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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1062 - Bonds Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§  1062. Bonds legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds are hereby
  made securities in which all public officers and bodies  of  this  state
  and   all  municipalities  and  municipal  subdivisions,  all  insurance
  companies and associations and other persons carrying  on  an  insurance
  business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings
  associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan
  associations,  investment  companies  and  other  persons  carrying on a
  banking  business,  and  all  other  persons   whatsoever,   except   as
  hereinafter  provided,  who  are  now  or may hereafter be authorized to
  invest in bonds or other obligations of  the  state,  may  properly  and
  legally  invest funds including capital in their control or belonging to
  them; provided that, notwithstanding the provisions of any other general
  or special law to the contrary, such bonds shall not be eligible for the
  investment  of  funds  including  capital,   of   trusts,   estates   or
  guardianships under the control of individual administrators, guardians,
  executors, trustees and other individual fiduciaries. The bonds are also
  hereby  made  securities which may be deposited with and may be received
  by all public officers and bodies of this state and  all  municipalities
  and  municipal  subdivisions  for  any  purpose for which the deposit of
  bonds or other obligations of this state is  now  or  may  hereafter  be
  authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1063 - Exemption From Taxes.

§  1063.  Exemption  from  taxes.  1. It is hereby determined that the
  creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes
  is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the county  of  Erie
  and  its  environs,  and is a public purpose, and the authority shall be
  regarded as performing a governmental function in the  exercise  of  the
  powers  conferred upon it by this title and shall not be required to pay
  any taxes, special ad valorem levies or  special  assessments  upon  any
  property  owned  by it or under its jurisdiction, control or supervision
  or upon its activities, or any filing, recording or  transfer  taxes  in
  relation  to  instruments filed, recorded or transferred by it or on its
  behalf.
2. Any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this title, together with the
  income therefrom shall be exempt from taxation, except for transfer  and
  estate  taxes.  The  revenues,  monies  and  other  properties  and  the
  activities of the authority shall be exempt from taxes and  governmental
  fees  or  charges,  whether  imposed  by  the state or any municipality,
  including real estate taxes, franchise taxes or other excise taxes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1064 - Tax Contract by the State.

§  1064.  Tax  contract  by the state. The state of New York covenants
  with the purchasers and with all subsequent holders and  transferees  of
  bonds  or  notes  issued  by  the  authority  pursuant to this title, in
  consideration of the acceptance of and payment for the  bonds  or  notes
  that  the bonds and notes of the authority issued pursuant to this title
  and the income therefrom, and all moneys, funds and revenues pledged  to
  pay  or secure the payment of such bonds or notes, shall at all times be
  free from taxation except for estate taxes and taxes on transfers by  or
  in contemplation of death.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1065 - Control by Other Boards or Commissions.

§  1065.  Control  by  other  boards or commissions. No certificate of
  convenience and necessity, license, consent or other authorization shall
  be required to  be  obtained  by  the  authority  or  by  a  water-works
  corporation  from  any board, commission or other agency of the state in
  order that the authority may acquire, lease, own and operate,  maintain,
  improve,  extend  or  enlarge  any property or properties referred to in
  this title, or that any water-works corporation may sell,  transfer,  or
  lease  its  franchise,  works  or  system,  or  any  part thereof to the
  authority, except that  nothing  in  this  section  contained  shall  be
  construed to deprive the state water power and control commission of any
  jurisdiction which that commission may now or hereafter have pursuant to
  the  provisions of the conservation law (constituting chapter sixty-five
  of the consolidated laws),  or  of  any  jurisdiction  which  the  state
  commissioner  of  health  may  now  or  hereafter  have  pursuant to the
  provisions of article  five  of  the  public  health  law  (constituting
  chapter  forty-five  of the consolidated laws). Neither the state public
  service commission nor any other board or commission of  like  character
  shall, unless expressly authorized hereafter, have jurisdiction over the
  authority  in the management and control of its properties or operations
  or any power over the regulation of the rates fixed or charges collected
  by the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1067 - Actions.

