N.Y. Education Law § 2142: Duties of supervisors

§ 2142. Duties of supervisors. It is the duty of every supervisor: 1.

To sue for and recover, in the name of his office, when the duty is not

elsewhere imposed by law, all penalties and forfeitures imposed by this

chapter, and for any default or omission of any town officer or school

district board or officer under this chapter; and after deducting his

costs and expenses to report the balances to the district

superintendent.

2. To act, when legally required, in the erection or alteration of a

school district, as provided in article thirty-one of this chapter, and

to perform any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this

chapter, or any other law relating to public schools.

3. To take and hold possession of the gospel and school lots of his

town.

4. To lease the same for such time not exceeding twenty-one years, and

upon such conditions as he shall deem expedient.

5. To sell the same with the advice and consent of the town board or,

if the town board shall so direct, with the advice and consent of the

inhabitants of the town, at a town election, for such price and upon

such terms of credit as shall appear to him most advantageous.

6. To invest the proceeds of such sales in loans, secured by bond and

mortgage upon unincumbered real property of the value of double the

amount loaned.

7. To purchase the property so mortgaged upon a foreclosure, and to

hold and convey, pursuant to the provisions of this section, the

property so purchased whenever it shall become necessary.

8. To re-loan the amount of such loans repaid to him, upon the like

security.

9. To apply the rents and profits of such lots, and the interest of

the money arising from the sale thereof, to the support of schools, as

may be provided by law, in such manner as shall be thus provided.

10. To render a just and true account of the proceeds of the sales and

the interest on the loans thereof, and of the rents and profits of such

gospel and school lots, and of the expenditure and appropriation

thereof, on the last Tuesday next preceding the biennial town election,

to the town board.

11. To deliver over to his successor in office, all books, papers and

securities relating to the same, at the expiration of his term of

office.

12. To take therefor a receipt, which shall be filed in the clerk's

office of the town.

13. To commence and prosecute in and by the name and style of the

supervisor of the town any suits against any of his predecessors in

office or against any other person to recover any debt, dues or demands,

in anywise arising from such public lot; and no such suit shall abate by

the death, resignation or removal from office of the said supervisor but

the same shall and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution by his

successor in office.