New York Education Law Article 35 - UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS

• 1701 - Boards of Education Corporate Bodies.
  The board of education of each union free school district is hereby created a body corporate and it shall, at its first meeting and at...
• 1702 - Board of Education; Election; Terms of Office.
  1. Whenever a union free school district shall be established, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision three of section fifteen hundred four of this chapter,...
• 1703 - Change in Number of Members of Board of Education.
  1. The number of members of the board of education of a union free school district may be increased or decreased at an annual meeting...
• 1704 - Length of School Year, and Expenditure of Funds.
  1. No board of education or community board in the city school district of the city of New York, except as otherwise provided by law,...
• 1705 - Annexing Territory to a Union Free School District.
  1. Territory may be annexed to a union free school district as provided in this section. a. The commissioner is authorized and empowered to make...
• 1706 - Power of Removal of Member of Board of Education.
  For cause shown, and after giving notice of the charge and opportunity of defense, the commissioner of education may remove any member of a board...
• 1707 - Annual Organizational Meetings of Boards of Education.
  1. The annual organizational meeting of the board of education of every union free school district shall be held on the first Tuesday in July...
• 1708 - Regular Meetings; Visitation of Schools.
  1. It shall be the duty of each board of education elected pursuant to the provisions of this article to have a regular meeting at...
• 1709 - Powers and Duties of Boards of Education.
  The said board of education of every union free school district shall have power, and it shall be its duty: 1. To adopt such by-laws...
• 1709-a - Powers of Boards of Education to Ban Fraternities, Sororities and Other Secret Societies.
  1. In its discretion, the board of education of each school district, may adopt rules and regulations to abolish and/or prohibit any fraternity, sorority or...
• 1710 - Boards of Education Have Powers of Trustees of Common Schools and Trustees of Academies.
  The board of education of a union free school district shall possess all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, which...
• 1711 - Appointment of Superintendent of Schools.
  1. The board of education of any union free school district may appoint a superintendent consistent with the provisions of this section. 2. Such superintendent...
• 1712 - Kindergartens; Nursery and Night Schools.
  1. The board of education of each school district may maintain kindergartens which shall be free to resident children between the ages of four and...
• 1713 - Academy May Be Adopted As Academic Department.
  Whenever a union free school district shall be established under the provisions of article thirty-one, and there shall exist within the district an academy, the...
• 1714 - Contracts With Academies.
  The board of education of a union free school district, with the approval of the commissioner of education, may adopt an academy as the academic...
• 1715 - Retransfer of Academy to Its Former Trustees.
  If there shall be, in a dissolved union free school district, an academy which shall have been adopted as the academic department of the union...
• 1716 - Estimated Expenses for Ensuing Year.
  1. It shall be the duty of the board of education of each district to present at the annual budget hearing a detailed statement in...
• 1717 - Corporate Authorities Must Raise Tax Certified by Board of Education.
  1. The corporate authorities of any incorporated village in which any such union free school district shall be established, shall have power, and it shall...
• 1718 - Limitation Upon Expenditures.
  1. No board of education shall incur a district liability in excess of the amount appropriated by a district meeting unless such board is specially...
• 1719 - Deposit, Custody and Payment of Moneys in Villages.
  1. All moneys raised for the support of schools in any union free school district whose boundaries are coterminous with the boundaries of an incorporated...
• 1720 - Moneys and Accounts in Union Free School Districts.
  1. All moneys raised in a union free school district or apportioned thereto by the education department or otherwise, shall be paid to the treasurer...
• 1721 - Records; Reports.
  It shall be the duty of the board of education of a union free school district to keep an accurate record of all its proceedings...
• 1722 - Application of Article.
  The provisions of this article shall apply to all union free school districts heretofore organized pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred thirty-three of...
• 1723-a - Temporary Investment of School Moneys.
  The board of education of any union free school district may authorize the district treasurer or other officer having custody of district moneys to invest...
• 1724 - Form and Audit of Claims.
  1. No claim against a central school district or a union free school district, except for compensation for services of an officer or employee engaged...
• 1725 - Lease of Personal Property.
  1. Notwithstanding any incon- sistent provision of law, a board of education of any union free school district may enter into agreements for the lease...
• 1725-a - Powers of Boards of Education; Instructional Equipment.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the board of education of any school district is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements for the...
• 1726 - Lease and Lease-Purchase of Buildings.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the board of education of any union free school district may enter into agreements pursuant to the provisions...

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