§  1067.  Actions.  1. In any case founded upon tort a notice of claim
  shall be required as a condition precedent to  the  commencement  of  an
  action  or  special  proceeding  against  the  authority or any officer,
  appointee, agent or employee thereof,  and  the  provisions  of  section
  fifty-e  of  the  general  municipal law shall govern the giving of such
  notice. Except in an action for wrongful death, an  action  against  the
  authority  for damages for injuries to real or personal property, or for
  the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries, alleged to have  been
  sustained,  shall  not  be  commenced more than one year and ninety days
  after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued.
2. An action  against  the  authority  for  wrongful  death  shall  be
  commenced  in  accordance  with  the notice of claim and time limitation
  provisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1068 - Officers and Employees Not to Be Interested in Transactions.

§  1068.  Officers and employees not to be interested in transactions.
  It shall be a misdemeanor for any of the members of  the  authority,  or
  any  officer,  agent, servant or employee thereof, employed or appointed
  by them to be in any way or manner interested directly or indirectly  in
  the furnishing of work, materials, supplies or labor, or in any contract
  therefor which the authority is empowered by this act to make.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1069 - Contracts.

§  1069. Contracts. The authority shall let contracts for construction
  or purchase of supplies, materials, or equipment  pursuant  to  sections
  one  hundred  one  and  one  hundred three of the general municipal law.
  Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit  the  power  of  the
  authority  to  do  any construction directly by the officers, agents and
  employees of the authority or to contract with a public utility,  for  a
  term  not  to  exceed five years, for the operation and maintenance of a
  water supply system acquired from said public utility.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1070 - Annual Report.

§  1070.  Annual  report.  The  authority shall submit to the board of
  supervisors of the county, and to  the  comptroller,  within  the  first
  month  of  each  fiscal  year,  a  detailed  report  setting  forth  the
  operations and fiscal transactions of the authority during the preceding
  fiscal year, the financial condition of such authority and  a  statement
  of all receipts and expenditures during such year.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1071 - Limitation of Liability.

§ 1071. Limitation of liability. Neither the members of the authority,
  nor  any person or persons acting in its behalf, while acting within the
  scope of their authority, shall be subject  to  any  personal  liability
  resulting  from  the erection, construction, reconstruction, maintenance
  or operation of the properties  or  any  of  the  improvements  or  from
  carrying out any of the powers expressly given in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1072 - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§ 1072. Effect of inconsistent provisions. In so far as the provisions
  of  this  title  are  inconsistent with the provisions of any other act,
  general or special, or of any local law, the provisions  of  this  title
  shall be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 3 - Erie County Water Authority › 1073 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

§ 1073. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective.
  If  any  section,  clause  or  provision  of  this  title  shall be held
  unconstitutional, or be ineffective in whole or in part, to  the  extent
  that  it  is not unconstitutional, or ineffective, it shall be valid and
  effective and no other section, clause or provision  shall,  on  account
  thereof, be deemed invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1075 - Statement of Purpose.

§  1075.  Statement of purpose. Prior to the enactment of section five
  of article ten of the constitution (effective on January first, nineteen
  hundred  thirty-nine)  public  benefit  corporations  could  be  created
  pursuant  to  general  law  and chapter eight hundred forty-seven of the
  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  thirty-four,  as  amended,  authorized  the
  creation  of county water authorities. On the twenty-ninth day of March,
  nineteen hundred thirty-seven,  the  board  of  supervisors  of  Suffolk
  county  pursuant  to  such  chapter  created  the  Suffolk  county water
  authority, which since such date has been in continuous existence  as  a
  body  corporate  and politic, constituting a public benefit corporation.
  Thereafter the provisions of such chapter were reenacted  and  continued
  as article seven of the county law by chapter one hundred ninety-five of
  the  laws  of nineteen hundred forty. The Suffolk county water authority
  is the only county water authority  created  pursuant  to  such  chapter
  eight  hundred  forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four,
  as amended, or pursuant to such article seven of the county  law.  Since
  the  enactment of section five of article ten of the constitution public
  benefit  corporations  may  be  created  only  by  special  act  of  the
  legislature  and,  to the extent that the provisions of article seven of
  the county law  purport  to  authorize  the  creation  of  county  water
  authorities  pursuant  to  its  provisions  subsequent to January first,
  nineteen hundred thirty-nine, such provisions  of  the  county  law  are
  obsolete.  The purpose of this title is to continue the existence of the
  Suffolk county water authority, to place the statutory provisions of law
  applicable  thereto  in  the   public   authorities   law   where   they
  appropriately  belong,  to  provide  for  the  powers  and duties of the
  authority, and to repeal the provisions of present article seven of  the
  county law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1076 - Definitions.

