§ 2021. Powers of voters. The inhabitants entitled to vote, when duly\nassembled in any district meeting, shall have power, by a majority of\nthe votes of those present and voting:\n 1. In common school districts, to appoint a chairman.\n 2. To appoint a clerk for the time if the district clerk is absent.\n 3. To adjourn from time to time as occasion may require, except that\nwhere a special district meeting shall have been called by a board of\neducation for the purpose of voting upon an appropriation and the hours\nof voting shall have been fixed by the board as provided in subdivision\nthree of section four hundred sixteen of this chapter, the meeting shall\nnot be adjourned until after the vote shall have been taken and\ncanvassed upon the proposition submitted.\n 4. To elect one or three trustees as provided in section sixteen\nhundred two and a district collector, and in any district which shall so\ndetermine, as hereinafter provided, to elect a treasurer, at their first\nmeeting, and so often as such offices or any of them become vacated,\nexcept as hereinafter provided.\n 5. To adopt by a vote of a majority of such voters present and voting\nat the first meeting, or at any subsequent annual meeting, or at any\nspecial meeting duly called for that purpose, such vote to be\nascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes, a resolution to\nelect a treasurer of said district. If such resolution shall be adopted,\nsuch voters shall thereupon elect by ballot a treasurer for said\ndistrict. Any person elected treasurer at any meeting other than an\nannual meeting, shall hold office until the next annual meeting after\nsuch election, and until his successor shall be elected or appointed,\nand thereafter a treasurer shall be elected at each annual meeting for\nthe term of one year.\n 6. To fix the amount in which the collector and treasurer shall give\nbonds for the due and faithful performance of the duties of their\noffices.\n 7. To designate a site for a schoolhouse, or for grounds to be used\nfor playgrounds, or for agricultural, athletic center and social center\npurposes, or, with the consent of the district superintendent of schools\nwithin whose district the school district lies, to designate sites for\ntwo or more schoolhouses for the district. Such designation of a site\nfor a schoolhouse, or for such grounds, can be made only at a special\nmeeting of the district, duly called for such purpose by a written\nresolution in which the proposed site shall be described by metes and\nbounds, and which resolution must receive the assent of a majority of\nthe qualified voters present and voting, to be ascertained by taking and\nrecording the ayes and noes, or by ballot.\n 8. To vote a tax upon the taxable property of the district, to\npurchase, lease and improve such sites or an addition to such sites and\ngrounds for the purposes specified in the preceding subdivision, to hire\nor purchase rooms or buildings for school rooms or schoolhouses, or to\nbuild schoolhouses; to keep in repair and furnish the same with\nnecessary fuel, furniture and appurtenances, and to purchase such\nimplements, apparatus and supplies as may be necessary to provide\ninstruction in agriculture and other subjects, and for the organization\nand conduct of athletic, playground and other social center work.\n 9. To designate any former schoolhouse and appurtenances, or any part\nthereof, the title to which is vested in the board, as a public library\nbuilding, and to vote a tax on the taxable property of the district,\npursuant to section two hundred fifty-five of this chapter, to pay the\ncost of necessary alterations and equipment to convert such schoolhouse\nor part thereof to library use.\n 10. To vote a tax, not exceeding twenty-five dollars in any one year,\nfor the purchase of maps, globes, reproductions of standard works of\nart, blackboards and other school apparatus, and for the purchase of\ntext-books and other school necessar
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