§ 1713. Academy may be adopted as academic department. Whenever a
union free school district shall be established under the provisions of
article thirty-one, and there shall exist within the district an
academy, the board of education, when authorized by a vote of the voters
of the district, may adopt such academy as the academic department of
the district, with the consent of the trustees of the academy, and
thereupon the trustees by a resolution to be attested by the signatures
of the officers of the board and filed in the office of the clerk of the
county, shall declare their offices vacant, and thereafter the said
academy shall be the academic department of such union free school
district. The board of education when thereto authorized by a vote of
the qualified voters of the district may lease said academy and site,
and maintain the academic department of such union free school district
therein and thereon.