§  1076.  Definitions.  As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context,
1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation heretofore  created
  pursuant  to  the provisions of chapter eight hundred forty-seven of the
  laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four and thereafter  continued  pursuant
  to  the  provisions  of  article  seven  of  the  county  law, and whose
  existence is continued by section one  thousand  seventy-seven  of  this
  title;
2. The term "municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village,
  town water district, fire district, fire protection district, fire alarm
  district,  school  district,  and any other political subdivision of the
  state;
3. The term "bonds" shall mean the  bonds  issued  by  the  authority,
  pursuant to this title.
4.  The  designation  board  of supervisors shall mean the legislative
  body of the county of Suffolk.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1078-B - Discontinuance Procedures.

§    1078-b.   Discontinuance   procedures.   No   discontinuance   or
  disconnection of any supply of water shall be carried out except in  the
  manner  and  upon the notice as is required of a water-works corporation
  pursuant  to  subdivisions  three-a,  three-b  and  three-c  of  section
  eighty-nine-b and section one hundred sixteen of the public service law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1078-D - Additional Powers of the County of Suffolk and Towns and Villages Within Suffolk County.

§  1078-d.  Additional  powers  of the county of Suffolk and towns and
  villages within Suffolk county. 1. a. In addition to any powers  granted
  by any general or special law, the board of supervisors of the county of
  Suffolk,  acting  on behalf of the county, and any town board or village
  board of trustees of any town or village within the county  of  Suffolk,
  acting  on behalf of such town or village, either separately or pursuant
  to agreements among themselves, may, from time to time,  appropriate  by
  resolution  sums  of money to defray costs and expenses of the authority
  associated with the extension of authority mains to areas in the  county
  within  which  the  county  department of health services has documented
  that  private  wells  providing  water  to  home  owners   have   become
  contaminated  with pollutants in concentrations greater than recommended
  by any drinking water guidelines or standard established by the  federal
  government  or  this  state,  and may enter into a contract or contracts
  with the authority to so extend authority mains.
b. In areas of  documented  groundwater  contamination  where  potable
  water  may be more economically supplied by a municipal water authority,
  special district or improvement area  established  to  provide  a  water
  improvement,  or  by  a  village,  than  by  the  Suffolk  county  water
  authority, the county board of supervisors and any town board or village
  board of trustees within Suffolk county may appropriate sums of money to
  said municipal water authority, special district or improvement area  or
  village, and enter into a contract or contracts, in accordance with this
  subdivision.
2.  Persons  wishing  to  connect  to mains that have been extended to
  areas of documented groundwater contamination with financial  assistance
  by  the  county,  or  any  town  or village as provided herein, shall be
  solely responsible for costs and expenses associated with connecting  to
  said mains.
3.  Appropriations of money by the county board of supervisors and any
  town board or village board of trustees in the county of Suffolk to  the
  authority  or  to  a  municipal  water  authority,  special  district or
  improvement area or village within Suffolk county, and any  contract  or
  contracts entered into with said authority or municipal water authority,
  special  district  or improvement area or village prior to the effective
  date of this section that  are  consistent  with  the  authorization  in
  subdivision  one  of  this  section  are  hereby  legalized,  validated,
  ratified and confirmed.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1078-E - Acquisition by Eminent Domain.

§ 1078-e. Acquisition by eminent domain. Notwithstanding any provision
  of  the  eminent domain procedure law to the contrary, in any proceeding
  brought by the authority pursuant to such law, title shall vest  in  the
  authority and compensation shall be paid only (a) upon a decision by the
  supreme court that compensation for the real property so condemned shall
  be  determined  solely by the income capitalization method of valuation,
  based on the  actual  net  income  as  allowed  by  the  public  service
  commission,  and  (b)  upon  such court's determination of the amount of
  such compensation, based upon the income capitalization method, entry of
  the final judgment, the filing of the final decree, and  the  conclusion
  of any appeal or expiration of the time to file an appeal related to the
  condemnation  proceeding.  If  any  court  shall  utilize  any method of
  compensation other than the income  capitalization  method,  or  if  the
  proposed  compensation is more than the rate base of the assets taken in
  condemnation as utilized by the public  service  commission  in  setting
  rates  and  as certified by the public service commission, the authority
  may withdraw the condemnation proceeding without prejudice or  costs  to
  any party.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1078-F - Charges by Authority; Method of Collection.

