§ 401. Sites; designation and change. 1. The designation of a site by any school district meeting shall be by written resolution containing a description thereof by metes and bounds, and such resolution must receive the assent of a majority of the qualified voters present and voting at said meeting, to be ascertained by taking […]
§ 402. Sale of former schoolhouse or site. 1. Whenever the site of a schoolhouse shall have been changed, as herein provided, and after the value of such property has been appraised by the local assessor or a qualified private real property appraiser, the inhabitants of a district entitled to vote, lawfully assembled at any […]
§ 402-a. Procedures for closing a school building. 1. At least six months in advance of a proposed school closing, the trustees or board of education of a school district in which such building is located are hereby authorized and recommended to establish an advisory committee on school building utilization to investigate the educational impact […]
§ 403. Application of proceeds of sale. All moneys arising from any sale made in pursuance of the last preceding section, shall be applied to the expenses incurred in procuring a new site, and in removing or erecting thereon a schoolhouse, and improving and furnishing such site and building and their appurtenances, so far as […]
§ 403-a. Leasing of school property. 1. The board of education or trustees of a school district are hereby authorized to adopt a resolution providing that specific real property of such district is not currently needed for school district purposes and that the leasing of such real property is in the best interest of the […]
§ 403-b. Leasing of school buildings and facilities. 1. The board of education of any union free or central school district is hereby authorized to enter into a lease with any other union free or central school district providing for the use and occupancy by any such school district of a school building, or a […]
§ 404. Acquisition of real property. Real property may be acquired in any school district and in any city having less than seventy thousand inhabitants, for school purposes and for any other purpose for which such property may be acquired as provided in this chapter, as follows: 1. By gift, grant, devise or purchase. 2. […]
§ 405. Conveyance of property to public corporations. In addition to any other power conferred or possessed by virtue of any provisions of this chapter, the board of education, trustee or trustees of any school district may convey any school site or lot and the buildings thereon and appurtenances or any part thereof, provided that […]
§ 406. Vesting of title of lands in certain cases. Boards of education in cities having less than seventy thousand inhabitants are hereby clothed with all the powers of trustees, and the title to any and all lands acquired in any city under the provisions of section four hundred four of this chapter shall vest […]
§ 407. Application to certain districts. The provision of section four hundred four of this article shall apply to union free school districts and to districts organized under special laws; and the trustees of such districts and the boards of education organized under special laws shall be and are hereby clothed with all the powers […]
§ 407-a. Authorization for dormitory authority financing of capital facilities for special act school districts. 1. The legislature declares that it is in the interest of the state, the school districts and the children of the state to assure that special act school districts educating children with handicapping conditions pursuant to contracts with public school […]
§ 407-b. Authorization for dormitory authority financing of capital facilities for state-supported schools for blind and deaf students. 1. The legislature declares that it is in the interest of the state and the children of the state to assure that state-supported schools for the instruction of blind and deaf students and other children with handicapping […]
§ 408. Plans and specifications of school buildings must be approved by commissioner of education. 1. No schoolhouse shall hereafter be erected, purchased, repaired, enlarged or remodeled nor shall the advertisement for bids for the execution of the plans and specifications for such schoolhouses be placed, in any school district except in a city school […]
§ 408-a. Plans and specifications for construction of new school buildings. 1. The commissioner of general services, after consultation with the commissioner of education and subject to the approval of the director of the budget, shall promptly prepare or acquire as many master sets of complete plans and specifications for the construction of new school […]
§ 408-b. Submitting plans and specifications of school buildings with local fire and law enforcement officials. The appropriate authorities for each public and private school building in the state shall submit the most current plans and specifications for each school building under their responsibility to the fire and law enforcement officials in the city, towns […]
§ 409. School building regulations in relation to health and safety. 1. All school buildings of common, union free, central, central high school and city school districts other than city school districts of cities having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more and boards of cooperative educational services shall comply with such regulations as the […]
§ 409-a. Eye safety devices for certain students and teachers. 1. The board of education, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public or private school or educational institution within the state, wherein shops or laboratories are conducted providing instructional or experimental programs involving: a. Hot solids, liquids or molten metals; or b. […]
§ 409-b. Use of mercury vapor or metal halide lamps within school buildings. 1. Every new or replacement mercury vapor or metal halide lamp which is used within any school building in the state, for the purpose of providing illumination, shall be of the safety type or variety which self-extinguishes upon the breaking, cracking or […]
§ 409-c. Athletic safety equipment. The board of education or trustees of every school district and the principal or other person in charge of every nonpublic elementary or secondary school within the state shall arrange for and require that batboys or batgirls participating in baseball or softball competition conducted as an activity of such school […]
§ 409-d. Comprehensive public school building safety program. 1. Program establishment. The commissioner is authorized and directed to establish, develop and monitor a comprehensive public school building safety program which shall include a uniform inspection, safety rating and monitoring system. Such program shall require the inspections of all public school buildings throughout the state (i) […]
