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2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-K - Review.

§  280-k. Review. Any interested party, including a village, or a town
  board or board of commissioners  on  behalf  of  an  existing  district,
  aggrieved by the final determination or order made by the governing body
  establishing  the  district,  may make application for review of any and
  all of the final determinations made by the governing body in connection
  with the proceeding in the manner provided in article  seventy-eight  of
  the civil practice law and rules provided that application for review is
  made  within  thirty  days  from  the date of the recording of the order
  establishing the district in the office of  the  clerk  of  the  county.
  Unless  such  application  is  made within thirty days as aforesaid, the
  order establishing the district shall be final and  conclusive.  In  the
  event that upon such review there shall be any modification by the court
  of  such  final  determination or order, the clerk of the governing body
  shall cause such order to be recorded and certified copies thereof filed
  in the same places as was the determination or order appealed from.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-L - Administration of the County District.

§ 280-l. Administration of the county district. When a county district
  shall have been established, the governing body shall appoint, designate
  or  establish  an  officer,  board or body as the administrative head or
  body of the district.  All matters relating to the  membership  of  such
  administrative  head  or  body,  including  but not limited to, numbers,
  method of selection, tenure, qualifications and compensation,  shall  be
  determined  by the governing body. A member of the governing body or any
  other county officer or official may be appointed as administrative head
  or as a member of the administrative body provided that he shall receive
  no  additional  salary  or   compensation   for   such   services.   The
  administrative  head  or  body  of one or more county districts shall be
  considered to be the administrative head or body  of  an  administrative
  unit  of  county  government.  The  title of such administrative head or
  body, if such functions are not conferred  on  an  existing  officer  or
  body,  and  the name of such administrative unit, if the county district
  is made a separate administrative unit of county  government,  shall  be
  prescribed  by  the  governing body, and such officer or body shall have
  all the powers generally conferred on heads of administrative  units  by
  this  chapter, not inconsistent with the provisions of this article, and
  shall be subject to all of the duties imposed upon such  heads  by  this
  chapter, not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-M - Performance of the Work.

§  280-m.  Performance  of  the work. After a district shall have been
  established, the administrative head or body shall cause to be  prepared
  by  the  county  engineer,  or  other  county  officer having equivalent
  qualifications, or a duly licensed engineer employed for  that  purpose,
  detailed  plans  and  specifications  for  the  improvement,  a  careful
  estimate of  the  expense,  and,  with  the  assistance  of  the  county
  attorney,  or an attorney employed for that purpose, a proposed contract
  or contracts for the execution of the work. The administrative  head  or
  body  shall  examine  such detailed plans, specifications, estimates and
  contracts and may adopt, modify, amend or reject the same. Upon adoption
  of the plans,  specifications,  estimates  and  proposed  contract,  the
  administrative  head or body shall cause contracts to be let in the same
  manner provided for other county construction projects.  Nothing  herein
  shall  prevent  the  purchase  or  condemnation  of  any existing county
  system, or portion or portions thereof, whether inside or outside of the
  county, necessary for the purposes of  the  county  district,  provided,
  however,  that  there  shall  be  no power to condemn property the legal
  title  to  which  is  vested  in  a  public  corporation  or  a  special
  improvement  district  unless  the owner shall consent thereto. The cost
  thereof, together with the cost  of  construction  of  those  facilities
  proposed  to  be  constructed,  shall not exceed the maximum cost of the
  project as advertised in the notice of  hearing  published  pursuant  to
  section  two  hundred  eighty-e  of  this article.   In the event that a
  system  owned  by  a  municipal  corporation  or  existing  district  is
  purchased,  the  county  may  by  agreement  with the seller, assume the
  payment of  annual  installments  of  principal  of,  and  interest  on,
  obligations  issued  by  the selling municipality to finance the cost of
  the facilities so sold.  If  payment  of  annual  installments  of  debt
  service is not assumed, as aforesaid, the selling municipality shall set
  aside  in  a  reserve fund, so much of the purchase price received as is
  sufficient to meet all future installments of principal of, and interest
  on, outstanding obligations issued by it to  finance  the  cost  of  the
  facilities  sold.  Moneys  in  such  a  reserve  fund may be invested as
  provided in section eleven of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-N - Powers.

