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NY Gen Mun L § 119-DD (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 5-K - Historic Preservation 119-DD - Local Historic Preservation Programs.

§  119-dd.  Local  historic  preservation  programs.  In  addition  to   existing powers and authorities for local historic preservation programs   including existing powers and authorities to  regulate  by  planning  or   zoning  laws  and  regulations  or  by  local  laws  and regulations for   preservation of historic landmarks and districts and use  of  techniques   including  transfer  of  development rights, the legislative body of any   county, city, town or village is hereby empowered to:1. Provide by regulations, special conditions and restrictions for the   protection, enhancement, perpetuation  and  use  of  places,  districts,   sites,  buildings,  structures,  works of art and other objects having a   special character or special historical, cultural or aesthetic  interest   or  value.  Such  regulations,  special  conditions and restrictions may   include appropriate and reasonable control of the use or  appearance  of   neighboring private property within the public view, or both.2. Establish a landmark or historical preservation board or commission   with  such  powers  as  are  necessary  to  carry  out all or any of the   authority possessed by the  municipality  for  a  historic  preservation   program, as the local legislative body deems appropriate.3.  After  due  notice  and  public hearing, by purchase, gift, grant,   bequest, devise, lease or otherwise,  acquire  the  fee  or  any  lesser   interest,  development  right,  easement,  covenant or other contractual   right necessary to achieve the purposes of this article,  to  historical   or  cultural  property within its jurisdiction. After acquisition of any   such  interest  pursuant  to  this  subdivision,  the  effect   of   the   acquisition on the valuation placed on any remaining private interest in   such  property  for purposes of real estate taxation shall be taken into   account.4. Designate, purchase, restore,  operate,  lease  and  sell  historic   buildings or structures. Sales of such buildings and structures shall be   upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  the local legislative body deems   appropriate to insure the maintenance of the  historic  quality  of  the   buildings  and structures, after public notice is appropriately given at   least thirty days prior to the  anticipated  date  of  availability  and   shall  be  for  fair  and  adequate  consideration of such buildings and   structures which in no event shall be less than the expenses incurred by   the municipality with respect  to  such  buildings  and  structures  for   acquisition, restoration, improvement and interest charges.5.  Provide for transfer of development rights for purposes consistent   with the purposes of this article.
NY Gen Mun L § 119-EE (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 5-L - Municipal Sustainable Energy Loan Program 119-EE - Legislative Findings and Declaration.

§  119-ee. Legislative findings and declaration. The legislature finds   and declares that it is the policy of the  state  to  achieve  statewide   energy  efficiency  and  renewable  energy  goals, reduce greenhouse gas   emissions and mitigate the effect of global climate change, and  advance   a  clean  energy  economy; and that to achieve such policy and goals the   state must promote the deployment of renewable energy systems and energy   efficiency measures throughout the state; and that municipalities  would   fulfill  an  important  public  purpose  by  providing loans to property   owners for the installation  of  renewable  energy  systems  and  energy   efficiency measures.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-A - Contracts for Sewerage Disposal.

§   120-a.   Contracts   for   sewerage   disposal.   The   respective   municipalities and districts may contract with each other, or  they  may   jointly  or  severally  contract  with  a  third  person, corporation or   municipality, either for the  construction,  operation,  maintenance  or   leasing  of a complete comprehensive system for the removal and disposal   of sewerage,  or  of  a  trunk  line  system  with  or  without  lateral   connections,  with  or  without  the  sewerage  disposal  plant  or of a   sewerage disposal plant; each of the boards or  commissioners,  however,   binding  only  the  municipalities  or districts which they respectively   represent. Such municipalities jointly  acting  through  such  board  or   commissioners, if they deem it expedient so to do, may contract with any   other  municipality  or  municipalities  through or over whose territory   such trunk sewer or sewers are intended to pass, for the construction of   said outlet, trunk sewer or sewers and appurtenances located within  the   territory  of  such  other municipality, in such manner as may be agreed   upon between such other municipality, and the  municipality  theretofore   jointly  contracting  as  herein authorized, or such jointly contracting   municipalities may contract in writing with any  other  municipality  or   municipalities  for  the privilege of connecting its or their sewers and   drains with such outlet or trunk  sewer  or  sewers  so  to  be  jointly   constructed  by the municipalities originally contracting for the public   improvements or works hereby authorized, and it shall be lawful for such   other municipality or municipalities to enter into a contract  for  such   purpose,  upon  such terms and for such consideration and length of time   as  may  be  mutually  agreed   upon   between   all   the   contracting   municipalities.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-B - Supervision of Sewage System.

