2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 250 - Purpose.

§ 250. Purpose. The board of supervisors of each county may establish,
  consolidate,  or  extend  county  water, water quality treatment, sewer,
  wastewater disposal, drainage or refuse districts (hereinafter  referred
  to  in  this  article  as  the  "district")  in  the  manner hereinafter
  provided:
1. For the purpose of developing or acquiring a supply  of  water  for
  (a)   wholesale  distribution  to  other  municipalities,  districts  or
  persons, corporate or otherwise, within the county water  district,  (b)
  retail  distribution,  except  as hereinafter provided, or (c) both such
  wholesale and retail distribution;
1-a. For the purpose of (a) procuring  by  purchase,  lease  or  other
  means  and  installing  water  quality  treatment  units  or devices, if
  required; providing periodic testing and monitoring of raw and  finished
  water  from  private  wells  in  the  district;  monitoring,  modifying,
  repairing, replacing,  operation  and  maintenance,  regenerating  water
  quality  treatment  units  and  devices  and  the  administering  of the
  treatment and disposal of residuals generated in the  operation  of  the
  district  pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the public health
  and health planning council under section two hundred twenty-five of the
  public health law; (b) assisting local, state and federal  agencies  and
  officials  in  efforts  to  establish  causes of, and implement remedial
  measures  to  reduce  water  contamination  and  protect  future   water
  resources  within the district; (c) conduct public meetings and issue an
  annual public report to  members  of  the  district  on  the  operation,
  financial  position  and  water  quality  condition  of  said  district;
  provided, however, that with respect to any town in the county the board
  of supervisors shall first determine that such district or service  will
  not be established or provided by such town.
2. For the purpose of (a) the conveyance from other municipalities and
  districts  within  the  county  of  sewage,  and  treatment and disposal
  thereof, (b) collection, except as hereinafter  provided,  or  (c)  both
  such conveyance and such collection;
3.   For   the  purpose  of  administration  and  planning  (including
  educational    programs),    design,     installation,     construction,
  rehabilitation,   replacement,   operation  and  maintenance  (including
  pumping and inspections), monitoring, residual  treatment  and  disposal
  and  regulation  of  private on-site wastewater disposal systems of such
  district;
4. For the purpose of drainage of storm water and other waters, either
  surface or subsurface, within the county;
4-a. For the purpose of effecting lake protection and  rehabilitation,
  and any activities necessarily related thereto.
5.  For  the  purpose  of  the  collection and disposition of garbage,
  ashes, rubbish and other waste matter within the county.
6. A county district established hereunder may consist of two or  more
  noncontiguous  areas  in  which  the  water, sewer, wastewater disposal,
  drainage or refuse system (hereinafter referred to in  this  article  as
  the  "system")  will  be  interrelated  and  interdependent, however, in
  Suffolk county the  term  "interrelated  and  interdependent"  shall  be
  deemed  to  mean  that the noncontiguous areas must be within the county
  and  have  the  same  administrative  head.  However,  a  water  quality
  treatment district established hereunder may consist of noncontiguous or
  contiguous  benefited  parcels  of  property  and  shall be created by a
  resolution of the county board of supervisors,  upon  petition  after  a
  public hearing.
7.  Except  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  no county district shall be
  established hereunder which shall consist wholly of territory within one

  city, within one village or within that portion of one town outside of a
  village.
8.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law a sewer district may
  also exercise all the powers of a wastewater disposal  district  if  the
  map  and  plan  prepared  pursuant to section two hundred fifty-three of
  this chapter, or amended pursuant to section two  hundred  fifty-three-b
  of this chapter, includes on-site wastewater disposal systems.