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Timestamp: 2017-09-23 14:42:59
Document Index: 705745775

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 278', '§ 278', '§ 278', '§ 278', '§ 278', '§ 10', '§ 278']

Village of Naples, NY Sewers
Ch 278 Art I Sewage Disposal Benefit Area
§ 278-1 Purpose; findings; legislative authority.
§ 278-2 Area established.
§ 278-3 Area identified.
§ 278-4 Financing.
Chapter 278: Sewers
Water — See Ch. 372.
Chapter 278 : Sewers
Article I Sewage Disposal Benefit Area
Article I: Sewage Disposal Benefit Area
[Adopted 11-18-2015 by L.L. No. 3-2015]
The purpose of this article is to establish a sewage disposal benefit area within the Village of Naples. The benefit area would only serve a portion of the Village, specifically the so-called "Main Street Corridor." This benefit area is more particularly delineated on a map prepared by Hunt Engineers dated October 30, 2015, which this article shall hereinafter incorporate by reference. The properties to be served by the benefit area are also described in § 278-3 hereof, by reference to their Tax Map numbers and by the names of the property owners as of June 1, 2015.
The Board of Trustees of the Village finds that a municipal sewage disposal system is in the interest of the community and will promote the health, safety, and general welfare of its citizens.
The Village is now served by a patchwork of individual private disposal systems consisting generally of septic tanks and leach fields. The Village Board finds that many of these systems have either failed or, upon inspection, do not meet current state or local standards. These systems must be upgraded, repaired, or replaced, often resulting in considerable expense to the owners. In addition, although no definitive scientific data exist, the Village Board has heard reports that failing private disposal systems either have resulted in, or could result in, sewage being discharged into Naples Creek, a tributary of Canandaigua Lake, which is a source of drinking water for many in Ontario County.
Furthermore, the Village Board has been advised that existing local businesses are reluctant to expand their operations, and outside businesses are hesitant to locate within the Village because of the lack of a municipal sewer system. These factors have a deleterious effect upon local employment and upon the Village's ability to expand its property tax base.
Therefore, in order to mitigate the costs of repairs to individual property owners, the potential for the pollution of natural resources, and to promote and expand business activities and the overall property tax base, the Village Board finds that a municipal sewage disposal system is in the interest of the citizens of the Village of Naples.
The Village Board is aware that two previous proposals for a municipal sewage disposal system involved projects that would have served the entire Village. On each occasion, the bond resolutions adopted by the Board to finance the construction of the respective projects were defeated at public referenda. The Board has concluded that the anticipated cost of the projects, both for their initial construction and their continuing operation and maintenance, was the primary reason for the public disapproval of the bond resolutions. Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of construction and continuing operation and maintenance, the Village Board is proposing, and is establishing by this article, a sewage disposal system which will serve only a portion of the Village, to wit: the so-called "Main Street Corridor."
The Village Board has been advised that the provisions of Article 14 of the New York State Village Law seems to require that a sewer system constructed within the Village, serve the entire community, not just a portion thereof.
Nevertheless, the Board hereby chooses to use the authority granted to it by §§ 10(1)(ii)(e)(2) and 10(1)(ii)(e)(3) of the New York State Municipal Home Rule Law to enact this article to provide for a sewer system which will serve only a portion of the Village, thus overriding the apparent effect of Article 14 of the Village Law, and to provide for assessing the cost of the establishment, construction, operation, and maintenance of such sewer system primarily against the properties benefitted thereby. The Village Board believes that Article 14 of the Village Law does not preempt it from doing so and in support of that belief relies upon a number of opinions from the New York State Comptroller's Office, namely Informal Opinion Nos. 80-306, 80-533, 80-542, and 85-42.
There is hereby established within the Village of Naples a sewage disposal benefit area.
The Village of Naples shall provide municipal sewage disposal and treatment services to those properties within the sewage disposal benefit area which are specifically identified in § 278-3 hereof by the Tax Map number of the property and by the name of its owner as of June 1, 2015.
The sewage disposal benefit area shall consist of all of the individual parcels of land within the Village and which are identified by the name of the owner thereof as of June 1, 2015, and, by the Tax Map number of the parcel, all of which are as shown on Schedule A,[1] attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Each page of Schedule A bears the initials of the Village Clerk/Treasurer and the date of adoption of this article by the Board of Trustees.
In addition, the boundaries of the sewage disposal benefit area and the individual parcels included therein are more particularly identified on a map prepared by Hunt Engineers, dated October 30, 2015, Project No. _____, a copy of which shall be on file with the Village Clerk and which is hereby incorporated by reference into this article.
The cost of the construction, operation, and maintenance of the sewer system serving the sewage disposal benefit area shall be financed primarily by charges and rents assessed against the benefitted properties within the sewage disposal benefit area.