New York Laws
Article 31 - School Districts
1523 - Proceedings at Meeting and Effect of Affirmative Vote.

§ 1523. Proceedings at meeting and effect of affirmative vote. 1.
Any such meeting held pursuant to section fifteen hundred twenty-two
shall be organized by the election of a chairman and clerk and may be
adjourned from time to time, by a majority vote, provided that such
adjournment shall not be for a longer period than ten days; and whenever
at any such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of
subdivisions one to four, inclusive, of section fifteen hundred
twenty-two, at least fifteen qualified voters of the districts shall be
present; or at such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of
subdivisions five and six of section fifteen hundred twenty-two, at
least fifteen qualified voters of each of the two or more adjoining
districts, joining in the request, shall be present, such meeting may,
by the affirmative vote of a majority present and voting, adopt a
resolution to establish a union free school district in said district,
or to consolidate the two or more adjoining districts by establishing a
union free school district in said districts pursuant to the notice of
said meeting. If said meeting shall determine to establish a union free
school district in said districts as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for
such meeting thereafter to proceed to the election of a board of
education as provided in sections seventeen hundred two and seventeen
hundred four of this chapter.

2. The district superintendent in whose district the union free school
district is thus organized shall designate such district by a simplified
name in accordance with section three hundred fifteen of this chapter
and the said board shall have the name and style of the board of
education of (adding the designation aforesaid).

3. Copies of said request, notice of meeting, order of the
commissioner of education directing some inhabitant to call said
meeting, if any, and minutes of said meeting, duly certified by the
chairman and clerk thereof, shall be transmitted and deposited,
immediately after such meeting by one of such officers, one to and with
the town clerk, one to and with the district superintendent in whose
jurisdiction said districts are located, and one to and with the
commissioner of education.

4. If at any such meeting, the question as to the establishment of a
union free school district shall not be decided in the affirmative, as
aforesaid, then all further proceedings at such meeting, except a motion
to reconsider or adjourn, shall be dispensed with, and no such meeting
shall be again called within one year thereafter.

5. When any such meeting shall have established a union free school
district in said districts, such union free school district shall not be
dissolved within the period of one year from the first Tuesday of August
next after such meeting.