N.Y. Education Law § 1717: Corporate authorities must raise tax certified by board of education

§ 1717. Corporate authorities must raise tax certified by board of

education. 1. The corporate authorities of any incorporated village in

which any such union free school district shall be established, shall

have power, and it shall be their duty, to raise, from time to time, by

tax, to be levied upon all the real property in said village, as by law

provided for the defraying of the expenses of its municipal government,

such sum as the board of education established therein shall declare

necessary for teachers' salaries and the ordinary contingent expenses of

supporting the schools of said district.

2. The sums so declared necessary shall be set forth in a detailed

statement in writing, addressed to the corporate authorities by the

board of education, giving the various purposes of anticipated

expenditure, and the amount necessary for each; and the said corporate

authorities shall have no power to withhold the sums so declared to be

necessary; and such corporate authorities as aforesaid shall have power

and it shall be their duty to raise, from time to time, by tax as

aforesaid, any such further sum to be set forth in a detailed statement

in writing, addressed to the corporate authorities by the board of

education, giving the various purposes of the proposed expenditure, and

the amount necessary for each which may have been or which may hereafter

be authorized by a majority of the voters of such union free school

district present and voting at any special district meeting duly

convened for any of the purposes stated in section four hundred sixteen

of this chapter.