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2023 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - General Provisions
Article 9 - School Buildings and Sites
401 - Sites; Designation and Change.

Universal Citation:
NY Educ L § 401 (2023)
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§ 401. Sites; designation and change. 1. The designation of a site by any school district meeting shall be by written resolution containing a description thereof by metes and bounds, and such resolution must receive the assent of a majority of the qualified voters present and voting at said meeting, to be ascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes, or by ballot.

2. A board of education in a union free school district containing a population of five thousand or more may, without a vote of the qualified voters of said district, designate sites or additions thereto for school houses or for any other school purpose.

3. No site of a schoolhouse shall be changed unless a majority of the legal voters present and voting at a district meeting shall adopt a resolution designating a new site and describing such site by metes and bounds. Such resolution shall be adopted either by ballot or by taking and recording the ayes and noes.


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