§  1078-f. Charges by authority; method of collection. All rates, fees
  and other charges for the use  or  availability  of  the  facilities  or
  services  or commodities provided or made available by the authority and
  billed directly by the  authority  to  the  user  or  service  recipient
  pursuant  to  a  classification  of  person  adopted by the authority as
  herein provided shall be a lien upon the real property upon which, or in
  connection with which, services are provided or are made  available,  as
  and  from  the  first  date  fixed for a payment of such rates, fees and
  other charges. Any such lien shall take precedence over all other liens,
  or encumbrances,  except  taxes  or  assessments.  The  chief  financial
  officer  of  the authority shall prepare and transmit to the receiver of
  taxes and assessments, on or before the first day of  November  in  each
  year, a list of those properties using such facilities or for which such
  facilities,  services or commodities were provided or made available and
  from which the payment of rates, fees and other charges are  in  arrears
  for a period of ninety days or more after the last day fixed for payment
  of  such  rates,  fees and other charges without penalty. The list shall
  contain a brief description of such properties, the names of the persons
  or corporations liable to pay for the same, and the amount chargeable to
  each, including penalties  and  interest,  as  applicable,  computed  to
  December   thirty-first   of  that  year.  The  receiver  of  taxes  and
  assessments shall levy such sums against the properties liable and shall
  state the amount thereof in a separate column in the annual tax rolls of
  the county under the heading "water  charge."  Such  amounts,  excluding
  penalties  and  interest  imposed  by  the  county when collected by the
  county collector or receivers of taxes, shall be paid over to the  chief
  financial  officer  of  the  authority.  County  imposed  penalties  and
  interest shall be retained by the county collector or receiver of  taxes
  which shall become a part of the general funds of the county. All of the
  provisions  of  the  tax  law  of  the  state  governing enforcement and
  collection of unpaid taxes or assessments for special  improvements  not
  inconsistent  herewith  shall  apply  to  the  collection of such unpaid
  rates, rentals, fees and other charges.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1079 - Survey of Water Resources.

§ 1079. Survey of water resources. The board of supervisors of Suffolk
  county  may,  by  resolution,  appropriate  a sum of money to defray the
  preliminary expenses of such authority so  created  and  may  thereafter
  appropriate  such  sums  as may be required, for the purpose of making a
  survey of the water resources of the said county, and the preparation of
  a map or plan for the development thereof. The authority shall, as  soon
  as  possible,  make  a  survey of the water resources of the county, and
  prepare a map and plan for the development of the same showing in detail
  the proposed sources of water to be developed,  and  the  municipalities
  and  areas  which may be served thereby. Application for approval of the
  project shall then be made to the water power and control commission  as
  provided  by article eleven of the conservation law. If so approved, the
  authority shall enter into  such  contracts  or  agreements  as  may  be
  necessary  to carry out the plan of such development. The authority may,
  however, acquire by purchase or condemnation any existing  water  supply
  and  distribution  system  without  making  such survey and except as to
  properties to be  acquired  under  condemnation  proceedings  instituted
  prior   to  February  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-two  after  first
  obtaining the approval of  the  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county,
  provided,  however,  that  the  authority shall not acquire any existing
  water supply and distribution system owned by a municipality unless  the
  governing   board  thereof  shall  adopt  a  resolution  requesting  the
  authority to make such acquisition.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1080-A - Notes of the Authority.

