2006 New York Code - Teachers\' Rights As A Result Of The Dissolution Of A School District.

 
    § 1505-a. Teachers'  rights as a result of the dissolution of a school
  district.  1. In any case in which a school district  is  dissolved  and
  portions  of  such  former  district  are  added to more than one school
  district pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen hundred  five  of
  this  article  or  section  seventeen hundred five of this chapter, each
  teacher employed in such former school district  at  the  time  of  such
  dissolution  shall  select  the  particular  school  district  to  which
  territory is added in which he or she shall be considered  an  employee,
  with  the  same tenure status he or she maintained in such former school
  district. Such selection of the  particular  school  district  to  which
  territory  is  added  by such teacher shall be based upon each teacher's
  seniority in such former school district, with the  right  of  selection
  passing from such teachers with the most seniority to such teachers with
  least seniority.
    2. Any such teacher who is unable to obtain a teaching position in any
  such  school district to which territory is added, because the number of
  positions needed are less than the number of  teachers  eligible  to  be
  considered employees pursuant to subdivision one of this section, shall,
  in all such school districts to which territory is added, be placed on a
  preferred  eligible list of candidates for appointment to a vacancy that
  may thereafter occur in a position  similar  to  the  one  such  teacher
  filled  in such former school district. The teachers on such a preferred
  eligible list shall be appointed to such vacancies in such corresponding
  or similar positions under the jurisdiction of the  school  district  to
  which territory is added in the order of their length of service in such
  former  school  district,  within  seven  years  from  the  date  of the
  dissolution of such former school district.
    3. For any such teacher as  set  forth  in  subdivision  one  of  this
  section,  for  salary,  sick  leave and any other purpose, the length of
  service credited in such former school district  shall  be  credited  as
  employment time with such school district to which territory is added.
    4.  This  section  shall in no way be construed to limit the rights of
  any such teachers set  forth  in  this  section  granted  by  any  other
  provision of law.