§ 1522 — Notice of meeting for establishment of union free school district

§ 1522. Notice of meeting for establishment of union free school\ndistrict. 1. Whenever fifteen persons entitled to vote at any meeting of\nthe inhabitants of any common school district in this state, shall sign\na request for a meeting, to be held for the purpose of determining\nwhether a union free school district shall be established therein in\nconformity with the provisions of this article, it shall be the duty of\nthe trustees of such district, within ten days after such request shall\nhave been presented to them, to give public notice that a meeting of the\ninhabitants of such district entitled to vote thereat will be held for\nsuch purpose as aforesaid, at the schoolhouse, or other more suitable\nplace in such district, on a day and at an hour to be specified in such\nnotice not less than twenty nor more than thirty days after the\npublication of such notice.\n 2. If the trustees shall refuse to give such notice, or shall neglect\nto give the same for twenty days, the commissioner of education may\nauthorize and direct any inhabitant of such district to give the same.\n 3. Whenever such district shall correspond wholly or in part with an\nincorporated village, in which there shall be published a daily or\nweekly newspaper, the notice required in this section shall be given by\nposting the same in five conspicuous places in said district, at least\ntwenty days prior to such meeting, and by causing the same to be\npublished once a week for three consecutive weeks before such meeting,\nin all the newspapers published in said district.\n 4. In other such districts the said notice shall be given by posting\nthe same as aforesaid, and in addition thereto, the trustees of such\ndistrict shall authorize and require any taxable inhabitant thereof to\nnotify every other qualified voter in such district of such meeting by\ndelivering to him a copy of such notice or in case of his absence from\nhome, by leaving a copy thereof, or so much thereof as relates to the\ntime, place and object of the meeting, at the place of his abode at\nleast twenty days prior to the time of such meeting.\n 5. Whenever fifteen persons, entitled as aforesaid, from each of two\nor more adjoining districts, shall unite in a request for a meeting of\nthe inhabitants of such districts, to determine whether such districts\nshall be consolidated by the establishment of a union free school\ndistrict therein, it shall be the duty of the trustees of such\ndistricts, or a majority of them, to submit such proposed consolidation\nto the commissioner of education for approval. If the commissioner\napprove such proposed consolidation, it shall be the duty of such\ntrustees, or a majority of them, to give public notice of such meeting,\nat some convenient place within such districts, and as central as may\nbe, within the time and to be published and served in the manner set\nforth in this section, in each of such districts and to provide for the\nuse of absentee ballots as provided under section two thousand\neighteen-a or two thousand eighteen-b of this title, whichever shall\napply, and early mail ballots as provided in section two thousand\neighteen-e or two thousand eighteen-f of this title, whichever shall\napply.\n 6. The commissioner of education may order such meeting under the\nconditions and in the manner prescribed in this section.\n 7. The reasonable expense of the publication and service of such\nnotice shall be chargeable upon the district, in case a union free\nschool district is established by the meeting so convened, to be levied\nand collected by the trustees, as in case of taxes levied for school\npurposes; but in the event that such union free school district shall\nnot be established, then the said expense shall be chargeable upon the\ninhabitants signing the request, jointly and severally, to be sued for,\nif necessary, in any court having jurisdiction of the same.\n