§ 2606. Registration of voters. 1. The board of education except in\nthose city school districts which have adopted a resolution pursuant to\nsection twenty-five hundred thirty-one of this chapter, shall, on or\nbefore the fifteenth day of February in each year, appoint a board of\nregistration for a term of one year, consisting of as many members as\nthe board shall deem necessary, not more than half of whom shall belong\nto the same political party, and shall designate a place within the city\nschool district where such board of registration shall attend for the\npurpose of preparing a register for each school election district. Each\nmember of the board of registration shall be entitled to compensation at\na rate not to exceed that paid at general elections in the city.\n 2. The board of registration of such city school district shall meet\nat the designated place for the purpose of preparing the registers for\nsuch election on such day or days as shall be fixed by the board of\neducation, the last day of which, however, shall not be less than two\nweeks preceding each school election, at such hours as the board of\neducation shall by resolution designate at least twenty days before the\nfirst registration day, which hours shall include at least four hours\nbetween seven o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening.\nThe registers shall, so far as practicable, be in the same form as the\nregister of voters in an election district for a general election in a\ncity or village having five thousand inhabitants or more, under the\nelection law. Such registers shall be arranged alphabetically by the\nfirst letter of surnames, and the place of residence by street and\nnumber, or by a description accurately locating such place of residence,\nof each person entered in such registers shall be given.\n Notwithstanding any other general or special law, the board of\nregistration shall have the power to require the board of elections or\nother authority having lawful custody of the register or registers used\nat the general elections last preceding such school election to turn\nover such register or registers to such board of registration on or\nbefore March first of each year for use on the date or dates of such\nregistration and election, for the purpose of preparing the school\ndistrict registers therefrom. Such board of elections or other authority\nmay, however, elect to furnish, in place of the original registers\neither a duplicate of the central file registration records, or a list\nof registered voters, certified to be a complete and accurate copy of\nthe names and addresses of all persons entered in such register for the\nlast preceding general election as well as the names of persons who have\nregistered with such board of elections or other authority up to five\ndays before the date of furnishing such list. On the day following the\nday of the election, the general election register or registers shall be\nreturned to the authority from whom such register or registers were\nsecured. In addition, the board of registration shall include in each\nschool district register, the names and addresses of persons who\nregistered for any intervening school district election, but who were\nnot registered for the preceding general election. The board of\nregistration shall, for each election of the school district, add to\nsuch registers the names of the qualified voters of the school district\nwho shall present themselves personally for registration. Only those\nqualified voters who are not registered under permanent personal\nregistration on or before the last registration day found on the\noriginal or duplicate registers or records or list furnished by the\nboard of elections and have not voted at an intervening school district\nelection, shall be required to present themselves personally for\nregistration.\n 3. All the provisions of the election law in relation to the\nregistration of voters in a city or village having f
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