§  280-n.  Powers.  The administrative head or body upon authorization
  from the governing body may acquire in the name of the county  by  gift,
  lease,  purchase  or  condemnation, real estate and easements, rights of
  way or other interests therein necessary or proper for the  purposes  of
  the  district.  It  may  (1)  construct  or  reconstruct  dunes, bluffs,
  bulkheads,  dikes,  groins,  jetties,  fills   and   other   works   and
  improvements  upon  such  lands,  or  (2)  provide  for the acquisition,
  construction, operation and maintenance of all facilities and appliances
  necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-O - Rules and Regulations.

§ 280-o. Rules and regulations. The governing body shall have power to
  adopt,  amend  and  repeal, from time to time, rules and regulations for
  the operation of a county district including regulation of the manner of
  the  construction  of  the  county  district  and  all  facilities   and
  appurtenances.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-P - Contracts.

§ 280-p. Contracts. The administrative head or body, where applicable,
  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  governing  body, may make contracts
  necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article. Provided, however,
  that no such contract, nor the power to contract,  shall  be  deemed  to
  alter  or  abridge  any  power or authority, or exercise thereof, of any
  state  department  or  agency  heretofore  or  hereafter  exercised   or
  conferred.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-Q - Revenues.

§  280-q.  Revenues. 1. The county treasurer shall collect and receive
  all levies, charges, other revenue of the district and grants in aid and
  assistance and keep a true account of all such receipts.  Unpaid  levies
  and  charges  shall  be  a  lien upon the real property upon which or in
  connection with which improvements were provided as and from  the  first
  day fixed for payment of such levies and charges.
2.  The  county treasurer shall prepare, and transmit to the governing
  body, on or before the first day of December in  each  year  a  list  of
  those  residents or property owners within the county who are in arrears
  in the payment of levies or charges for a period of thirty days or  more
  after  the last day fixed for payment of such levies and charges without
  penalty. The list shall contain a brief description  of  the  properties
  for  which  the  improvements were provided, the names of the persons or
  corporations liable to pay for the same and  the  amount  chargeable  to
  each,   including   penalties   and   interest   computed   to  December
  thirty-first. The governing  body  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 various municipalities  under  the
  name  of  "county  hurricane  protection,  flood  and  shoreline erosion
  control improvement district tax". Such amounts, when collected  by  the
  several  municipal  collectors or receivers of taxes, shall be paid over
  to the county treasurer. All of the provisions of the tax  laws  of  the
  state  of  New  York  and  the  Suffolk  county  tax  act  covering  the
  enforcement and collection of unpaid taxes or  assessments  for  special
  improvements  not inconsistent herewith shall apply to the collection of
  such unpaid levies and charges.  Such  amounts,  when  received  by  the
  county  treasurer,  shall  be credited to the applicable county district
  fund and shall be used only for such county district purposes.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-R - Expense of the Improvement.

§  280-r.  Expense  of the improvement. The cost of establishment of a
  county district and the furnishing  of  the  improvement  therein  shall
  include  the  amount  of  all  contracts,  the  costs  of  all lands and
  interests  therein  necessarily  acquired,  the  costs  of  erection  of
  necessary  facilities  and appurtenances for operation or administration
  of the improvement,  the  costs  of  necessary  original  equipment  for
  operation  or  administration  of the improvement, printing, publishing,
  interest on loans, legal and engineering services and all other expenses
  incurred or occasioned by reason of the establishment  of  the  district
  and  the  furnishing  of  the  improvement.  In  addition there shall be
  apportioned against, charged to and included in such cost such allowance
  as the governing body may make for expenditures made to  the  initiating
  agency  which  are  directly  attributable  to  the establishment of the
  county district, as well as for any  services  rendered  by  the  county
  attorney,  the  county engineer, or any other salaried county officer or
  employee, when such services have been necessary  to  or  occasioned  by
  reason of the establishment of the county district.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-S - Increase and Improvement of Facilities.

