§ 2140. Duties of town clerks. It shall be the duty of the town clerk
of each town: 1. To keep all books, maps, papers, and records of his
office touching public schools, and forthwith to report to the district
superintendent any loss or injury to the same.

2. To receive from the district superintendent or superintendents the
certificates of apportionment of school moneys to each school district
or part of a school district of the town, and to record them in a book
to be kept for that purpose.

3. To notify forthwith the trustees of the several school districts of
the filing of each such certificate.

4. To furnish the district superintendent of the supervisory district
in which his town is situated the names and postoffice addresses of the
school district officers reported to him by the district clerks.

5. To distribute to the trustees of the school districts all books,
blanks and circulars which shall be delivered or forwarded to him by the
commissioner of education or district superintendent for that purpose.

6. To receive, file and record the descriptions of the school
districts, and all papers and proceedings delivered to him by the
district superintendent pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

7. To act, when thereto legally required, in the erection or
alteration of a school district, as in article thirty-one of this
chapter provided.

8. To deliver within one year from the effective date of this act to
the clerk of the successor district any and all records of the
respective dissolved school districts heretofore deposited in the town
clerk's office pursuant to section fifteen hundred nineteen of the
education law as it existed prior to this act, and to notify in writing
the district superintendent of the supervisory district in which such
successor school district is situated that such records have been so
deposited.

9. To perform any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this
chapter, or by any other law touching public schools.