§ 1906. District meetings; vote upon school taxes. 1. The annual\nmeeting and election of a central high school district shall be held on\nthe third Tuesday in May, provided, however, that such annual meeting\nand election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the\ncommissioner at the request of a local school board certifies no later\nthan March first that such election would conflict with religious\nobservances, and any school budget revote shall be held on the date\nspecified in subdivision three of section two thousand seven of this\ntitle. The board of education of every central high school district\nshall hold a budget hearing prior to each annual meeting and election or\nspecial district meeting at which a school budget vote will occur, and\nshall prepare and present to the voters at such budget hearing a\nproposed school district budget for the ensuing school year. Special\nmeetings may be called in the same manner and for the same purposes as\nspecial meetings in union free school districts. Such meetings shall be\nheld for the same purposes and in the same manner, and be subject to the\nsame provisions of law, except as may be provided otherwise in\nsubdivision two of this section, as like meetings in union free school\ndistricts, and all persons who are qualified electors of the school\ndistricts included in such central high school district may vote at such\nmeetings.\n 2. For any annual or special meeting the board of education may on its\nown motion divide the central high school district into such number of\nelection districts as there shall be union free school districts within\nthe central high school district. The boundaries of such election\ndistricts shall be coterminous with the boundaries of such union free\nschool districts. Such meetings shall be held so far as possible in the\npublic schoolhouse within each such election district designated by the\nboard of education. The schoolhouse or other place so designated for\neach election district shall be stated in the notice of the meeting. The\nlegal voters present in each election district shall elect a chairman\nand secretary and the chairman so elected shall appoint at least three\ninspectors of election who shall canvass the result of the election in\nsuch election district and prepare and sign a statement showing the\nresults of the voting. Each such statement shall be forthwith delivered\nto the district clerk. The district clerk shall forthwith examine and\ntabulate the statements and prepare a certificate of the combined\nresults of the voting, announce the result thereof and record the\ncertificate with the records of the meeting. The proceedings, in the\nevent of such division, in all other respects shall be the same as if\nthe school meeting were held in one place.\n 3. The board of education of such district shall present at the annual\nmeeting a detailed statement in writing of the estimated expenditures\nrequired for the support and maintenance of the central high school\ntherein for the ensuing year. The said meeting shall vote the necessary\ntaxes to meet such expenditures, in the same manner as taxes are voted\nat a district meeting in a union free school district. The provisions of\nsections seventeen hundred twenty-five and seventeen hundred sixteen to\nseventeen hundred nineteen, inclusive, of this chapter, and all other\nprovisions relative to the making of appropriations, the voting of\ntaxes, and the expenditure of moneys for the support, maintenance and\nexpenses of public schools in union free school districts, shall apply\nto the support, maintenance, and expenses of a central high school\ndistrict.\n 4. a. Whenever the board of education of a central high school\ndistrict in the county of Nassau shall have provided for the personal\nregistration of voters at school meetings or elections in such district,\nsuch board of education shall fix the day or days for registration by\nresolution adopted not later than the fortiet
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