§   280-s.  Increase  and  improvement  of  facilities.  Whenever  the
  governing body shall determine it necessary to acquire additional  lands
  or  interests  in  lands  or  to  acquire or to construct dunes, bluffs,
  bulkheads, dikes, groins, jetties, fills or other  works  including  all
  necessary  facilities and equipment appurtenant thereto; or whenever the
  governing body shall determine it necessary for the  proper  maintenance
  and  service  of such facilities to increase, improve or reconstruct the
  facilities thereof, including the acquisition of  additional  lands,  or
  interests  in  land  therefor,  it may cause the same to be accomplished
  without further authorization, provided, however, that if it is proposed
  to finance any part of the cost thereof by  the  issuance  and  sale  of
  capital  notes or serial bonds, such improvement shall not be undertaken
  unless authorized by  proceedings  taken  in  the  same  manner  as  the
  proceedings taken for the original establishment of the district, except
  that  the  sole  determination  which  the  governing body shall make is
  whether such improvement is in the public  interest,  and  if  zones  of
  assessment  have  been  established,  said  governing body shall further
  determine the allocation of the cost thereof as between such zones.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-T - Increase of Maximum Amount to Be Expended.

§  280-t. Increase of maximum amount to be expended. At any time after
  the establishment of a district pursuant to this  article,  the  maximum
  amount  authorized  to  be expended for the original improvement in such
  district may be increased by a resolution of the governing body provided
  a  petition  requesting  such  increase  executed  and  acknowledged  in
  accordance  with  section  two  hundred  eighty-d  is  presented  to the
  governing body, and provided the governing body shall,  after  a  public
  hearing  called and held in the manner prescribed by section two hundred
  eighty-e, determined that it is in the public interest to authorize  the
  increase  of  such  maximum  amount  and provided the comptroller of the
  state of New York shall have made, prior  to  such  public  hearing,  an
  order  approving  the  increase  of such maximum amount as stated in the
  petition. The order of the comptroller shall be  prepared  in  duplicate
  and  one copy thereof filed in the office of the department of audit and
  control and the other copy in the office of the clerk of  the  governing
  body of the county in which the district is located.
If  zones  of assessment have been established, such resolution of the
  governing body shall provide for the  allocation  of  such  increase  as
  between  such zones of assessment, and the notice of such public hearing
  shall state such allocation.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-W - Taxation of District Property.

§ 280-w. Taxation of district property. All real property acquired for
  the purposes of the county district shall be acquired in the name of the
  county.  Real  property  acquired  in  the  name  of the county shall be
  assessed for the purposes of taxation at the value thereof exclusive  of
  improvements  erected  or  installed  by  or  on  behalf  of such county
  district, but in no case at less than the assessed valuation at the time
  of acquisition by the  county.  Except  as  provided  above,  such  real
  property  shall  be  valued  on an equitable basis with other comparable
  real property in the district.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-Y - Extension of the District.

§  280-y. Extension of the district. A county district may be extended
  so as to include territory not previously included within its boundaries
  in  the  same  manner  as  hereinbefore  prescribed  for  the   original
  establishment  of  the  district.  If  the  cost of establishment af the
  original district and of providing the improvement therein was assessed,
  levied and collected pursuant to the provisions of section  two  hundred
  eighty-u, then the cost of the extension and of the improvements therein
  shall  be  assessed,  levied and collected pursuant to the provisions of
  said section.  If the cost of establishment of the original district and
  of providing  of  the  improvement  therein  was  assessed,  levied  and
  collected  pursuant  to  the provisions of section two hundred eighty-v,
  then the cost of the extension and of the improvement therein  shall  be
  assessed,  levied  and  collected  pursuant  to  the  provisions of said
  section. The cost of the extension shall include such proportion of  the
  cost  of the system of the original district as the governing body shall
  determine.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-Z - Jurisdiction of Other State Agencies.

§  280-z.  Jurisdiction of other state agencies. The powers and duties
  of  the  state  department  of  environmental  conservation,  the  water
  pollution  control  board,  or  any  other  state  department  or agency
  heretofore or hereafter exercised or conferred shall not be  altered  or
  abridged by any of the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-AA - Claims.

§  280-aa.  Claims. The expense for all claims made against the county
  or the district, its agents, servants or employees arising  out  of  the
  establishment,  operation, maintenance or control of the district or any
  improvement created by the district, shall be  included  in  the  annual
  expense  of  operation and maintenance of the district or the expense of
  the establishment of the district and the improvements created  therein,
  according to the nature of the claim.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-L - Declaration of Policy and Purposes.

§  299-l.  Declaration  of policy and purposes. Whereas erosion, flood
  water and sediment damage in the watersheds of the rivers and streams of
  the state cause loss of life and damage to  property  and  constitute  a
  menace to the health, safety and welfare of the people of this state, it
  is the sense of the legislature that the state should cooperate with the
  federal government and its agencies and with the several counties of the
  state  for  the  purpose of preventing such damage and of furthering the
  conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water and thereby
  preserving and protecting the state's land and water resources,  in  the
  manner hereinafter described.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-M - County Small Watershed Protection Districts.

