said expense shall be chargeable  upon  the
  inhabitants  signing the request, jointly and severally, to be sued for,
  if necessary, in any court having jurisdiction of the same.