N.Y. Education Law § 2006: Special meeting in common school district

§ 2006. Special meeting in common school district. 1. A special

district meeting of a common school district shall be held whenever

called by the trustees or whenever called for by petition of the voters

pursuant to subdivision three of this section. The notice thereof shall

state the purposes for which it is called, and no business shall be

transacted at such special meeting, except that which is specified in

the notice; and the district clerk, or, if the office be vacant, or the

clerk be sick or absent, or shall refuse to act, a trustee, or some

taxable inhabitant, by order of the trustees, shall serve the notice

upon each inhabitant of the district qualified to vote at district

meetings, at least six days before the day of the meeting, in the manner

prescribed in section two thousand one of this part or the trustees

shall give notice of the time and place of such special meeting, and the

notice shall be published once in each week within the four weeks next

preceding the special meeting, the first publication to be at least

twenty-two 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 common school district. But if no newspaper

shall then have general circulation therein, the said notice shall be

posted in at least twenty public places in said district twenty-two days

but not more than twenty-eight days before the time of such meeting.

2. The inhabitants of a district may, at any annual meeting, adopt a

resolution prescribing some other mode of giving notice of special

meetings, which resolution and the mode prescribed thereby shall

continue in force until rescinded or modified at some subsequent annual

meeting.

3. Whenever the voters shall have defeated the budget of the school

district at the annual meeting and election, the trustees may call a

special district meeting for a school budget revote to be held on the

third Tuesday of June, provided, however that such budget revote shall

be held on the second Tuesday in June if the commissioner at the request

of a local school board certifies no later than March first that such

vote would conflict with religious observances. The trustees shall give

the notices required by subdivision one of section two thousand three of

this part and this section by publishing such notices once in each week

within the two weeks next preceding such special meeting, the first

publication to be at least fourteen days before such meeting, with any

required posting to be fourteen days before the time of such meeting.