§  1080-a.  Notes of the authority. The authority shall have power and
  is hereby authorized to issue  negotiable  bond  anticipation  notes  in
  conformity with applicable provisions of the uniform commercial code and
  may  renew  the  same  from time to time but the maximum maturity of any
  such note, including renewals thereof, shall not exceed five years  from
  the  date  of issue of such original note. Such notes shall be paid from
  any moneys of the authority available therefor and not otherwise pledged
  or from  the  proceeds  of  sale  of  the  bonds  of  the  authority  in
  anticipation  of  which they were issued, or, subject to the contractual
  rights of the holders of any bonds or notes then outstanding,  from  the
  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  any other bonds of the authority. The notes
  shall be issued in the same manner as the bonds and  the  resolution  or
  resolutions  authorizing the same may contain any provisions, conditions
  or limitations which the bonds or a bond resolution of the authority may
  contain. Such notes may be sold at public or private sale  at  not  less
  than par and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six percent per
  annum.  The  provisions  of sections ten hundred eighty-one, ten hundred
  eighty-two, ten hundred eighty-three and ten hundred eighty-four of  the
  public  authorities  law  relating  to bonds of the Suffolk county water
  authority shall apply with the same full force and effect  to  notes  of
  the authority herein authorized to be issued.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1081 - Bonds as Legal Investments.

§  1081.  Bonds  as legal investments. The bonds herein authorized are
  hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies  of  this
  state  and  all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance
  companies and associations and other persons carrying  on  an  insurance
  business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings
  associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan
  associations,  investment  companies  and  other  persons  carrying on a
  banking  business,  and  all  other  persons   whomsoever,   except   as
  hereinafter  provided,  who  are  now  or may hereafter be authorized to
  invest in bonds or other obligations of  the  state,  may  properly  and
  legally  invest funds including capital in their control or belonging to
  them, provided that, notwithstanding the provisions of any other general
  or special law to the contrary, such bonds shall not be eligible for the
  investment  of  funds  including  capital,   of   trusts,   estates   or
  guardianships under the control of individual administrators, guardians,
  executors, trustees and other individual fiduciaries. The bonds are also
  hereby  made  securities which may be deposited with and may be received
  by all public officers and bodies of this state and  all  municipalities
  and  municipal  subdivisions  for  any  purpose for which the deposit of
  bonds or other obligations of this state is  now  or  may  hereafter  be
  authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1082 - Bonds and Property of the Authority Exempt From Taxation.

§  1082.  Bonds and property of the authority exempt from taxation. It
  is hereby determined that the creation of the authority and the carrying
  out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of  the
  people  of  the county, and is a public purpose, and the authority shall
  be regarded as performing a governmental function in the exercise of the
  powers conferred upon it by this title and shall not be required to  pay
  any  taxes,  special  ad  valorem levies or special assessments upon any
  property owned by it or under its jurisdiction, control  or  supervision
  or  upon  its  activities, or any filing, recording or transfer taxes in
  relation to instruments filed, recorded or transferred by it or  on  its
  behalf.  Any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this title, together with
  the income therefrom shall be exempt from taxation, except for  transfer
  and  estate  taxes.  The  revenues,  monies and other properties and the
  activities of the authority shall be exempt from taxes and  governmental
  fees  or  charges,  whether  imposed  by  the state or any municipality,
  including real estate taxes, franchise taxes or other excise taxes.  The
  state  of New York covenants with the purchasers and with all subsequent
  holders and transferees of bonds  and  notes  issued  by  the  authority
  pursuant  to  this  title,  in  consideration  of  the acceptance of and
  payment for the bonds  and  notes  that  the  bonds  and  notes  of  the
  authority  issued  pursuant  to this title and the income therefrom, and
  all moneys, funds and revenues pledged to pay or secure the  payment  of
  such  bonds  and  notes, shall at all times be free from taxation except
  for transfer and estate taxes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1083 - State, County and Municipalities Not Liable on Bonds.

§  1083.  State,  county  and municipalities not liable on bonds.  The
  bonds of the authority shall not be a debt of the state of New  York  or
  of  the  county  or  of  any municipality in the county, and neither the
  state nor the county nor any municipality in the county shall be  liable
  thereon,  nor shall they be payable out of any funds other than those of
  the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1084 - Agreements of the State.

§  1084. Agreements of the state. The state of New York does pledge to
  and agree with the holders of the bonds that the state will not limit or
  alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to  acquire,  construct,
  maintain,  operate, reconstruct and improve the properties, to establish
  and collect  the  revenues,  rates,  rentals,  fees  and  other  charges
  referred  to  in  this  title and to fulfill the terms of any agreements
  made with the holders of the bonds, or in any way impair the rights  and
  remedies  of  the  bondholders,  until the bonds, together with interest
  thereon, interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all  costs
  and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf
  of the bondholders, are fully met and discharged.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1085 - Contracts for Sale of Water Wholesale.

