N.Y. Education Law § 1713: Academy may be adopted as academic department

§ 1713. Academy may be adopted as academic department. Whenever a

union free school district shall be established under the provisions of

article thirty-one, and there shall exist within the district an

academy, the board of education, when authorized by a vote of the voters

of the district, may adopt such academy as the academic department of

the district, with the consent of the trustees of the academy, and

thereupon the trustees by a resolution to be attested by the signatures

of the officers of the board and filed in the office of the clerk of the

county, shall declare their offices vacant, and thereafter the said

academy shall be the academic department of such union free school

district. The board of education when thereto authorized by a vote of

the qualified voters of the district may lease said academy and site,

and maintain the academic department of such union free school district

therein and thereon.