§ 3701. Property to be held in trust for public schools. Real and personal estate may be granted, conveyed, devised, bequeathed and given in trust and in perpetuity or otherwise, to the state, or to the regents or to the commissioner of education for the support or benefit of the public schools, within the state, […]
§ 3702. Control and supervision of trusts for public schools. The legislature may control and regulate the execution of all such trusts; and the commissioner of education shall supervise and advise the trustees, and hold them to a regular accounting for the trust property and its income and interest at such times, in such forms, […]
§ 3703. Report of trusts to commissioner of education. The common council or other legislative body of every city, the board of supervisors or other governing elective body of every county, the trustees of every village, the supervisor of every town, the trustees or board of education of every school district, and every other officer […]
§ 3704. Report of supervisor regarding gospel or school lots. Every supervisor of a town shall report to the commissioner of education whether there be, within the town, any gospel or school lot, and, if any, shall describe the same, and state to what use, if any, it is put by the town; and whether […]
§ 3705. Apportionment of gospel funds. It shall be lawful for the supervisor of any town having money arising from the sale of gospel lands, and known as gospel funds, to apportion such funds among the several school districts of his respective town when authorized under the provisions of section thirty-seven hundred six.
§ 3706. Authorization of apportionment of gospel funds. 1. The town board of any town having a gospel fund of five hundred dollars or less may authorize the supervisor of the town to apportion such fund among the several school districts of the town. 2. The voters of any town having a gospel fund of […]
§ 3707. Payment of apportionment of gospel funds. 1. When such apportionment is authorized the supervisor shall pay to the collector, or if the district has a treasurer to the treasurer, of the several school districts of his town its pro rata share according to the aggregate school attendance of each school district in the […]
§ 3708. Bond required of collector or treasurer. The collector or the treasurer, if the district has a treasurer, of each of such school districts shall execute and file with the supervisor of such town a bond of twice the amount of such apportionment with sufficient sureties, to be approved by such supervisor.
§ 3709. Penalties of certain bonds. Whenever a school district officer is required to furnish a bond under the provisions of section thirty-seven hundred eight in the penalty of double the amount of moneys apportioned or to be received, and such district officer furnishes the bond of a surety or bonding company authorized by law […]
§ 3710. Application of moneys. Such moneys shall be held by such collector or treasurer and paid upon the written order of the trustee or board of education of the district for such purposes as the annual or a special meeting of the district shall direct.
§ 3711. Sale of gospel or school lots on division of town. 1. Whenever a town having lands assigned to it for the support of the gospel or of schools, shall be divided into two or more towns, or shall be altered in its limits by the annexing of a part of its territory to […]
§ 3712. State agency for surplus property. The commissioner of education, or such other state officer as may, from time to time, be designated by the governor, shall be the state agency for surplus property and is hereby authorized and empowered (1) to acquire from the United States of America under and in conformance with […]
§ 3712-a. Transfer of gospel funds to general fund of town. In lieu of the apportionment and payment of gospel funds as otherwise authorized by this article, the town board of any town may, by resolution duly adopted by it and approved by the voters of such town at any regular or special town meeting, […]
§ 3713. Acceptance of funds appropriated by federal government. 1. The state, any school district or its trustees or board of education is hereby authorized and empowered to accept the provisions of any law of the United States making appropriations for the purpose of defraying the cost of providing the public education, the cost of […]
