is applicable to all school districts. It is believed that the provisions relating to meetings, annual and special, are made more clear and definite, and that the powers of the district meeting are defined with sufficient certainty.] § 105. Definition.-A "district meeting" means the qualified voters of a district lawfully assembled for the transaction of its business. [New.] § 106. Qualifications of voters at a school meeting.-A person entitled to vote at a school meeting must be: 1. An adult citizen of the United States, who has resided in the district during the thirty days next preceding such meeting; and also, 2. The owner, lessee, or in possession under a contract of purchase, of real property in the district liable to taxation for school purposes; or, 3. The owner of personal property exceeding fifty dollars in value, assessed upon the last preceding assessment-roll of the town; or, 1. A parent or guardian of a child of school age, or other person with whom such a child permanently resides, and which child has attended the school in such district for at least eight weeks within one year next preceding such meeting. A woman who possesses the qualifications herein prescribed is a qualified voter. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 11, Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 8, rewritten and consolidated so as to make a concise general statement of the law relating to the qualifications of voters at school meetings. (Pages 32, 67, § 11, 8.)] § 107. Right of qualified voter.-A qualified voter is entitled to vote at a district meeting upon all questions and propositions, and upon the election of all officers. [New.] § 108. Annual district meeting. The annual meeting of each school district shall be held on the fourth Tuesday of May in each year, and unless the hour and place thereof shall have been fixed by a district meeting, the same shall be held in the school house at eight o'clock in the evening. If the district has more than one school house, the meeting shall be held in the house usually employed for that purpose, unless the trustee designated another. If the district has no school house, or it is not accessible, the meeting shall be held at such place as the trustee, or if there be none, the clerk, shall designate in the notice. [This section is a substitute for Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 8. (Page 31, § 8.)] § 109. Notice of annual meeting.- Notice of an annual meeting must be given by the clerk by posting notices at least five days prior thereto in five public places in the district. [New.] § 110. Notice of an adjourned meeting. If a meeting be adjourned more than one month, notice of such adjournment shall be given by the clerk of the meeting by posting notices thereof in five public places in the district at least five days before the time appointed for the adjournment. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 34, sub. 3, rewritten and changed so that the notice must be given by the clerk of the meeting instead of the clerk of the district as by present law. (Page 32, § 43, sub. 3.)] § 111. Special meetings.-A trustee may call a special meeting at any time; and shall call such meeting whenever requested in writing by five qualified voters. If the office of trustee is vacant, or if he neglects or refuses to act, or call such meeting within five days after a written request therefor is presented to him, the clerk possesses all his powers and is subject to all his duties under this section. If both offices are vacant, the school commissioner may call a special meeting. A special meeting shall be held at the time and place specified in the notice. The notice of a special meeting must state the purpose thereof, and no other business can be there transacted. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 9, rewritten. (Page 31, § 9.)] § 112. Special meeting in default of annual meeting. If the annual meeting is not held, a special meeting shall be called within twenty days thereafter by the trustee or clerk for the purpose of transacting the business of the annual meeting. If such special meeting is not so called, the commissioner or the superintendent may direct a qualified voter of the district to give notice of a special meeting. The district officers shall make to such meeting the reports required to be made at the annual meeting, subject to the same penalty in case of neglect. The officers elected at such meeting shall hold their respective offices during the remainder of the current school year. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 9, rewritten. (Page 31, § 9.)] § 113. Notice of special meeting, how served.-The qualified voters at an annual meeting may, by resolution, prescribe the method of giving notice of a special meeting. Such method shall be observed until changed in the same manner. If & spe cial method is not so prescribed, such a notice must be served by reading it in the hearing of each qualified voter, or by deliv. ering a copy to him, or by leaving a copy at his abode, at least six days before the meeting. Notice of a special meeting must be served by the trustee or clerk, or by any other qualified voter designated by the trustee for that purpose. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 6, Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 2 rewritten and consolidated. (Pages 30, 31, §§ 2, 6.)] § 114. Powers of district meeting.-A district meeting has power: 1. To appoint a chairman. 2. To appoint a clerk of the meeting, if the district clerk be absent. 3. To adjourn from time to time. 4. To elect district officers. 5. To fix the amount of the official bonds of the treasurer and collector. 6. To vote a tax for the establishment or maintenance of a school library and for the purchase of a bookcase. 7. To vote a tax to supply a deficiency in any former tax. 8. To authorize the trustee to cause the schoolhouse and its appendages and the furniture and school apparatus to be in. sured. 9. To alter, repeal and modify its proceedings. 10. To vote a tax to replace moneys of the district lost or embezzled by district officers; and to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by district officers in defending suits or appeals brought against them for their official acts, or in prosecuting suits or appeals by direction of the district against other parties. 11. To designate a site for a schoolhouse. Such designation can only be made at a special meeting, and by a resolution describing the site by metes and bounds. 12. To provide for the transportation of pupils to a school and raise by taxation the funds necessary therefor. 13. To vote all taxes which may be necessary and proper for the maintenance of the school and the acquisition of property therefor; but a failure to vote a tax does not prevent the trustee from incurring any obligation or contracting any indebtedness necessary for the purposes mentioned in this subdivision, and within the powers conferred upon him by law. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 14, subs. 1 and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and subdivision 19 as added by L. 1896, ch. 364, rewritten. (Page 33 § 14.)] § 115. Election to be by ballot.-All district officers shall be elected by ballot, and the trustee shall provide a suitable ballotbox for that purpose. Two inspectors of election shall be appointed by the meeting, who shall receive the votes cast, canvass the same and announce the result to the chairman. A poll-list containing the name of every person whose vote shall be received, shall be kept by the clerk of the meeting. The ballots shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, containing the name of the office and the candidate. The chairman shall declare to the meeting the result of each ballot as announced to him by the inspectors, and the persons having the highest number of votes respectively for the several offices shall be elected. [Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 14, sub. 4. Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 15, Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 14, consolidated. (Pages 33, 36, 72, §§ 14, 15, 14.)] |