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Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
1. No district superintendent or supervisor is eligible to the office of trustee or member of a board of education, and no trustee or member of a board of education can hold the office of district clerk, collector, treasurer or librarian, except as otherwise provided by section twenty-one hundred thirty.
2. A person removed from a school district office shall be ineligible to appointment or election to any district office for a period of one year from the date of such removal.
3. Not more than one member of a family shall be a member of the same board of education in any school district.
4. No employee of a board of education may be a member of such board; provided, however, that in a city with a population of one million or more nothing herein shall prohibit an employee of the board of education of a community school board from being a member of a community school board except that such employee may not be a member of any community school board that directly employs him.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 2103. Ineligibility to office - last updated January 01, 2026 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/education-law/edn-sect-2103/
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