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2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1108 - Supervision and Extension of System.

§ 11-1108 Supervision and extension of system. A system of water works
  acquired  or  established  under this article shall be under the control
  and supervision of the board of water  commissioners.  The  board  shall
  keep  it  in  repair  and  may,  from  time to time, extend the mains or
  distributing pipes within the  village,  replace  obsolete,  inadequate,
  damaged,  destroyed  or  worn-out  apparatus  and  equipment, improve or
  reconstruct  existing  facilities  and  appurtenances  and  acquire   or
  construct  additional  facilities.  The board of water commissioners may
  determine that the cost of extending the mains or distributing pipes, as
  herein provided, shall be borne wholly by the village, or wholly by  the
  owners of land benefited or abutting on the street on which said work is
  done,  or  partly  at  the  expense of each. If such expense or any part
  thereof is to be assessed  upon  adjoining  land,  the  board  of  water
  commissioners  may  apportion  it upon the land and assess the same as a
  whole or by installments. Such assessment  and  the  collection  thereof
  shall  be  made  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  article five of this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1110 - Water Pipes in Highways Outside of Village.

§  11-1110  Water  pipes  in highways outside of village. The board of
  water commissioners of a village may  cause  water  pipes  to  be  laid,
  relaid  or  repaired  under  any public highway in a county in which any
  part of such village is situated, or in an  adjoining  county,  for  the
  purpose  of  introducing  water  into and through the village; and shall
  cause the surface of such highway to be restored to its usual condition;
  and said board of water commissioners may also acquire, take  over,  and
  accept from any individual or corporation, gratuitously, or at a nominal
  consideration  any water pipes which have been heretofore laid under any
  of such public highways in a county in which any part of such village is
  situated, or in an adjoining county, for the purpose of  continuing  the
  supply of water or for the purpose of introducing water into and through
  such  territory,  outside  of  such  village, where such water pipes are
  situated, and supplying the inhabitants thereof with water.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1114 - Alternative Provision for Connections With Mains.

§  11-1114 Alternative provision for connections with mains. The board
  of commissioners shall  have  authority  to  determine  the  manner  and
  conditions  under  which  said supply pipes shall be installed and shall
  have authority to install and maintain said supply pipes  and  to  adopt
  such  uniform  service charges as they deem just for each supply pipe so
  connected with the mains or distributing  pipes  and  extending  to  the
  street  or  right of way lines, regardless of the location of said water
  mains or distribution pipe within said streets or rights  of  way  lines
  and  regardless  of  the  soil, rock or other physical conditions within
  said streets or rights of way lines.
Such uniform service charge as  the  board  may  adopt  shall  be  any
  percentage  of  the cost up to but not exceeding the average actual cost
  of installing such supply pipes as before described. Such percentage  of
  the  average  actual  cost of installing such supply pipes as may not be
  charged shall be borne by the village.
The said board shall have authority to apply such  percentage  of  the
  average actual cost of installing such supply pipes as the village might
  pay,  to  such  other  supply  pipe  connection for the same property or
  properties as in the judgment of the board might be advisable.
The board of water commissioners may cause a notice to be published in
  the official newspaper of the village and if so published,  shall  serve
  on  the  owners  or occupants a printed notice notifying such owners and
  occupants of any and all property fronting or abutting  on  any  street,
  right  of way or portion thereof, in or upon which any public water main
  or distributing pipe is about to be laid or is being laid  or  has  been
  laid by said board, that connection pipes to and from the water mains or
  distribution  pipes  in said street, right of way or any portion thereof
  in front of each separate piece of property and where directed  by  said
  board,  shall  be  installed by said board in such manner and under such
  conditions and at such prices as said board shall prescribe.
The said board shall have authority to assess the actual cost of  such
  connection  pipes  or  such  service charge as may be determined and the
  actual cost of maintaining the same  upon  the  property  so  connected.
  Should  the  owner of said property so connected fail to pay the cost or
  charge thereof, the said board shall have authority to add such cost  or
  charge  to  the  annual  tax  on  such  property  and  collect the same,
  therewith, and when so collected, the amount thereof shall be paid  into
  the  water  fund  of  the  village.  Nothing  herein  contained shall be
  construed to prevent the financing, in whole or in part, pursuant to the
  local finance law, of any expense incurred by the  village  pursuant  to
  this section.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1116 - Rules, Regulations, and Local Laws.

§  11-1116  Rules,  regulations,  and  local  laws. The board of water
  commissioners  may  adopt  rules,  regulations  and   local   laws   not
  inconsistent  with  law, for enforcing the collection of water rents and
  relating to the use of the water, and may enforce observance thereof  by
  cutting off the supply of water.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1118 - Establishment of Water Rents.

