2006 New York Code - School Taxes And School Bonds.

 
    §  416.  School taxes and school bonds. 1. A majority of the voters of
  any school district,  present  and  voting  at  any  annual  or  special
  district  meeting,  duly convened, may authorize such acts and vote such
  taxes as they shall deem expedient for  making  additions,  alterations,
  repairs  or  improvements,  to  the  sites or buildings belonging to the
  district, or for altering and  equipping  for  library  use  any  former
  schoolhouse  belonging  to  the  district,  or for the purchase of other
  sites or buildings, or for a change of sites, or  for  the  purchase  of
  land  and  buildings  for  agricultural,  athletic, playground or social
  center purposes, or for the erection of new buildings, or for building a
  bus garage, or for buying apparatus, implements,  or  fixtures,  or  for
  paying  the wages of teachers, and the necessary expenses of the school,
  or for the purpose of  paying  any  judgment,  or  for  the  payment  or
  refunding  of  an  outstanding  bonded  indebtedness,  or for such other
  purpose relating to the support and welfare of the school as  they  may,
  by resolution, approve.
    2.  On  all  propositions  arising  at  said  meetings  involving  the
  expenditure of money, or authorizing the levy of a tax in one sum or  by
  instalments,  the  vote  thereon  shall  be by ballot, or ascertained by
  taking and  recording  the  ayes  and  noes  of  such  qualified  voters
  attending and voting at such meetings; and they may direct the moneys so
  voted to be levied in one sum, or by instalments, which shall be of such
  amounts  and  levied  in  such  years  as may be determined, within such
  limitations as may be fixed by the voters, by the trustees or  board  of
  education.  No  such tax shall be authorized to be levied by instalments
  as a condition precedent to the  issuance  of  bonds  or  capital  notes
  unless  the  notice  of  the  meeting  shall state that such tax will be
  proposed and the object or purpose thereof.  Such  notice  shall  comply
  with the requirements of section 41.10 of the local finance law.
    3.  No  addition to or change of site or purchase of a new site or tax
  for the purchase of any  new  site  or  structure,  or  for  grading  or
  improving  a school site, or for the purchase of an addition to the site
  of any schoolhouse, or for the  purchase  of  lands  and  buildings  for
  agricultural,  athletic,  playground  or  social center purposes, or for
  building any new schoolhouse or for the erection of an addition  to  any
  schoolhouse  already  built,  or  for  the  payment  or  refunding of an
  outstanding bonded indebtedness, shall be voted at any such meeting in a
  union free school district or a  city  school  district  which  conducts
  annual budget votes in accordance with article forty-one of this chapter
  pursuant  to  section twenty-six hundred one-a of this chapter, unless a
  notice by the board of education stating that such tax will be proposed,
  and specifying  the  object  thereof  and  the  amount  to  be  expended
  therefor,  shall  have  been given in the manner provided herein for the
  notice of an annual meeting. In a common school district the notice of a
  special meeting to authorize any of the improvements enumerated in  this
  section  shall  be  given  as  provided in section two thousand six. The
  board of education of a union free school  district  or  a  city  school
  district  which  conducts annual budget votes in accordance with article
  forty-one of this chapter pursuant to section twenty-six  hundred  one-a
  of  this  chapter,  may  determine that the vote upon any question to be
  submitted at a special meeting as provided in this section shall  be  by
  ballot,  in  which  case  it  shall  state in the notice of such special
  meeting the hours during which the polls shall  be  kept  open.  Printed
  ballots  may  be prepared by the board in advance of the meeting and the
  proposition or propositions called for in the notice of the meeting  may
  be  submitted  in  substantially  the  same manner as propositions to be
  voted upon at a general election.
    4. And whenever a tax for any of the  objects  hereinbefore  specified
  shall  be  legally  voted,  the  board of trustees or board of education
  shall make out their tax list, and attach their warrant thereto, in  the
  manner  provided  in  article  seventy-one  of  this  chapter,  for  the
  collection  of school district taxes, and shall cause such taxes or such
  instalments to be collected at such times as they shall become due.
    5. No vote to raise money shall be rescinded, nor the  amount  thereof
  be  reduced at any subsequent meeting, unless it be an adjourned meeting
  or a meeting called by regular and legal notice, which shall specify the
  proposed action, and at which the vote upon said proposed  reduction  or
  rescinding  shall be taken by ballot or by taking and recording the ayes
  and noes of the qualified voters attending and voting thereat.
    6. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of  this  section,  propo-
  sitions  for  the  construction of a new schoolhouse or an addition to a
  present schoolhouse at the same site shall not be submitted for  a  vote
  more  than  twice during any twelve month period and in no event shall a
  proposition be submitted for a vote less than ninety days after  a  vote
  on  the  same  or  similar proposition. However, the prohibition of this
  subdivision shall not apply to a proposition to  approve  an  additional
  amount  necessary  to carry out a construction project, where the voters
  have approved an initial building project and it is determined that  the
  bids for such project are in excess of the approved amount.
    7.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to a city school
  district in a city  having  a  population  of  one  hundred  twenty-five
  thousand inhabitants or more.