2602 - Annual and special school district meetings.

§  2602.   Annual and special school district meetings.  1.  Except as  otherwise provided in this chapter, including  the  provisions  of  this  article,  an annual school election shall be held on the same day as the  annual budget vote pursuant to the provisions of  article  forty-one  of  this  chapter  in each city school district, except that the city school  district of the  city  of  Albany  shall  conduct  its  annual  election  separately   on  the  day  specified  in  subdivision  nine  of  section  twenty-five hundred two of this chapter.    2.  Except as otherwise provided in section twenty-six  hundred  one-a  of  this article, special school district meetings may be called in each  city school district by the board of  education  thereof  in  accordance  with  sections two thousand four and two thousand seven of this chapter,  whenever such board shall deem it necessary and proper.    3.   Notwithstanding any  provisions  of  article  forty-one  of  this  chapter  to  the contrary, the polls of such annual and special district  meetings shall be open during such  consecutive  hours,  not  less  than  nine,  beginning not earlier than seven o'clock in the forenoon, and two  of which hours shall be after six o'clock in the evening, as  the  board  of education shall by resolution determine.