TITLE 7 shall be on the outside of the front door of the schoolhouse, stating that he has received such warrant and will receive all such taxes as may be voluntarily paid to him within 30 days from the time of posting said notice. Such collector shall also give a like notice. either personally or by mail, at least 20 days previous to the expiraNotice to rail- tion of the 30 days aforesaid, to the ticket agent at the nearest road com panies and nonresident taxpayers Collectors fees Warrant may be executed in another town etc. Liability of sureties Renewal of warrants station of any railroad corporation, or the president, secretary, general or division superintendent or manager of any canal or pipe lines assessed for taxes upon the tax list delivered to him with the aforesaid warrant, and where the amount of the tax is $1 or more the collector shall also give a like notice to all nonresident taxpayers on said list whose residence or postoffice address may be known to such collector, or which may be ascertained by him upon inquiry of the trustees and clerk of his district, and no school collector shall be entitled to recover from any railroad corporation, canal company or pipe line or nonresident taxpayer more than 1 per cent fees on the taxes assessed against such corporation or nonresident, unless such notice shall have been given as aforesaid; and in case the whole amount of taxes shall not be so paid in the collector shall forthwith proceed to collect the same. He shall receive for his services, on all sums paid in as aforesaid, 1 per cent, and upon all sums collected by him, after the expiration of the time mentioned, 5 per cent, except as herein before provided; and in case a levy and sale shall be necessarily made by such collector, he shall be entitled to traveling fees, at the rate of 10 cents per mile, to be computed from the schoolhouse in such district. §82 Any collector to whom any tax list and warrant may be delivered for collection may execute the same in any other district or town in the same county, or in any other county where the district is a joint district and composed of territory from adjoining counties, in the same manner and with the like authority as in the district in which the trustees issuing the said warrant may reside, and for the benefit of which said tax is intended to be collected; and the bail or sureties of any collector, given for the faithful performance of his official duties, are hereby declared and made liable for any moneys received or collected on any such tax list and war rant. §83 If the sum or sums of money, payable by any person or persons named in such tax list, shall not be paid by him or them or collected by such warrant within the time therein limited, it shall and may be lawful for the trustees to renew such warrant in respect to such delinquent person or persons; and whenever more than one renewal of a warrant for the collection of any tax list may become necessary in any district, the trustees may make such further renewal or renewals, with the written approval of the supervisor of any town in which a schoolhouse of said district shall be located, to be indorsed upon such warrant. TITLE 7 or correction §84 Whenever the trustees of any school district shall discover Amendment any error in a tax list made out by them, they may, with the ap-of tax lists proval and consent of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, after refunding any amount that may have been improperly collected on such tax list, if the same shall be required by him, amend and correct such tax list, as directed by the Superintendent, in conformity to law. recovery of $85 Whenever any sum or sums of money payable by any per- Suits for son or persons named in such tax list shall not be paid by such taxes person or persons, or collected by such warrant within the time therein limited, or the time limited by any renewal of such warrant; or in case the property assessed be real estate belonging to an incorporated company, and no goods or chattels can be found whereon. to levy the tax, the trustee or trustees may sue for and recover the same in their name of office. moneys $86 The collector shall keep in his possession all moneys received Custody of or collected by him by virtue of any warrant, or received by him from the county treasurer or board of supervisors for taxes returned as unpaid, or moneys apportioned by the state or raised by direct taxation for teachers wages or library, to be by him paid out upon the written order of a majority of the trustees; said collector, when a treasurer shall have been elected in his district, shall pay over the moneys collected by him by virtue of his warrant, Payment over to said treasurer as hereinbefore provided in this title; and he shall treasurer report in writing, at the annual meeting, all his collections, receipts and disbursements, and shall report to the supervisor on or before receipts and the first Tuesday in March in each year the amounts of school moneys in his hands not paid out on trustees orders, and shall pay over to his successor in office, when he has duly qualified and given Payment over bail, all moneys in his hands belonging to the district. of moneys to Reports of disbursements of moneys to successor make up loss §87 If by the neglect of any collector any moneys shall be lost Collector to to any school district, which might have been collected within the time limited in the warrant delivered to him for their collection, he shall forfeit to such district the amount of the moneys thus lost, and shall account for and pay over the same to the trustees of such district, in the same manner as if they had been collected. Call for a especial meeting to form district W 1 F W Notice of meeting §88 For the recovery of all such forfeitures, and of all balances in the hands of the collector, which he shall have neglected or refused to pay to his successor, or to the treasurer of such district, the trustees, in their name of office, shall have their remedy upon the official bond of the collector, or any action and any remedy given by law; and they shall apply all such moneys, when recovered, in the same manner as if paid without suit. $89 Within 15 days after any tax list and warrant shall have been returned by a collector to the trustees of any school district, the trustees shall deliver the same to the town clerk of the town in which the collector resides, and said town clerk shall file the same in his office. TITLE VIII Union free schools, how established, who are voters at meetings and their powers; election and terms of office of members of board of education, and powers of such board ARTICLE I Of the proceedings for the establishment of union free schools, powers of voters at meetings; classification of terms of office and election of members of boards of education; certified copies of proceedings of meetings to be filed; board of education to elect a president and appoint a treasurer and collector § Whenever 15 persons entitled to vote at any meeting of the inhabitants of any school district in the