§ 2502. Board of education. 1. The board of education of each city\nschool district shall constitute a body corporate.\n 2. Each board of education shall consist of five, seven or nine\nmembers, to be known as members of the board of education. In the city\nof Albany, such board shall consist of seven members; and in the city of\nRensselaer, such board shall consist of five members; subject, however,\nto any increase or decrease of the number of members of such board as\nprovided pursuant to the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision four\nof this section. Members of such board shall be elected by the qualified\nvoters at large of the school district at annual school elections, under\nthe provisions of article fifty-three of this chapter; provided,\nhowever, each board of education may upon its own motion, and shall upon\na written petition, subscribed by not less than five hundred qualified\nvoters of the district, cause to be submitted at the annual school\nelection a proposition to consider each vacancy upon the board of\neducation a separate specific office requiring a separate petition to\nnominate a candidate to each separate office in accordance with the\nprovisions of article fifty-three of this chapter.\n 3. The full term of office of a member of the board of education shall\nbe three or five years, as the district may determine, except the full\nterm of office of a member of the board of education in the city of\nAlbany shall be four years; provided, however, that the term of office\nof each incumbent member of the city of Albany board on the effective\ndate of this amendment shall not be decreased, and provided further,\nthat one or more of the vacancies filled after this change to four year\nterms shall be for terms of two or three years only in order that, as\nnearly as possible, an equal number of members shall be elected to the\nboard each year. Any such school district may decrease the full term of\na member of the board of education to three years or increase the full\nterm of a member of the board of education to five years by adopting a\nproposition at any regular meeting or election to do so; provided,\nhowever, that the term of office of each incumbent member of the board\nof education shall not be increased or decreased thereby; and provided,\nfurther, that whenever a proposition shall be adopted to increase the\nterm of office from three years to five years, or to decrease the term\nof office from five years to three years, such proposition shall provide\nthat one or more of the vacancies to be filled, during each of the three\nyears next succeeding the adoption of such proposition, shall be for\nthree or four years only in order that, as nearly as possible, an equal\nnumber of trustees shall be elected to the board each year. The board of\neducation in the city of Peekskill may, by adopting a resolution,\ndecrease the full term of a member of the board of education to two\nyears in order that, as nearly as possible, an equal number of trustees\nshall be elected to the board each year; provided, however, that the\nterm of office of each incumbent member of the board of education shall\nnot be decreased thereby.\n 4. a. Each board of education may upon its own motion, and shall upon\na written petition, subscribed by not less than five hundred qualified\nvoters of the district, cause to be submitted at the annual school\nelection a proposition to increase or decrease the number of members of\nsuch board to a number specified in subdivision two of this section; or\na proposition to increase or decrease the term of office of members of\nthe board of education in accordance with subdivision three of this\nsection.\n b. The notice of any annual school election at which a proposition\nshall be submitted pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision shall\ninclude a statement that such proposition will be so submitted. In the\nevent that the board of education fails or refuses to include such\ninformation i
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