§  1085.  Contracts  for  sale of water wholesale. Any municipality is
  hereby authorized to contract with the authority  for  the  purchase  of
  water  from the authority at wholesale for a period not exceeding thirty
  years except that, in the case of a fire protection district or  a  fire
  alarm  district such period shall not exceed five years, and in the case
  of a fire district,  such  period  shall  not  exceed  ten  years.  Such
  contract  shall  provide  that  the  liability of such purchaser for the
  payment of any sums pursuant to such contract shall arise only  at  such
  time  as  such water has been actually delivered to such purchaser. Such
  contract shall state the rates, fees or charges  to  be  paid  for  such
  water,  shall  provide  for the adjustment thereof either by increase or
  decrease from time to time by mutual agreement of the  parties  thereto,
  subject  however  to  any  provisions contained in any resolution of the
  authority authorizing obligations relating to the imposition  of  rates,
  fees  or  charges  and  the revision or adjustment thereof. Prior to the
  execution of such contract the governing board  of  any  such  purchaser
  shall  call  a  public  hearing  to  consider the subject matter and the
  desirability of the execution of the proposed contract and shall publish
  notice thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in the  territorial
  boundaries  of  such  purchaser, at least once and not less than fifteen
  days before the date of such public hearing. Such notice  shall  briefly
  state  the  terms  of  the  proposed contract, the date and place of the
  public hearing and further  state  that  at  such  time  and  place  the
  governing  board  will hear all persons interested. If after considering
  the evidence adduced at such hearing, such governing body shall conclude
  that the execution of such contract is in the  public  interest  it  may
  authorize  the execution thereof by the adoption of a resolution to such
  effect.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1086 - Audit of Authority; Annual Report.

§  1086.  Audit  of  authority;  annual report. In conformity with the
  provisions of section five of  article  ten  of  the  constitution,  the
  accounts  of  the  authority  shall be subject to the supervision of the
  state comptroller and such state comptroller and his legally  authorized
  representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to
  examine  the  accounts  and  the  books  of the authority, including its
  receipts, disbursements, contracts, leases, sinking  funds,  investments
  and  any other matters relating to its financial standing. The authority
  shall annually submit to the governor and to the legislature and also to
  the board of supervisors of Suffolk county a detailed report pursuant to
  the  provisions  of  section  twenty-eight  hundred  of  this   chapter.
  Notwithstanding  the  ninety  day  period  set forth in paragraph (a) of
  subdivision two of section twenty-eight hundred  of  this  chapter,  the
  authority  shall  submit  such  detailed  report  within one hundred and
  twenty days after the end of its fiscal year.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1087 - Interest in Contracts Prohibited.

§  1087.  Interest  in contracts prohibited. It shall be a misdemeanor
  for any of the members of the authority, or any officer, agent,  servant
  or  employee  thereof, employed or appointed by them to be in any way or
  manner interested directly or indirectly  in  the  furnishing  of  work,
  materials,  supplies  or  labor,  or  in any contract therefor which the
  authority is empowered by this title to make.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1089 - Actions.

§  1089.  Actions.  1. In any case founded upon tort a notice of claim
  shall be required as a condition precedent to  the  commencement  of  an
  action  or  special  proceeding  against  the  authority or any officer,
  appointee or employee thereof, and the provisions of section fifty-e  of
  the general municipal law shall govern the giving of such notice. Except
  in  an  action  for  wrongful death, an action against the authority for
  damages  for  injuries  to  real  or  personal  property,  or  for   the
  destruction  thereof,  or  for  personal  injuries, alleged to have been
  sustained, shall not be commenced more than one  year  and  ninety  days
  after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued.
2.  An  action  against  the  authority  for  wrongful  death shall be
  commenced in accordance with the notice of  claim  and  time  limitation
  provisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1090 - Expenses of Hearing.

§   1090.   Expenses   of   hearing.  The  expenses  of  any  hearing,
  determination or other action which the provisions of this title require
  of the  water  power  and  control  commission  shall  be  paid  by  the
  applicant. Bills for such expenses shall be certified by said commission
  to  the  applicant  and  paid  by the applicant directly to the claimant
  within thirty days of the date of such certification.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1091 - Separability Clause.