§   11-1118   Establishment   of  water  rents.  The  board  of  water
  commissioners shall establish a scale of rents for use of water,  to  be
  called "water rents", and to be paid at such times and in such manner as
  the  board may prescribe. The board may provide that a discount shall be
  allowed for the prompt payment of water rents within the  time  required
  by  the  board  for  the  payment thereof. Such rents, together with the
  amount of any penalty prescribed by the board and due for non-payment of
  such rents within a time prescribed by the board, shall be a lien on the
  real property upon which or in connection with which the water is  used,
  and  such  a  lien  is  prior and superior to every other lien or claim,
  except the lien of an existing tax.   Such board shall  certify  to  the
  village  clerk  the  amounts  of  all such unpaid water rents, including
  penalties computed to the first day of the month following the month  in
  which the fiscal year commences, with a description of the real property
  affected  thereby.  The  village clerk shall present such certificate to
  the board of trustees and shall enter the same or an abstract thereof in
  the minutes of the meeting. The board of  trustees  shall  include  such
  amounts  in  the  annual  tax levy and shall levy the same upon the real
  property in default. Whenever an unpaid water rent shall be included  in
  the  annual village tax levy, as above provided, the water fund shall be
  credited with the amount of the unpaid rent,  including  penalties,  and
  the  amount  so  levied,  when collected, shall be paid into the general
  fund.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1120 - Supplying Water Outside of Corporate Limits.

§  11-1120  Supplying  water outside of corporate limits. The board of
  water commissioners may sell  to  a  corporation,  individual  or  water
  district  outside  the  village  the  right to make connections with the
  mains or reservoirs of such village for the  purpose  of  drawing  water
  therefrom and fix the prices and conditions therefor. The board of water
  commissioners  of any village may contract with the state of New York or
  with the state authority having control and  supervision  of  any  state
  institution  to  furnish water to such state or state institution either
  within or without  the  corporate  limits  of  said  village  upon  such
  conditions  and  conferring  such  powers  in  the  state  or such state
  authority and for such compensation as said board of water commissioners
  and the state of New York or such state authority may  agree.    If  the
  mains  are  or shall be laid in or through another municipal corporation
  not  having  a  public  system  of  water  works,  the  board  of  water
  commissioners  may  itself  lay  additional  pipes  for  the  purpose of
  distributing water from such mains, and shall have the  same  rights  in
  the  streets  or  highways of such other municipal corporation as if the
  principal system were established therein. The board shall not sell  nor
  permit the use of water under this section if thereby the supply for the
  village or its inhabitants will be insufficient.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1122 - Outside Extension of Mains.

§  11-1122  Outside  extension of mains. The board of trustees may, by
  resolution, determine to extend water mains outside the village.    Such
  resolution shall contain a general description of the proposed extension
  and  the estimated expense thereof and the amount thereof, if any, to be
  expended by the village. If the resolution  be  adopted,  the  board  of
  water  commissioners  shall  make  the  extension  accordingly.  If such
  extension is made, the board of water commissioners shall  adopt  rules,
  regulations and rates to apply to all consumers outside of the village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1124 - Contracts for Purchase and Sale of Water.

§  11-1124  Contracts  for purchase and sale of water. 1. The board of
  water commissioners may contract with the town board on  behalf  of  the
  town  or a water supply, fire alarm or fire protection district thereof,
  or with the board of  trustees  of  a  village  or  the  board  of  fire
  commissioners of a fire district, respectively, to furnish water for the
  extinguishment   of   fires,   including   the   furnishing,   erection,
  maintenance, care and replacement of fire  hydrants,  the  erection  and
  maintenance  of  markers  therefor,  and  the removal of snow and ice to
  provide access thereto, or for sanitary or other  public  purposes,  for
  any  period  not exceeding ten years. The amount payable each year under
  such a contract shall be raised as a part of the expenses of  such  town
  or water supply, fire alarm or fire protection district thereof, village
  or  fire  district, and paid to the treasurer of the village owning such
  system of water works. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to alter
  or  remove  any  of  the   limitations,   restrictions   or   procedural
  requirements  provided  in  sections  one  hundred eighty-four-a and one
  hundred eighty-four-b of the town law.
2. The board of water commissioners of any village maintaining its own
  water distribution system may contract in the name of such village  with
  any public corporation or improvement district which possesses the power
  to  sell  a  supply  of  water, for the purpose of purchasing all or any
  portion of the water supply of such village from such public corporation
  or improvement district for such period as may be deemed necessary,  but
  not  in  excess of forty years. The term "public corporation" as used in
  this subdivision shall mean a  public  corporation  as  defined  in  the
  general  corporations  law  and  also  any joint water works corporation
  formed under the provisions of chapter six  hundred  fifty-four  of  the
  laws of nineteen hundred twenty-seven, as amended.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1126 - Water Mains Connecting With Reservoirs of New York City.

