N.Y. Education Law § 2201: Supervisory districts

§ 2201. Supervisory districts. 1. All supervisory districts in

existence on the date this section, as hereby amended, takes effect, are

hereby continued and may be altered or dissolved as provided in

subdivisions two and three of this section.

2. Whenever a vacancy hereafter occurs in the office of district

superintendent of schools in any supervisory district or whenever the

commissioner receives a letter of resignation from a district

superintendent, the commissioner shall survey the field in the county

where the vacancy occurred, and if it shall find that the continuance of

the number of supervisory districts then existing is no longer necessary

to serve adequately the educational interests of the county he or she

shall be authorized to conduct a study to examine the possible

reorganization of such supervisory district if no such study has been

conducted within five years.

3. The commissioner is authorized when in his judgment such action

will promote the educational interests of the area to study the transfer

of one or more school districts in another adjoining supervisory

district, to such supervisory district.

4. The commissioner shall complete such study no later than four

months after the date such vacancy occurred in the office of district

superintendent. The findings of such study shall be presented to the

boards of trustees and boards of education by the regent representing

such boards at a public meeting held no later than thirty days after the

completion of such study, for the purpose of eliciting public comment on

the proposed reorganization plan, a copy of such plan shall be provided

to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker

of the assembly. The commissioner shall cause notice of such meeting to

be posted at least ten days before each such meeting in ten conspicuous

places in the school district. In addition to the posting of such

notice, a copy thereof shall be duly published, at least three days

before such meeting, in a daily or weekly newspaper published within, or

in general circulation in, the supervisory district in which the meeting

is to be held. The expense of posting and publishing such notice shall

be a charge upon the component districts contained within such

supervisory district.

5. The commissioner shall be authorized to reorganize any supervisory

district, upon completion of the requirements herein, when in his

judgement such action will promote the educational interests of such

supervisory districts affected.

6. Such changes in supervisory districts shall conform to the

following requirements:

a. No school district shall be divided between supervisory districts.

b. The territory of supervisory districts shall remain contiguous and

compact.

c. Towns shall remain arranged in supervisory districts so that there

shall be as equal a division of the territory and number of school

districts as may be practicable.