Title XV, Education

The moderator shall have the like power and duty as a moderator of a town meeting to conduct the business and to preserve order, and in the conduct of a school district meeting, all the statutory duties, powers and authority granted to town moderators, and may administer oaths to…

The moderator may appoint an assistant moderator, who shall take the oath of office in the same manner as the moderator and shall hold office at the pleasure of the moderator, and shall have all the powers and duties which the moderator has subject to the control of the moderator…

A special meeting of a school district shall be held whenever, in the opinion of the school board, there is occasion therefor, or whenever 50 or more voters, or 1/4 of the voters of the district, whichever is less, shall have made written application to the school board therefor,…

The clerk shall keep a true record of all the doings of each meeting; shall make an attested copy of any record of the district for any person upon request and tender of legal fees therefor; shall act as moderator of any meeting until a moderator pro tempore shall be chosen, if t…

The treasurer shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, give a bond to the district with sufficient sureties, to the acceptance of the school board, for the faithful performance of the treasurer's official duties.

I. The treasurer shall have custody of all moneys belonging to the district and shall pay out the same only upon orders of the school board or upon orders of the 2 or more members of the school board empowered by the school board as a whole to authorize payments. The treasurer sh…

If any person holding the office of treasurer shall, by reason of illness, accident, absence from the state, or other cause, become temporarily incapacitated and unable to perform the duties of such office, the school board may, unless the district has a deputy treasurer appointe…

The school district treasurer may appoint a deputy treasurer, subject to approval by the school board, who shall be qualified in the same manner as the treasurer and who shall perform the duties of the treasurer in the case of the treasurer's absence by sickness, resignation, or …

If a district has not hired an auditor under RSA 21-J:19, the locally elected auditors shall carefully examine the accounts of the treasurer and school board at the close of each fiscal year by following the procedures in RSA 41:31-a through 41:31-d.

The school board shall fill vacancies occurring on the board, and in other district offices, except that of moderator, until the next annual meeting of the district. In case of vacancy of the entire membership of the board, or the remaining members are unable to agree upon an app…

I. (a) No school district at any special meeting shall raise or appropriate money nor reduce or rescind any appropriation made at a previous meeting, unless the vote thereon is by ballot, nor unless the ballots cast at such meeting shall be equal in number to at least 1/2 of the …

In response to statutory changes resulting in reductions or increases in distribution of state revenues for education pursuant to RSA 198:41 to school districts which would take effect after the adoption of a new school district budget and would apply in the fiscal year covered b…

School district meetings, including the first session of meetings in school districts which have adopted official ballot voting procedures under RSA 40:13 and 14, may be held at such suitable places, which have 2-way visual and audio closed circuit capacity, as in the opinion of …

I. A school district may hold its district meeting outside the geographical boundaries of the district, if the district does not have a facility with a large enough seating capacity to accommodate the meeting. II. Warrants and other items required to be posted shall be posted for…

School district meetings shall be warned by the school board, or, in cases authorized by law, by a justice of superior court, by a warrant addressed to the voters of the district, stating the time and place of the meeting and the subject matter of the business to be acted upon. I…

The school board, if the school district is not controlled by the municipal budget act, shall prepare a budget for the annual or any special meeting upon a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner of revenue administration and shall post the same with and at the same time…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school district may vote to raise and appropriate money for the support of schools by official ballot as provided for in RSA 49-D:3, II-a by following the procedures set forth in RSA 49-B. The school district may also include within…

Upon the written application of 25 or more voters or 2 percent of the voters of the school district, whichever is less, although in no event shall fewer than 10 registered voters be sufficient, presented to the school board or one of them not later than 30 days before the date pr…

A school board is guilty of a violation if it refuses to insert an article in the warrant, after being petitioned to do so in accordance with RSA 197:6.

The school board or justice issuing a warrant shall cause an attested copy of it to be posted at the place of meeting, and a like copy at one other place in the district, 14 days before the day of meeting, not counting the day of posting nor the day of the meeting, but including …

The school board when calling a special meeting shall, within one week after posting the warrant therefor, cause a copy of said warrant to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in said district.

If the school board unreasonably neglect or refuse to warn an annual meeting, or to call a special meeting after a sufficient application therefor is made to them, a justice of superior court, upon petition of 10 or more voters, or 1/6 of the voters of the district, may issue suc…