§  11-1126 Water mains connecting with reservoirs of New York city.  A
  proposition may be submitted at a  village  election  to  authorize  any
  incorporated  village of the state of New York to contract with the city
  of New York to take and receive from any of the  reservoirs,  aqueducts,
  conduits,  streams or pipes of the city of New York, including any water
  supply, reservoir, works, et  cetera,  for  the  supply  of  any  public
  institution of said city, a supply of water for the uses and purposes of
  the  said  village,  on  such terms, conditions and stipulations as such
  village and city may deem necessary and to  that  end  such  village  is
  authorized  and  empowered  to  lay the necessary mains and pipes to the
  source of supply, valves, hydrants, supply pipes,  and  other  necessary
  appurtenances  for  the  use  of said water, including its purification,
  without the consent of any board, officer, bureau, or department of  the
  state,  or  any  subdivision  thereof,  and  to  issue  its bonds to pay
  therefor. The connections with  said  reservoirs,  aqueducts,  conduits,
  streams  or pipes shall be made at the expense of such village, and such
  village shall pay to the city of New York water charges or rates in  the
  same  amounts  as  are  charged by the city of New York to persons using
  water in that city. Any such village desiring to take and receive  water
  under  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall make application to the
  proper officer in charge of the water supply of the city of New York  in
  writing,  stating  the  place and manner in which it is proposed to make
  said connections, which said officer in charge of the  water  supply  of
  the  city of New York shall have exclusive jurisdiction in the premises,
  to the exclusion of any other board, officer, bureau  or  department  of
  the  state or any subdivision thereof. Provided said city agrees to sell
  and said village agrees to purchase water, it shall be the duty  of  the
  said   officer   to  grant  a  permit  or  authorization  for  the  said
  connections, under  reasonable  rules  and  regulations,  including  the
  installation  of  proper  meters,  or other devices for ascertaining the
  quantity of water thus taken.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1128 - Sale or Lease of Water Supply and Distribution System.

§  11-1128  Sale  or  lease  of  water supply and distribution system.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general or  special,  a
  village  may (1) sell or lease its water supply and distribution system,
  or any part thereof, to a water authority, a county water district or  a
  joint  water  works system established pursuant to article five-B of the
  general  municipal  law  or  (2)  sell,  transfer  or  lease  properties
  constituting  its  water  supply  and  distribution  system, or any part
  thereof, for a fair consideration, to any person or  public  corporation
  for  any  use other than the supply or distribution of water for potable
  purposes upon a determination by the board of trustees  of  the  village
  that  the  properties  to  be  sold, transferred or leased are no longer
  necessary for water supply or other village purposes.  The  proceeds  of
  such  sale,  transfer  or  lease  shall  be  deposited in a reserve fund
  established for the purpose of retiring outstanding  obligations  issued
  by  the  village to finance the cost of the facilities sold and shall be
  expended only for  such  purpose,  except  as  provided  below.  If  the
  proceeds exceed the sum of all installments of principal of and interest
  on  such  indebtedness  due  or  to  become  due,  or  if, when all such
  outstanding obligations shall  have  been  retired,  any  moneys  remain
  unexpended  in  the reserve fund, such excess moneys may be used for any
  village purpose.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 12 - Light › 12-1200 - Contracts for Lighting.

§ 12-1200 Contracts for lighting. The board of light commissioners may
  contract,  for  a  period  not  to  exceed ten years, in the name of the
  village, with an individual or corporation, for  lighting  the  streets,
  public  grounds  and public buildings of the village by gas, electricity
  or other substance.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 12 - Light › 12-1202 - Establishment of Lighting System.

§ 12-1202 Establishment of lighting system. The board of trustees may,
  by  resolution,  provide for the establishment of a system for supplying
  the village and its inhabitants with light by any  approved  method,  or
  for  the  acquisition  of  an  existing private system, at an expense in
  either case not exceeding the sum stated in the resolution.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 12 - Light › 12-1204 - Supervision and Extension of System.

§  12-1204  Supervision  and  extension of system. The lighting system
  acquired or established under this article shall be  under  the  control
  and  supervision  of  the  board of light commissioners. The board shall
  keep it in repair and shall have authority to purchase such supplies and
  materials as may be needed for the operation  and  maintenance  of  such
  system  for periods not exceeding one year. Such board may, from time to
  time extend, alter or reconstruct  such  system  and  may  use  therefor
  surplus  funds  it  has  on  hand.    However, nothing contained in this
  section shall be construed to prevent the  village  from  financing,  in
  whole or in part, expenditures for any such improvements pursuant to the
  local  finance  law. Such system may with the permission and approval of
  the public service commission be so extended, altered  or  reconstructed
  outside  the  village  wherever  franchises  are first obtained from the
  local authorities. If such system  shall  be  so  extended,  altered  or
  reconstructed  outside  of  a village into a town or a lighting district
  thereof, the board of light commissioners of the  village  may  contract
  with  the  town  board  of such town for lighting the streets, highways,
  public grounds and public buildings of such town or  lighting  district,
  in  pursuance of the provisions of article twelve of the town law, which
  shall be applicable to such contract and to the levying of a tax for the
  payment of  the  amounts  which  shall  be  payable  thereunder  to  the
  treasurer  of  the village.   Wherever such system shall be so extended,
  altered or reconstructed outside of a  village,  occupants  of  premises
  adjacent  to  such  extended, altered or reconstructed system outside of
  the village shall be entitled to be supplied with light therefrom  under
  such  conditions  and  at such rates as the board of light commissioners
  shall determine.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 12 - Light › 12-1206 - Rules and Regulations.

