2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 2 - SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION
Article 31 - (1501 - 1527-C) SCHOOL DISTRICTS
1512 - Proceedings at meeting for consolidation; adoption of resolution; proceedings to be filed.

   1512.  Proceedings  at  meeting  for  consolidation;  adoption  of
  resolution; proceedings to be filed. 1. Such meeting shall be  organized
  as  provided  in section fifteen hundred twenty-three.  Such meeting may
  adopt a resolution to consolidate such districts if  two-thirds  of  the
  qualified  electors  of  each  district having less than fifteen of such
  electors are present, or in case of districts  having  fifteen  or  more
  qualified  electors  if  ten  or  more are present.   The vote upon such
  resolution shall be by ballot or by taking and recording  the  ayes  and
  noes.    If the vote shall be by taking and recording the ayes and noes,
  the clerk and such assistants as may be provided for him by the  meeting
  shall  keep  a  poll-list  upon which shall be recorded the names of all
  qualified electors voting upon the resolution, the  districts  in  which
  such  electors reside, and how each elector voted.  If the vote shall be
  by ballot, one or more inspectors of election shall be appointed in such
  manner as the meeting shall determine, who shall receive the votes cast,
  canvass the same and announce the result of the ballot to the  chairman.
  If  the  vote shall be by ballot then voting machines may be used in the
  manner prescribed by section two thousand thirty-five  of  this  chapter
  and  provision shall be made for absentee ballots as provided in section
  two thousand eighteen-a or two thousand eighteen-b of this chapter.   If
  it  shall  appear  that a majority of the qualified electors present and
  voting from each district are in favor of such resolution, it  shall  be
  declared adopted and where at least one of the districts consolidated is
  a  union  free  school  district  it  shall  be  lawful for such meeting
  thereafter to proceed to  the  election  of  a  board  of  education  as
  provided in sections seventeen hundred two and seventeen hundred four of
  this  chapter.    If  a  majority  of the qualified electors present and
  voting from each district are not  in  favor  of  such  resolution,  all
  further  proceedings  at  such meeting, except a motion to reconsider or
  adjourn, shall be dispensed with and no  such  meeting  shall  be  again
  called within one year thereafter.
2.   Copies   of  such  request,  notice  of  meeting,  order  of  the
  commissioner of education directing a qualified  elector  to  call  such
  meeting, if any, and the minutes of the meeting, including the record of
  the  vote  upon  the  resolution and where at least one of the districts
  consolidated is a union free  school  district  if  such  resolution  be
  adopted  a  record  of  the  declaration  of  the election of a board of
  education,  duly  certified  by  the  chairman  and  clerk,   shall   be
  transmitted  by either the chairman or clerk, one to the commissioner of
  education, and one to the district superintendent of  schools  in  whose
  jurisdiction such districts are located.