New York Laws
Article 31 - School Districts
1524 - Consolidation With City School District.

§ 1524. Consolidation with city school district. 1. Notwithstanding
the provisions of this chapter or any other general, special, or local
law to the contrary, whenever the qualified voters of a school district
which is contiguous to the city school district of a city with less than
one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, according to the latest
federal census, by a majority vote taken at an annual or special meeting
of such district shall adopt a proposition to consolidate such school
district with such city school district, and the board of education of
such city school district shall by resolution duly adopted consent
thereto, the commissioner of education may by order consolidate such
school district with such city school district; provided, however, that
where several school districts are contiguous to each other and at least
one of such school districts is contiguous to such city school district,
such vote may be taken in each of such school districts at the same
time, and if the proposition to consolidate is adopted by a majority
vote in each such district, including any votes cast by absentee ballot
as provided under section two thousand eighteen-a or two thousand
eighteen-b of this chapter, whichever shall apply, and upon the consent
of the city school district board of education, the commissioner of
education may include each such district in one order of consolidation;
provided, further, however, that if the proposition to consolidate is
not adopted by a majority vote in each such district, but is so adopted
in one or more of such districts, upon the consent of the city school
district board of education, the commissioner may include in one order
of consolidation only such district or districts as, either singly or as
a group, are contiguous to such city school district. Such order shall
specify a date on which the same shall take effect, and shall have the
same effect as an order made by a district superintendent dissolving two
or more common school districts and forming a new district therefrom, or
dissolving one or more common school districts and uniting the territory
thereof to a union free school district under the provisions of article
thirty-one of this chapter. A copy of such order shall be filed with
the clerk of each school district affected thereby.

2. Unless the effective date of such order of consolidation shall
coincide with the beginning of the fiscal year of the city school
district, the board of education of the city school district upon the
effective date of the order of consolidation, shall levy a tax upon the
area so consolidated with the city school district, to defray the
expenses of educating the pupils of such area from the effective date of
the consolidation to the beginning of the next ensuing fiscal year of
the city school district. For this purpose, the school tax rate used
for the fiscal year of the city school district in progress on the
effective date of such order shall be used, except that such rate shall
be divided by twelve and multiplied by the number of months intervening
between the effective date of such order and the beginning of the next
ensuing fiscal year of the city school district. The tax list for this
purpose shall be prepared and confirmed within thirty days after the
effective date of such consolidation.

3. In any city school district with which one or more school
districts shall have been consolidated under the provisions of this
section, the proper equalization rate shall be fixed and determined
annually pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-five hundred five
of this chapter.