TITLE 7 Trustees to ause same be con tructed, etc. Outbuildings Juisances Fuel etc. thereto, from each story above the first, for use in case of fire. Such stairways shall be kept in good order and free from obstruction. It shall be the duty of the trustee or trustees having charge of said school buildings in school districts to cause such stairways to be constructed and maintained, and the reasonable and proper cost thereof, shall, in each case, be a legal charge upon the district, and shall be raised by tax, as other moneys are raised for school purposes. Repairs to $50 The trustee or trustees of each school district shall keep pchoolhouses and apparatus each of the schoolhouses under his or their charge, and its furniture, school apparatus and appendages, in necessary and proper repair, and make the same reasonably comfortable for use, but not at an expense of exceeding $50 in any one year, except by a vote of the district. Said trustee or trustees shall also expend a sum not exceeding $50, in the erection of necessary outbuildings, when the district is wholly unprovided with such buildings, upon the direction of the school commissioner in whose district such schoolhouse is situated, or of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Said trustee or trustees shall also make any repairs and abate any nuisances, pursuant to the direction of the school commissioner, as herein before provided, and shall provide fuel, stoves or other heating apparatus, pails, brooms and other implements necessary to keep the schoolhouse or houses and the schoolroom Cleaning rooms or rooms clean, and make them reasonably comfortable for use, when no provision has been made therefor by a vote of the district, or the sum voted by the district for said purposes shall have proved insufficient. Said trustee or trustees shall also provide for anitor's work building fires and cleaning the schoolroom or rooms, and for janitor work generally in and about the schoolhouse or houses, and pay for such service such reasonable sum as may be agreed upon Account books therefor. They shall provide the bound blank books for the entering of their accounts and the keeping of the school lists, the records of the district and the proceedings of district and trustee meetings, and they may expend in the purchase of dicDictionaries, tionary, maps, globes or other school apparatus, a sum not exceedtus, etc. ing $25 in any one year. Whenever it shall be necessary for the due accommodation of the children of the district, by reason of any considerable number of said children residing in portions of said districts remote from the schoolhouse in said district, thereby rendering it difficult for them in inclement weather and in winter to attend school at such schoolhouse, or by reason of the room or rooms in said schoolhouse being overcrowded, or for any other chool appar Temporary or branch choolrooms TITLE 7 sufficient reason the due accommodation of said children can not be made in said schoolhouse, they shall establish temporary or branch school or schools in such place or places in said district as shall best accommodate such children, and hire any room or rooms for the keeping of said temporary or branch school or schools, and fit up and furnish said room or rooms in a suitable manner for conducting such school or schools therein. Any expenditure District made or liability incurred in pursuance of this section shall be a charge upon the district. charges any legal sum 851 When trustees are required or authorized by law, or by a May raise vote of their district, to incur any expense for such district, and by tax when any expenses incurred by them are made, by express provision of law, a charge upon such district, they may raise the amount thereof by tax in the same manner as if the definite sum to be raised had been voted by a district meeting. schoolhouse $52 The trustees, or any one of them, if not forbidden by Use of another, may freely permit the schoolhouse, when not in use for by others the district school, to be used by persons assembling therein for the purpose of giving and receiving instruction in any branch of education or learning, or in the science or practice of music. to be kept records 853 They shall procure two bound blank books for the district Account books and, when necessary, others in their places. In one of them, at or before each annual district meeting, they shall enter at large and sign a statement of all movable property belonging to the district, and their accounts of all moneys received or drawn for or paid by them, and they shall deliver this book to their successors. In the other, the teachers shall enter the names of the Teachers pupils attending school, their ages, the names of the persons who send them, and the number of days each pupil attends; and, also, the facts and the dates of each inspection of the school by the school commissioner or other official visitor, and any other facts, and in such form as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall require; and each teacher shall, by his oath or affir- Verification mation, verify his entries in such book, and the entries shall constitute the school lists from which the average daily attendance shall be determined; and such oath or affirmation may be taken by the district clerk, but without charge. Until the teacher Withholding shall have so made and verified such entries, the trustees shall not draw on the supervisor, collector or treasurer for any portion. of his or her wages. of entries of pay of moneys $54 If any portion of the moneys apportioned to the district Notification shall not be paid by the supervisor, the collector or treasurer, withheld TITLE 7 Annual report to districts Payment of balances to successors Neglect or refusal to account Suing of former trustees Annual report to commissioner Items of report Whole time school has upon the due requirement of the trustees, they shall forthwith notify the treasurer of the county, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, of the fact. $55 The trustees shall, once in each year, render to the district, at its annual district meeting, a just, full and true account in writing, under their hands, of all moneys received by them respectively for the use of the district, or raised or collected by taxes, the preceding year, and of the manner in which the same shall have been expended, and showing to which of them an unexpended balance, or any part thereof, is chargeable; and of all drafts or orders made by them upon the supervisor, collector, treasurer or other custodian of moneys of the district; and a full statement of all appeals, actions or suits and proceedings brought by or against them, and of every special matter touching the condition of the district. $56 An outgoing trustee shall forthwith pay, to his successor or any other trustee of the