2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 6-C - Town of Wilton Water and Sewer Authority › 1125 - Powers of the Authority.

* § 1125. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have the power:
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3. To borrow money and issue bonds or other obligations and to provide
  for the rights of the holders thereof;
4.  To  enter  into contracts and execute all instruments necessary or
  convenient or desirable for the purposes of the authority to  carry  out
  any powers expressly given it in this title;
5.  To  acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease
  or by condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain procedure  law,  lease
  as  lessee,  hold, and use any real or personal property or any interest
  therein, as the authority may deem necessary, convenient or desirable to
  carry out  the  purpose  of  this  title;  provided  however,  that  the
  authority  may  not  condemn real property of a municipality without the
  consent of the governing body of such municipality;
6. To purchase, in the name of the authority, any  water  facility  or
  sewerage  facility,  and  any  improvements, extensions and betterments,
  situated  wholly  within  the  district,  provided,  however,  that  the
  authority  shall have the power to purchase any source of supply, supply
  facility, water supply system, transmission facility, sewerage system or
  sewerage facility or any part thereof situated wholly or partly  without
  the  territorial  limits  of  the  district,  provided the same shall be
  necessary  in  order  to  supply  water  within  the  district;  and  in
  connection  with  the  purchase  of  such  properties, the authority may
  assume any obligations of the owner  of  such  properties  and,  to  the
  extent  required  by  the  terms  of any indentures or other instruments
  under which such obligations were issued, the authority may  assume  and
  agree  to  perform  covenants  and observe the restrictions contained in
  such instruments; and furthermore, the owner of  any  properties,  which
  the  authority is authorized to acquire, is hereby authorized to sell or
  otherwise transfer the same to the authority,  whereupon  the  authority
  shall have become charged with the performance of all public duties with
  respect  to  such  properties with which such owner was charged and such
  owner shall have become discharged from the performance thereof, and  as
  a means of so acquiring for such purpose, the authority may purchase all
  of  the  stock  of  any  existing  privately  owned water corporation or
  company and in the case of a sale or other transfer of properties  of  a
  public utility corporation pursuant to this provision, upon the purchase
  of  the  stock  of  such  corporation  or  company it shall be lawful to
  dissolve such corporation within a reasonable time;
7. To construct, improve, maintain, develop,  expand  or  rehabilitate
  water facilities or sewerage facilities and to pay the costs thereof;
8.  To  operate  and  manage  and  to  contract  for the operation and
  management of properties of the authority;
9. To enter into contracts, and carry out the terms thereof,  for  the
  wholesale  provision of water produced by supply facilities constructed,
  owned or operated by the authority, to municipalities and private  water
  companies  and  to  carry out the terms thereof, for the transmission of
  water from new or existing supply facilities;
10. To enter into contracts with municipalities  for  the  collection,
  treatment and disposal of sewerage;
11.  To  take all necessary and reasonable actions within the district
  to conserve, preserve and protect the  water  supply  to  the  district,
  including  the  making  of  plans and studies, the adoption of watershed
  rules and regulations, the enforcing of compliance with all current  and
  future  rules  and regulations of the state sanitary code with regard to
  water supply and usage, the requiring of cross-connection controls,  the
  providing  of  educational  material and programs to the public, and the

