N.Y. Education Law Section 1501
Existing school districts continued


1.

All school districts organized either by special laws or pursuant to the provisions of a general law are hereby continued.

2.

a. Common school districts and union free school districts so organized may be altered or dissolved as provided in this article.

b.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or of any other general or special law to the contrary, all school districts which do not maintain a home school on March first, nineteen hundred sixty-six, and had not prior to October first, nineteen hundred sixty-five voted to reopen such home school and expended monies for construction or rehabilitation of such home school, provided that they are contiguous, either directly, or through other such districts, to a union free, central or city school district maintaining a twelve grade school system (not counting kindergarten) and with which such school districts are scheduled to be reorganized pursuant to the state plan for school district reorganization under § 314 (State plan for school district reorganization 1)section three hundred fourteen of this chapter, are hereby abolished as of July first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, and are hereby made a part of such contiguous union free, central or city school district. The provisions of section fifteen hundred fourteen, fifteen hundred seventeen and fifteen hundred eighteen of this chapter shall apply in all such cases.

c.

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph b of this subdivision, any such district desiring a change in such state plan may petition the commissioner for such change as provided in § 314 (State plan for school district reorganization 1)section three hundred fourteen of this chapter. The status of such district shall be maintained pending such proceeding, and if any other such district or districts is or are contiguous to a union free, central or city school district only through such petitioning district, then and in that event, the status of such other district or districts shall also be maintained pending such proceeding. The petitioning district and such other district or districts contiguous with a union free, central or city school district only through such petitioning district shall become a part of such other union free, central or city school district as the commissioner or the court may order; in such case the provisions of paragraph b of this subdivision shall become applicable, and the abolition of such school districts shall become effective as of July first next following the final determination of the petition; if, in such case, any other school district or districts indirectly contiguous to such union free, central or city school district loses its contiguity therewith, the commissioner or the court, as the case may be, in the order, shall make an appropriate disposition of such district or districts.

3.

Central school districts may be organized under and are subject to the provisions of article thirty-seven.

4.

Central high school districts may be altered under and are subject to the provisions of article thirty-nine.

Source: Section 1501 — Existing school districts continued, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EDN/1501 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

1501
Existing school districts continued
1501‑A
Publication of minutes
1501‑B
Additional power of boards of education
1501‑C
Voting by residents of certain facilities
1502
Passengers on school buses
1502‑A
Power to provide for observance of Memorial day
1503
Application of funds obtained from sale of school property
1504
Formation of new district
1505
Dissolution, reformation and construction of districts
1505‑A
Teachers’ rights as a result of the dissolution of a school district
1506
Filing of certain orders of district superintendent
1507
Alteration by consent
1508
Alteration without consent
1509
Hearing of objections to order for alteration without consent
1510
Consolidation of districts by vote of qualified electors
1511
Request for meeting to consolidate districts
1512
Proceedings at meeting for consolidation
1513
Order creating consolidated district
1514
Property of districts consolidated
1515
Dissolution or alteration of joint district
1516
Special meeting of joint district to act regarding alteration or dissolution
1517
Indebtedness of certain dissolved districts
1518
Continuance of dissolved districts for payment of debts
1519
Deposit of records of dissolved district
1520
Sale of property of dissolved district and disposition of proceeds
1521
Collection and distribution of moneys due dissolved district
1522
Notice of meeting for establishment of union free school district
1523
Proceedings at meeting and effect of affirmative vote
1524
Consolidation with city school district
1525
Alteration of boundaries of city school district
1526
Enlarged city school districts
1527
Payroll deductions for deposit to employee bank accounts
1527‑A
Prohibit symbols of hate
1527‑C
Shared superintendent program

Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 1501’s source at nysenate​.gov

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