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                                   9549
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2018
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to limiting the time
   periods when a special district meeting for the purpose of voting on a
   school bond may be conducted
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  416 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 171 of the laws  of  1996,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  No  addition to or change of site or purchase of a new site or tax
 for the purchase of any new site or structure, or for grading or improv-
 ing a school site, or for the purchase of an addition to the site of any
 schoolhouse, or for the purchase of lands  and  buildings  for  agricul-
 tural,  athletic,  playground or social center purposes, or for building
 any new schoolhouse or for the erection of an addition  to  any  school-
 house  already  built, or for the payment or refunding of an outstanding
 bonded indebtedness, shall be voted at any such meeting in a union  free
 school  district  or a city school district which conducts annual budget
 votes in accordance with article forty-one of this chapter  pursuant  to
 section twenty-six hundred one-a of this chapter, unless a notice by the
 board  of education stating that such tax will be proposed, and specify-
 ing the object thereof and the amount to  be  expended  therefor,  shall
 have been given in the manner provided herein for the notice of an annu-
 al  meeting. In a common school district the notice of a special meeting
 to authorize any of the improvements enumerated in this section shall be
 given as provided in section two thousand six. The board of education of
 a union free school district or a city school  district  which  conducts
 annual budget votes in accordance with article forty-one of this chapter
 pursuant to section twenty-six hundred one-a of this chapter, may deter-
 mine  that the vote upon any question to be submitted at a special meet-
 ing as provided in this section shall be by ballot,  in  which  case  it
 shall state in the notice of such special meeting the hours during which
 the  polls  shall  be  kept open. Printed ballots may be prepared by the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 board in advance of the meeting  and  the  proposition  or  propositions
 called for in the notice of the meeting may be submitted in substantial-
 ly  the  same  manner  as  propositions  to  be  voted upon at a general
 election.  NO  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IN  THE STATE, HOWEVER, SHALL CONDUCT A
 SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING ON A SCHOOL BOND,  AS
 AUTHORIZED  IN  THIS SECTION, BETWEEN THE GENERAL ELECTION THROUGH MARCH
 FIRST OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR AND BETWEEN THE  FOURTH  WEDNESDAY  IN  JUNE
 THROUGH THE FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.