§  12-1206 Rules and regulations. The board of light commissioners may
  adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with  law,  for  enforcing
  the  collection of light rents and relating to the use of light, and may
  enforce observance thereto by cutting off the supply of light.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 12 - Light › 12-1208 - Establishment of Light Rents.

§   12-1208   Establishment   of  light  rents.  The  board  of  light
  commissioners shall establish a scale of rents for the use of light,  to
  be  called "light rents" and to be paid at such times and in such manner
  as the board may prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 13 - Self-Supporting Improvements › 13-1300 - Definitions.

§ 13-1300 Definitions. As used in this article:
The  term,  "self-supporting  improvement" shall mean any recreational
  facility,  and  parking  areas  in  connection  therewith,   established
  pursuant  to  this  article  from  which  revenues  are  obtained by the
  imposition and collection of rates, fees, tolls or admissions.
The term "charges" shall mean any fees, tolls, rates or admissions.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 13 - Self-Supporting Improvements › 13-1302 - Acquisition or Establishment of Self-Supporting Improvements.

§    13-1302   Acquisition   or   establishment   of   self-supporting
  improvements. The board of trustees of any village may,  by  local  law,
  provide  for  the  acquisition,  construction,  lease or purchase of any
  self-supporting improvement, or may establish any existing  recreational
  facility,   and   parking   areas   in   connection   therewith,   as  a
  self-supporting improvement, pursuant to the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 13 - Self-Supporting Improvements › 13-1304 - Use of Self-Supporting Improvements.

§  13-1304  Use of self-supporting improvements. The board of trustees
  of any village may, by local law, rule, or  regulation  after  a  public
  hearing,   held  on  notice,  limit  the  use  of  such  self-supporting
  improvement to residents of the  village  and/or  limit  the  number  of
  persons  who  may be permitted to use any self-supporting improvement at
  any time to the number of users which such board of trustees shall  find
  such  self-supporting improvement may efficiently and economically serve
  or accommodate and limit  admission  or  use  to  the  persons  applying
  therefor in the order in which applications for admission are made.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 13 - Self-Supporting Improvements › 13-1306 - Charges for Use of Self-Supporting Improvements.

§  13-1306  Charges for use of self-supporting improvements. The board
  of trustees of any village may by local law, rule, or regulation after a
  public hearing held on notice,  held  on  notice,  establish  or  revise
  charges  for  the  use or enjoyment of self-supporting improvement. Such
  board of trustees shall establish charges for the use  or  enjoyment  of
  any  such  improvement  for  a  daily,  hourly  or  single  use  of such
  improvement. In addition to such daily, hourly or  single  use  charges,
  the board of trustees of any such village may establish weekly, seasonal
  or  annual  charges  for  the  use  or  enjoyment of any self-supporting
  improvement. Applications for weekly, seasonal or annual permits to  use
  such  self-supporting improvement shall be made on forms supplied by the
  officer or employee placed in charge thereof by the board of trustees of
  the village and the charges therefor shall be paid upon the issuance  of
  such  permits.  Such  charges  shall  be  used  only  for the purpose of
  operating, maintaining and improving such  self-supporting  improvement,
  including  reserves  and  the  payment  of principal and interest on any
  bonds,  notes  or  other  obligations  issued   for   the   acquisition,
  construction, lease, purchase, improvement or reconstruction of any such
  self-supporting improvement.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1402 - Extension of Sewerage Systems Beyond Village Limits and Acquisition of Property Therefor.

§  14-1402  Extension  of  sewerage  systems beyond village limits and
  acquisition of property therefor. The board of sewer commissioners of  a
  village  may construct or extend the sewerage system without the village
  limits and may construct a sewage disposal plant  without  such  village
  and  acquire land for such purposes. If such commissioners are unable to
  agree with the  property  owners  for  the  purchase  of  real  property
  necessary for the construction or extension of the sewerage system, they
  may  acquire  the  same  by  condemnation  proceedings,  whether  it  be
  necessary to acquire the fee or an easement for a right of way  therein,
  and  whether  the property and easements necessary to be so acquired are
  within or without the village limits. But no  such  sewerage  system  or
  sewage  disposal  plant  shall  be  constructed or extended by a village
  without its limits into another town, village  or  a  city  without  the
  consent  of  the  board of trustees, town board, common council or other
  similar legislative body of such town, village or city.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1404 - Use by the State, Individuals and Corporations Outside Corporate Limits.