§  299-m.  County  small  watershed protection districts. The board of
  supervisors  of  each  county  may  establish  or  extend  county  small
  watershed  protection  districts in the manner hereinafter provided, for
  the purpose of undertaking, constructing and  maintaining  projects  and
  works  of  improvement for flood prevention, land treatment, and for the
  conservation, development, disposal and utilization of  water  including
  but  not  limited  to  use for irrigation in watershed and sub-watershed
  areas as provided for in the federal act approved August four,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-four, and known as public law five hundred sixty-six, and
  as the "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention  Act",  and  all  acts
  amendatory  thereof  and  supplemental  thereto,  and which projects and
  works of improvement have  been  or  may  be  approved  by  the  federal
  government and for which federal financial and other forms of assistance
  shall be made available.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-O - Establishment of a County Small Watershed Protection District.

§   299-o.  Establishment  of  a  county  small  watershed  protection
  district.    When  the  agency  has  the  complete  final  maps,  plans,
  specifications  and cost estimates for a project, as provided in section
  two hundred ninety-nine-n of this article, the agency shall petition the
  board of supervisors that a certain area  or  areas  of  the  county  as
  delineated  in  the  maps,  plans and specifications be established as a
  watershed district.
Proceedings shall be taken in the manner prescribed  in  sections  two
  hundred fifty-four through two hundred sixty of this chapter in the case
  of  county  water  districts, as now in effect or as hereafter required,
  and all of the provisions of said sections shall apply,  in  so  far  as
  applicable,   to  proceedings  for  the  establishment  of  a  watershed
  district, except that in relation to the  public  hearings  required  by
  section  two hundred fifty-four, only the public hearing by the board of
  supervisors shall be necessary for  the  establishment  of  a  watershed
  district.
The  governing body of any municipality within the county may petition
  the board of supervisors for the establishment of a watershed  district.
  Upon  receipt of such petition, the chairman of the board of supervisors
  shall forthwith refer it to the agency for study and recommendations.
All other requests for the establishment of a watershed district shall
  be presented to the agency or to the board of  supervisors  if  no  such
  agency  exists.  The agency or the board of supervisors, as the case may
  be, shall have authority to prescribe the form, content  and  manner  in
  which  such  requests  shall  be  made. The agency, if one exists, shall
  study such requests and make recommendations thereon  to  the  board  of
  supervisors.
After  a  watershed  district  has been created and a project has been
  approved for construction it shall be the responsibility of  the  county
  to  require  the  watershed  district  to construct, operate, repair and
  maintain the project works and facilities in accordance with  the  plans
  and  specifications  and  to  accomplish  and  maintain  the project and
  purpose for which the watershed district was created.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-Q - Expense of the Improvement.

§  299-q.  Expense  of the improvement. The cost of establishment of a
  watershed district and the furnishing of the improvement  therein  shall
  include  the  amount  of  all  contracts,  the  costs  of  all lands and
  interests  therein  necessarily  acquired,  the  costs  of  erection  of
  necessary  buildings for operation or administration of the improvement,
  the  costs  of   necessary   original   equipment   for   operation   or
  administration  of  the  improvement,  printing, publishing, interest on
  loans, legal and engineering services and all other expenses incurred or
  occasioned by reason of the establishment of the watershed district  and
  the   furnishing  of  the  improvement.  In  addition,  there  shall  be
  apportioned against, charged to and included in such cost such allowance
  as the board of supervisors  may  make  for  expenditures  made  by  the
  initiating  agency  which are directly attributable to the establishment
  of the watershed district, as well as for any services rendered  by  the
  county  attorney,  the  county  engineer  or  any  other salaried county
  officer or employee, when  such  services  have  been  necessary  to  or
  occasioned by reason of the establishment of the watershed district.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-R - Increase of Maximum Amount to Be Expended.

