Bill Text: NY A09667 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting the city of Lockport school district to designate the entire city school district as a single election district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-23 - held for consideration in education [A09667 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09667-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9667
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 23, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. CORWIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the election districts
         in the city of Lockport school district
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2604 of the education law, as  amended  by  chapter
    2  741 of the laws of 1954, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 2604. Division   of   city  school  district  into  school  election
    4  districts; elections held in schoolhouses.   The board of  education  of
    5  each  city  school  district  shall  adopt a resolution on or before the
    6  first day of April, preceding the  first  annual  school  election  held
    7  hereunder,  dividing  the  city  school  district  into  school election
    8  districts.  The city school district shall be so divided that if circum-
    9  stances will permit, school election districts will be coterminous  with
   10  one  or more general election districts, and that, if practicable, there
   11  shall be  a  schoolhouse  in  each  election  district.    The  election
   12  districts  thus  formed  shall  continue  in existence until modified by
   13  resolution of the board of education.  Such resolution shall  accurately
   14  describe  the  boundaries  of such election districts by streets, alleys
   15  and highways, when practicable.  School elections shall be held in  such
   16  school  election  districts  so  far  as  may  be possible in the public
   17  schoolhouses therein.  If there is no public  schoolhouse  in  a  school
   18  election  district, the board of education shall by resolution designate
   19  the place where the election in such district shall  be  held.  Notwith-
   20  standing  the  foregoing provisions of this section, the board of educa-
   21  tion of THE LOCKPORT CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OR any city school district of
   22  a city of less than ten thousand inhabitants may, by resolution,  desig-
   23  nate the entire city school district as a single school district.
   24    S 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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