§  14-1404  Use  by  the  state,  individuals and corporations outside
  corporate limits. The  board  of  sewer  commissioners  may  sell  to  a
  corporation,  or to an individual, the right to make connection with its
  sewerage system for the purpose  of  discharging  sewage  or  wastewater
  therein from outside the village limits, and fix the term, consideration
  and conditions therefor.  The board shall not sell nor permit the use of
  its  sewerage  system  under this section if thereby such system will be
  rendered inadequate  for  the  village  or  its  inhabitants.  The  term
  "corporation" shall mean a corporation as defined in section one hundred
  two of the business corporation law. The board of sewer commissioners of
  any  village  may  contract with the state of New York or with the state
  authority having control and supervision of any state  institution,  and
  the  state  of  New  York  or  the  state  authority  having control and
  supervision of any state institution may  contract  with  the  board  of
  sewer  commissioners  of  any  village,  to  provide sewerage and sewage
  disposal facilities for the conveyance, treatment and  disposal  of  the
  sewage or wastewater of such state or state institution either within or
  without  the  corporate  limit  of  said  village on such conditions and
  conveying such powers to the state or such state authority and for  such
  consideration  and  such  period of time as said sewer commissioners and
  the state of New York or such state authority may agree.  The  board  of
  sewer  commissioners  of any village may contract with the United States
  of America or with  the  federal  agency,  administration  or  authority
  having   control   and   supervision   of  any  federal  institution  or
  installation to provide sewerage and sewage disposal facilities for  the
  conveyance,  treatment  and disposal of the sewage or wastewater of such
  federal  institution  or  installation  either  within  or  without  the
  corporate   limits   of   the  village  on  such  conditions,  for  such
  consideration and for such period of time as  said  sewer  commissioners
  and  the United States of America or such federal agency, administration
  or authority may agree.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1406 - Construction of a Sewerage System at Expense of Village.

§  14-1406  Construction  of  a sewerage system at expense of village.
  The board of trustees of any village may, by  resolution  adopted  at  a
  regular  meeting,  determine  upon  the construction of the whole or any
  part of  the  sewerage  system  at  the  expense  of  the  village.  The
  resolution  shall  describe  the portion of the system proposed to be so
  constructed, and shall also contain a statement of the estimated maximum
  cost thereof.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1408 - Establishment or Enlargement of Sewage Treatment Plant.

§ 14-1408 Establishment or enlargement of sewage treatment plant.  The
  board  of trustees of any village may establish a sewage treatment plant
  or enlarge or remodel an existing sewage treatment plant at the  expense
  of  the  village  by  resolution  adopted  at  a  regular  meeting.  The
  resolution shall state the maximum amount to be expended for such work.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1410 - Construction of Sewerage System at Joint Expense of Village and of Property Benefited.

§  14-1410 Construction of sewerage system at joint expense of village
  and of property benefited. The board of trustees of any village may,  by
  resolution adopted at a regular meeting, determine upon the construction
  of  the whole or any part of the sewerage system at the joint expense of
  the village and of the property benefited. The resolution shall describe
  the portion of the system as a general village  charge  or  as  a  local
  assessment on property benefited or proposed to be so constructed, shall
  contain  a statement of the estimated maximum cost thereof, and also, if
  applicable, of the proportion of the expense to  be  assessed  upon  the
  village  at  large, and the aggregate proportion to be assessed upon the
  property benefited.   If  the  resolution  be  adopted,  such  aggregate
  proportion shall be equitably adjusted with reference to the benefits to
  be derived therefrom.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1414 - Contracts for Construction of System.

§  14-1414  Contracts  for  construction of system. The board of sewer
  commissioners of a village authorized to construct the whole or any part
  of a sewerage system shall provide for the construction thereof,  either
  under  an  entire  contract,  or  in parts or sections, as the board may
  determine. All contracts shall be let to the lowest  responsible  bidder
  after  advertisement  for  bids where so required by section one hundred
  three of the general municipal law.  No contract shall be made by  which
  a  greater  amount shall be agreed to be paid than the maximum stated in
  the resolution or in the petition for the construction of such  sewerage
  system.  Nothing herein contained shall make it unlawful for the village
  authorities to make extensions  to  sewerage  systems  or  to  construct
  additional sewerage systems through or by the officers or employees of a
  village  and  authority  is  hereby  granted  to  all villages to extend
  sewerage systems and  to  construct  new  sewerage  systems  by  village
  employees  under  the  direction  of the superintendent of public works,
  street commissioner or similar officer, when authorized by resolution of
  the board of trustees and when in accordance with plans approved by  the
  state department of health.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1416 - Apportionment of Local Assessment.