§  120-b.  Supervision  of  sewage  system. If the public works herein   provided be  constructed  and  operated  by  the  municipalities  acting   jointly,  the  local  authorities  of  the contracting municipalities or   districts  having  charge  of  sewage  shall   jointly   supervise   the   construction  and  operation  of such sewage system, or they may jointly   engage or employ a competent sanitary engineer for  such  purpose.  They   shall  jointly  elect or appoint all necessary employees at the disposal   plant and for the care of the trunk line sewer,  and  severally  appoint   such  employees  as  they  may  be authorized so to do by the respective   governing bodies to work  on  the  system  within  the  bounds  of  such   municipality.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-C - Obligations and Privileges Relating to Sewerage Contracts.

§  120-c.  Obligations  and privileges relating to sewerage contracts.   Such sewer system, extension or part thereof shall, when accepted  under   such  contract,  and  such works, plants or stations, may if so provided   therein, pass into the use, possession, management and control  of  such   municipality  or  municipalities,  and  it  or  they  shall,  by  proper   provision in the said contract, subject such contract to  its  or  their   right at any time to terminate all its or their liability under the same   for  such  rental by paying for such system, extension or part thereof a   price  named  therein  or  to  be  determined  in  accordance  with  the   provisions  thereof,  and  it  or  they  map by proper provision in such   contract, covenant to terminate its or their liability in such manner at   a time or within a period named therein, but the sum  or  rental  to  be   paid  for  such  use  and possession or the price which must be paid for   such system, extension  or  part  thereof  in  order  to  terminate  the   liability  of  such  municipality or municipalities under such contract,   shall not be fixed by said contract beyond a  period  of  thirty  years,   after  which  and  at  any  time  thereafter,  if  such  municipality or   municipalities shall not have terminated its or  their  liability  under   said  contract,  the  sum or rental to be paid for the continued use and   possession of such system, extension or part thereof  or  the  price  at   which  the  same  must be paid for in order to terminate such liability,   which sum or rental and which price shall be based on the value of  such   system,  extension  or  part thereof at any such time, shall be fixed by   agreement, or in the absence of agreement by application to a  competent   court  and  under  its  order, but each such agreement or order shall be   limited to a period not exceeding ten years.  And such local authorities   may also at any time contract for the maintenance and operation  of  any   such system, extension or part thereof, including any such works, plants   or stations or of any sewerage or sewage disposal system or part thereof   owned or used by any such municipality or municipalities.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-D - Officers of Meeting.

§  120-d.  Officers  of  meeting.  In  order  to  facilitate  business   procedure, the  local  authorities  of  the  several  municipalities  or   districts  meeting  jointly for the purposes herein provided shall, at a   meeting at which all the municipalities and districts intending  to  act   jointly  are represented, choose from among their number a chairman, who   shall act as such until his successor is chosen  in  a  similar  manner.   Such meeting, when organized, shall elect a secretary who may or may not   be a member of one of the local boards meeting jointly.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-E - By Whom Proposed District Represented.

§ 120-e. By whom proposed district represented. Until a sewer district   of a town is organized as provided by the town law, the supervisor, or a   member  of  the  town  board appointed by the supervisor, of the town in   which the proposed sewer district is located, may act for and on  behalf   of  the  people  of  the  territory  proposed  to be embraced in a sewer   district, when requested so to do by a petition in writing signed by not   less than five per centum of the voters of such  proposed  district,  at   such  joint  meeting of municipalities and districts; provided, however,   that except as otherwise provided by the local finance law, neither  the   town  nor  any  property within the town, except such property as may be   within such proposed district, shall be  chargeable  with  any  debt  or   expenses created by such municipalities or districts acting jointly.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-F - Contract; How Executed.