§  1091.  Separability  clause. If any section, clause or provision in
  this title shall be held by a competent court to be unconstitutional  or
  ineffective  in  whole  or  in  part,  to  the  extent  that  it  is not
  unconstitutional or ineffective it shall be valid and effective, and  no
  other  section,  clause  or provision shall on account thereof be deemed
  invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 4 - Suffolk County Water Authority › 1092 - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§ 1092. Effect of inconsistent provisions. In so far as the provisions
  of  this  title  are  inconsistent with the provisions of any other act,
  general or special, or of any local law of any city, the  provisions  of
  this  title  shall be controlling. Nothing contained in this title shall
  be held to  alter  or  abridge  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  state
  department  of  health or of the water power and control commission over
  water supply matters.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1094 - Definitions.

§  1094.  Definitions.  As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context,
1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation created by  section
  one thousand ninety-five of this title;
2. The term "county" shall mean the county of Monroe;
3. The term "treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority;
4.  The  term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of
  New York;
5. The term "civil service commission" shall mean  the  civil  service
  commission of the county of Monroe;
6.  The term "properties" shall mean the water supply and distribution
  system or  systems  of  the  authority,  including  the  plants,  works,
  instrumentalities  or  parts  thereof  and appurtenances thereto, lands,
  easements, rights in land  and  water  rights,  rights-of-way,  contract
  rights,  franchises,  approaches,  connections,  dams, reservoirs, water
  mains  and  pipe  lines,  pumping  stations  and  equipment,  and   also
  including,  without  limitation,  facilities  and appurtenances thereto,
  some part of the capacity or use of which is used or to be  used  by  or
  for the benefit of a municipality or municipalities or other corporation
  or  corporations pursuant to contracts authorized by subdivision sixteen
  of section ten hundred ninety-six of this title, or any  other  property
  incidental  to  and  included  in  such  system or part thereof, and any
  improvements,  extensions,  and   betterments,   situated   within   the
  territorial  limits  of the county, or in Genesee county, or in the town
  or village  of  Victor  and  the  towns  of  East  Bloomfield  and  West
  Bloomfield  in  Ontario county, or in the village of Holley and the town
  of Clarendon in Orleans county;
7. The term "bonds" shall  mean  the  bonds,  notes  and  obligations,
  issued by the authority, pursuant to this act;
8.  The term "revenues" shall mean all rents, charges and other income
  derived from the operation of the properties of the authority;
9. The term "municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village,
  town water district, fire district, fire protection district, fire alarm
  district, school district, and any other political  subdivision  of  the
  state.
10.  The  term  "Genesee  county project" shall mean the construction,
  installation, equipping and/or financing of  such  properties,  as  such
  term is defined in subdivision six of this section, as are necessary for
  the  authority  to provide service to Genesee county or any municipality
  therein on the terms set forth in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1097 - Moneys of the Authority.

§  1097.  Moneys  of  the  authority. All moneys of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of the  authority
  and  shall be deposited forthwith in a bank or banks in the state of New
  York designated by the authority. The moneys in such accounts  shall  be
  paid out on check of the treasurer on requisition by the authority or of
  such other person or persons as the authority may authorize to make such
  requisitions.  All  deposits  of  such  moneys shall, if required by the
  comptroller or the authority, be secured by obligations  of  the  United
  States  or  of  the state of New York or of the county of a market value
  equal at all times to the amount of deposit  and  all  banks  and  trust
  companies  are  authorized  to give such security for such deposits. The
  comptroller and his legally authorized representatives, and the director
  of finance of  the  county  of  Monroe,  if  he  so  elect,  are  hereby
  authorized  and  empowered from time to time to examine the accounts and
  books  of  the  authority,  including   its   receipts,   disbursements,
  contracts,  leases,  sinking  funds,  investments  and any other matters
  relating to its financial standing.  The  authority  shall  have  power,
  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this section, to contract with the
  holders of any of its bonds as to  the  custody,  collection,  security,
  investment  and  payment  of  any moneys of the authority, or any moneys
  held in trust or otherwise for the payment of bonds or  in  any  way  to
  secure  bonds,  and  to carry out any such contract notwithstanding that
  such contract may be inconsistent with the provisions of  this  section.
  Moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of bonds or in any way
  to  secure  bonds and deposits of such moneys may be secured in the same
  manner as moneys of the authority, and all banks and trust companies are
  authorized to give such security for such deposits.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1099 - Notes of the Authority.