§  14-1416 Apportionment of local assessment. If the whole or any part
  of the expense of constructing a sewerage system is to be assessed  upon
  the  lands benefited, the board of sewer commissioners shall prepare and
  file in the office of the village clerk a map and plan of  the  proposed
  area  of  local  assessment. Such expense shall thereupon be apportioned
  upon the lands within such area in proportion as nearly as may be to the
  benefit which each lot or parcel will derive therefrom, and the ratio of
  such benefit shall be established. After making such  apportionment  the
  board  shall  serve  upon  each  land  owner a notice thereof and of the
  filing of such map and plan, and that at a specified time  and  place  a
  hearing  will  be  had  to consider and review the same. The board shall
  meet at the time  and  place  specified  and  hear  objections  to  such
  apportionment.  It may modify and correct the same, or exclude land from
  the area of local assessment. The board of sewer commissioners, upon the
  completion of such apportionment, shall file the same in the  office  of
  the   village  clerk.  The  apportionment  shall  be  deemed  final  and
  conclusive, unless an appeal be  taken  therefrom  within  fifteen  days
  after the filing thereof.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1418 - Appeal From Apportionment.

§  14-1418  Appeal  from  apportionment.  A  person  aggrieved  by  an
  apportionment may, within fifteen days after the filing thereof,  appeal
  therefrom  to  the  county  court  of  a county in which any part of the
  village is situated. Such appeal shall be taken by a notice, stating the
  grounds thereof, addressed to the  board  of  sewer  commissioners,  and
  filed with the village clerk.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1420 - Hearing of Appeal.

§ 14-1420 Hearing of appeal. Either party may bring on the appeal upon
  a  notice  of  not  less than ten nor more than twenty days. All appeals
  from the same apportionment  must  be  consolidated  and  heard  as  one
  appeal.  The county court may affirm or reverse the apportionment. If it
  be  reversed  upon  the  ground  that  it  is  erroneous,   unequal   or
  inequitable,  the  court  shall  by  the order of reversal appoint three
  disinterested freeholders of the village as commissioners to make a  new
  apportionment, and no appeal shall be allowed from such order.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1422 - Reapportionment.

§  14-1422  Reapportionment.  A  reapportionment  shall be made in the
  following cases:
1. By the commissioners appointed  by  the  county  court,  where  the
  original  apportionment  is reversed on the ground that it is erroneous,
  unequal or inequitable.
2.  By  the  board  of  sewer   commissioners   where   the   original
  apportionment is reversed upon any other ground. A reapportionment under
  this subdivision shall be made in like manner as the original.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1424 - Procedure by New Commissioners.

§  14-1424 Procedure by new commissioners. The commissioners appointed
  by the county court shall give notice of the time  and  place  at  which
  they  will  meet  to  make  such reapportionment, and shall serve notice
  thereof at least ten days before such meeting upon each  owner  of  land
  within  the  area  of  local assessment as finally fixed by the board of
  sewer commissioners. They shall meet at the time and place specified and
  make such reapportionment in the manner herein prescribed for the  board
  of  sewer  commissioners.  They  shall  file such reapportionment in the
  office of the village clerk, and it shall be final and conclusive.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1426 - Fees of Commissioners.

§  14-1426  Fees  of commissioners. Each commissioner appointed by the
  county court is entitled to five dollars for each day necessarily  spent
  in  making  such reapportionment, besides his actual necessary expenses.
  Such fees and expenses are a charge against the  village,  and  must  be
  audited  by  the board of trustees. The amount thereof shall be added to
  the portion of the expense of constructing such sewerage system which is
  to be assessed against property specially benefited.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1428 - Expense of Construction; How Raised.

§  14-1428  Expense  of  construction;  how  raised.  The  expense  of
  constructing a sewerage system may be raised in an entire amount  or  in
  smaller  sums  from time to time as the board of sewer commissioners may
  determine. If such expense or any part thereof is to  be  assessed  upon
  property  benefited, the board may assess the same, or the instalment to
  be raised, on the several benefited lots  or  parcels  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  article twenty-two of this chapter. Nothing contained in
  this section shall  be  construed  to  prevent  the  financing  of  such
  expense, in whole or in part, pursuant to the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1430 - Tax for Unpaid Assessments.

