N.Y. Education Law § 2140: Duties of town clerks

§ 2140. Duties of town clerks. It shall be the duty of the town clerk

of each town: 1. To keep all books, maps, papers, and records of his

office touching public schools, and forthwith to report to the district

superintendent any loss or injury to the same.

2. To receive from the district superintendent or superintendents the

certificates of apportionment of school moneys to each school district

or part of a school district of the town, and to record them in a book

to be kept for that purpose.

3. To notify forthwith the trustees of the several school districts of

the filing of each such certificate.

4. To furnish the district superintendent of the supervisory district

in which his town is situated the names and postoffice addresses of the

school district officers reported to him by the district clerks.

5. To distribute to the trustees of the school districts all books,

blanks and circulars which shall be delivered or forwarded to him by the

commissioner of education or district superintendent for that purpose.

6. To receive, file and record the descriptions of the school

districts, and all papers and proceedings delivered to him by the

district superintendent pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

7. To act, when thereto legally required, in the erection or

alteration of a school district, as in article thirty-one of this

chapter provided.

8. To deliver within one year from the effective date of this act to

the clerk of the successor district any and all records of the

respective dissolved school districts heretofore deposited in the town

clerk's office pursuant to section fifteen hundred nineteen of the

education law as it existed prior to this act, and to notify in writing

the district superintendent of the supervisory district in which such

successor school district is situated that such records have been so

deposited.

9. To perform any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this

chapter, or by any other law touching public schools.