§  1099. Notes of the authority. The authority shall have power and is
  hereby  authorized  to  issue  negotiable  bond  anticipation  notes  in
  conformity with applicable provisions of the uniform commercial code and
  may  renew  the  same  from time to time but the maximum maturity of any
  such note, including renewals thereof, shall not exceed five years  from
  the  date  of issue of such original note. Such notes shall be paid from
  any moneys of the authority available therefor and not otherwise pledged
  or from  the  proceeds  of  sale  of  the  bonds  of  the  authority  in
  anticipation of which they were issued. The notes shall be issued in the
  same  manner  as  the  bonds  and  such  notes  and  the  resolution  or
  resolutions authorizing the same may contain any provisions,  conditions
  or limitations which the bonds or a bond resolution of the authority may
  contain.  Such  notes  may be sold at public or private sale at not less
  than par and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum
  per annum. Such notes shall be as fully negotiable as the bonds  of  the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1100 - Duty of Authority to Maintain and Operate.

§  1100.  Duty  of  authority to maintain and operate. It shall be the
  duty of the authority, subject  to  any  limitation  on  the  amount  of
  revenues  to  be  expended for such purpose, to maintain and operate and
  where necessary to reconstruct its properties.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1101 - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  1101.  Transfer  of  officers  and employees. Any public officer or
  employee under civil service, selected by the authority  may,  with  the
  consent  of  the  commission, board or department by which he or she has
  been employed, be transferred to the authority and shall be eligible for
  such transfer and appointment without examination to comparable offices,
  positions  and  employment  under  the  authority.     The   salary   or
  compensation  of  any such officer or employee shall after such transfer
  be paid by the authority. But notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this
  act,  any  such  officers  or employees so transferred to the authority,
  pursuant to the provisions of  this  section,  who  are  members  of  or
  beneficiaries  under  any  existing  pension or retirement system, shall
  continue to have all rights, privileges,  obligations  and  status  with
  respect  to  such  fund, system or systems as are now prescribed by law,
  but during  the  period  of  their  employment  by  the  authority,  all
  contributions  to any pension or retirement fund or system to be paid by
  the employer on account of such officers or employee, shall be  paid  by
  the  authority;  and  all  such  officers  and  employees  who have been
  appointed to positions under the rules and classifications of the  civil
  service  commission  of  the county of Monroe shall have the same status
  with respect thereto after transfer to the authority as they  had  under
  their  original appointments. It is hereby declared that in the interest
  of efficiency and insofar as may be practicable, all  employees  engaged
  in  the  operation of any property or properties, except in an executive
  capacity, at the time  such  property  or  properties  shall  have  been
  acquired by the authority, pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall
  become  the employees of the authority. The appointment and promotion of
  all employees of the authority shall be  made  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions  of  the civil service law (constituting chapter seven of the
  consolidated laws) and such rules as the civil service commission of the
  county of Monroe may adopt and make applicable to such authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1102 - Agreements of the State.

§  1102. Agreements of the state. The state of New York does pledge to
  and agree with the holders of the bonds or notes that the state will not
  limit or alter the rights hereby vested in  the  authority  to  acquire,
  construct, maintain, operate, reconstruct and improve the properties, to
  establish  and  collect  the  revenues,  rates,  rentals, fees and other
  charges referred to in this title  and  to  fulfill  the  terms  of  any
  agreements  made  with  the holders of the bonds or notes, or in any way
  impair the rights and remedies of the bondholders or noteholders,  until
  the  bonds  or  notes,  together  with interest thereon, interest on any
  unpaid  installments  of  interest,  and  all  costs  and  expenses   in
  connection  with  any  action  or  proceeding  by  or  on  behalf of the
  bondholders or noteholders, are fully met and discharged.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 5 - Monroe County Water Authority › 1103 - State, County and Municipalities Not Liable on Bonds or Notes.

§ 1103. State, county and municipalities not liable on bonds or notes.
  The  bonds or notes of the authority shall not be a debt of the state of
  New York or of the county or of any  municipality  in  the  county,  and
  neither  the  state  nor  the  county nor any municipality in the county
  shall be liable thereon, nor shall they be  payable  out  of  any  funds
  other than those of the authority.