Bill Text: NY A00319 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Moves the date of the election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city school district to the third Tuesday in May.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A00319 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A00319-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to moving the date of the
election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city
school district to the third Tuesday in May
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph p of subdivision 10 of section 2553 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of 1979, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 p. The election of members of the board of education of the school
5 district of the city of Buffalo shall take place on THE THIRD TUESDAY IN
6 May [seventh, nineteen hundred seventy-four and on the first Tuesday in
7 May thereafter] in each year in which an incumbent's term expires;
8 PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT SUCH ELECTION SHALL BE HELD ON THE SECOND TUESDAY
9 IN MAY IF THE COMMISSIONER, AT THE REQUEST OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, CERTI-
10 FIES NO LATER THAN MARCH FIRST THAT SUCH ELECTION WOULD CONFLICT WITH
11 RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES. Such election shall be conducted by the board of
12 elections of the county of Erie in the same manner as other elections
13 are conducted by it. Polls shall be open for voting for the hours
14 prescribed by section 8-100 of the election law for primary elections.
15 The results of such elections, after canvassing, shall be certified and
16 reported by the board of elections to the board of education of such
17 city. The clerk or other appropriate officer of the board of education
18 shall within twenty-four hours after receipt of such certification by
19 the board of elections serve a written notice either personally or by
20 mail upon each person declared to be elected as a member of the board of
21 education informing him of his election and the length of his term.
22 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
23 elections conducted on and after July 1, 2015.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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