N.Y. Education Law § 2001: Notice of first meeting of district

§ 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

superintendents within whose districts it may be, shall prepare a notice

describing such district and appointing a time and place for the first

district meeting, and deliver such notice to a taxable inhabitant of the

district.

2. It shall be the duty of such inhabitant to notify every other

inhabitant of the district qualified to vote at the meeting, by

delivering to him a copy of the notice of such meeting, or in case of

his absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof, or so much thereof as

relates to the time, place and object of the meeting, at the place of

his abode, at least six days before the time of the meeting.

3. In case such meeting shall not be held, and in the opinion of the

district superintendent or superintendents it shall be necessary to hold

such meeting before the time herein fixed for the first annual meeting,

he shall deliver another such notice to a taxable inhabitant of the

district, who shall serve it as provided in subdivision two of this

section.

4. Every taxable inhabitant, to whom a notice of any district meeting

shall be delivered for service pursuant to any provision of part one of

this article, who shall refuse or neglect to serve the same, shall

forfeit five dollars to be sued for by the supervisor for the benefit of

the district.