N.Y. Education Law § 1914: Board of education; number and election

§ 1914. Board of education; number and election. For any central high

school district formed on or after July first, nineteen hundred

eighty-one, the order of the commissioner establishing such central high

school district shall specify the number of members to constitute the

board of education of such district and the number of members

representing each of the districts included in such district. The number

of members of such board shall be not less than five. There shall be at

least one member of such board from each component school district. The

board of education of each union free school district or central school

district in such central high school district shall appoint the number

of persons so designated by the commissioner to represent such district

as members of the board of education thereof. In each common school

district having a sole trustee, such trustee shall represent such

district as a member of the board of education of such central high

school district. If a common school district has three trustees, such

board of trustees shall designate one of its members to represent such

district as a member of such board of education. The persons so

designated shall be members of the board of education of the central

high school district during their terms of office as members of the

board of education or as trustees of the districts respectively

represented by them. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of a

member of the board of education of such central high school district,

it shall be filled as above provided; except that each component school

district may choose to fill vacancies from its district on the central

high school district board by election.