Provides that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the first annual meeting after the meeting during which number of seats was increased.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4382--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing that
elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will
be conducted at the annual meeting after the number of seats was
increased
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1703 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 797 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. The additional members first elected shall be elected at [a special
5 meeting which shall be called by the board and be held not less than
6 thirty nor more than sixty days] the next annual meeting following the
7 annual meeting at which the number was increased, and pending the first
8 election of such additional members no vacancy shall be deemed to exist
9 in the offices thereof except for the purpose of filling the same by
10 election, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any law.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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