§  299-r. Increase of maximum amount to be expended. At any time after
  the establishment of a district pursuant to  this  article  the  maximum
  amount authorized to be expended for the original improvement or for the
  original  improvement, the plans for which have been amended or modified
  pursuant to section two hundred ninety-nine-n of this article,  in  such
  district  may  be increased by resolution of the board of supervisors or
  county legislature and provided said body shall, after a public  hearing
  called  and  held  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  section  two hundred
  fifty-four of this chapter, determine that it is in the public  interest
  to  authorize  the  increase  of  such  maximum  amount and provided the
  comptroller of the state of New York  shall  have  made  prior  to  such
  public  hearing  an order approving the increase of such maximum amount.
  The order of the comptroller shall be prepared in duplicate and one copy
  thereof filed in the office of the department of audit and  control  and
  the  other  copy  in  the office of the clerk of the county in which the
  district is located.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-S - Assessment of the Cost.

§ 299-s. Assessment of the cost. The expense of the establishment of a
  watershed  district  and  of  providing  improvements therein, including
  modifications, shall be assessed,  levied  and  collected  in  the  same
  manner  as  is  provided  in  section  two  hundred  seventy-one of this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-T - Extension of the District.

§  299-t.  Extension  of  the  district.  A  watershed district may be
  extended so as to include territory not previously included  within  its
  boundaries  in  the  same  manner  as  hereinbefore  prescribed  for the
  original establishment of  the  watershed  district.  The  cost  of  the
  extension  and  of providing the improvements therein shall be assessed,
  levied and collected as provided in section two hundred seventy-four  of
  this chapter, as now in effect or as hereafter amended.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-U - Joint Construction and Operation of Projects.

§  299-u.  Joint  construction and operation of projects. Where two or
  more adjoining counties  have  established  agencies  and  have  created
  watershed districts for the purposes of this act in the watershed common
  to  the  counties,  the agencies and the administrative heads or bodies,
  subject to the approval of their respective boards of  supervisors,  may
  enter  into  agreements  for  the  planning, installation, construction,
  operation, maintenance, assessments of costs and repair of a joint small
  watershed project. Any agency or agencies within this state, established
  by a county or counties for the purposes of this  act  with  respect  to
  small watersheds, may, subject to the approval of the board or boards of
  supervisors  of the county or counties, enter into agreements respecting
  joint projects with one or more "local organizations" in other states as
  defined in section ten hundred two of title sixteen of the United States
  code. The provisions of all sections  of  this  article  concerning  the
  planning,    installation,    construction,    operation,   maintenance,
  assessments of costs and repair of, and the  approvals  required  for  a
  project within a single county of this state, shall apply with equal and
  full  force  and  effect to a joint project, but nothing herein shall be
  deemed to prevent or restrict the additional  applicability  thereto  of
  any requirements of another state in any matter relating to its interest
  or the interests of its subdivisions therein.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-V - Jurisdiction of State Agencies Not Affected.

§  299-v. Jurisdiction of state agencies not affected. No provision of
  this article shall be deemed to alter, repeal or modify the  powers  and
  duties   of   the   state   departments   of  conservation,  health  and
  transportation,  the  state  water  resources  commission,   the   water
  pollution and control board, and the state soil conservation committee.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-W - Federal Assistance.

§ 299-w. Federal assistance. The watershed district is designated as a
  "local  organization" authorized to make application to the secretary of
  agriculture of the United States for financial assistance in  installing
  and  carrying  out  a  district  project  under  the  provisions of said
  "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act".
The watershed district, as the local organization, is empowered,  when
  authorized  by  resolution adopted by the board of supervisors, to enter
  into contracts or agreements with the secretary of agriculture  for  the
  purpose  of contracting indebtedness with the federal government for any
  or all of the local share of the costs of such project, as provided  for
  in  the said "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" as amended,
  whenever such borrowing appears necessary and desirable, subject to  the
  provisions of the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-X - State Aid.

