2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 7 - (301 - 318) COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
315 - School district names.

 315. School  district names. Each school district, other than a city
  school  district,  shall,  in   accordance   with   the   commissioner's
  regulations,  adopt a simplified name as the legal name of the district.
  Such name shall be submitted to the commissioner for prior approval  and
  when such name shall be adopted it shall be filed with the commissioner.
  The  name  of a central school district established or reorganized by an
  order of the commissioner pursuant to section eighteen  hundred  one  of
  this  chapter may be changed by the board of education of such district,
  with the prior approval of the commissioner, upon a written  request  by
  the  board  of  education  filed  with  the  commissioner not later than
  fourteen days prior to the date of the establishment  or  reorganization
  of   the  district  and  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  of  the
  commissioner.  The  education  department  shall  issue,   on   request,
  certificates  certifying  the  name of the district and the names of the
  towns and counties in which the territory of the district is located, or
  in the case of school districts other than city school districts,  which
  are wholly or partly located within a city, the names of the city, towns
  and counties in which the territory of the district is located.