district in office, all unexpended moneys in his hands belonging to the district. $57 By a wilful neglect or refusal to render such account, a trustee also forfeits any unexpired term of his office, and becomes liable to the trustees for any district moneys in his hands. $58 The trustees in office shall sue for and recover any district moneys in the hands of any former trustee, or of his personal representatives, and apply them to the use of the district. $59 The trustees of each school district shall, on the first day of August in each year, make to the school commissioner a report in writing for the year ending July 31 preceding. In every case the trustee or trustees shall sign and certify to said report and deliver it to the clerk of the town, in which the schoolhouse of the district is situated; and every such report shall certify: I The whole time any school has been kept in their district been kept, etc. during the year ending on the day previous to the date of such report, and distinguishing what portion of the time such school has been kept by qualified teachers, and the whole number of days, including holidays, in which the school was taught by qualified teachers. Amount of drafts for payments 2 The amount of their drafts upon the supervisor, collector or treasurer for the payment of teachers wages during such year, and the amount of their drafts upon him for the purchase of books and school apparatus during such year, and the manner in which such moneys have been expended, TITLE 7 of children 3 The number of children taught in the district school or schools Attendance during such year by qualified teachers, and the sum of the days attendance of all such children upon the school. children, 4 The number of children residing in the district on the 30th Number of day of June previous to the making of such report, and the names names of of the parents or other persons with whom such children did respectively reside, and the number of children residing with each. parents, etc. 5 The number of vaccinated and unvaccinated children of Vaccination school age in their respective districts. payments 6 The amount of money paid for teachers wages, in addition Amount of to the public money paid therefor, the amount of taxes levied in and taxes said district for purchasing schoolhouse sites, for building, hiring, purchasing, repairing and insuring schoolhouses, for fuel, for school libraries, or for any other purpose allowed by law, and such other information in relation to the schools and the district as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may, from time to time, require. included in §60 The annual reports of trustees of school districts, of chil- Children dren residing in their district, shall include all over 5 and under reports 21 years of age, who shall have been, on the 30th day of June last preceding the date of such report, actually in the district, comprising a part of the family of their parents or guardians or employers, if such parents, guardians or employers resided at the time in such district, although such residence was temporary; but such report shall not include children belonging to the family of any person who shall be an inhabitant of any other district in this state, in which such children may by law be included in the report of its trustees; nor any children who are supported at a county poorhouse or an orphan asylum; nor any Indian children residing on reservations where schools provided by law for their education are taught. joint dis §61 Where a school district lies in two or more counties, its Report of trustees shall make such an annual report for each part of it lying tricts in a different county, and file each in the office of the clerk of the town in which the part of the district to which it especially relates lies; and such report shall be in the form and contain all such special matters as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall from time to time prescribe. TITLE 7 Assessment and tax list therefor Heading on tax list Taxes, how apportioned and assessed Land lying in one body Nonresident lands ARTICLE 7 Of the assessment of district taxes, and the collection of such taxes; and of the collector, his powers, duties and liabilities $62 Within 30 days after a tax shall have been voted by a district meeting, the trustees shall assess it, and make out the tax list therefor, and annex thereto their warrant for its collection. But they may at the same time assess two or more taxes so voted, and any tax or taxes they are authorized to raise without such vote, and make out one tax list and one warrant for the collection of the whole. They shall also prefix to their tax list a heading showing for what purpose the different items of the tax are levied. 1863 School district taxes shall be apportioned by the trustees upon all real estate within the boundaries of the district which shall not be by law exempt from taxation, except as hereinafter provided, and such property shall be assessed to the person or persons, or corporation owning or possessing the same at the time such tax list shall be made out, but land lying in one body and occupied by the same person, either as owner or agent for the same principal, or as tenant under the same landlord, if assessed as one lot on the last assessment roll of the town after revision by the assessors, shall, though situated partly in two or more school districts, be taxable in that one of them in which such occupant resides. This rule shall not apply to land owned by nonresidents of the district, and which shall not be occupied by an agent, servant or tenant residing in the district. Such unoccupied real estate shall be assessed as nonresident, and a description thereof shall be entered in the tax list. The trustees Personal estate shall also apportion the district taxes upon all persons residing in the district, and upon all corporations liable to taxation therein, for the personal estate owned by them and liable to taxation. They shall also apportion the same upon nonresident stockholders in banks or banking associations situated in their districts for the amount of stock owned by them therein, and upon individual bankers doing business in their district in accordance with the provisions of chapter 409 of the laws of 1882, as amended by sections 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 714 of the laws of 1892. Bank stock Valuations of taxable property 864 The valuations of taxable property shall be ascertained, so far as possible, from the last assessment roll of the town, after 1 See section 24 and 25, article 2, of the tax law on page ; also laws of 1905, chapter 720, mortgage tax law. 2Chapter 385, laws of 1904, relates to completion of assessment roll, and chapter 279, laws of 1904 fixes Sep. 15 as date when assessment rolls must be filed in the office of town clerk. |