§  299-x.  State  aid. 1. Recognizing that general public benefits, in
  terms of flood prevention, and  erosion  control,  will  accrue  to  the
  people  of  the  state,  through  the  establishment  of small watershed
  protection projects because such benefits will go beyond the  limits  of
  watershed  districts and their parent counties; and recognizing that the
  health, welfare, and prosperity of our people is enhanced by the  proper
  management,  wise  use, and development of our soil and water resources;
  it is hereby declared to be a proper state  purpose  for  the  state  to
  provide  financial  reimbursement  to the counties for a part of certain
  local costs  which  must  be  met  in  the  establishment  of  watershed
  projects.
2.   Such  reimbursement  shall  not  exceed  one-half  of  the  local
  expenditure  for  the  land,  easements,  and  rights-of-way  which  are
  necessary  and  required for the construction of flood prevention works,
  not including  land  treatment  measures,  for  which  federal  aid  for
  construction costs is granted pursuant to the said "Watershed Protection
  and  Flood  Prevention  Act". In the case of a joint project pursuant to
  section  two  hundred  ninety-nine-t,  each   county   of   this   state
  participating  therein  shall be entitled to claim for and receive state
  aid in accordance  with  its  pro  rata  share  of  the  liabilities  or
  expenditures  incurred  or undertaken by said county on account thereof.
  Application for such state reimbursement shall be made each year by  the
  county  board  of  supervisors to the commissioner of conservation on or
  before such date, and in such form and manner, as may be  prescribed  by
  him.  After his determination that such requests and the amounts thereof
  are proper and in compliance  with  this  article,  he  shall  submit  a
  separate  request  for  each  project,  as  a  part of his annual budget
  requests and estimates for the department of  conservation.  The  budget
  item  for each project shall contain the name of the project, the county
  or counties in which located, and  the  amount  of  state  reimbursement
  requested therefor.
3.  After funds have been appropriated therefor and are available, the
  commissioner shall certify to the comptroller for payment the amount  of
  state  reimbursement  due  each  county.  The amount so certified by the
  commissioner, after audit by and on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller,
  shall  be  paid  to  the county treasurers of the respective counties to
  which state reimbursement is due.
4. The provisions of this section shall apply to projects,  for  which
  reimbursement   made   subsequent   to  April  first,  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-three, was limited to twenty thousand dollars, to  the  extent  of
  the  difference  between  twenty  thousand  dollars and one-half of such
  local expenditure.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-D - County Small Watershed Protection Districts › 299-Y - Certain Powers of Board of Supervisors and Soil Conservation Districts Not Affected.

§  299-y. Certain powers of board of supervisors and soil conservation
  districts not affected. Nothing  in  this  article  contained  shall  be
  deemed to repeal, amend or modify the powers of the board of supervisors
  as  provided  by  section  two  hundred  twenty-three of this chapter in
  relation to flood control and soil conservation. Nothing in this article
  contained shall be deemed to repeal the authority of a soil conservation
  district to undertake any works or measures as authorized  by  the  soil
  conservation districts law, provided that federal financial aid pursuant
  to  the  said "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" is neither
  sought nor required in constructing  and  carrying  out  such  works  or
  measures.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 300 - Legislative Findings and Declaration of Intent.

§ 300. Legislative findings and declaration of intent. The legislature
  recognizes the paramount importance of the health, safety and welfare of
  the  citizens of the state and further recognizes that when the lives or
  property of  its  citizens  are  in  imminent  danger  that  timely  and
  appropriate assistance must be rendered.
The  legislature  recognizes  further  that  such assistance is almost
  always summoned by  telephone  and  that  a  multiplicity  of  emergency
  telephone  numbers  exist  within any one county and that unintentional,
  though avoidable, delays in reaching appropriate emergency aid  can  and
  do occur to the detriment and jeopardy of life and property.
The  legislature  acknowledges  that the three digit number, 911, is a
  nationally recognized and applied telephone number which may be used  to
  summon  emergency  aid  and  to  eliminate  delays  caused  by  lack  of
  familiarity with emergency numbers and by  understandable  confusion  in
  circumstances of crisis.
The  legislature  finds  that the enhanced emergency telephone service
  known as E911 provides substantial benefits  beyond  basic  911  systems
  through  the  provision  of  selective  routing and automatic number and
  location  identification  and   that   these   enhancements   not   only
  significantly  reduce  the  response time of emergency services but also
  represent the state of the art in fail-safe emergency  telephone  system
  technology.
The   legislature   further   finds  that  a  major  obstacle  to  the
  establishment of an E911 system in the various counties within the state
  is the cost of the telecommunication equipment and  services  which  are
  necessary to provide such system.
The  legislature  further finds and declares that, by the enactment of
  the provisions of this article, it is the intent of the  legislature  to
  fulfill  its obligation to provide for the health, safety and welfare of
  the people of this state by providing counties with a funding  mechanism
  to  assist  in the payment of the costs associated with establishing and
  maintaining  an  E911  system  and  thereby  considerably  increase  the
  potential  for  providing  all  citizens of this state with the valuable
  services inherent in an E911 system.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 303 - Establishment of Surcharge for System Costs.

