N.Y. Education Law Section 2103
Ineligibility to office

1.

No district superintendent or supervisor is eligible to the office of trustee or member of a board of education, and no trustee or member of a board of education can hold the office of district clerk, collector, treasurer or librarian, except as otherwise provided by section twenty-one hundred thirty.

2.

A person removed from a school district office shall be ineligible to appointment or election to any district office for a period of one year from the date of such removal.

3.

Not more than one member of a family shall be a member of the same board of education in any school district.

4.

No employee of a board of education may be a member of such board; provided, however, that in a city with a population of one million or more nothing herein shall prohibit an employee of the board of education of a community school board from being a member of a community school board except that such employee may not be a member of any community school board that directly employs him.

Source: Section 2103 — Ineligibility to office, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EDN/2103 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Sep. 5, 2026).

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