§ 1604. Powers and duties of trustees. It shall be the duty of the\ntrustees of a common school district, and they shall have the power:\n 1. To call special meetings of the inhabitants of such district\nwhenever they shall deem it necessary and proper.\n 2. To give notice of special, annual and adjourned meetings in the\nmanner prescribed in this chapter, if there be no clerk of the district,\nor he be absent or incapable of acting, or shall refuse to act.\n 3. To make out a tax-list of every district tax voted by a district\nmeeting, or authorized by law, which shall contain the names of all the\ntaxable inhabitants residing in the district at the time of making out\nthe list, and the amount of tax payable by each inhabitant, as directed\nin article seventy-one of this chapter.\n 4. To purchase or lease such schoolhouse sites and other grounds to be\nused for playgrounds, or for agriculture, athletic center and social\ncenter purposes, and to purchase or build such schoolhouses, as a\ndistrict meeting may authorize; to hire temporarily such rooms or\nbuildings as may be necessary for school purposes; and to purchase such\nimplements, supplies and apparatus as may be necessary to provide\ninstruction in agriculture, or to equip and maintain play-grounds, and\nto conduct athletic and social center activities in the district, when\nauthorized by a vote of a district meeting.\n 5. To have the custody and safe-keeping of the district schoolhouses,\ntheir sites and appurtenances.\n 6. To insure the school buildings, furniture and school apparatus in\nan insurance company created by or under the laws of this state, or in\nan insurance company authorized by law to transact business in this\nstate, and to comply with the conditions of the policy, and raise by a\ndistrict tax the amount required to pay the premiums thereon.\n 7. To insure the school library in such a company in a sum fixed by a\ndistrict meeting, and to raise the premium by a district tax, and comply\nwith the conditions of the policy.\n 7-a. In their discretion to insure pupils against damage occasioned\nbecause of accidental personal injuries sustained while participating in\nphysical education classes, intramural and interscholastic sports\nactivities, in such a company, and raise by district tax the amount\nrequired to pay the premiums thereon.\n 7-b. In their discretion, to purchase insurance against accidents to\npupils occurring in school, on school grounds, while being transported\nbetween home and school in a school bus as defined in section thirty-six\nhundred twenty-one, and during sponsored trips.\n 8. To appoint and enter into contract with a superintendent of schools\nas provided in, and consistent with, section seventeen hundred eleven of\nthis chapter, and to employ in accordance with, and subject to, the\nprovisions of section three thousand twelve of this chapter as many\nlegally qualified teachers as the schools of the district require; to\ndetermine the rate of compensation of each teacher and to determine the\nterms of school to be held during each school year, and to employ\npersons to supervise, organize, conduct and maintain athletic,\nplayground and social center activities when they are authorized by a\nvote of a district meeting as provided by law. The regular teachers of\nthe school may be employed at an increased compensation or otherwise,\nand by separate agreement, written or oral, for one or more of such\nadditional duties.\n 9. To establish rules for the government and discipline of the schools\nof the district.\n 10. To prescribe the course of studies to be pursued in such schools.\nProvisions shall be made for instructing pupils in all schools supported\nby public money, or under state control, in all subjects in which such\ninstruction is required to be given under the provisions of article\nseventeen of this chapter.\n 11. To pay the schools moneys apportioned to the district by giving\norders on the county treasurer,
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