New York Laws
Article 39 - Central High School Districts
1906 - District Meetings; Vote Upon School Taxes.

§ 1906. District meetings; vote upon school taxes. 1. The annual
meeting and election of a central high school district shall be held on
the third Tuesday in May, provided, however, that such annual meeting
and election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the
commissioner at the request of a local school board certifies no later
than March first that such election would conflict with religious
observances, and any school budget revote shall be held on the date
specified in subdivision three of section two thousand seven of this
title. The board of education of every central high school district
shall hold a budget hearing prior to each annual meeting and election or
special district meeting at which a school budget vote will occur, and
shall prepare and present to the voters at such budget hearing a
proposed school district budget for the ensuing school year. Special
meetings may be called in the same manner and for the same purposes as
special meetings in union free school districts. Such meetings shall be
held for the same purposes and in the same manner, and be subject to the
same provisions of law, except as may be provided otherwise in
subdivision two of this section, as like meetings in union free school
districts, and all persons who are qualified electors of the school
districts included in such central high school district may vote at such
meetings.

2. For any annual or special meeting the board of education may on its
own motion divide the central high school district into such number of
election districts as there shall be union free school districts within
the central high school district. The boundaries of such election
districts shall be coterminous with the boundaries of such union free
school districts. Such meetings shall be held so far as possible in the
public schoolhouse within each such election district designated by the
board of education. The schoolhouse or other place so designated for
each election district shall be stated in the notice of the meeting. The
legal voters present in each election district shall elect a chairman
and secretary and the chairman so elected shall appoint at least three
inspectors of election who shall canvass the result of the election in
such election district and prepare and sign a statement showing the
results of the voting. Each such statement shall be forthwith delivered
to the district clerk. The district clerk shall forthwith examine and
tabulate the statements and prepare a certificate of the combined
results of the voting, announce the result thereof and record the
certificate with the records of the meeting. The proceedings, in the
event of such division, in all other respects shall be the same as if
the school meeting were held in one place.

3. The board of education of such district shall present at the annual
meeting a detailed statement in writing of the estimated expenditures
required for the support and maintenance of the central high school
therein for the ensuing year. The said meeting shall vote the necessary
taxes to meet such expenditures, in the same manner as taxes are voted
at a district meeting in a union free school district. The provisions of
sections seventeen hundred twenty-five and seventeen hundred sixteen to
seventeen hundred nineteen, inclusive, of this chapter, and all other
provisions relative to the making of appropriations, the voting of
taxes, and the expenditure of moneys for the support, maintenance and
expenses of public schools in union free school districts, shall apply
to the support, maintenance, and expenses of a central high school
district.

4. a. Whenever the board of education of a central high school
district in the county of Nassau shall have provided for the personal
registration of voters at school meetings or elections in such district,
such board of education shall fix the day or days for registration by

resolution adopted not later than the fortieth day preceding each annual
or special meeting or election in such district. The last day for such
registration shall not be more than eleven nor less than three days
preceding each annual or special meeting or election. Such board shall
forthwith notify the clerk of each component union free school district
providing for personal registration, of such registration day or days
for each annual meeting. Such board shall also notify each such clerk of
every special meeting or election in such central high school district
at least ten days prior thereto. The board of registration of the
central high school district shall meet on the day or days fixed by such
board of education for the purpose of preparing a register,
complementary to the register or registers of any component union free
school district providing for personal registration, for the personal
registration of qualified voters within any component union free school
district providing for personal registration, which voters have not
registered for the annual or any subsequent special meeting or election
in such union free school district, and for the personal registration of
qualified voters of any component union free school district not
providing for personal registration.

b. Whenever personal registration of voters shall have been provided
for in any such central high school district, any qualified voter of a
component union free school district who is duly registered in such
union free school district for the annual meeting or a subsequent
special meeting or election therein, shall be deemed duly registered for
and entitled to vote at the annual meeting or any special meeting or
election in such central high school district occurring between the date
of such registration and the next ensuing annual meeting.

c. Whenever the board of education of such central high school
district shall have so provided for registration of voters, the board of
education of any component union free school district in such central
high school district, which board of education shall have provided or
shall provide for personal registration of voters at school meetings or
elections of such union free school district, shall designate the day or
days for registration so that the last day for such registration shall
not be more than eleven nor less than five days preceding each such
school meeting. In designating the day or days of registration for the
annual meeting such board shall include the day or days which shall have
been theretofore designated by the board of education of the central
high school district as the registration day or days for the annual
meeting of the central high school district. The register prepared in
such union free school district, in addition to complying with the
requirements of subdivision two of section two thousand fourteen of this
chapter, shall include columns or space to make the proper entries
relating to any annual or special central high school district meeting
or election. Such register shall be delivered by the clerk of such union
free school district to the custody of the clerk of the central high
school district on the day preceding the meeting or election of the
central high school district at which it is to be used. It shall be
returned to the clerk of the union free school district on the day
following such meeting or election. Such register shall at all
reasonable times be open to inspection by any qualified voter of the
central high school district, even though in the possession of the clerk
of such union free school district.

d. The provisions of sections two thousand four, two thousand fourteen
and two thousand fifteen of this chapter shall be applicable in any
central high school district providing for personal registration, except
as otherwise provided in this subdivision.

e. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to require
the board of education of any component union free school district to
provide for personal registration of voters for meetings or elections in
such union free school district.

