Section 1906. District meetings; vote upon school taxes

1. The annual
  meeting and election of a central high school district shall be held  on
  the  third  Tuesday  in May, provided, however, that such annual meeting
  and election shall  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May  if  the
  commissioner  at  the request of a local school board certifies no later
  than March first  that  such  election  would  conflict  with  religious
  observances,  and  any  school  budget  revote shall be held on the date
  specified in subdivision three of section two  thousand  seven  of  this
  title.  The  board  of  education  of every central high school district
  shall hold a budget hearing prior to each annual meeting and election or
  special district meeting at which a school budget vote will  occur,  and
  shall  prepare  and  present  to  the  voters  at  such budget hearing a
  proposed school district budget for the  ensuing  school  year.  Special
  meetings  may  be called in the same manner and for the same purposes as
  special meetings in union free school districts. Such meetings shall  be
  held for the same purposes and in the same manner, and be subject to the
  same  provisions  of  law,  except  as  may  be  provided  otherwise  in
  subdivision two of this section, as like meetings in union  free  school
  districts,  and  all  persons  who  are qualified electors of the school
  districts included in such central high school district may vote at such
  meetings.
    2. For any annual or special meeting the board of education may on its
  own motion divide the central high school district into such  number  of
  election  districts as there shall be union free school districts within
  the central high  school  district.  The  boundaries  of  such  election
  districts  shall  be  coterminous with the boundaries of such union free
  school districts. Such meetings shall be held so far as possible in  the
  public  schoolhouse within each such election district designated by the
  board of education. The schoolhouse or other  place  so  designated  for
  each election district shall be stated in the notice of the meeting. The
  legal  voters  present  in each election district shall elect a chairman
  and secretary and the chairman so elected shall appoint at  least  three
  inspectors  of  election who shall canvass the result of the election in
  such election district and prepare and  sign  a  statement  showing  the
  results  of the voting. Each such statement shall be forthwith delivered
  to the district clerk. The district clerk shall  forthwith  examine  and
  tabulate  the  statements  and  prepare  a  certificate  of the combined
  results of the voting,  announce  the  result  thereof  and  record  the
  certificate  with  the  records  of the meeting. The proceedings, in the
  event of such division, in all other respects shall be the  same  as  if
  the school meeting were held in one place.
    3. The board of education of such district shall present at the annual
  meeting  a  detailed  statement in writing of the estimated expenditures
  required for the support and maintenance  of  the  central  high  school
  therein  for the ensuing year. The said meeting shall vote the necessary
  taxes to meet such expenditures, in the same manner as taxes  are  voted
  at a district meeting in a union free school district. The provisions of
  sections  seventeen hundred twenty-five and seventeen hundred sixteen to
  seventeen hundred nineteen, inclusive, of this chapter,  and  all  other
  provisions  relative  to  the  making  of  appropriations, the voting of
  taxes, and the expenditure of moneys for the  support,  maintenance  and
  expenses  of  public schools in union free school districts, shall apply
  to the support, maintenance, and  expenses  of  a  central  high  school
  district.
    4.  a.  Whenever  the  board  of  education  of  a central high school
  district in the county of Nassau shall have provided  for  the  personal
  registration of voters at school meetings or elections in such district,
  such  board  of  education shall fix the day or days for registration by

  resolution adopted not later than the fortieth day preceding each annual
  or special meeting or election in such district. The last day  for  such
  registration  shall  not  be  more  than eleven nor less than three days
  preceding  each  annual or special meeting or election. Such board shall
  forthwith notify the clerk of each component union free school  district
  providing  for  personal  registration, of such registration day or days
  for each annual meeting. Such board shall also notify each such clerk of
  every special meeting or election in such central high  school  district
  at  least  ten  days  prior  thereto.  The  board of registration of the
  central high school district shall meet on the day or days fixed by such
  board  of  education  for  the  purpose   of   preparing   a   register,
  complementary  to  the register or registers of any component union free
  school district providing for personal registration,  for  the  personal
  registration  of qualified voters within any component union free school
  district providing for personal  registration,  which  voters  have  not
  registered  for the annual or any subsequent special meeting or election
  in such union free school district, and for the personal registration of
  qualified voters  of  any  component  union  free  school  district  not
  providing for personal registration.