§  14-1430  Tax  for  unpaid  assessments. The board of trustees shall
  include in the annual tax levy the principal or interest accruing during
  the same fiscal year upon bonds, notes or certificates  of  indebtedness
  issued  on  account of default in the payment of local assessments under
  this article, and shall levy the  same  upon  the  lots  or  parcels  in
  default.
Such  principal  shall  be  apportioned  among  the lots or parcels in
  default so that the tax thereon will be the same as if an equal  portion
  of the assessment were then to be paid. Interest on an unpaid assessment
  shall  be  added  to  such  tax at the rate payable by the bond, note or
  certificate of indebtedness, which must be computed to the time when the
  principal or an instalment will become due;  or  if  no  principal  will
  become  due  during  the  fiscal year, then the interest accruing during
  that year upon the assessment must be levied upon such lot or parcel.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1434 - Assessments From Year to Year to Pay Bond Maturities.

§ 14-1434 Assessments from year to year to pay bond maturities.  Where
  a  sewerage  system  to  serve  part  of a village has been financed and
  constructed  pursuant  to  a  resolution  of  its  board   of   trustees
  authorizing  such  improvement at the joint expense of such village, the
  United States of America and the lands  benefited  and  determining  the
  portion  of  such  expense  to  be  borne  by such lands, and where such
  village has issued bonds maturing in annual installments over  a  period
  of fifteen or more years to pay such portion, and such board has adopted
  a  resolution  that  the  respective  amounts  of  such installments and
  interest be assessed from year to year upon  such  lands,  such  amounts
  shall  be  so assessed and no part of such expense shall otherwise be or
  become a lien upon any such lands.   Such board shall  annually  compute
  the  amount  necessary  to  pay  such  principal and interest due and to
  become due during the fiscal year and apportion and assess the same upon
  such lands in proportion as nearly as may be to the benefit  which  each
  parcel  thereof  will  derive  from  the  construction  of such sewerage
  system. After making such apportionment such board shall give notice  of
  the  completion thereof and that at a specified time and place a hearing
  will be held to consider and review the same. Such board shall  meet  at
  the   time   and   place  so  specified  and  hear  objections  to  such
  apportionment and modify, correct and file the same in the office of the
  village clerk whereupon the same shall be deemed  final  and  conclusive
  unless,  within  fifteen  days, an appeal is taken therefrom. Such board
  may cause any amount so assessed upon any such parcel to be collected in
  the manner provided by law for the collection of assessments  for  local
  improvement  or cause the same to be included in an annual tax levy upon
  such parcel. An assessment heretofore made as provided herein  shall  be
  deemed valid for all purposes.
Where lateral sewers are constructed at the expense of the village and
  property  benefited,  as  an addition to the sewerage system constructed
  with federal aid, special assessments may be levied  for  such  laterals
  from  year  to  year  and  the  cost  thereof apportioned as though said
  laterals  had  constituted  a  part  of  the  original  sewerage  system
  constructed with federal aid. Nothing contained in this section shall be
  construed to prevent the financing of such expense, in whole or in part,
  pursuant to the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1436 - Contracts With Other Municipalities, Sewer Districts, Et Cetera.

§  14-1436  Contracts  with  other municipalities, sewer districts, et
  cetera. The board of sewer commissioners may contract for the connection
  of the sewerage system thereof  with  the  sewerage  system  of  another
  village,  or  of  a  town, or city, or of a sewer district or wastewater
  disposal district established under the provisions of article twelve  of
  the  town  law;  or jointly with such other village or a town or city or
  sewer district or wastewater disposal district established as aforesaid,
  may construct, maintain, operate or  use  sewers,  outlets  or  disposal
  works  or  private  on-site wastewater disposal systems; or may contract
  with any such other village, or town, or  city,  or  sewer  district  or
  wastewater  disposal  district established as aforesaid for the right to
  construct and maintain through any such other village, town or city,  or
  sewer district or wastewater disposal district established as aforesaid,
  an  outlet  sewer, including the right to acquire real property for such
  sewer outlet, which thereupon may be acquired either at private sale  or
  by  condemnation  as  authorized  by this act. No sewerage system of any
  other village, town or sewer district or  wastewater  disposal  district
  thereof,  or  city,  shall  be  constructed  in  any village without the
  approval of the board of sewer commissioners of  the  village  in  which
  such sewerage system shall be constructed, and no such contract shall be
  made  unless  a  resolution  therefor  be adopted by the trustees of the
  village constructing the sewerage system, stating the maximum expense.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 15 - Cemeteries › 15-1500 - Acquisition of Lands for Cemeteries.

