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of the commissioner, and copies thereof shall be filed in the offices of the district clerks of the districts comprising such central high school district, and also in the offices of the town clerks of the town in which such districts or any parts thereof are situated. Such district shall be established as a central high school district upon the execution of such order.

Education Law, § 189-b.

Number and election of members of board of education.

The order of the commissioner of education establishing such central high school district shall specify the number of members to constitute the board of education of such district and the number of members representing each of the districts included in such district. The number of such members shall be not less than five. There shall be at least one member of such board from each common school district and at least two from each union free school district. The board of education of each union free school district in such central high school district shall appoint the number of persons so designated by the commissioner to represent such district as members of the board of education thereof. In each common school district having a sole trustee, such trustee shall represent such district as a member of the board of education of such central high school district. If a common school district have three trustees, such board of trustees shall designate one of its members to represent such district as a member of such board of education. The persons so designated shall be members of the board of education of the central high school district during their terms of office as members of the board of education or as trustees of the districts respectively represented by them. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of a member of the board of education of such central high school district, it shall be filled as above provided. Education Law, § 189-c.

District meetings; vote upon school taxes.

The annual meeting of a central high school district shall be held on the first Tuesday in June. Special meetings may be called in the same manner and for the same purposes as special meetings in union free school districts. Such meetings shall be held for the same purposes and in the same manner, and be subject to the same provisions of law, as like meetings in union free school districts, and all persons who are qualified electors of the school districts included in such central high school district may vote at such meetings.

The board of education of such district shall present at the annual meeting a detailed statement in writing of the estimated expenditures required for the support and maintenance of the central high school therein for the ensuing year. The said meeting shall vote the necessary taxes to meet such expendi

tures, in the same manner as taxes are voted at a district meeting in a union free school district. The provisions of sections three hundred and twenty-two to three hundred and twenty-six, inclusive, of this chapter, and all other provisions relative to the making of appropriations, the voting of taxes, and the expenditure of moneys for the support, maintenance and expenses of public schools in union free school districts, shall apply to the support, maintenance and expenses of a central high school in a central high school district established as provided in this chapter.

Education Law, § 189-h.

DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

Office of district superintendent of schools created.

The office of district superintendent of schools is hereby created to begin on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve.

Education Law, § 380, as amended by L. 1910, chs. 140 and 607, in effect January 1, 1912.

Supervisory districts.

1. The territory embraced in the school commissioner districts of the state outside of cities and of school districts of five thousand population or more, which employ a superintendent of schools, shall be organized and divided into supervisory districts. In the formation or division of such territory into such districts no town shall be divided. The territory of such districts must be contiguous and compact and towns shall be arranged in districts so that there shall be as equal a division of the territory and number of school districts as may be practicable.

2. In a county entitled to two or more supervisory districts the school commissioner of each school commissioner district in such county and the supervisor of each town in such county shall meet at the county seat of such county on the third Tuesday in April, nineteen hundred and eleven, at ten o'clock in the forenoon and divide such county into the number of supervisory districts to which it is entitled.

3. The county clerk of such county shall give ten days' notice, in writing, of such meeting, to each of such school commissioners and supervisors. The county clerk shall also call such meeting to order at the proper hour and the school commissioners and supervisors present shall elect from their number a chairman and a clerk.

4. A copy of the proceedings of such meeting showing the supervisory districts formed and naming the towns composing each of such districts, certified by the chairman and clerk, shall be deposited by the clerk of such meeting in the office of the clerk of the county immediately after the close of the meeting. The county clerk on receipt of the same shall forward a certified copy thereof to the commissioner of education.

5. The number of supervisory districts into which each county shall be organized or divided is as follows:

a. Hamilton, Putnam, Rockland, Schenectady, each one;

b. Chemung, Fulton, Genesee, Montgomery, Nassau, Schuyler, Seneca, Yates, each two;

c. Albany, Columbia, Cortland, Essex, Greene, Livingston, Niagara, Orange, Orleans, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Warren, Wyoming, each three;

d. Broome, Clinton, Dutchess, Franklin, Herkimer, Lewis, Madison, Monroe, Ontario, Saratoga, Ulster, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, each four;

e. Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chenango, Erie, Onondaga, Oswego, each five;

f. Chautauqua, Delaware, Jefferson, Otsego, each six;

g. Oneida, Steuben, each seven;

h. Saint Lawrence, eight districts.

