New York A 2166: Makes provisions regarding appointment of members of the board of education for the city of Buffalo

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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2166
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing for the
appointment of members of the board of education in the city of
Buffalo
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 2552 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 138 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 a. City school district of the city of Buffalo: [ ] nine eleven
5 members.
6 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2553 of the education law, as separately
7 amended by chapters 211 and 441 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read
8 as follows:
9 1. No person shall be eligible to the office of member of a board of
10 education who is not a citizen of the United States, who is not quali-
11 fied to register for or vote at an election in accordance with the
12 provisions of section 5-106 of the election law, and who, in the case of
13 the city school district of the city of Yonkers, has not been a resident
14 of the city school district for which he is chosen for a period of at
15 least three years immediately preceding the date of his election or
16 appointment and who, in the case of the city school district of the city
17 of Buffalo, in the case of a member to be elected at largeor appointed
18 is not a qualified voter of such city school district and who has not
19 been a resident of such district for a period of at least three years
20 immediately preceding the date of his election and in theor appointment
21 case of a member elected from a city school subdistrict is not a quali-
22 fied voter of such city school subdistrict and has not been a resident
23 of the city school district for three years and a resident of the city
24 school subdistrict which he represents or seeks to represent for a peri-
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 od of one year immediately preceding the date of his election, and who,
2 in the case of the city school district of the city of Rochester, is not
3 a qualified voter under section 5-102 of the election law of such city
4 school district; and who in the case of the city school district of the
5 city of Syracuse has not been a qualified voter under section 5-102 of
6 the election law of such city school district for at least ninety days
7 immediately preceding the date of his election or appointment.
8 § 3. Paragraph a of subdivision 10 of section 2553 of the education
9 law, as added by chapter 242 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 a. The members of the board of education of the city school district
12 of the city of Buffalo shall be elected by the qualifiedor appointed
13 voters of such city as provided herein.
14 § 4. Paragraph c of subdivision 10 of section 2553 of the education
15 law, as added by chapter 242 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as
16 follows:
17 c. The members of the board of education of the city school district
18 of the city of Buffalo shall be [ ] as follows: one memberelected chosen
19 from each of such six city school subdistricts within such city by the
20 qualified voters therein [ ] and pursuant to an election as provided here-
21 three members of such board of education shall be chosen by thein,
22 qualified voters at large within such city pursuant to an election as
23 provided herein, one member of such board of education shall be
24 appointed by the mayor at large from within the city and one member of
25 such board shall be appointed by the common council at large from within
26 .the city
27 § 5. Paragraph n of subdivision 10 of section 2553 of the education
28 law, as added by chapter 242 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as
29 follows:
30 n. The term of office of each member of such board from a city school
31 subdistrict shall be three years, and the term of office of each such
32 member of the board elected at large shall be for fiveor appointed
33 years. Of the candidates to be elected for membership on the board of
34 education of the city school district of the city of Buffalo by the
35 voters at large the three candidates receiving the largest number of
36 votes cast in the city, shall be declared elected as at-large members of
37 such board of education. In each city school subdistrict the candidates
38 seeking the election as the member of such board of education for such
39 city school subdistrict receiving a plurality of votes in such city
40 school subdistrict shall be declared elected to that position.
41 Whenever a vacancy shall occur or exist in the office of an elected
42 member of the board of education except by reason of expiration of term
43 or increase in the number of mem