state, sign a request for a meeting, to be held for the purpose of determining whether a union free school shall be established therein in conformity with the provisions of this title, it shall be the duty of the trustees of such district, within 10 days after such request shall have been presented to them, to give public notice that a meeting of the inhabitants of such district, entitled to vote thereat, will be held for such purpose as aforesaid, at the schoolhouse, or other more suitable place, `in such district, on a day and at an hour in such notice to be specified, not less than 20 nor more than 30 days after the publication of such notice. If the trustees shall refuse to give such notice, or Superintend shall neglect to give the same for 20 days, the Superintendent of meeting Public Instruction may authorize and direct any inhabitant of said Qualifications district to give the same. The qualifications of the inhabitants, entitled to vote at such meeting, shall be sufficiently set forth in the notice aforesaid. ent may order of voters Notices, how given in village districts $2 Whenever such district shall correspond wholly or in part with an incorporated village, in which there shall be published a 1As amended by section 9, chapter 264, laws of 1896. TITLE 8 districts daily or weekly newspaper, the notice aforesaid shall be given by posting at least five copies thereof, severally, in various conspicuous places in said district, at least 20 days prior to such meeting, and by causing the same to be published once a week for three consecutive weeks before such meeting, in all the newspapers published in said district. In other districts the said notice shall be In other given by posting the same as aforesaid, and in addition thereto, the trustees of such district shall authorize and require any taxable inhabitant of the same, to notify every other inhabitant (qualified to vote as aforesaid), of such meeting, to be called as aforesaid, who shall give such notification by reading said notice in his or her hearing, or in case of his or her absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof, or so much thereof as relates to the time, place and object of the meeting, at the place of his or her abode at least 20 days prior to the time of such meeting; but the proceedings of any Legality of meeting held pursuant to sections 1 and 2 of this title, shall not be held illegal for want of a due notice to all the persons qualified to vote thereat; unless it shall appear that the omission to give such notice was wilful and fraudulent. proceedings notices and 183 The reasonable expense of such notices, and of their publica- Expense of tion and service, shall be chargeable upon the district, in case a publication union free school is established by the meeting so convened, to be levied and collected by the trustees, as in case of taxes now levied for school purposes; but in the event that such union free school shall not be established, then the said expense shall be chargeable upon the inhabitants signing the request jointly and severally, to be sued for, if necessary, in any court having jurisdiction of the same. two or more 284 Whenever 15 persons, entitled as aforesaid, from each of two Meeting of or more adjoining districts, shall unite in a request for a meeting districts of the inhabitants of such districts, to determine whether such districts shall be consolidated by the establishment of a union free school therefor and therein, it shall be the duty of the trustees of such districts, or a majority of them, to give like public notice of Notice thereof such meeting, at some convenient place within such districts and as central as may be, within the time, and to be published and served in the manner set forth in the first and second sections of this title, in each of such districts. The reasonable expenses of pre- Expenses paring, publishing and serving such notices shall be chargeable upon the union free school district, and be collected by tax, if a union 'As amended by section 10, chapter 264, laws of 1896. "As amended by section 11, chapter 264. laws of 1896. TITLE 8 free school shall be established pursuant to such request, but otner wise the signers of the request shall be jointly and severally liable Superintend for such expense. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may order such meeting under the conditions and in the manner prescribed in the first section of this title. ent may order meeting Proceedings of meetings free school district Election of trustees Terms of trustees 1§5 Any such meeting held pursuant to the foregoing provision's to form union shall be organized by the election of a chairman and secretary, and may be adjourned from time to time, by a majority vote, provided that such adjournment shall not be for a longer period than 10 days; and whenever at any such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this title at least 15 qualified voters of the district shall be present, or at such meeting duly called and held under the provisions of section 4 of this title, at least 15 qualified voters of each of the two or more adjoining districts joining in the request, shall be present, such meeting may, by the affirmative vote of a majority present and voting, adopt a resolution to establish a union free school in said district, or to consolidate the two or more adjoining districts by establishing a union. free school in said districts pursuant to the notice of said meeting. If said meeting shall determine to establish a union free school in said district or districts as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such meeting thereafter to proceed to the election by ballot, of not less than three nor more than nine trustees, who shall, by the order of such meeting, be divided into three several classes, the first to hold until one, the second until two, and the third until three years from the first Tuesday of August next following, except as in the next section provided. Thereafter there shall be elected in all union free school districts whose limits do not correspond with those of an incorporated village or city, at the annual meeting of said districts, trustees of said districts, to supply the places of those whose term of office, by the classification aforesaid, are about to expire. The trustees, so as aforesaid elected, shall enter at once upon their offices, and the office of any existing trustee or trustees in such district or districts, before the establishment of a union free school therein, shall cease, except for the purposes stated in section 12 of title 6 of this act. Neither a school commissioner nor a supervisor is eligible to be a member of any board of education, and the acceptance of either of said offices by a member of said board vacates his office as such member. The said trustees and their successors in office shall constitute the board of education of and for the union free school district for which they are elected, and the designation. 1As amended by section 12, chapter 264, laws of 1896. Board of education |