New York Education Law Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 2001 - Notice of First Meeting of District.
  1. Whenever any school district shall be formed, or two or more common school districts are consolidated as provided in section fifteen hundred twelve, the...
• 2002 - Time and Place of Annual Meeting.
  1. The annual meeting and election of each school district shall be held on the third Tuesday of May in each year, provided, however that...
• 2003 - Notice of Annual Meeting in Common School District.
  1. The district clerk of each common school district shall give notice of the availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions of...
• 2004 - Notice of Annual Meeting in Union Free School District.
  1. The clerk of each union free school district shall give notice of the availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions of...
• 2005 - Special Meeting to Transact Business of Annual Meeting.
  Whenever the time for holding the annual meeting in a school district shall pass without such meeting being held, a special meeting, to be held...
• 2006 - Special Meeting in Common School District.
  1. A special district meeting of a common school district shall be held whenever called by the trustees or whenever called for by petition of...
• 2007 - Special Meeting in Union Free School District.
  1. The board of education in a union free school district shall have power to call special meetings of the inhabitants of the district whenever...
• 2008 - Call of Special District Meeting by District Superintendent.
  1. When the clerk and all the trustees of a school district shall have removed from the district, or their offices shall be vacant, so...
• 2009 - Additional Requirements of Notice Where Tax to Be Authorized to Be Levied in Installments.
  Where any proposition is to be submitted to an annual or special district meeting or election authorizing a tax to be levied in installments as...
• 2010 - Effect of Want of Due Notice of District Meetings.
  The proceedings of no district meeting, annual or special, shall be held illegal for want of a due notice to all the persons qualified to...
• 2011 - Duty to Attend District Meetings.
  Whenever any district meeting shall be duly called, it shall be the duty of the inhabitants qualified to vote thereat, to assemble at the time...
• 2012 - Qualifications of Voters At District Meetings.
  A person shall be entitled to vote at any school meeting or election for the election of school district officers, and upon all other matters...
• 2014 - Registration of Voters.
  1. In any union free school district, the board of education may upon its own motion provide for the personal registration of voters at school...
• 2015 - Register to Be Filed; Addition to and Correction of Register; Challenges.
  1. The register prepared as provided in section two thousand fourteen of this chapter shall, immediately upon its completion and not less than five days...
• 2016 - Review of Registration Procedure by Supreme Court or County Judge.
  1. The supreme court or a justice thereof, or the county judge within the county in which the school district is wholly or partly situated,...
• 2017 - Division of Union Free School District Into Election Districts.
  1. In any union free school district having personal registration of voters pursuant to section two thousand fourteen of this chapter, the board of education...
• 2018 - Nomination of Candidates for the Office of Member of the Board of Education in All Union Free School Districts or for the Office of Member of the Boar
  2018. Nomination of candidates for the office of member of the board of education in all union free school districts or for the office of...
• 2018-a - Absentee Ballots for School District Elections.
  1. The board of education of any union free, central or central high school district which elects school board members by ballot and provides for...
• 2018-b - Absentee Ballots for School District Elections by Poll Registration.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections two thousand fourteen and two thousand eighteen-a of this article, the trustees or the board of education of any...
• 2018-c - Additional Voting Procedures.
  a. A school district may require all persons offering to vote at any school district meeting or election for which registration is not required, to...
• 2019 - Declaration in Case of Challenge of Voter.
  If a person offering to vote at any school district meeting or election shall be challenged as unqualified, by any legal voter in such district,...
• 2019-a - Voting by Persons Whose Names are Not in the Registration Poll Ledgers.
  1. Whenever a voter presents himself and offers to cast a ballot at any school district meeting or election, and the address at which he...
• 2020 - Penalty for False Declaration or Unauthorized Vote.
  1. A person who shall wilfully make a false statement to a board of registration, or to any member or members thereof, or the clerk...
• 2021 - Powers of Voters.
  The inhabitants entitled to vote, when duly assembled in any district meeting, shall have power, by a majority of the votes of those present and...
• 2022 - Vote on School District Budgets and on the Election of School District Trustees and Board of Education Members.
  * 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the election of trustees or members of the board of education, and the vote...
• 2023 - Levy of Tax for Certain Purposes Without Vote; Contingency Budget.
  * 1. If the qualified voters shall neglect or refuse to vote the sum estimated necessary for teachers' salaries, after applying thereto the public school...
• 2023-a - Limitations Upon School District Tax Levies.
  * 1. Generally. Unless otherwise provided by law, the amount of taxes that may be levied by or on behalf of any school district, other...
• 2023-b - Certification of Compliance With Property Tax Freeze Requirements.
  A school district that is subject to the provisions of section two thousand twenty-three-a of this part must comply with the requirements of subdivision two...
• 2024 - Reference to Commissioner of Education.
  If any question shall arise as to what are ordinary contingent expenses the same may be referred to the commissioner of education, by a statement...
• 2025 - Procedures At School District Meetings.
  1. District meetings in common school districts shall be called to order by the trustee or the chairman of the board of trustees or by...
• 2029 - Poll List.
  A poll list containing the name and legal residence of every person whose vote shall be received shall be kept by the clerk and the...
• 2030 - Ballot Box; Voting Booth.
  1. The trustee, board of trustees, or board of education, shall, at the expense of the district, provide a suitable box, or boxes, in which...
• 2031 - Election of Officers.
  All district officers shall be elected by ballot.
• 2031-a - Electioneering Within One Hundred Feet of Polling Place Prohibited; Distance Markers.
  1. At every election held for the office of trustee or member of a board of education and at every vote upon any proposition or...
• 2032 - Ballots for Election of School District Officers.
  1. In common school districts the ballots for the election of district officers shall be written or printed, typed or mimeographed, or partly written and...
• 2033 - Voting After Closing of Polls.
  All qualified voters entitled to vote who are in the place where the meeting or election is held at or before the time of closing...
• 2034 - Canvass of Votes; Declaration of Result.
  1. Immediately upon the close of the polls the inspectors of election shall count the ballots found in the ballot box without unfolding them, except...
• 2035 - Use of Voting Machines At School District Meetings or Elections.
  1. If the trustees or board of education of any school district shall so determine, voting machines may be used for recording the vote on...
• 2036 - Effect of Failure to Appoint or Elect Qualified Voters As District Meeting or Election Officials.
  The proceedings of no annual or special school district meeting or election shall be held illegal for failure to appoint or elect a qualified voter...
• 2037 - Determination of Meeting or Election Disputes.
  All disputes concerning the validity of any district meeting or election or of any of the acts of the officers of such meeting or election...
• 2038 - Application of Article.
  The provisions of part one of this article shall apply to all school districts except as otherwise provided by article fifty-three of this chapter, and...

Last modified: February 3, 2019