§ 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 district superintendent of schools, or any one or more of such district superintendents within whose districts it may be, shall prepare a […]
§ 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 the voters pursuant to subdivision three of this section. The notice thereof shall state the purposes for which it is called, and […]
§ 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 they shall deem it necessary and proper, in the manner prescribed in section two thousand four of this chapter. The notice […]
§ 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 that a special meeting can not be called, as hereinbefore provided, the district superintendent may in like manner give notice […]
§ 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 a condition precedent to the issuance of obligations of the district the notice of […]
§ 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 vote thereat, unless it shall appear that the omission to give such notice was wilful and fraudulent.
§ 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 and place fixed for the meeting.
§ 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 which may be brought before such meeting or election, who is: 1. A citizen of the United States. 2. Eighteen years of […]
§ 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 meetings or elections in such district as provided in this section. In such event, the board of education in such district shall immediately designate four […]
§ 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 prior to the time set for the school meeting or election at which it is to be […]
§ 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, in a proceeding instituted by any qualified voter who, at the meeting of the board of registration provided […]
§ 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 may upon its own motion divide the school district into election districts, and shall upon the petition of twenty-five […]
§ 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 board of trustees in all common school districts which have elected to vote for trustees at a time or place separate from the annual meeting. a. […]
§ 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 personal registration of voters, shall provide for absentee ballots for the election of members of the board of education and school district […]
§ 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 common, union free, central or central high school district which does not provide for the personal registration of voters […]
§ 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 provide one form of proof of residency. Such form, to be determined by the school district, may include, but is not limited to, a driver’s […]
§ 2018-d. Military voters. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Military service” means the military service of the state, or of the United States, including the army, navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard, merchant marine and all components thereof, and the coast and geodetic survey, […]
§ 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, either at such meeting or election, or by the filing of a challenge pursuant to section two thousand fifteen of this […]
§ 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 claims to live is in the election district in which he seeks to vote but his […]
§ 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 of the district, for the purpose of having his name placed upon the register, as provided for in section two thousand […]
