2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 2 - SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION
Article 35 - (1701 - 1726) UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS
1713 - Academy may be adopted as academic department.

 1713. Academy  may  be  adopted as academic department.   Whenever a
  union free school district shall be established under the provisions  of
  article  thirty-one,  and  there  shall  exist  within  the  district an
  academy, the board of education, when authorized by a vote of the voters
  of the district, may adopt such academy as the  academic  department  of
  the  district,  with  the  consent  of  the trustees of the academy, and
  thereupon the trustees by a resolution to be attested by the  signatures
  of the officers of the board and filed in the office of the clerk of the
  county,  shall  declare  their  offices  vacant, and thereafter the said
  academy shall be the academic  department  of  such  union  free  school
  district.    The board of education when thereto authorized by a vote of
  the qualified voters of the district may lease said  academy  and  site,
  and  maintain the academic department of such union free school district
  therein and thereon.