§  120-f.  Contract;  how executed. No municipality or district acting   jointly as herein provided shall be bound by any contract  or  agreement   unless  such  contract or agreement be signed and executed by a majority   of the local authorities of such municipality having care of sewerage in   such municipality or district.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-G - Apportionment of Cost.

§   120-g.  Apportionment  of  cost.  Before  any  such  contract  for   construction mentioned in section one hundred and twenty-c shall  become   effective, such local authorities shall determine the part or proportion   of  the  annual  cost  thereof, if any, which is to be assessed upon the   property benefited thereby, and the method of such assessment, and shall   provide that any part thereof not actually paid out of  such  assessment   shall be paid by such city, town, village or sewer district at large. In   the  case  of  a  town,  the  petition  for  the  creation of such sewer   district, or supplemental petition, shall request  the  construction  of   such  sewer  system,  extension or part thereof, as herein provided, and   such petition shall comply in form,  substance  and  in  the  manner  of   execution,  so far as applicable thereto, to the requirements of section   two hundred and thirty of the town law, except that it  may  state  that   the annual sum or rental to be paid for the use of said plant or for the   removal  of sewage as herein provided shall be fixed and assessed in the   first instance for the full period  named  in  any  such  contract,  not   exceeding  thirty years, and that any part thereof not actually paid out   of such assessment may be reassessed upon the property in such district.   Before acting on any such petition, the town board shall give the notice   provided in section two hundred and thirty-a of the town  law,  and  the   assessment  shall  be  made  in  form and substance so far as applicable   thereto as provided in section two hundred and thirty-seven of said law.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-H - Further Provisions as to Apportionment of Cost.

§  120-h.  Further provisions as to apportionment of cost. Each of the   contracting  municipalities  or  districts  shall  pay  its   just   and   proportionate  share  for  the public improvement authorized by this act   and the general laws, including its just and proportionate share of  the   cost  for  the removal of sewage and of maintenance and carrying charges   of the system. The manner of arriving at the share each local government   shall bear and the method of payment  thereof  as  hereinafter  provided   shall be determined by its local board or commissioners having charge of   sewage,  before  such  contract for construction or for sewerage removal   becomes effective, as hereinafter provided.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-I (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-I - Means of Payment.

§  120-i.  Means  of payment. The indebtedness created for such public   works may be paid by each contracting municipality,  including  a  sewer   district  of  a  town,  partly  by  assessment  on  the  property deemed   specially benefited by such improvement and partly by a charge  on  such   municipality  at  large.  In  the case of a sewer district of a town the   petition for the creation thereof or a supplemental petition  may  state   the  means of payment as above provided and the assessment therein shall   be made in form and substance  so  far  as  applicable  as  provided  in   section two hundred and thirty-seven of said law, except that such sewer   commissioner  shall  assess a part of the district's proportionate share   of the total cost of such system on the lands within such  district,  or   extension of an existing district in proportion, as nearly as may be, to   the  benefit  which each lot or parcel will derive therefrom. Such sewer   commissioners shall  determine  the  amount  to  be  raised  by  general   taxation  for  such expense. Nothing herein contained shall be construed   as  preventing  the  contracting   municipalities   from   paying   such   indebtedness,  in  whole  or  in  part,  by  the issuance of obligations   pursuant to the terms of the local finance law.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-K (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-K - Payments; How Made.

§ 120-k. Payments; how made. It shall be lawful for the governing body   or   board   having   control   of  the  finances  of  such  contracting   municipality, in lieu of issuing the bonds of such municipality, to  pay   its  proportion  of  the  costs and expenses of any improvements jointly   contracted for and made under this act,  with  money  to  be  raised  by   taxation,  after the making of the public improvements herein authorized   have been determined upon and a joint contract  made  and  entered  into   pursuant  to  the provisions of this act, or by paying the whole or part   of such indebtedness out of all moneys  belonging  to  such  contracting   municipality not otherwise appropriated or required.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-M (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-M - Application of Other Laws to Procedure.

