New York Education Law Article 31 - SCHOOL DISTRICTS
- 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...
- 1501-a - Publication of Minutes.
Any school district board of trustees, board of education or other corporate body may publish the minutes of its proceedings in the official newspaper or...
- 1501-b - Additional Power of Boards of Education.
1. The board of education of any school district is hereby authorized and empowered to rent or lease for such consideration as may be determined...
- 1501-c - Voting by Residents of Certain Facilities.
Notwithstanding any provision of this title to the contrary, the provisions of section 8-407 of the election law shall apply to all elections conducted pursuant...
- 1502 - Passengers on School Buses.
1. Boards of education of school districts located entirely or partially in any county with less than two hundred thousand population or any town which...
- 1502-a - Power to Provide for Observance of Memorial Day; Certain Cases.
1. In any year in which the celebration of the holiday known as "Memorial day" is to be otherwise observed as a public holiday pursuant...
- 1503 - Application of Funds Obtained From Sale of School Property.
All moneys obtained from the sale of any school property authorized under the provisions of this chapter shall be applied for the benefit of the...
- 1504 - Formation of New District.
1. A district superintendent may organize a new school district out of the territory of one or more school districts which are wholly within the...
- 1505 - Dissolution, Reformation and Construction of Districts.
1. Any district superintendent by order may dissolve one or more districts and may from such territory form a new district. He may also unite...
- 1505-a - Teachers' Rights As a Result of the Dissolution of a School District.
1. In any case in which a school district is dissolved and portions of such former district are added to more than one school district...
- 1506 - Filing of Certain Orders of District Superintendent.
The order of a district superintendent forming or altering the boundaries of a school district and the written description thereof together with all notices, orders,...
- 1507 - Alteration by Consent.
1. With the written consent of the trustees of all the districts to be affected thereby, the district superintendent may make an order altering the...
- 1508 - Alteration Without Consent.
If the trustees of any district affected thereby refuse to consent, the district superintendent may make and file with the town clerk of the town...
- 1509 - Hearing of Objections to Order for Alteration Without Consent.
1. Within ten days after making and filing such order the district superintendent shall give at least a week's notice in writing to the trustees...
- 1510 - Consolidation of Districts by Vote of Qualified Electors.
Two or more common school districts may be consolidated and created as one common school district, or two or more union free school districts may...
- 1511 - Request for Meeting to Consolidate Districts; Notices of Meeting.
1. Whenever two-thirds of the qualified electors of each of two or more districts in which there shall be less than fifteen qualified electors, or...
- 1512 - Proceedings At Meeting for Consolidation; Adoption of Resolution; Proceedings to Be Filed.
1. Such meeting shall be organized as provided in section fifteen hundred twenty-three. Such meeting may adopt a resolution to consolidate such districts if two-thirds...
- 1513 - Order Creating Consolidated District; Effect.
The district superintendent shall thereupon, in case of an affirmative vote, issue an order consolidating such districts and creating a common school district, or union...
- 1514 - Property of Districts Consolidated.
When two or more districts shall be consolidated into one, the new district shall succeed to all the rights of property possessed by the annulled
- 1515 - Dissolution or Alteration of Joint District.
The majority of the district superintendents within whose districts any joint school district lies may make an order at a meeting duly called by one...
- 1516 - Special Meeting of Joint District to Act Regarding Alteration or Dissolution.
1. If a district superintendent, by notice in writing, shall require the attendance of the other district superintendents, at a joint meeting for the purpose...
- 1517 - Indebtedness of Certain Dissolved Districts.
Whenever any school district is dissolved pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen hundred five of this article and annexed to an adjoining district or...
- 1518 - Continuance of Dissolved Districts for Payment of Debts.
Though a district be dissolved, it shall continue to exist in law, for the purpose of providing for and paying all its just debts, except...
- 1519 - Deposit of Records of Dissolved District.
In the event that a school district shall be dissolved, the clerk of the district, or any person in whose possession the books, papers and...
- 1520 - Sale of Property of Dissolved District and Disposition of Proceeds.
1. When a district is divided into portions, which are annexed to other districts, its property shall be sold by the supervisor of the town...
- 1521 - Collection and Distribution of Moneys Due Dissolved District.
The supervisor of the town or towns within which the schoolhouse of the dissolved district was situated may demand, sue for and collect, in the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1524 - Consolidation With City School District.
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or any other general, special, or local law to the contrary, whenever the qualified voters of a school...
- 1525 - Alteration of Boundaries of City School District.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or any other general, special, or local law to the contrary, whenever the commissioner of education shall receive an...
- 1526 - Enlarged City School Districts.
1. The commissioner of education is hereby authorized and empowered to create enlarged city school districts by consolidation of city school districts of cities of...
- 1527 - Payroll Deductions for Deposit to Employee Bank Accounts.
The disbursing officer of the city school district of the city of Syracuse is authorized to deduct from the salary of members of the teaching...
- 1527-c - Shared Superintendent Program.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the governing board of a school district with an enrollment of less than...
Last modified: February 3, 2019