  cooperating with water  suppliers  outside  the  district  to  conserve,
  preserve  and  protect the entire water reserve as it is affected within
  and outside the authority's supply area;
12. To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal,
  state  and  local governments for such licenses, permits or approvals of
  its plans or projects as it may deem necessary or  advisable,  and  upon
  such  terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate, and to accept, in
  its discretion, such licenses, permits or approvals as may  be  tendered
  to it by such agencies and officials;
13.  To  appoint  such  officers and employees as are required for the
  performance of its duties, to fix and  determine  their  qualifications,
  duties  and  compensation,  and  to  retain or employ counsel, auditors,
  engineers, and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise  for
  rendering professional or technical services and advice;
14.  To  make plans and studies necessary, convenient or desirable for
  the effectuation of the purposes and powers  of  the  authority  and  to
  prepare recommendations in regard thereto;
15. To enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of
  the  authority  shall  be  necessary  for the purpose of making surveys,
  soundings,  borings  and  examinations  to   accomplish   any   purposes
  authorized  by  this  title,  the authority being liable only for actual
  damage done;
16. To apply for and to accept any gifts or grants or loans  of  funds
  or  property  or  financial  or  other  aid in any form from the federal
  government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from  the  state
  or  any  agency or instrumentality thereof or from any other source, for
  any or all of the purposes specified  in  this  title,  and  to  comply,
  subject  to  the provisions of this title, with the terms and conditions
  thereof;
17. To obtain, store, treat, distribute, supply  and  sell  water  for
  domestic,  commercial  and  public  purposes  at  retail  to  individual
  consumers within the district,  and  to  collect,  treat  and  discharge
  sewerage for such purposes by such generators;
18.  To  purchase  water in bulk from any person, private corporation,
  public corporation or municipality when necessary or convenient for  the
  operation of such water system;
19.  To  produce,  develop,  distribute  and  sell  water  or sewerage
  services within or without the territorial limits of the  district;  and
  to  purchase  water  from  any  public corporation, town water district,
  municipality, person, association  or  corporation;  provided,  however,
  that  water  and  sewerage  services may be sold at retail to individual
  consumers  only  within  the  district  and  further  provided  that  in
  exercising  the  powers  granted  by this title, the authority shall not
  sell water or sewerage services in any area  outside  of  the  town  (a)
  without  town  board  approval  and (b) in any area which is served by a
  water, sewerage or water and sewerage system  owned  or  operated  by  a
  municipality  or  special improvement district unless the governing body
  of such municipality or district shall adopt a resolution requesting the
  authority to sell water or sewerage services, as the  case  may  be,  in
  such served area;
20. To make and amend from time to time by-laws for the management and
  regulation   of   its   affairs   and  rules  and  regulations  for  the
  construction, preservation  and  protection  of  the  authority's  water
  supply  and,  subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the sale
  of water or collection of sewerage  and  the  collection  of  rents  and
  charges therefor. A copy of such rules, regulations and by-laws, and any
  rules  and  regulations  adopted  pursuant to subdivision twelve of this
  section, and all amendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary  of

  the  authority shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the town. In
  addition, the town board by local law shall have power to prescribe that
  violation of specific by-laws, rules and regulations of  the  authority,
  published  once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the town,
  shall be  punishable  by  fine,  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  or  by
  imprisonment for not longer than thirty days, or both;
21. To fix rates and collect charges for the use of the facilities of,
  or  services  rendered by, or any commodities furnished by the authority
  such as to provide revenues sufficient at all times to pay, as the  same
  shall  become  due,  the  principal  and  interest on the bonds or other
  obligations of the authority together with  the  maintenance  of  proper
  reserves  therefor,  in  addition to paying as the same shall become due
  the expense of operating and maintaining the properties of the authority
  together with proper  maintenance  reserves,  capital  reserves,  repair
  reserves,  tax stabilization reserves and other contingency reserves and
  all other obligations and indebtedness of the authority;
22. To enter  into  cooperative  agreements  with  other  authorities,
  municipalities,  water  districts, utility companies, individuals, firms
  or corporations,  within  or  without  the  territorial  limits  of  the
  district,  for  the  interconnection  of  facilities,  the  exchange  or
  interchange of services and  commodities,  and  within  the  territorial
  limits of the district to enter into a contract for the construction and
  operation and maintenance of a water or sewerage system by the authority
  for  any  municipality,  public  corporation  or water or sewer district
  having power to construct and develop a water or sewer  system,  as  the
  case may be, upon such terms and conditions as shall be determined to be
  reasonable  including  but not limited to the reimbursement of all costs
  of such construction, or for  any  other  lawful  purpose  necessary  or
  desirable to effect the purposes of this title;
23.  To  provide  for  the discontinuance or disconnection of water or
  sewerage service, or both, as the case may be, for non-payment of  fees,
  rates,  rents  or  other  charges  therefor  imposed  by  the authority,
  provided such discontinuance or  disconnection  of  any  water  service,
  shall  not be carried out except in the manner and upon the notice as is
  required of a waterworks 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;
24. With the consent of the governing body of a municipality,  to  use
  officers  and  employees  of  such  municipality  and  to  pay  a proper
  proportion of the compensation  or  costs  for  the  services  for  such
  officers or employees; and
25.  To  do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
  its purposes and for the exercise of the powers granted in this title.
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