§ 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 may be otherwise provided by law, and if the district so decides a treasurer. 2. Each union free school district shall have a board of […]
§ 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 appointed for a term beginning on or after July first, two thousand five, shall, within the first year of his or her […]
§ 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 of a board of education can hold the office of district clerk, collector, treasurer or librarian, except as otherwise provided by section twenty-one hundred thirty. […]
§ 2103-a. Police officers and firefighters on boards of education. Notwithstanding any general, special or local law, ordinance or charter provision to the contrary, or any rule or regulation, police officers and firefighters employed by any municipal subdivision of the state or police district provided they are otherwise eligible, may be candidates for election and […]
§ 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 district having three trustees the full term of office of trustee shall be three years. 3. In a central school district or a union-free 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 May, next thereafter.
§ 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 be deemed to have accepted the office, unless within five days after the service of such notice, he shall file his written refusal […]
§ 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 trustee, or refuses or neglects to attend three successive meetings of the board, of which he is duly notified, without rendering a good […]
§ 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 shall forfeit the sum of five dollars. 2. Every person elected or appointed to a school district office and not […]
§ 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 with the district superintendent of his district and such superintendent endorses thereon his approval and files the same with the district clerk.
§ 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 or treasurer vacates his office by not executing a bond to the trustees, as herein required. 3. A trustee or a member of a board of […]
§ 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 so filled, the district superintendent of the supervisory district, within which the schoolhouse or principal schoolhouse of the district is situated, may […]
§ 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 hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the district, and until their successors are elected and […]
§ 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, who shall immediately give notice of the appointment to the person appointed.
§ 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 of such district and shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the district at all reasonable hours, and […]
§ 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 books and records in such form as the commissioner of education shall approve. 2. All school districts, except those […]
§ 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 the following December thirty-first. Such function shall include: (a) development of a risk assessment of district operations, including but not limited to, a review of […]
§ 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 committee to oversee and report to the trustees or board on the annual audit of the district records as required by section twenty-one hundred sixteen-a of […]
§ 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 schools whenever such report shall be required by said commissioner. 2. The school authorities of each such school district shall, on the first day of August in […]
§ 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 in the performance of their official duties. Mileage rates established for the use of personally owned cars in lieu of auditing and allowing […]
