N.Y. Education Law § 1523: Proceedings at meeting and effect of affirmative vote

§ 1523. Proceedings at meeting and effect of affirmative vote. 1.

Any such meeting held pursuant to section fifteen hundred twenty-two

shall be organized by the election of a chairman and clerk and may be

adjourned from time to time, by a majority vote, provided that such

adjournment shall not be for a longer period than ten days; and whenever

at any such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of

subdivisions one to four, inclusive, of section fifteen hundred

twenty-two, at least fifteen qualified voters of the districts shall be

present; or at such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of

subdivisions five and six of section fifteen hundred twenty-two, at

least fifteen qualified voters of each of the two or more adjoining

districts, joining in the request, shall be present, such meeting may,

by the affirmative vote of a majority present and voting, adopt a

resolution to establish a union free school district in said district,

or to consolidate the two or more adjoining districts by establishing a

union free school district in said districts pursuant to the notice of

said meeting. If said meeting shall determine to establish a union free

school district in said districts as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for

such meeting thereafter to proceed to the election of a board of

education as provided in sections seventeen hundred two and seventeen

hundred four of this chapter.

2. The district superintendent in whose district the union free school

district is thus organized shall designate such district by a simplified

name in accordance with section three hundred fifteen of this chapter

and the said board shall have the name and style of the board of

education of (adding the designation aforesaid).

3. Copies of said request, notice of meeting, order of the

commissioner of education directing some inhabitant to call said

meeting, if any, and minutes of said meeting, duly certified by the

chairman and clerk thereof, shall be transmitted and deposited,

immediately after such meeting by one of such officers, one to and with

the town clerk, one to and with the district superintendent in whose

jurisdiction said districts are located, and one to and with the

commissioner of education.

4. If at any such meeting, the question as to the establishment of a

union free school district shall not be decided in the affirmative, as

aforesaid, then all further proceedings at such meeting, except a motion

to reconsider or adjourn, shall be dispensed with, and no such meeting

shall be again called within one year thereafter.

5. When any such meeting shall have established a union free school

district in said districts, such union free school district shall not be

dissolved within the period of one year from the first Tuesday of August

next after such meeting.