2019 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 2 - School District Organization
Article 41 - District Meetings
Part 1 - General Provisions
2008 - Call of Special District Meeting by District Superintendent.

§ 2008. Call  of  special district meeting by district superintendent.
1.  When the clerk and all the trustees of a school district shall  have
removed  from  the district, or their offices shall be vacant, so that a
special meeting  can  not  be  called,  as  hereinbefore  provided,  the
district  superintendent  may  in like manner give notice of, and call a
special district meeting.
  2. Upon the filing with  the  trustee  or  board  of  education  of  a
petition  requesting  such  officers to call a special district meeting,
which petition shall state the purpose thereof and shall  be  signed  by
twenty-five qualified voters or five percent of the number of voters who
voted  in  the  previous  annual election of the members of the board of
education or trustees, said number to be determined  by  the  number  of
persons  recorded  on  the  poll  list as having voted at such election,
whichever shall be greater, such trustee or  board  of  education  shall
proceed to call such meeting by giving notice thereof within twenty days
thereafter unless it shall appear
  (a)  that the purpose for which such meeting is sought to be called is
not within the power of the voters of the district, or
  (b) that such purpose is illegal, or
  (c) that a bond or note resolution has been adopted and such  petition
is  not  filed  within  twenty  days after publication of notice of such
resolution pursuant to section 81.00 of the local finance law, or
  (d) that other valid reason exists for refusing to call  such  meeting
which  reason  when  appealed  to the commissioner of education shall be
deemed by him to be sufficient cause for such refusal.
  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  any
proposition  submitted  by  the  voters that requires the expenditure of
money shall be subject to the requirements set forth in subdivision nine
of section two thousand twenty-three-a of this part.