NY Cty L § 256-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts 256-A - Consolidation of Suffolk County Sewer District Number Two - Holbrook and Suffolk County Sewer District Number Four - Birchwood North Shore.

§  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 four -  Birchwood  North  Shore  in   accordance with the procedure contained in this section.2.  Resolution.  The  county legislature of Suffolk county may adopt a   resolution calling a public hearing upon the proposed  consolidation  of   Suffolk  county  sewer district number two - Holbrook and Suffolk county   sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore.3. Notice. The clerk of the county legislature shall  give  notice  of   the  hearing  described  in  subdivision  two  of  this  section in such   newspapers and within such time period  as  set  forth  in  section  two   hundred  fifty-four  of this article. Such notice shall specify the time   when and the place where such hearing  will  be  held  and,  in  general   terms, describe the proposed consolidation and the proposed basis of the   future   assessment   of   all   costs  of  operation,  maintenance  and   improvements of such consolidated sewer district.4. Hearing. The county legislature shall meet at the  time  and  place   specified  in such notice and hear all persons interested in the subject   matter thereof concerning the same.  If  the  county  legislature  shall   determine  that  it  is  in  the  public interest to consolidate Suffolk   county sewer district number two - Holbrook  and  Suffolk  county  sewer   district  number  four  -  Birchwood  North  Shore  as specified in said   notice, the Suffolk county legislature may adopt a  resolution,  subject   to a permissive referendum, so consolidating such sewer districts.5.  Notice  of  adoption  of  resolution.  Within  ten  days after the   adoption by the Suffolk county legislature of the  resolution  described   in  subdivision  four  of  this  section, the Suffolk county legislature   shall give notice  thereof,  at  the  expense  of  the  county,  by  the   publication  of  a notice in such newspapers and within such time period   as set forth in section one hundred one of  this  chapter.  Such  notice   shall  set  forth  the date of adoption of the resolution and contain an   abstract of such resolution, describing, in  general  terms,  the  sewer   districts so consolidated and the basis for the future assessment of all   costs   of   operation,  maintenance  and  improvements  and  that  such   resolution was adopted subject to a permissive referendum.6.  Petition.  The  resolution  of  the  Suffolk  county   legislature   described  in  subdivision  four  of  this section shall not take effect   until forty-five days  after  its  adoption  and  shall  be  subject  to   permissive referendum in each sewer district proposed to be consolidated   in  accordance with the provisions of section two hundred fifty-seven of   this article.7. Consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number two  Holbrook   and  Suffolk  county sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore.   The consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number  two  Holbrook   and  Suffolk  county  sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore   shall  become  effective  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  December  next   succeeding;  provided,  however,  that  if  the  resolution described in   subdivision four of this section shall  be  adopted  subsequent  to  the   first  day  of  October  in  any  year,  such consolidation shall become   effective on the thirty-first day of December  of  the  next  succeeding   calendar  year. Upon such consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district   number two - Holbrook and Suffolk county sewer district  number  four  -   Birchwood  North  Shore,  all the property of such sewer districts shall   become  the  property  of  the  consolidated  sewer  district  and   the   consolidated  sewer  district  shall  assume and pay the indebtedness of    each of such original sewer districts as if such indebtedness  had  been   incurred subsequent to the consolidation.