6. The district superintendents of two or more supervisory districts in a county may unite in a petition to the board of supervisors of the county for a change in the boundaries of such districts by including or excluding one or more towns, stating the reasons for such change, and if such change conforms to the territorial requirements of subdivision one of this section, the board of supervisors may, by resolution, change such districts in accordance with such petition. A copy of such resolution, certified by the chairman and clerk of the board of supervisors, shall be deposited by the clerk in the office of the clerk of the county. The county clerk on receipt of the same shall forward a certified copy thereof to the commissioner of education.

Education Law, § 381, as amended by L. 1910, chs. 140 and 607; L. 1916, ch. 238; L. 1919, ch. 300.

School directors; terms of office; election; appointment.

Each town included within a supervisory district shall have two school directors who shall serve for terms of four years each. The school directors who are in office when this act takes effect shall continue in office until their successors are chosen as provided by law. School directors shall be elected at the town meetings held in the years next succeeding the expiration of the terms of the school directors in office when this act takes effect and one director shall be elected at the town meeting held in every fourth year thereafter. Such directors and their successors in office shall serve for terms of four years each to commence on the first day of January following their election. Such directors shall be elected in the same manner that town officers are elected at town meetings held under the pro'visions of the town law, and the provisions of the election law relating to the nomination and election of such town officers shall apply to the nomination and election of such directors.

2. A school director shall vacate his office by removal from the town or by filing a written resignation with the town clerk. A vacancy in the office of school director shall be filled by the town board of the town in which such vacancy exists, for the remainder of the unexpired term. If the town fails to elect a director a vacancy shall be deemed to exist in such office.

3. A school director before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, and not later than thirty days after the date on which he was elected to office, shall take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution. Such oath may be taken before a justice of the peace or a notary public, and must be filed in the office of the clerk of the town.

4. A school director shall receive two dollars per day for each day's service and his necessary traveling expenses, and the town board of the town for which such director is chosen shall audit and allow the same.

Education Law, § 382, as amended by L. 1910, chs. 140 and 607; L. 1916, ch. 168; L. 1920, ch. 285.

Election of district superintendent.

1. The school directors of the several towns composing a supervisory district shall meet for organization at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on the third Tuesday in May following their election. Such meeting shall be held at a

place in the supervisory district, designated by the county clerk, at least ten days previous to the date thereof. At the time the county clerk designates such place of meeting he shall also mail a notice of the time and place of such meeting to each school director of the district. The school directors present at such meeting shall organize by electing from their number a chairman, a clerk and two inspectors of election. The school directors at such meeting shall designate a place for holding future meetings.

2. The school directors of the several towns composing a supervisory district shall be a board of school directors, and such board of directors shall meet at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on the third Tuesday in August, nineteen hundred and eleven, and on the third Tuesday in June every fifth year thereafter, and elect a district superintendent of schools. The clerk of such board shall give each director at least ten days' notice in writing of the hour, date and place of such meeting.

3. If such directors fail to elect a district superintendent of schools before the first day of January following the date of such meeting, and a vacancy exists in such office, the county judge shall appoint such superintendent who shall serve until the board of directors shall fill such vacancy.

4. In the election of such district superintendent the vote shall be by ballot and the person receiving a majority of all votes cast shall be elected. Each school director shall be entitled to one vote in such election.

5. The clerk of such board shall file a copy of the proceedings of each meeting and each election, certified by himself and the chairman, in the office of the clerk of the county in which such meeting or election is held within three days after the close thereof.

6. The county clerk on receipt of notice of the election of a district superintendent of schools in any supervisory district of his county shall deliver to the person elected a certificate of such election attested by his signature with the seal of the county and shall also transmit to the commissioner of education a duplicate of such certificate of election.

7. When a district superintendent enters the military or naval service of the United States during the continuance of the present war, the board of school directors of the supervisory district of such district superintendent shall designate a person to act as the deputy of such district superintendent. This deputy shall during the absence of said district superintendent perform all the duties and possess the power and authority conferred by law on a district superintendent. Such person shall also possess qualifications approved by the commissioner of education.

Education Law, § 383, as amended by L. 1910, chs. 140 and 607; L. 1918, ch. 107.

Qualifications of district superintendents.

1. To be eligible to election to the office of district superintendent of schools a person must be at least twenty-one years of age, a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state, but he need not be a resident of the supervisory district for which he is elected at the time of his election. Such superintendent must, however, become a resident of the county containing the district for which he has been elected on or before the date on which his term of office begins. Failure to acquire such residence will be deemed a removal from the county. No person, shall be ineligible on account of sex.

2. In addition thereto he must possess or be entitled to receive a certificate authorizing him to teach in any of the public schools of the state without further examination and he shall also pass an examination prescribed by the commissioner of education on the supervision of courses of study in agriculture and teaching the same.

3. A district superintendent who is removed from office shall not be eligible

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