New York Laws
Article 45 - Supervisory Districts
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.