    b.  Whenever  personal registration of voters shall have been provided
  for in any such central high school district, any qualified voter  of  a
  component  union  free  school  district  who is duly registered in such
  union free school district  for  the  annual  meeting  or  a  subsequent
  special meeting or election therein, shall be deemed duly registered for
  and  entitled  to  vote  at the annual meeting or any special meeting or
  election in such central high school district occurring between the date
  of such registration and the next ensuing annual meeting.
    c. Whenever the  board  of  education  of  such  central  high  school
  district shall have so provided for registration of voters, the board of
  education  of  any  component union free school district in such central
  high school district, which board of education shall  have  provided  or
  shall  provide for personal registration of voters at school meetings or
  elections of such union free school district, shall designate the day or
  days for registration so that the last day for such  registration  shall
  not  be  more  than  eleven  nor less than five days preceding each such
  school meeting. In designating the day or days of registration  for  the
  annual meeting such board shall include the day or days which shall have
  been  theretofore  designated  by  the board of education of the central
  high school district as the registration day  or  days  for  the  annual
  meeting  of  the  central high school district. The register prepared in
  such union free school district,  in  addition  to  complying  with  the
  requirements of subdivision two of section two thousand fourteen of this
  chapter,  shall  include  columns  or  space  to make the proper entries
  relating to any annual or special central high school  district  meeting
  or election. Such register shall be delivered by the clerk of such union
  free  school  district  to  the custody of the clerk of the central high
  school district on the day preceding the  meeting  or  election  of  the
  central  high  school  district  at  which it is to be used. It shall be
  returned to the clerk of the union  free  school  district  on  the  day
  following   such  meeting  or  election.  Such  register  shall  at  all
  reasonable times be open to inspection by any  qualified  voter  of  the
  central high school district, even though in the possession of the clerk
  of such union free school district.
    d. The provisions of sections two thousand four, two thousand fourteen
  and  two  thousand  fifteen  of  this chapter shall be applicable in any
  central high school district providing for personal registration, except
  as otherwise provided in this subdivision.

    e. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be  deemed  to  require
  the  board  of  education of any component union free school district to
  provide for personal registration of voters for meetings or elections in
  such union free school district.
    5.  a. The board of education of a central high school district in the
  county of Nassau, which has provided for the  personal  registration  of
  voters  at  school  meetings  and  elections in such central high school
  district, may, by resolution duly adopted and entered upon its  minutes,
  on  its own motion divide the central high school district into election
  districts.  The  boundaries  of  such  election   districts   shall   be
  coterminous  with  the  boundaries  of  the  union free school districts
  within the central high school district, except that where  a  component
  union  free  school  district,  in turn, shall have been or hereafter is
  divided into school election districts pursuant to section two  thousand
  seventeen  of this chapter, such school election districts of such union
  free school districts shall in such case, without further action of  the
  board  of  education  of the central high school district, become and be
  election districts of the central high school district.
    b. Where the board of education shall have so divided the central high
  school district into election districts pursuant to  the  provisions  of
  this subdivision, notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and
  three  of this section, the vote upon the appropriation of the necessary
  funds to meet the estimated expenditures  of  the  central  high  school
  district and upon any propositions involving the expenditure of money by
  the  central  high  school  district  or upon any other matter which may
  properly be brought before the annual meeting or election of the central
  high school district, shall be held at  the  same  time  as  the  annual
  meetings  or elections of the component union free school districts. The
  clerk of the  central  high  school  district  shall  give  the  notices
  required  by  subdivision  one  of  section  two  thousand  four of this
  chapter, in relation to such annual meeting.
