N.Y. Education Law § 2002: Time and place of annual meeting

§ 2002. Time and place of annual meeting. 1. The annual meeting and

election of each school district shall be held on the third Tuesday of

May in each year, provided, however that such annual meeting and

election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the commissioner

at the request of a local school board certifies no later than March

first that such election would conflict with religious observances.

Unless the hour and place thereof shall have been fixed by a vote of a

previous district meeting, the same shall be held in the schoolhouse, or

any building owned or leased by the district, at seven-thirty p.m. in

the case of a school district that is not divided into election

districts and conducts its election or vote by recording the ayes or

noes of the qualified voters attending, or, in the case of all other

districts, during at least six consecutive hours after six a.m., two of

which hours shall be after six p.m. as determined by resolution of the

trustees or board of education, provided, however, that the trustees or

board of education of any school district that conducted its annual

meeting at seven-thirty p.m. in nineteen hundred ninety-seven may

conduct its annual election and budget vote at such time in nineteen

hundred ninety-eight. If a district possesses more than one schoolhouse

or building, or leases more than one building, it shall be held in the

one usually employed for that purpose, unless the trustees or board of

education designate another, provided that if the school district is

divided into election districts such annual meeting and election shall

be held at such place in each election district as the board of

education may designate. If the district possesses no schoolhouse or

building, or does not lease a building, or if the schoolhouse or

building shall not be accessible or adequate, then the annual meeting

and election shall be held at such place as the trustees or board of

education, or the clerk, shall designate in the notice.

2. The use of any building owned or leased by a school district, as

described in subdivision one of this section, shall comply with the

accessibility provisions set out in subdivisions one-a and one-b of

section 4-104 of the election law.