Section 1802. Organization procedure

1. New central school districts shall
  be organized as provided in this subdivision.
    a.  When  an  order laying out a central school district has been made
  and entered as provided in section eighteen hundred one of this chapter,
  a petition may be presented by  persons  qualified  to  vote  at  school
  district  meetings  asking  for  the  organization  of  a central school
  district and  the  establishment  of  a  central  school  therein.  Said
  petition  shall  be  signed  by  at  least one hundred of such qualified
  voters or by a number of such qualified voters equal to at least ten per
  centum of the pupils of said central school district  as  determined  by
  the last school census, whichever shall be less.
    b.  Said  petition  shall  be  filed  with  the commissioner and shall
  request that a meeting of the qualified voters within said territory  be
  called  for  the  purpose  of  determining whether or not such territory
  shall be organized as a central school district and a central school  be
  established therein for instruction in elementary or elementary and high
  school  subjects. If the commissioner is satisfied that the petition has
  been duly signed as provided in this section, he shall fix  a  time  and
  place  for  a special meeting of the qualified voters within the central
  school district, which meeting shall be held not more than  thirty  days
  after  the  filing  of  the petition aforesaid.   The commissioner shall
  cause notice of such meeting to be posted at least ten days  before  the
  meeting  in  three  conspicuous places in each school district wholly or
  partly within the central school district. In addition to the posting of
  such notice, a copy thereof shall  be  published  at  least  three  days
  before  the  meeting in a daily or weekly newspaper published within the
  territory or in a newspaper circulating therein. The expense of  posting
  and  publishing  of  the  notice  shall  be borne equally by the several
  school districts within the territory, unless a central school  district
  is  organized,  in  which  event such expense shall become a charge upon
  said central school district.
    2. Territory shall be annexed to a central school district as provided
  in this subdivision.
    a. When an order annexing territory to a central school  district  has
  been  made  and  entered  as provided in section eighteen hundred one of
  this chapter, the commissioner shall within ten  days  thereafter  cause
  certified copies of said order to be filed with the clerk of the central
  school  district  and  the  trustee  or trustees of each school district
  affected thereby. Said order annexing territory to  the  central  school
  district  shall  become  final  sixty  days  after  such  filing  of the
  certified copy thereof, unless a permissive referendum is  requested  as
  hereinafter  provided. Said order may state that it shall take effect on
  a date specified therein which date shall not, however, be earlier  than
  sixty days after such filing.
    b.  When  at  least  one hundred of the qualified voters residing in a
  central school district, as it existed prior to the order of annexation,
  or a number of such qualified voters equal to at least ten per centum of
  the pupils therein, as determined by the last school  census,  whichever
  shall  be  less;  or when at least one hundred qualified voters residing
  within any school district affected by such order or a  number  of  such
  qualified voters equal to at least ten per centum of the pupils therein,
  as determined by the last school census, whichever shall be less, shall,
  within  sixty  days after the last filing of the copies of the aforesaid
  order, file a  petition  with  the  commissioner  requesting  a  special
  meeting  of  the  qualified  voters of such district affected thereby, a
  special meeting shall be held pursuant to  notice,  as  hereinafter  set
  forth,  to  determine  whether the order annexing the school district or
  districts, or any one of such  districts,  shall  be  approved.  If  the

  commissioner  determines  that  the petition has been duly signed by the
  number of qualified voters required, he shall  fix  a  time  and  place,
  within  thirty  days  after  the  receipt by him of said petition, for a
  special  meeting  of the qualified voters of the central school district
  or school district in respect of which a  petition  has  been  filed  as
  aforesaid.  The  commissioner shall cause notice thereof to be posted at
  least ten days before the meeting in  ten  conspicuous  places  in  such
  central  school  district  or  such  school district. In addition to the
  posting of such notice a copy thereof shall be duly published, at  least
  three  days before the meeting, in a daily or weekly newspaper published
  within such central school district or any of the  school  districts  in
  which  such  meeting is to be held, or in a newspaper circulating in the
  territory. The expense of posting and publishing  the  notice  aforesaid
  shall  be  a  charge upon the central school district or school district
  conducting such meeting.