New York Environmental Conservation Law Title 21 - RIVER REGULATION BY STORAGE RESERVOIRS

• 15-2101 - Definitions and Construction.
  The following words and phrases when used in title 21 are defined as follows: 1. "Real estate," when used without words of limitation, includes all...
• 15-2103 - Creation of River Regulating Districts.
  1. Bodies corporate, which shall consist of and be known as river regulating districts, may be created pursuant to title 21 of this article to...
• 15-2105 - Organization of the Boards of River Regulating Districts.
  1. Within thirty days after the incorporation of a river regulating district as hereinbefore provided, the Governor shall appoint three persons, two at least of...
• 15-2107 - General Duties.
  1. Upon its organization the board may prepare a plan for the regulation of the flow of the river or rivers in its district. Such...
• 15-2109 - General Powers.
  1. The board shall have power to make all necessary rules and regulations which shall be effective when approved by the department. 2. The board...
• 15-2111 - Acquisition of Real Estate.
  1. The board on behalf of such district shall, subject to the limitations herein contained, have the right to condemn for the use of the...
• 15-2113 - Discontinuance or Relocation, or Both, of Highways, Roads and Streets.
  1. If the board shall deem it necessary to discontinue a public highway, road or street, or a part thereof, because of its interference with...
• 15-2115 - Taxation of Real Estate.
  Lands owned by the state and acquired pursuant to the provisions of title 21 of this article, exclusive of the improvements erected thereon by the...
• 15-2117 - Cemeteries.
  1. Whenever for the purposes of title 21 of this article it shall be necessary to use any portion of any lands or premises now...
• 15-2119 - Procedure for Construction of Reservoirs.
  1. Preliminary plans, specifications, maps, statements and estimates are required as follows: a. If the board shall determine as a part of the official plan...
• 15-2121 - Apportionment of Cost.
  1. If proceedings to review the final order of the board determining that such proposed reservoir shall be made have not been instituted within sixty...
• 15-2123 - Assessments; How Levied and Collected.
  1. After the apportionment of cost has been made and filed in accordance with the provisions of section 15-2121 hereof, the board shall prepare a...
• 15-2125 - Operation and Maintenance Charges.
  1. The board shall make an estimate of an amount sufficient to pay the expense of the maintenance and operation of the works erected hereunder,...
• 15-2127 - Error in Names.
  No error in the names of the owners of real estate, or in the descriptions thereof, shall invalidate such apportionment or the levying of assessments...
• 15-2129 - Financing.
  1. After the cost of any improvement made or to be made under title 21 of this article has been apportioned among the public corporations...
• 15-2131 - Reports.
  1. The board of any river regulating district created hereunder shall annually, as of such date as the department may provide, submit to it a...
• 15-2133 - Operation of Reservoirs.
  1. The board shall not permit the water in any reservoir constructed under the provisions of title 21 of this article to rise above the...
• 15-2135 - Hearings; Hearing Officers; Determinations.
  Whenever the department is empowered under the terms of title 21 of this article to make a determination it may hear testimony and take proofs...
• 15-2137 - Hudson River-Black River Regulating District; Old Boards Abolished; New Board Created.
  1. The Hudson River Regulating District and the Black River Regulating District created pursuant to this article are hereby consolidated into a single district, to...
• 15-2139 - Hudson River Regulating District and Black River Regulating District: Transfer of Functions; Pending Actions and Proceedings; Interpretation of Docume
  15-2139. Hudson River Regulating District and Black River Regulating District: transfer of functions; pending actions and proceedings; interpretation of documents; existing rights and remedies. 1....
• 15-2141 - Hudson River Regulating District and Black River Regulating District: Funds of the Board.
  1. Notwithstanding the consolidation of the Hudson River Regulating District and the Black River Regulating District into a single district, effectuated by this title, or...

Last modified: February 3, 2019