New York Education Law Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 2101 - Officers of District.
  1. Each common school district shall have one or three trustees as the district determines, a collector except in first class towns and except as...
• 2102 - Qualifications of Officers.
  Every school district officer must be able to read and write and must be a qualified voter of the district; and each member of a...
• 2102-a - Required Training for School District Officers.
  1. a. Every trustee or voting member of a board of education of a school district or a board of cooperative educational services, elected or...
• 2103 - Ineligibility to Office.
  1. No district superintendent or supervisor is eligible to the office of trustee or member of a board of education, and no trustee or member...
• 2103-a - Policemen and Firemen on Boards of Education.
  Notwithstanding any general, special or local law, ordinance or charter provision to the contrary, or any rule or regulation, policemen and firemen employed by any...
• 2105 - Terms of Office.
  1. In a common school district having a sole trustee the term of office of trustee shall be one year. 2. In a common school...
• 2106 - Terms of Officers of Newly Created District.
  The terms of all officers other than trustees elected at the first meeting of a newly created district shall expire on the first Tuesday of...
• 2108 - Notice and Acceptance of Election.
  1. The district clerk shall forthwith notify in writing each person elected to office of his election and the date thereof. 2. Such person shall...
• 2109 - Refusal of Trustee to Serve.
  A trustee of a common school or union free school district who publicly declares that he will not accept or serve in the office of...
• 2110 - Penalty for Refusal to Serve or Perform Duty.
  1. Every person elected or appointed to a school district office and being duly qualified to fill the same who shall refuse to serve therein...
• 2111 - Resignation of District Officers.
  A school district officer may resign to a district meeting. Such officer shall also be deemed to have resigned if he filed a written resignation...
• 2112 - Vacating Office.
  1. A school district office becomes vacant by death, resignation, refusal to serve, incapacity, or removal from the district or from office. 2. The collector...
• 2113 - Filling Vacancy in Office of Trustee.
  1. A vacancy in the office of trustee in any school district may be filled by election within ninety days after it occurs. If not...
• 2114 - Filling Vacancy in Office of Clerk, Collector or Treasurer.
  A vacancy in the office of clerk, collector or treasurer, may be filled by appointment by the trustees of the district, and the appointees shall...
• 2115 - Notice of Appointment to Fill Vacancy and Filing Thereof.
  Every appointment to fill a vacancy shall be forthwith filed, by the district superintendent or trustees making it, in the office of the district clerk,...
• 2116 - District Records, Books, Etc., are District Property.
  The records, books and papers belonging or appertaining to the office of any officer of a school district are hereby declared to be the property...
• 2116-a - Books and Records to Be Kept by School Districts.
  Unless otherwise prescribed by the state comptroller pursuant to section thirty-six of the general municipal law: 1. All school districts shall be required to maintain...
• 2116-b - Internal Audit Function.
  1. No later than July first, two thousand six, each school district shall establish an internal audit function to be in operation no later than...
• 2116-c - Audit Committees.
  1. Every school district, except those employing fewer than eight teachers, shall establish by a resolution of the trustees or board of education an audit...
• 2117 - Reports.
  1. The school authorities of each school district shall make a full report to the commissioner of education upon any particular matter relating to their...
• 2118 - Expenses of School District Officers.
  All school district officers, including trustees and members of boards of education, shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any expenses actually and necessarily incurred...
• 2119 - School District Trustee Not to Draw Draft on County Treasurer in Certain Cases.
  A school district trustee who issues an order or draws a draft on a county treasurer, district treasurer or collector or other disbursing officer of...

Last modified: February 3, 2019