N.Y. Education Law § 2564: Local school board districts

§ 2564. Local school board districts. 1. The board of education of

the city school district of the city of New York, by resolution duly

adopted, shall divide the city school district into such number of local

school board districts as such board in its discretion may determine.

The board of education may from time to time alter the boundaries of

such districts, consolidate two or more districts or parts thereof, or

divide any such district or districts as it shall consider necessary.

For the purposes of this section, a school decentralization

demonstration project in existence on April first, nineteen hundred

sixty-eight shall be deemed to be a local school board district.

2. Such board of education, upon the establishment of such local

school board districts, shall have the power to appoint, or provide for

the election of, and remove at its pleasure, a local school board for

each such local school board district, which shall consist of such

number of members as the board shall determine from time to time.

3. The board of education, with the approval of the regents, shall

have the power to delegate to such local school boards any or all of its

functions, powers, obligations and duties in connection with the

operation of the schools and programs under its jurisdiction, and may

modify or rescind any function, power, obligation and duty so delegated.

4. In accordance with rules and regulations to be promulgated by the

board of education, each such local school board shall have the power to

employ a local superintendent of schools upon such terms and conditions

as such local school board shall determine. Such employment shall be by

contract at an annual rate of compensation not in excess of thirty

thousand dollars.