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THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL LAW.

[CHAPTER 556 OF 1894.]

AN ACT to revise, amend and consolidate the general acts relating to public instruction.

BECAME a law May 8, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. Passed three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL LAW.

TITLE I.

State superintendent of public instruction, his election, and general powers and duties.

TITLE II.

State and other school moneys, their apportionment and distribution; and trusts and gifts for the benefit of common schools.

ARTICLE I. Of the State school moneys, and their apportionment by the superintendent of public instruction, and payment to county and city treasurers.

II. Of the apportionment of state school moneys, and of other school moneys by the school commissioners and their payment to the supervisors.

III. Of trusts for the benefit of common schools, and of town school funds, fines, penalties, and other moneys held or given for their benefit.

TITLE III.

Supervisors, disbursement of school moneys by, and some of their special powers and duties under this act.

TITLE IV.

Town clerks, their duties under this act.

TITLE V.

School commissioners, their election, powers and duties.

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TITLE VI.

School districts, formation, alteration and dissolution there

TITLE VII.

Meetings in common school districts, the election of school district officers, and their powers and duties.

ARTICLE I. Of common school district meetings; who are voters, and their

powers.

II. Of district school-houses and sites.

III. Of the qualification, election and terms of office of district officers, and of vacancies in such offices.

IV. Of the duties of district clerk and treasurer.

V. Of pupils and teachers.

VI. Of trustees, their powers and duties; and of school taxes and an

nual reports.

VII. Of the assessment of district taxes, and the collection of such taxes; and of the collector, his powers, duties and liabilities.

TITLE VIII.

Union free schools, how established, who are voters at meetings and their powers; election and terms of office of members of boards of education, and powers of such boards.

ARTICLE I. Of the proceedings for the establishment of union free schools; powers of voters at meetings; classification of terms of office and election of members of boards of education; certified copies of proceedings of meetings to be filed; board of education to elect a president and appoint a treasurer and collector.

II. Of the qualifications of voters in union free school districts; and of meetings of such voters and their powers.

III. Of annual and special meetings, and of election of members of boards of education and clerk in districts where the number of children exceeds three hundred.

IV. Of the powers and duties of boards of education.

V. Of the alteration of union free school districts; the increase or diminution of number of members of boards of education, and dissolution of union free school districts.

TITLE IX.

Acquisition of school-house sites.

TITLE X.

Teachers' institutes.

TITLE XI.

Teachers' training classes.

TITLE XII.

State scholarships in Cornell university.

TITLE XIII.

Common school and public libraries.

TITLE XIV.

Appeals to superintendent of public instruction.

TITLE XV.

Miscellaneous provisions.

ARTICLE I. Of loss of school moreys apportioned; of forfeiture by school officers by reason of neglect to sue for penalties; of costs in suits which might have been the subject of appeal to the superintendent of public instruction; of costs in suits, actions and proceedings other than appeals to the superintendent of public instruction.

II. Changes in text-books.

III. Care of code of public instruction.

IV. Contracts between school districts and boards of education in

cities.

V. Memorandum of contracts with teachers.

VI. Physiology and hygiene in the public schools.

VII. Free instruction in drawing.

VIII. Vocal music in the public schools.

IX. Free kindergarten in cities and villages.

X. Industrial training in the public schools.

XI. Schools for colored children.

XII. Orphan schools.

XIII. Indian schools.

XIV. Deaf and dumb and blind institutions.

XV. Arbor day.

XVI. Miscellaneous.

TITLE XVI.

Compulsory education of children.

TITLE I.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, His Election and General Powers and Duties.

SECTION 1. Short title.-This chapter shall be known as the "Consolidated School Law."

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2. The office of state superintendent of public instruction is continued and the term of said office shall be three years, commencing on the seventh day of April. Such superintendent shall be elected by joint ballot of the senate and assembly on the second Wednesday of February next preceding the expiration of the term of the then incumbent of said office, and on the second Wednesday of February next after the occurrence of any vacancy in the office. The superintendent's office shall be in the capitol, and maintained at the expense of the state. His salary shall be five thousand dollars a year, payable monthly, by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller.

3. He shall appoint a deputy, who shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars payable monthly by the treasurer on a warrant of the comptroller; and in case of a vacancy in the office of superintendent the deputy may perform all the duties of the office until the day herein before fixed for the commencement of the term of said office. In case the office of both superintendent and deputy shall be vacant, the governor shall appoint some person to perform the duties of the office until the superintendent shall be elected and his term of office commence as herein before provided.

4. He may appoint as many clerks and employes as he may deem necessary, but the compensation of such clerks and employes shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum annually appropriated by the legislature therefor, and shall be payable monthly by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, and the certificate of the superintendent.

5. The seal of the superintendent, of which a description and impression are now on file in the office of the secretary of state, shall continue to be his official seal, and when necessary, may be renewed from time to time. Copies of all papers deposited or filed in the superintendent's office, and of all acts, orders and decisions made by him, and of the drafts or machine copies of his official letters, may be authenticated under the said seal, and when so authenticated, shall be evidence equally with and in like manner as the originals.

§ 6. The superintendent shall be ex officio a regent of the university of the state of New York, a trustee of Cornell University and of the New York State Asylum for Idiots. He shall also have general supervision over the state normal schools which have been and which may hereafter be established; and he shall

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