N.Y. Education Law § 2017: Division of union free school district into election districts

§ 2017. Division of union free school district into election

districts. 1. In any union free school district having personal

registration of voters pursuant to section two thousand fourteen of this

chapter, the board of education may upon its own motion divide the

school district into election districts, and shall upon the petition of

twenty-five qualified voters of the district, or five percent of the

voters who voted in the previous annual election of the members of the

board of education, whichever is greater, cause to be submitted at an

annual or special meeting, a proposition to divide such school district

into election districts provided, however, that in each election

district the number of qualified voters shall at least equal three

hundred.

2. If it is determined to divide the district into election districts,

the board of education shall immediately thereafter and not less than

thirty days prior to an annual or special meeting or election, within

such district, adopt a resolution dividing the school district into such

number of election districts as the board of education may determine.

The school district shall be so divided that if circumstances will

permit, there shall be a schoolhouse in each election district or in as

many of such election districts as possible. The election districts so

formed shall continue in existence until modified by resolution of the

board of education. Such resolution shall accurately describe the

boundaries of each such district by streets, alleys and highways, or

otherwise. School meetings and elections shall thereafter be held so far

as may be possible in the public schoolhouses within any such school

election district. The board of education shall designate the place

within each election district where the meeting or election shall be

held.