N.Y. EDN Law § 2008

§ 2008. Call of special district meeting by district superintendent.\n1. When the clerk and all the trustees of a school district shall have\nremoved from the district, or their offices shall be vacant, so that a\nspecial meeting can not be called, as hereinbefore provided, the\ndistrict superintendent may in like manner give notice of, and call a\nspecial district meeting.\n 2. Upon the filing with the trustee or board of education of a\npetition requesting such officers to call a special district meeting,\nwhich petition shall state the purpose thereof and shall be signed by\ntwenty-five qualified voters or five percent of the number of voters who\nvoted in the previous annual election of the members of the board of\neducation or trustees, said number to be determined by the number of\npersons recorded on the poll list as having voted at such election,\nwhichever shall be greater, such trustee or board of education shall\nproceed to call such meeting by giving notice thereof within twenty days\nthereafter unless it shall appear\n (a) that the purpose for which such meeting is sought to be called is\nnot within the power of the voters of the district, or\n (b) that such purpose is illegal, or\n (c) that a bond or note resolution has been adopted and such petition\nis not filed within twenty days after publication of notice of such\nresolution pursuant to section 81.00 of the local finance law, or\n (d) that other valid reason exists for refusing to call such meeting\nwhich reason when appealed to the commissioner of education shall be\ndeemed by him to be sufficient cause for such refusal.\n 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any\nproposition submitted by the voters that requires the expenditure of\nmoney shall be subject to the requirements set forth in subdivision nine\nof section two thousand twenty-three-a of this part.\n