    c. Where the procedure of this  subdivision  is  used,  the  board  of
  education  of the central high school district shall notify the clerk of
  each component union free school district  of  such  determination,  not
  later  than  thirty  days  preceding the date of such annual meeting. In
  such case, also, the board of  education  of  the  central  high  school
  district  shall  complete  the  statement  required by section seventeen
  hundred sixteen of this chapter and shall forward a sufficient number of
  copies thereof to the clerk of each component union free school district
  therein, not later than  ten  days  preceding  such  annual  meeting  or
  election, and such copies shall thereupon be made available by the clerk
  of  each  such  component  union free school district, together with the
  copies of the statement relating to such  component  union  free  school
  district, provided, however, that an additional supply of copies of such
  statement  shall  also  be  made  available to the annual meeting of the
  central high school district by the clerk of such district.
    d. Each  clerk  of  a  component  union  free  school  district  shall
  thereupon  include  in the notices required by section two thousand four
  of this chapter, relating to the annual  meeting  or  election  in  such
  component union free school district, a statement to the effect that the
  meeting or election will also vote on the appropriation of the necessary
  funds  to  meet  the  estimated  expenditures of the central high school
  district and upon any propositions involving the expenditure  of  moneys
  by  the  central high school district or upon any other matter which may
  be properly brought before the annual meeting or election of the central
  high school district. Such appropriation and propositions, if any, shall
  then appear separately upon the ballot or voting machines used  at  such
  meetings or elections in such component union free school districts. The

  canvass  of  the  result  of  the  vote  on  each such appropriation and
  proposition relating to the central high school district shall forthwith
  be certified to the clerk of  each  such  component  union  free  school
  district,  who in turn shall forthwith certify such canvass to the clerk
  of the central high school district. Such clerk shall forthwith  examine
  and  tabulate  such statements and prepare a certificate of the combined
  results of the vote,  announce  the  result  thereof  to  the  board  of
  education of the central high school district and record the certificate
  with the records of the meeting or election.
    e.  Where  the  board  of  education of a central high school district
  proceeds under the provisions of this subdivision, the registration of a
  qualified voter of a component  union  free  school  district  upon  the
  register  of  such  union  free  school  district  shall be a sufficient
  registration  for  the  purpose  of  the  vote  of  such  voter  on  the
  appropriation and propositions of the central high school district.
    f.  When  the  board of education of such central high school district
  calls a  special  meeting  or  election  of  such  central  high  school
  district,  the  respective boards of registration of the component union
  free school districts shall meet on such day or days as shall  be  fixed
  by  the  board  of education of the central high school district and the
  provisions of section two thousand fourteen of  this  chapter  shall  be
  applicable  to the registration for special meetings or elections of the
  central high school district,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this
  subdivision.  The  canvass  of  the result of the voting at such special
  meeting or election shall forthwith be certified to  the  clerk  of  the
  central  high  school  district  who shall forthwith proceed in the same
  manner as hereinbefore provided in the case  of  an  annual  meeting  or
  election.
    g.  If  voting  machines  are  used in any component union free school
  district of such central high school district,  the  rules  printed  and
  distributed pursuant to section two thousand thirty-five of this chapter
  in  such  union  free  school  district  shall  also  contain  the rules
  similarly adopted or to be adopted by the  board  of  education  of  the
  central  high  school district with respect to any propositions relating
  to such central high school district.
    h. All the provisions of articles thirty-nine and  forty-one  of  this
  chapter shall be applicable to any annual or special meeting or election
  held  pursuant to this subdivision, except as otherwise provided in this
  subdivision either expressly or by necessary implication.
    i. Upon an  appeal  to  the  commissioner  of  education,  substantial
  compliance  with  the  procedures herein required shall be sufficient to
  meet the intent of this subdivision.
    6. The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to  any
  person  registered  to  vote pursuant to the provisions of section three
  hundred fifty-two of the election law.