§ 2142. Duties of supervisors. It is the duty of every supervisor: 1.
To sue for and recover, in the name of his office, when the duty is not
elsewhere imposed by law, all penalties and forfeitures imposed by this
chapter, and for any default or omission of any town officer or school
district board or officer under this chapter; and after deducting his
costs and expenses to report the balances to the district
superintendent.

2. To act, when legally required, in the erection or alteration of a
school district, as provided in article thirty-one of this chapter, and
to perform any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this
chapter, or any other law relating to public schools.

3. To take and hold possession of the gospel and school lots of his
town.

4. To lease the same for such time not exceeding twenty-one years, and
upon such conditions as he shall deem expedient.

5. To sell the same with the advice and consent of the town board or,
if the town board shall so direct, with the advice and consent of the
inhabitants of the town, at a town election, for such price and upon
such terms of credit as shall appear to him most advantageous.

6. To invest the proceeds of such sales in loans, secured by bond and
mortgage upon unincumbered real property of the value of double the
amount loaned.

7. To purchase the property so mortgaged upon a foreclosure, and to
hold and convey, pursuant to the provisions of this section, the
property so purchased whenever it shall become necessary.

8. To re-loan the amount of such loans repaid to him, upon the like
security.

9. To apply the rents and profits of such lots, and the interest of
the money arising from the sale thereof, to the support of schools, as
may be provided by law, in such manner as shall be thus provided.

10. To render a just and true account of the proceeds of the sales and
the interest on the loans thereof, and of the rents and profits of such
gospel and school lots, and of the expenditure and appropriation
thereof, on the last Tuesday next preceding the biennial town election,
to the town board.

11. To deliver over to his successor in office, all books, papers and
securities relating to the same, at the expiration of his term of
office.

12. To take therefor a receipt, which shall be filed in the clerk's
office of the town.

13. To commence and prosecute in and by the name and style of the
supervisor of the town any suits against any of his predecessors in
office or against any other person to recover any debt, dues or demands,
in anywise arising from such public lot; and no such suit shall abate by
the death, resignation or removal from office of the said supervisor but
the same shall and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution by his
successor in office.