§ 2003. Notice of annual meeting in common school district. 1. The
district clerk of each common school district shall give notice of the
availability of the statement of expenditures pursuant to the provisions
of section sixteen hundred eight of this chapter and shall also give
notice of the time and place of the annual meeting by publishing a
notice four times within the seven weeks next preceding such annual
meeting, the first publication to be at least forty-five days before
said meeting, in two newspapers if there shall be two, or in one
newspaper if there shall be but one, having general circulation within
such district. But if no newspaper shall then have general circulation
therein, the said notice shall be posted in at least twenty of the most
public places in said district forty-five days before the time of such
meeting.

2. Such notice shall also state that petitions nominating candidates
for the office of member of the board of trustees must be filed with the
clerk of the district between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m., not
later than the thirtieth day preceding the school meeting or election at
which the candidates so nominated are to be elected.

3. Such notice and all other notices and reports required to be
published in newspapers under the provisions of this chapter shall be
printed at the rates and for the fees prescribed in the civil practice
law and rules. In the event that the publishers of one or both of the
newspapers having general circulation in such district shall refuse to
print and publish the notices or reports at the rates and for the fees
so prescribed, publication in such newspaper or newspapers so refusing
may be omitted, in which case the notices or reports shall be posted as
required by this section in lieu of such publication.