§   303.   Establishment   of   surcharge   for  system  costs.     1.
  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any  law  to  the  contrary,   any
  municipality  of  this  state,  acting  through  its  board,  is  hereby
  authorized and empowered to adopt, amend or repeal local laws to  impose
  a surcharge in an amount not to exceed thirty-five cents per access line
  per  month  on  the  customers  of  every  service  supplier within such
  municipality to pay for the costs associated with  obtaining,  operating
  and  maintaining  the telecommunication equipment and telephone services
  needed to provide an enhanced 911 emergency telephone  system  to  serve
  such  municipality,  provided,  however, that any municipality that is a
  city having a population of one million or more is hereby authorized and
  empowered to adopt, amend or repeal local laws to impose a surcharge  in
  an  amount  not  to  exceed  one dollar per access line per month on the
  customers of every service supplier within such municipality to pay  for
  the  costs  associated  with  obtaining,  operating  and maintaining the
  telecommunication equipment and telephone services needed to provide  an
  enhanced 911 emergency telephone system to serve such municipality.
2.  Any  such  local  law shall state the amount of the surcharge, the
  date on which the service supplier shall begin to add such surcharge  to
  the  billings  of its customers and, to the extent practicable, the date
  on which such E911 service is to begin. Such local law may authorize the
  service supplier to begin billing its customers for such surcharge prior
  to the date the E911 system service is to begin.
3. Any service supplier within a  municipality  which  has  imposed  a
  surcharge  pursuant  to  the provisions of this article shall be given a
  minimum of forty-five days written notice prior to  the  date  it  shall
  begin to add such surcharge to the billings of its customers or prior to
  any modification to or change in the surcharge amount.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 304 - Application; Limitations; Exemptions.

§   304.   Application;  limitations;  exemptions.  1.  The  surcharge
  established pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be  imposed
  on  a  per  access  line  basis  on all current bills rendered for local
  exchange access service within the 911 service area.
2. Any such surcharge shall have  uniform  application  and  shall  be
  imposed  throughout  the  entire  municipality  to  the  greatest extent
  possible in conformance with the availability of such E911 system within
  the municipality.
3. No such surcharge shall be  imposed  upon  more  than  seventy-five
  exchange access lines per customer per location.
4.  Lifeline  customers,  a  public safety agency and any municipality
  which has enacted a local law pursuant to the provisions of this article
  shall be exempt from any surcharge imposed under this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 305 - Collection of Surcharge.

§ 305. Collection of surcharge. 1. The appropriate service supplier or
  suppliers  serving  a 911 service area shall act as collection agent for
  the municipality and shall remit the funds collected as the surcharge to
  the chief fiscal officer of the county every month. Such funds shall  be
  remitted  no  later than thirty days after the last business day of such
  period.
2.  The  service  supplier  shall  be  entitled  to   retain   as   an
  administrative  fee an amount equal to two percent of its collections of
  the surcharge.
3. The surcharge required to be  collected  by  the  service  supplier
  shall be added to and stated separately in its billings to the customer.
4.  The service supplier shall annually provide to the municipality an
  accounting of the surcharge amounts billed and collected.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 306 - Liability for Surcharge.

§  306. Liability for surcharge. 1. Each service supplier customer who
  is subject to the provisions of this article  shall  be  liable  to  the
  municipality   for   the  surcharge  until  it  has  been  paid  to  the
  municipality, except that payment to a service supplier is sufficient to
  relieve the customer from further liability for such surcharge.
2. The service supplier shall have no obligation  to  take  any  legal
  action  to  enforce  the collection of any surcharge.  However, whenever
  the service supplier remits the funds collected as the surcharge to  the
  county,  it  shall  also provide the county with the name and address of
  any customer refusing or failing to pay the surcharge  imposed  by  this
  article and shall state the amount of such surcharge remaining unpaid.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 307 - System Revenues; Adjustment of Surcharge.

