§ 368. Exploration, development and production of natural gas fields\nby school districts. 1. "Natural gas producing facility" as used in this\narticle shall mean all real estate, fixtures, and personal property\noperated, owned, used or to be used for or in connection with or to\nfacilitate the production, conveyance, transportation, distribution, or\nfurnishing of natural gas.\n 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any\nschool district may engage in the exploration and development of natural\ngas fields, and further, may construct, lease, purchase, own, acquire,\nuse and/or operate any natural gas producing facility which is situated\non real property owned by the school district for the purpose of\nproducing, conveying, transporting and furnishing natural gas for school\ndistrict purposes. A school district producing natural gas in excess of\nthe amount required for school district purposes may convey, transport,\nfurnish, sell or transfer such excess.\n 3. No school district, other than a city school district, may perform\nany of the acts authorized under the provisions of this section unless\nand until the provisions of the education law relating to voter approval\nof such acts have been complied with.\n 4. Any school district may acquire the necessary rights to extend\npipes across public highways or other lands for the purpose of\ntransporting natural gas from the natural gas producing facility to\nother real property owned by the school district.\n 5. Any school district may finance the cost of exploration,\ndevelopment and production of natural gas and the cost of the natural\ngas producing facility in whole or in part by levying taxes in the\nmanner authorized by the education law, or the same may be financed in\nwhole or in part pursuant to the local finance law.\n 6. The exploration, development and production of such natural gas and\nthe purchase, acquisition, leasing and construction of such natural gas\nproducing facility shall be effected by such school district in the same\nmanner as other contracts, purchases and leases are effected by and for\nsuch school districts and shall be governed by all laws applicable\nthereto.\n 7. All of the provisions of article four of the public service law and\narticle twenty-three of the environmental conservation law, so far as\nthe same are applicable, shall apply to a school district which\nfurnishes to itself natural gas under this section except that a school\ndistrict need not apply to or obtain from the public service commission\na certificate of authority.\n 8. Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the sale or transfer\nof natural gas by a school district to any other person except as\nprovided in subdivision two hereof.\n 9. For the purposes of this section, school district shall be defined\nto include a board of cooperative educational services, provided\nhowever, that the provisions of subdivision three of this section shall\nnot apply to such boards of cooperative educational services, and\nprovided further that:\n a. No board of cooperative educational services may perform any of the\nacts authorized under the provisions of this section unless and until\n(i) a proposition is submitted to the voters of any such board of\ncooperative educational services in accordance with the provisions of\nsubdivision two of section nineteen hundred fifty-one of the education\nlaw and (ii) any such board of cooperative educational services and all\nof its component school districts enter into an agreement or agreements\nproviding for the performance of any such acts.\n b. No such component school district shall enter into an agreement or\nagreements unless such agreement or agreements have been approved by a\nmajority vote of the entire voting strength of the board of education of\nsuch a component school district.\n c. Any such agreement or agreements shall also provide for the sharing\nof the cost of exploring, developing or produci
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