5. a. The board of education of a central high school district in the
county of Nassau, which has provided for the personal registration of
voters at school meetings and elections in such central high school
district, may, by resolution duly adopted and entered upon its minutes,
on its own motion divide the central high school district into election
districts. The boundaries of such election districts shall be
coterminous with the boundaries of the union free school districts
within the central high school district, except that where a component
union free school district, in turn, shall have been or hereafter is
divided into school election districts pursuant to section two thousand
seventeen of this chapter, such school election districts of such union
free school districts shall in such case, without further action of the
board of education of the central high school district, become and be
election districts of the central high school district.

b. Where the board of education shall have so divided the central high
school district into election districts pursuant to the provisions of
this subdivision, notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and
three of this section, the vote upon the appropriation of the necessary
funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the central high school
district and upon any propositions involving the expenditure of money by
the central high school district or upon any other matter which may
properly be brought before the annual meeting or election of the central
high school district, shall be held at the same time as the annual
meetings or elections of the component union free school districts. The
clerk of the central high school district shall give the notices
required by subdivision one of section two thousand four of this
chapter, in relation to such annual meeting.

c. Where the procedure of this subdivision is used, the board of
education of the central high school district shall notify the clerk of
each component union free school district of such determination, not
later than thirty days preceding the date of such annual meeting. In
such case, also, the board of education of the central high school
district shall complete the statement required by section seventeen
hundred sixteen of this chapter and shall forward a sufficient number of
copies thereof to the clerk of each component union free school district
therein, not later than ten days preceding such annual meeting or
election, and such copies shall thereupon be made available by the clerk
of each such component union free school district, together with the
copies of the statement relating to such component union free school
district, provided, however, that an additional supply of copies of such
statement shall also be made available to the annual meeting of the
central high school district by the clerk of such district.

d. Each clerk of a component union free school district shall
thereupon include in the notices required by section two thousand four
of this chapter, relating to the annual meeting or election in such
component union free school district, a statement to the effect that the
meeting or election will also vote on the appropriation of the necessary
funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the central high school
district and upon any propositions involving the expenditure of moneys
by the central high school district or upon any other matter which may
be properly brought before the annual meeting or election of the central
high school district. Such appropriation and propositions, if any, shall
then appear separately upon the ballot or voting machines used at such
meetings or elections in such component union free school districts. The

canvass of the result of the vote on each such appropriation and
proposition relating to the central high school district shall forthwith
be certified to the clerk of each such component union free school
district, who in turn shall forthwith certify such canvass to the clerk
of the central high school district. Such clerk shall forthwith examine
and tabulate such statements and prepare a certificate of the combined
results of the vote, announce the result thereof to the board of
education of the central high school district and record the certificate
with the records of the meeting or election.

e. Where the board of education of a central high school district
proceeds under the provisions of this subdivision, the registration of a
qualified voter of a component union free school district upon the
register of such union free school district shall be a sufficient
registration for the purpose of the vote of such voter on the
appropriation and propositions of the central high school district.

f. When the board of education of such central high school district
calls a special meeting or election of such central high school
district, the respective boards of registration of the component union
free school districts shall meet on such day or days as shall be fixed
by the board of education of the central high school district and the
provisions of section two thousand fourteen of this chapter shall be
applicable to the registration for special meetings or elections of the
central high school district, except as otherwise provided in this
subdivision. The canvass of the result of the voting at such special
meeting or election shall forthwith be certified to the clerk of the
central high school district who shall forthwith proceed in the same
manner as hereinbefore provided in the case of an annual meeting or
election.

g. If voting machines are used in any component union free school
district of such central high school district, the rules printed and
distributed pursuant to section two thousand thirty-five of this chapter
in such union free school district shall also contain the rules
similarly adopted or to be adopted by the board of education of the
central high school district with respect to any propositions relating
to such central high school district.

h. All the provisions of articles thirty-nine and forty-one of this
chapter shall be applicable to any annual or special meeting or election
held pursuant to this subdivision, except as otherwise provided in this
subdivision either expressly or by necessary implication.

i. Upon an appeal to the commissioner of education, substantial
compliance with the procedures herein required shall be sufficient to
meet the intent of this subdivision.

6. The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to any
person registered to vote pursuant to the provisions of section three
hundred fifty-two of the election law.