N.Y. Education Law § 2004: Notice of annual meeting in union free school district

§ 2004. Notice of annual meeting in union free school district. 1. The

clerk of each union free school district shall give notice of the

availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions

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

notice of the time and place of the annual meeting and the notice

required by section seventeen hundred sixteen of this chapter by

publishing a notice four times within the seven weeks next preceding

such district 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 education must be filed in the

office of 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.

5. If the district has personal registration of voters pursuant to

section two thousand fourteen of this chapter, and has not been divided

into election districts pursuant to section two thousand seventeen of

this chapter, such notice shall also state:

a. the place and hour or hours at which the board of registration

shall meet to prepare the register of the school district and any person

shall be entitled to have his name placed upon such register, provided

that at such meeting of the board of registration, he is known or proven

to the satisfaction of such board of registration, to be then or

thereafter entitled to vote at the school meeting or election for which

such register is prepared,

b. that the register prepared pursuant to section two thousand

fourteen of this chapter will be filed in the office of the clerk of the

district; that such register will be open for inspection by any

qualified voter of the district and the hours during which such register

will be open for inspection on each of the five days prior to and the

day set for the meeting or election, except Sundays.

6. If the district has been divided into election districts pursuant

to section two thousand seventeen of this chapter, such notice shall

also state:

a. the place and hour or hours in each election district at which the

members of the board of registration shall meet to prepare the register

of the school district for each election district and any person shall

be entitled to have his name placed upon such register, provided that at

such meeting of the members of the board of registration he is known or

proven to the satisfaction of such members to be then or thereafter

entitled to vote at the school meeting or election for which such

register is prepared,

b. the place in each election district where the meeting or election

shall be held,

c. that the register prepared pursuant to section two thousand

fourteen of this chapter will be filed in the office of the clerk of the

district; that such register will be open for inspection by any

qualified voter of the district and the hours during which such register

will be open for inspection on each of the five days prior to and the

day set for the meeting or election, except Sundays,

d. if the district is divided into election districts and voting

machines are used, that a statement of estimated expenses for the

ensuing year will be completed and copies made available at each

schoolhouse in the district in which school is maintained during certain

designated hours on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday

during the fourteen days immediately preceding such meeting, together

with the text of any resolution which will be presented to the voters.

7. Such notice shall also state that applications for early mail and

absentee ballots for election of board members may be applied for at the

office of the clerk of the district. Such notice, in such case, shall

further state that a list of all persons to whom early mail and absentee

ballots shall have been issued, will be available in the said office of

the clerk on each of the five days prior to the day of the election

except Sundays, and that such list will also be posted at the polling

place or places at the election of members of the board of education.

8. 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 section fifteen

hundred fifty-one of the civil practice act. 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.