N.Y. Education Law § 2003: Notice of annual meeting in common school district

§ 2003. Notice of annual meeting in common school district. 1. The

district clerk of each common school district shall give notice of the

availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions

of section sixteen hundred eight of this chapter and shall also give

notice of the time and place of the annual meeting by publishing a

notice four times within the seven weeks next preceding such annual

meeting, the first publication to be at least forty-five days before

said meeting, in two newspapers if there shall be two, or in one

newspaper if there shall be but one, having general circulation within

such district. But if no newspaper shall then have general circulation

therein, the said notice shall be posted in at least twenty of the most

public places in said district forty-five days before the time of such

meeting.

2. Such notice shall also state that petitions nominating candidates

for the office of member of the board of trustees must be filed with the

clerk of the district between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m., not

later than the thirtieth day preceding the school meeting or election at

which the candidates so nominated are to be elected.

3. Such notice and all other notices and reports required to be

published in newspapers under the provisions of this chapter shall be

printed at the rates and for the fees prescribed in the civil practice

law and rules. In the event that the publishers of one or both of the

newspapers having general circulation in such district shall refuse to

print and publish the notices or reports at the rates and for the fees

so prescribed, publication in such newspaper or newspapers so refusing

may be omitted, in which case the notices or reports shall be posted as

required by this section in lieu of such publication.