§ 1501. Existing school districts continued. 1. All school districts organized either by special laws or pursuant to the provisions of a general law are hereby continued. 2. a. Common school districts and union free school districts so organized may be altered or dissolved as provided in this article. b. Notwithstanding any other provision of […]
§ 1501-a. Publication of minutes. Any school district board of trustees, board of education or other corporate body may publish the minutes of its proceedings in the official newspaper or if no official newspaper has been designated, in any newspaper having general circulation in the school district.
§ 1501-b. Additional power of boards of education. 1. The board of education of any school district is hereby authorized and empowered to rent or lease for such consideration as may be determined by such board, a motor vehicle or vehicles owned by the respective school district during any time when such vehicle or vehicles […]
§ 1501-c. Voting by residents of certain facilities. Notwithstanding any provision of this title to the contrary, the provisions of section 8-407 of the election law shall apply to all elections conducted pursuant to this title by a school district. The board of elections of the city or county in which a school district is […]
§ 1502. Passengers on school buses. 1. Boards of education of school districts located entirely or partially in any county with less than two hundred thousand population or any town which has a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile are hereby authorized to permit the following persons to ride as […]
§ 1502-a. Power to provide for observance of Memorial day; certain cases. 1. In any year in which the celebration of the holiday known as “Memorial day” is to be otherwise observed as a public holiday pursuant to any other provision of the laws of this state on a day which is other than the […]
§ 1503. Application of funds obtained from sale of school property. All moneys obtained from the sale of any school property authorized under the provisions of this chapter shall be applied for the benefit of the district as directed by the voters thereof in any annual or special meeting.
§ 1504. Formation of new district. 1. A district superintendent may organize a new school district out of the territory of one or more school districts which are wholly within the geographic area served by his board of cooperative educational services, whenever the educational interests of the community require it. If there is an outstanding […]
§ 1505. Dissolution, reformation and construction of districts. 1. Any district superintendent by order may dissolve one or more districts and may from such territory form a new district. He may also unite such territory or a portion thereof, by order, to any adjoining school district including a union free school district having a population […]
§ 1505-a. Teachers’ rights as a result of the dissolution of a school district. 1. In any case in which a school district is dissolved and portions of such former district are added to more than one school district pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen hundred five of this article or section seventeen hundred […]
§ 1506. Filing of certain orders of district superintendent. The order of a district superintendent forming or altering the boundaries of a school district and the written description thereof together with all notices, orders, consents and proceedings relating to the formation or alteration thereof shall be filed with the commissioner, with the clerk of each […]
§ 1507. Alteration by consent. 1. With the written consent of the trustees of all the districts to be affected thereby, the district superintendent may make an order altering the boundaries of any school district within his jurisdiction, and fix in such order a day when the alteration shall take effect. 2. With the written […]
§ 1508. Alteration without consent. If the trustees of any district affected thereby refuse to consent, the district superintendent may make and file with the town clerk of the town in which the property being transferred is located his order making the alteration, but reciting the refusal, and directing that the order shall not take […]
§ 1509. Hearing of objections to order for alteration without consent. 1. Within ten days after making and filing such order the district superintendent shall give at least a week’s notice in writing to the trustees of all districts affected by the proposed alterations, that at a specified time, and at a named place within […]
§ 1510. Consolidation of districts by vote of qualified electors. Two or more common school districts may be consolidated and created as one common school district, or two or more union free school districts may be consolidated and created as one union free school district, or one or more common school districts may be consolidated […]
§ 1511. Request for meeting to consolidate districts; notices of meeting. 1. Whenever two-thirds of the qualified electors of each of two or more districts in which there shall be less than fifteen qualified electors, or if there be fifteen or more qualified electors in any of such districts whenever ten or more of such […]
§ 1512. Proceedings at meeting for consolidation; adoption of resolution; proceedings to be filed. 1. Such meeting shall be organized as provided in section fifteen hundred twenty-three. Such meeting may adopt a resolution to consolidate such districts if two-thirds of the qualified electors of each district having less than fifteen of such electors are present, […]
§ 1513. Order creating consolidated district; effect. The district superintendent shall thereupon, in case of an affirmative vote, issue an order consolidating such districts and creating a common school district, or union free school district, as the case may be, designating such district by a simplified name in accordance with section three hundred fifteen of […]
§ 1514. Property of districts consolidated. When two or more districts shall be consolidated into one, the new district shall succeed to all the rights of property possessed by the annulled districts.
§ 1515. Dissolution or alteration of joint district. The majority of the district superintendents within whose districts any joint school district lies may make an order at a meeting duly called by one of such superintendents altering or dissolving such district.
