Title EDN, Education

§ 1981. Shared personnel between school districts. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, school authorities of any school district may arrange to share the services of a superintendent, associate superintendent, assistant superintendent or any other employee with distri…

§ 2. Definitions. Wherever used in this chapter, the following terms\nshall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:\n 1. Academy. The term "academy" means an incorporated institution for\ninstruction in secondary education, and such high schools, academi…

§ 2-a. Release of directory information; access to institutions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if a trustee, president, principal, or officer of any institution belonging to the University of the State of New York, or a board of education of any pub…

§ 2-b. Use of student social security numbers restricted. No public or private elementary or secondary school or college as defined in section two of this article shall display any student's social security number to identify such student for posting or public listing of grades,…

§ 2-c. Release of student information to certain entities. 1. Definitions. As used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. "Student information" shall mean personally identifiable information and biometric records as such terms are defined in se…

§ 2-d. Unauthorized release of personally identifiable information. 1. Definitions. As used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. "Building principal" means a building principal subject to annual performance evaluation review under the provisi…

§ 20. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "School property" shall mean in or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground, parking lot, or land contained within the real property boundary …

§ 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 superi…

§ 2002. Time and place of annual meeting. 1. The annual meeting and election of each school district shall be held on the third Tuesday of May in each year, provided, however that such annual meeting and election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the commissioner at …

§ 2003. Notice of annual meeting in common school district. 1. The district clerk of each common school district shall give notice of the availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions of section sixteen hundred eight of this chapter and shall also give…

§ 2004. Notice of annual meeting in union free school district. 1. The clerk of each union free school district shall give notice of the availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions of section seventeen hundred sixteen of this chapter and shall also g…

§ 2005. Special meeting to transact business of annual meeting. Whenever the time for holding the annual meeting in a school district shall pass without such meeting being held, a special meeting, to be held on the date specified for a school budget revote pursuant to subdivisio…

§ 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 sta…

§ 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…

§ 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 dis…

§ 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 issuanc…

§ 201. Corporate name and objects. The corporation created in the year seventeen hundred eighty-four under the name of The Regents of the University of the State of New York, is hereby continued under the name of The University of the State of New York. Its objects shall be to e…

§ 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 wil…

§ 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 …

§ 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 educatio…

§ 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…

§ 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 me…

§ 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 distric…

§ 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…

§ 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…

§ 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 hi…

§ 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,…

§ 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, space force, mer…

§ 2018-e. Early mail 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 early mail ballots for…

§ 2018-f. Early mail ballots for school district elections by poll registration. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections two thousand fourteen and two thousand eighteen-e of this part, the trustees or the board of education of any common, union free, central or central hig…

§ 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 sec…

§ 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…

§ 202. Regents. 1. The University of the State of New York shall be governed and all its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents the number of whose members shall at all times be four more than the number of the then existing judicial districts of the state and shall no…

§ 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 provid…

§ 2021. Powers of voters. The inhabitants entitled to vote, when duly assembled in any district meeting, shall have power, by a majority of the votes of those present and voting: 1. In common school districts, to appoint a chairman. 2. To appoint a clerk for the time if the dist…

§ 2022. Vote on school district budgets and on the election of school\ndistrict trustees and board of education members. 1. Notwithstanding any\nlaw, rule or regulation to the contrary, the election of trustees or\nmembers of the board of education, and the vote upon the appropr…

§ 2022-a. Disaster; additional day for voting. 1. Upon request of a school district, or upon the determination of the commissioner, the commissioner may provide for an additional day of voting for the annual meeting and election if they determine that less than eight percent of …

§ 2023. Levy of tax for certain purposes without vote; contingency\nbudget. 1. If the qualified voters shall neglect or refuse to vote the\nsum estimated necessary for teachers' salaries, after applying thereto\nthe public school moneys, and other moneys received or to be receiv…

§ 2023-a. Limitations upon school district tax levies. 1. Generally.\nUnless otherwise provided by law, the amount of taxes that may be levied\nby or on behalf of any school district, other than a city school\ndistrict of a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants …

§ 2023-b. Certification of compliance with tax levy limit. 1. Upon the adoption of the budget of an eligible school district, the chief executive officer of such school district shall certify to the state comptroller, the commissioner of taxation and finance and the commissioner…

§ 2024. Reference to commissioner of education. If any question shall arise as to what are ordinary contingent expenses the same may be referred to the commissioner of education, by a statement in writing, signed by one or more of each of the opposing parties upon the question, …

§ 2025. Procedures at school district meetings. 1. District meetings in common school districts shall be called to order by the trustee or the chairman of the board of trustees or by a person chosen by the trustee or trustees. The qualified voters present and voting shall nomina…

§ 2029. Poll list. A poll list containing the name and legal residence of every person whose vote shall be received shall be kept by the clerk and the assistant clerk or clerks of the meeting or election.

§ 203. Officers. The elective officers of the university shall be a chancellor and a vice-chancellor who shall serve without salary, and such other officers as are deemed necessary by the regents, all of whom shall be chosen by ballot by the regents and shall hold office during …

§ 2030. Ballot box; voting booth. 1. The trustee, board of trustees, or board of education, shall, at the expense of the district, provide a suitable box, or boxes, in which the ballots, folded so as to conceal the marking thereon, shall be deposited as they are received. 2. In …

§ 2031. Election of officers. All district officers shall be elected by ballot.

§ 2031-a. Electioneering within one hundred feet of polling place prohibited; distance markers. 1. At every election held for the office of trustee or member of a board of education and at every vote upon any proposition or issue in a school district where the election or vote i…

§ 2032. Ballots for election of school district officers. 1. In common school districts the ballots for the election of district officers shall be written or printed, typed or mimeographed, or partly written and partly printed, typed or mineographed, containing the name of the p…

§ 2033. Voting after closing of polls. All qualified voters entitled to vote who are in the place where the meeting or election is held at or before the time of closing the polls shall be allowed to vote.