New York Education Law Article 51 - CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF CITIES WITH LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS

• 2501 - Application of Article.
  This article shall apply to the school district of each city which according to the latest federal census has less than one hundred twenty-five thousand
• 2502 - Board of Education.
  1. The board of education of each city school district shall constitute a body corporate. 2. Each board of education shall consist of five, seven...
• 2503 - Powers and Duties of Board of Education.
  Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the board of education: 1. Shall perform any duty imposed upon or exercise any power granted to boards...
• 2503-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...
• 2504 - Meetings of Board of Education.
  1. The annual meeting of the board of education shall be held during the first week in July, at four o'clock in the afternoon or...
• 2506 - Collector.
  1. The board of education shall appoint a school district tax collector who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board. The board may...
• 2507 - Superintendent of Schools; Associate Superintendents.
  1. The superintendent and any associate superintendent of schools in each school district shall hold his position subject to the pleasure of the board of...
• 2508 - Powers and Duties of Superintendent of Schools.
  The superintendent of schools of a city school district shall possess, subject to the bylaws of the board of education, the following powers and be...
• 2509 - Appointment of Assistant and Other Superintendents, Teachers and Other Employees.
  1. (a) i. Teachers and all other members of the teaching staff appointed prior to July first, two thousand fifteen and authorized by section twenty-five...
• 2510 - Abolition of Office or Position.
  1. If the board of education abolishes an office or position and creates another office or position for the performance of duties similar to those...
• 2511 - Purchase and Sale of Real and Personal Property.
  1. The board of education may purchase real and personal property for any of the purposes authorized by law and shall take title thereto in...
• 2512 - Buildings and Sites.
  1. Such board of education is authorized and it shall have power to designate sites, to purchase, repair, reconstruct, improve or enlarge school buildings or...
• 2513 - Contracts; Advertisement for Bids.
  The board of education shall let all contracts for public work and all purchase contracts to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement for bids where...
• 2514 - Kindergartens, Nursery and Night Schools.
  1. The board of education of each city school district may maintain kindergartens which shall be free to resident children between the ages of four...
• 2515 - Fiscal Year.
  The fiscal year for city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants shall be the period commencing with July first...
• 2519 - Adoption of Budget; Publication of Changes; Appropriations.
• 2522 - General Budgetary Controls; Lapse of Appropriations.
  1. A separate account shall be kept of each appropriation. Each such account shall show the amount of the appropriation, the encumbrances against such account,...
• 2523 - Moneys; Custody and Disbursement.
  1. The treasurer of each city school district shall demand, collect, receive and have the care and custody of moneys belonging to or due the...
• 2524 - Form of Claims.
  1. No claim against a city school district, except for compensation for services of an officer or employee engaged at agreed wages by the hour,...
• 2525 - Audit of Claims.
  1. The board of education, in considering any claim, may require any person presenting the same to be sworn before it or before any member...
• 2526 - Claims Auditor.
  1. The board of education of a city school district may adopt a resolution establishing the office of claims auditor and appoint a claims auditor...
• 2527 - Official Undertakings.
  The clerk of the board of education or, where the office of claims auditor or deputy claims auditor has been created, the claims auditor or...
• 2528 - Annual Financial Report.
  Within three months after the close of the fiscal year the board of education shall annually cause to be published in a newspaper, or two...
• 2529 - Tax Election.
  The board of education may call a special election in the manner provided in article fifty-three of this chapter and submit to the qualified voters...
• 2530 - Power to Contract Indebtedness.
  Each city school district shall be authorized to expend money for any of the objects or purposes which it is authorized to accomplish by law...

Last modified: February 3, 2019