2006 New York Code - Number Of Trustees; Determination Of Change.

 
    § 1602. Number  of trustees; determination of change.  1. At the first
  annual meeting next after the erection of a common school  district  the
  electors shall determine, by resolution, whether the district shall have
  one or three trustees; and if they resolve to have three trustees, shall
  elect  the  three  for one, two and three years, respectively, and shall
  designate by their votes for which term each is elected;  thereafter  in
  such  district,  one  trustee  shall  be elected for three years at each
  annual meeting to fill the office of the outgoing trustee; and  if  they
  resolve  to  have  one  trustee,  shall elect the trustee for a one-year
  term; thereafter in such district a trustee shall  be  elected  for  one
  year at each annual meeting to fill the office of the outgoing trustee.
    2.  The  electors  of any common school district having three trustees
  shall have power to decide at any annual meeting by a majority  vote  of
  those present and voting, whether the district shall have a sole trustee
  or  three trustees. If they resolve to have a sole trustee, the trustees
  in office shall continue in office until their  terms  of  office  shall
  expire.  No election of a trustee shall be had in the district until the
  offices of such trustees shall become vacant by the expiration of  their
  terms  of  office  or otherwise, and thereafter but one trustee shall be
  elected for said district.
    3. The electors of a common school district having but one trustee may
  determine at an annual meeting, by a two-thirds vote of the legal voters
  present and voting  thereat,  to  have  three  trustees;  and  upon  the
  adoption  of  a  resolution to that effect, shall proceed to elect three
  trustees or such number as may be necessary to form  a  board  of  three
  trustees,  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  in  this section for the
  election of three  trustees  at  the  first  annual  meeting  after  the
  erection  of  a  district;  and thereafter in such district, one trustee
  shall be elected for three years, at each annual meeting,  to  fill  the
  office of the outgoing trustee.