New York County Law Article 5-A - COUNTY WATER, SEWER, DRAINAGE AND REFUSE DISTRICTS

• 250 - Purpose.
  The board of supervisors of each county may establish, consolidate, or extend county water, water quality treatment, sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage or refuse districts (hereinafter...
• 251 - County Agency.
  The board of supervisors may appoint or establish an officer, board or body, or may designate an existing officer, board or body, or public authority...
• 252 - Powers of County Agency.
  1. The agency, as empowered by the board of supervisors, may assemble data relating to (1) the water resources available to the county, both within...
• 253 - Preparation of Maps and Plans.
  1. A petition may be presented to the board of supervisors requesting that a certain area or areas of the county be established as a...
• 253-a - Provision for Excess Sewer, Drainage or Water Facilities.
  1. The local legislative body, in causing maps and plans to be prepared or in approving the establishment or extension of a sewer, wastewater disposal,...
• 253-b - Amendment or Modification of Plans.
  When the board of supervisors or county legislature shall have established a district pursuant to this article and adopted a plan of a service or...
• 254 - Public Hearing; Cost to Typical Property.
  1. When the agency has caused such maps and plans to be prepared, it shall transmit them to the board of supervisors, together with a...
• 255 - Representation by Municipalities and District.
  At the public hearing on the establishment of a county district which includes the whole or any part of a city, village or such district...
• 256 - Establishment of a County District.
  Upon the evidence presented at the public hearing, and after due consideration of the maps and plans, reports, recommendations and other data filed with it,...
• 256-a - Consolidation of Suffolk County Sewer District Number Two - Holbrook and Suffolk County Sewer District Number Four - Birchwood North Shore.
  1. The county legislature of Suffolk county is hereby authorized to consolidate Suffolk county sewer district number two Holbrook and Suffolk county sewer district number...
• 257 - Permissive Referendum.
  1. The provisions of sections one hundred one and one hundred two of this chapter and the applicable provisions of the election law as to...
• 258 - Application to the Department of Audit and Control.
  1. Whenever a resolution approving the establishment of a county district shall have become effective, and it is proposed or required that the county in...
• 259 - Recording and Filing of Determination.
  The clerk of the board of supervisors shall within ten days cause a certified copy of the order of the board of supervisors establishing or...
• 260 - Review.
  Any interested party, including a city or village, or a town board or board of commissioners on behalf of a district, aggrieved by the final...
• 261 - Administration of the County District.
  When a county district shall have been established, the board of supervisors shall appoint, designate or establish an officer, board or body as the administrative...
• 262 - Performance of the Work.
  After a district shall have been established, the administrative head or body shall cause to be prepared by the county engineer, or other county officer...
• 263 - Powers.
  The administrative head or body may acquire by gift, lease, purchase or condemnation, real estate and easements, rights of way or other interests therein necessary...
• 263-a - Powers With Respect to Lake Protection and Rehabilitation.
  The administrative head or body shall be responsible for: 1. Initiating and coordinating research and surveys for the purpose of gathering data on the lake,...
• 264 - Rules and Regulations.
  The board of supervisors shall have power to adopt, amend and repeal, from time to time, rules and regulations for the operation of a county...
• 265 - Contracts.
  a. The administrative head or body, where applicable, may contract (1) for the purchase, from any legal entity having water available, of any quantity of...
• 266 - Water Rates, Water Quality Treatment, Sewage, Wastewater Disposal and Refuse Collection Charges and Revenues.
  1. Subject to confirmation by the board of supervisors, the administrative head or body: (a) may establish, from time to time, wholesale and retail rate...
• 267 - Expense of the Improvement.
  The cost of establishment of a county district and the furnishing of the improvement therein shall include the amount of all contracts, the costs of...
• 268 - Increase and Improvement of Facilities.
  1. Whenever the board of supervisors shall determine it necessary to acquire additional lands or interests in lands or to acquire or to construct (1)...
• 269 - Increase of Maximum Amount to Be Expended.
  At any time after the establishment of a district pursuant to this article, the maximum amount authorized to be expended for the original improvement or...
• 270 - Assessment of the Cost.
  1. The expense of the establishment of a district, except a water quality treatment district, and of providing improvements therein, including the improvements described in...
• 271 - Alternative Method of Assessment.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding section, if the notice of public hearing to be held by the board of supervisors pursuant to section...
• 272 - Taxation of District Property.
  All real property acquired for the purposes of the county district shall be acquired in the name of such county district. Real property acquired in...
• 273 - Contracts With Public Authorities for County Water Districts.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board of supervisors may enter into a contract with a public authority which possesses express reciprocal...
• 274 - Extension of the District.
  A county district may be extended so as to include territory not previously included within its boundaries in the same manner as hereinbefore prescribed for...
• 274-a - Consolidation of County Districts by Board of Supervisors.
  1. Resolution. The board of supervisors may, and upon the filing with the board of a petition signed and acknowledged, in the same manner as...
• 274-b - Consolidation of the District and Its Extensions.
  1. Determination and notice of public hearing. Whenever the board of supervisors calls a public hearing on the extension of a district, pursuant to section...
• 275 - Sale of Water District Facilities.
  1. The board of supervisors may sell all or any part of the water supply and distribution system of a county water district to a...
• 276 - Jurisdiction of Other State Agencies.
  Nothing contained in this article shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the state department of health, the water pollution...
• 277 - Establishment of Certain County Sewer Districts in Suffolk County.
  1. For the purposes of this section the following terms are defined as follows: a. County shall mean the county of Suffolk or the county...
• 278 - Definitions.
  For purposes of this article the following definitions shall apply: 1. the term "board of supervisors" shall be deemed to mean "county legislature" in those...
• 279 - Operation of Certain Collection and Disposal Facilities in Suffolk County.
  In the county of Suffolk, the county department of environmental conservation may contract with non-county sewer or wastewater disposal districts, private or public corporations, municipalities,...
• 279-a - Acquisition of Real Property for Future Districts in Suffolk County.
  1. In the county of Suffolk, upon the adoption of a resolution, the county legislature may acquire, in the name of the county, any real...
• 279-b - Agreements of County District; Certain Cases.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a county district in the county of Suffolk, acting through its administrative head, is hereby authorized and...
• 279-c - Certain Agreements of a County Sewer District in Orange County.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a county sewer district in Orange county, acting through its administrative head, is hereby authorized and empowered,...
• 279-d - Water Districts in the County of Westchester.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, county Water District number two in the county of Westchester, acting through its administrative...

Last modified: February 3, 2019