§  15-1500. Acquisition of lands for cemeteries. The board of cemetery
  commissioners of a village may, in behalf  of  the  village,  accept  by
  gift,  grant  or devise thereto, land for one or more village cemeteries
  within the village, or  wholly  within  five  miles  of  the  boundaries
  thereof.  The  board  of  trustees  may,  by  unanimous  vote,  adopt  a
  resolution to purchase for such purpose, any  lands  so  located,  which
  resolution  must  specify the maximum amount to be paid therefor and the
  mode of raising such amount; provided, however, that if the lands to  be
  purchased  are  within  the village and are to be used for park purposes
  such resolution may be adopted by majority vote. If  the  resolution  be
  adopted,  the  board  of  cemetery commissioners may purchase such lands
  accordingly, or if unable to agree with  the  owners  for  the  purchase
  thereof, may acquire the title thereto pursuant to the provisions of the
  eminent  domain procedure law. All lands acquired by gift, grant, devise
  or purchase for a village cemetery shall be a part of the  territory  of
  the  village,  and  upon  the acquisition of same, a map and description
  thereof shall be filed in the office of the village clerk and if located
  outside of the village, in the office of the secretary of state.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 15 - Cemeteries › 15-1502 - Division Into Lots; Conveyances of Lots.

§  15-1502  Division  into  lots;  conveyances  of  lots. The board of
  cemetery commissioners shall have the supervision  and  control  of  all
  village cemeteries. It shall cause the same to be divided into lots, and
  provide  for  the conveyance thereof to individuals for the sole purpose
  of interments, and upon the payment of the purchase-price  of  any  lot,
  shall,  in  the  name of the village, execute, acknowledge and deliver a
  conveyance to the purchaser thereof. The clerk of the village shall keep
  a record of the sale of each lot, its number, the date of sale  and  the
  name  of  the  purchaser;  and  shall record each conveyance thereof. No
  sale, transfer or  assignment  of  such  lot  or  any  interest  therein
  subsequent  to  the  sale  by  the  village shall be valid, unless by an
  instrument in writing signed and duly acknowledged and recorded  in  the
  office  of  the  village  clerk. The clerk shall be entitled to the same
  fees as the county clerk for the recording of each conveyance.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 15 - Cemeteries › 15-1504 - Rules and Regulations.

§  15-1504  Rules and regulations. The board of cemetery commissioners
  may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for:
1. The care, management and protection of the cemetery grounds.
2. The use, care and protection of lots in such cemeteries.
3. The conduct  of  persons  within  the  cemetery  grounds,  and  the
  exclusion of improper persons therefrom.
4. Regulating the dividing marks between the various lots and parts of
  lots in cemeteries and their size, shape and location.
5.  Preventing or regulating monuments, effigies and structures within
  the same.
6. Regulating or preventing the introduction  and  growth  of  plants,
  trees and shrubs within such grounds.
7.  The  prevention of the burial in any lot or part of any lot of any
  person not entitled to be buried therein.
Such rules  and  regulations,  when  adopted,  shall  be  printed  and
  conspicuously posted in at least five places upon the cemetery grounds.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 15 - Cemeteries › 15-1506 - Assessment of Lots.

§  15-1506  Assessment of lots. 1. The board of cemetery commissioners
  of any village shall have, in addition to the powers granted by  section
  15-1502  of  this chapter, the power to assess the owners of lots in any
  cemetery in its respective  village  subject  to  its  jurisdiction  and
  control  an amount not exceeding twelve dollars per year for the purpose
  of raising moneys to keep the lots in such cemetery in good  and  proper
  condition,  and the trustees of each such village for that purpose shall
  have all the powers mentioned in section fourteen  hundred  one  of  the
  not-for-profit corporation law.
2.  If  the  assessments  so  levied remain unpaid for a period of ten
  years or more the amount thereof with interest shall be a  lien  on  the
  unused  portion  of  the lot which is subject to such assessment, and no
  portion of the lot shall  be  used  by  the  owner  thereof  for  burial
  purposes, while any such assessment remains unpaid.
3.  If  at  the  expiration  of  ten  years from the date of the first
  assessment, any such assessment or interest thereon shall remain unpaid,
  the commission may sell  the  unused  portion  of  such  lot  at  public
  auction, on the cemetery grounds, providing a written notice stating the
  amount  of  such  unpaid assessment and that such unused portion of such
  lot will be sold at a time therein to be specified, not less than thirty
  days from the date of the service of such notice,  shall  be  personally
  served  upon  the  owner  of  record or his successor in interest, or if
  personal service on such person cannot with due diligence be made,  then
  such  notice  of  sale  shall  be  forwarded by registered mail securely
  wrapped and addressed to the last owner of record and  also  by  posting
  such  notice  of  sale  in  three  conspicuous places located within the
  village where the cemetery is located. In the  event  that  the  village
  maintains a website, one of the posting requirements may be fulfilled by
  posting  such  information  on  the website. Said sale shall not be held
  within thirty days of  the  date  of  personal  service  or  of  mailing
  registered  notice  as  the  case  may  be. The surplus proceeds of sale
  remaining after paying all  assessments,  interest,  costs  and  charges
  shall  be  set  aside  by  the  commissioners as a fund for the care and
  improvement of the portion of such lot that has  been  used  for  burial
  purposes.