§  120-m.  Application  of  other  laws  to  procedure.  Except  where   inconsistent  with  this  act,  or  otherwise  permitted  hereunder  the   apportionment  of  local  assessments  and  the manner of payment of the   expenses of construction of such public works shall be  as  provided  in   the  town  law,  the  village  law, the general cities law, or the local   finance law or in the manner provided in any special  city  and  of  any   contracting city.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-N (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-N - Maps and Plans of Sewers.

§  120-n.  Maps and plans of sewers. Before taking any proceedings for   the construction of any sewer or of any  system  of  sewers  or  of  any   addition   thereto   or   alteration   thereof,   such  municipality  or   municipalities acting severally or jointly shall cause to be made a  map   and  plan  therefor,  or  an  amendment  of  any map and plan previously   approved, as the case may be, and shall submit the  same  to  the  state   commissioner  of health for his approval, and upon his approval the same   shall be filed in his office.  A copy of such map and  plan  or  of  any   such amendment thereof shall also be filed in the office of the clerk of   each   such  municipality.     Any  such  map  and  plan  shall  include   specifications of dimensions, connections and outlets or sewage disposal   works and may also include any existing sewer which it  shall  be  found   feasible and proper to incorporate or include in the proposed system. No   work  of  any  kind shall be done on or for the construction, extension,   reconstruction, removal or modification of any system of  sewers  or  of   any  sewer thereof until a map and plan covering the entire system shall   first have been duly approved and filed as above provided,  and  in  the   execution  of  the  construction,  extension, reconstruction, removal or   modification of any  system  of  sewers  or  of  any  sewer  thereof  no   deviations  from  the  plans as finally approved and filed shall be made   until plans or descriptions adequately showing such deviations are first   approved and filed as above provided. The state commissioner of  health,   in  approving  said  map  and plan or by a certificate supplementing any   such approval, may authorize  such  municipality  or  municipalities  to   temporarily  omit  or  defer the construction of any portion of any such   sewer or system of sewers. A copy or copies of his approval  or  of  any   such   supplemental   certificate   shall  be  certified  to  each  such   municipality and filed in the office of the clerk thereof.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-O (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-O - Definitions.

§  120-o.  Definitions.  The words "joint meeting" as used in this act   shall be construed to mean the meeting or assembly of the members of the   governing  bodies  or  boards  of  the  several  municipalities   having   authority to make and enter into a contract for the construction jointly   of  public  improvements, pursuant to and by virtue of the provisions of   this act.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-Q (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-Q - Rules and Regulations.

§  120-q.  Rules  and regulations. Such person, persons or corporation   operating and maintaining such system or contracting for the removal  of   sewage as herein provided shall be subject to such rules, ordinances and   regulations  as said municipalities may establish, not inconsistent with   any contract made therefor.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-R (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-R - Cancellation of Sewerage Contracts for Neglect.

§  120-r. Cancellation of sewerage contracts for neglect. In the event   of such person, persons or corporation failing and  neglecting  to  keep   said  system  of  sewage in a good healthy and effective condition after   due notice in writing of not less than sixty days, from any municipality   using the same, their rights, of such person,  persons  or  corporation,   guaranteed  under  such  contract  may be canceled by such municipality,   except that such municipality or municipalities shall pay the  fair  and   reasonable  value  of  such sewerage system as provided in such lease or   contract. This section shall not apply  if  such  system  is  under  the   management   and   control   of   one   or   more  of  such  contracting   municipalities.
NY Gen Mun L § 120-S (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 6 - Public Health and Safety 120-S - Joint Meeting for Acquisition and Operation of Property.

§ 120-s. Joint meeting for acquisition and operation of property.  The   joint  meeting  representing  any two or more of such municipalities, as   aforesaid, shall have power with their consent and on their  behalf  and   by its own proper officers to enter into any contract and to acquire, by   purchase  or  condemnation,  and  to  hold,  maintain  and  operate  any   property, necessary or desirable for any of the purposes  authorized  as   aforesaid,  as  fully  and to the same extent as any municipality acting   severally.