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2019 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 2 - School District Organization
Article 41 - District Meetings
Part 1 - General Provisions
2003 - Notice of Annual Meeting in Common School District.

Universal Citation: NY Educ L § 2003 (2019)
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§ 2003. Notice  of  annual  meeting in common school district.  1. The
  district clerk of each common school district shall give notice  of  the
  availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions
  of  section  sixteen  hundred  eight of this chapter and shall also give
  notice of the time and place of  the  annual  meeting  by  publishing  a
  notice  four  times  within  the  seven weeks next preceding such annual
  meeting, the first publication to be at  least  forty-five  days  before
  said  meeting,  in  two  newspapers  if  there  shall  be two, or in one
  newspaper if there shall be but one, having general  circulation  within
  such  district.  But if no newspaper shall then have general circulation
  therein, the said notice shall be posted in at least twenty of the  most
  public  places  in said district forty-five days before the time of such
  meeting.

2. Such notice shall also state that petitions  nominating  candidates
  for the office of member of the board of trustees must be filed with the
  clerk  of the district between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m., not
  later than the thirtieth day preceding the school meeting or election at
  which the candidates so nominated are to be elected.

3. Such notice and all  other  notices  and  reports  required  to  be
  published  in  newspapers  under the provisions of this chapter shall be
  printed at the rates and for the fees prescribed in the  civil  practice
  law  and  rules.  In the event that the publishers of one or both of the
  newspapers having general circulation in such district shall  refuse  to
  print  and  publish the notices or reports at the rates and for the fees
  so prescribed, publication in such newspaper or newspapers  so  refusing
  may  be omitted, in which case the notices or reports shall be posted as
  required by this section in lieu of such publication.

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