§  307. System revenues; adjustment of surcharge. All surcharge monies
  remitted to the municipality by a service supplier and all other  monies
  dedicated to the payment of system costs from whatever source derived or
  received  by  the municipality shall be expended only upon authorization
  of the board and only for payment of system costs as permitted  by  this
  article. The municipality shall separately account for and keep adequate
  books  and  records of the amount and source of all such revenues and of
  the amount and object or purpose of all expenditures thereof. If at  the
  end of any fiscal year the total amount of all such revenues exceeds the
  amount  necessary  for payment of system costs in such fiscal year, such
  excess shall be reserved and carried over  for  the  payment  of  system
  costs in the following fiscal year. However, if at the end of any fiscal
  year  such  E911  reserved  fund balance exceeds an amount equal to five
  percent of that necessary for the payment of system costs in such fiscal
  year, the board  shall  by  local  law  reduce  the  surcharge  for  the
  following  fiscal  year  to  a  level which more adequately reflects the
  system cost requirements of its E911 system. The board may also by local
  law reestablish or increase such surcharge, subject to the provisions of
  section three hundred three of this article, if the  revenues  generated
  by  such  surcharge  and by any other source are not adequate to pay for
  system costs.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge › 308 - Miscellaneous Provisions.

§  308.  Miscellaneous  provisions.  1.  At  least  one public service
  answering  point  within  and  serving  the  911  service  area   of   a
  municipality which has enacted a local law or resolution pursuant to the
  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  operated on a twenty-four hour
  basis.
2. The board may also apply for and  accept  federal  monies  and  may
  accept  contributions  and  donations from any source for the purpose of
  funding an E911 emergency telephone system.
3. Nothing contained in this article shall require the imposition of a
  surcharge by a municipality which has established or plans to  establish
  an  E911  system  to serve such municipality nor preclude other means of
  funding all or part of an E911  system  nor  require  the  operation  or
  establishment of such system by any municipality.
4.    Records,  in  whatever form they may be kept, of calls made to a
  municipality's E911 system shall not be made available to or obtained by
  any entity or person,  other  than  that  municipality's  public  safety
  agency,  another  government  agency  or  body, or a private entity or a
  person providing medical, ambulance or  other  emergency  services,  and
  shall  not  be  utilized  for  any  commercial  purpose  other  than the
  provision of emergency services.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6-A - Local Enhanced Wireless 911 Program › 326 - New York State Interoperable and Emergency Communication Board.

§ 326. New York state interoperable and emergency communication board.
  The  "New York state interoperable and emergency communication board" is
  hereby  established  within  the  division  of  homeland  security   and
  emergency  services.  The  board shall assist local governments, service
  suppliers, wireless telephone service suppliers  and  appropriate  state
  agencies by facilitating the most efficient and effective routing of 911
  emergency   calls;   developing  minimum  standards  for  public  safety
  answering points;  promoting  the  exchange  of  information,  including
  emerging   technologies;  and  encouraging  the  use  of  best  practice
  standards among the public safety answering point community.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6-A - Local Enhanced Wireless 911 Program › 328-B - Powers and Duties of the Chairperson.

§  328-b.  Powers and duties of the chairperson. 1. The chairperson of
  the board shall coordinate efforts among other executive agencies having
  an interest in the duties of the board,  and  shall  consult  with  such
  agencies in carrying out the duties of the board.
2.  The chairperson shall receive such assistance as required to carry
  out its duties from staff of  the  division  of  homeland  security  and
  emergency  services  designated  for  such  purposes,  as  well as staff
  members recommended by other state agencies to the chairperson.
3. The board may request and receive from  any  department,  division,
  board, bureau, commission, or other agency of the state or any political
  subdivision  thereof  such  assistance,  information,  and  data as will
  enable the board to properly carry out its functions, powers, and duties
  under this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 6-A - Local Enhanced Wireless 911 Program › 334 - County of Onondoga Enhanced 911 Emergency Telephone System.

* §  334.  County of Onondaga enhanced 911 emergency telephone system.
  1.   Notwithstanding the provisions of any  law  to  the  contrary,  the
  county  of Onondaga acting through its local county legislative body, is
  hereby authorized and empowered to adopt, amend or repeal local laws  to
  impose a surcharge, in addition to the surcharge established and imposed
  under section three hundred three of the county law, in an amount not to
  exceed  sixty-five  cents  per access line per month on the customers of
  every service supplier within such municipality to  pay  for  the  costs
  associated    with    obtaining,    operating    and   maintaining   the
  telecommunication equipment and telephone services needed to provide  an
  enhanced 911 (E911) emergency telephone system to serve such county.
2.  Any  such  local  law shall state the amount of the surcharge, the
  date on which the service supplier shall begin to add such surcharge  to
  the  billings  of its customers and, to the extent practicable, the date
  on which such E911 service is to begin. Such local law may authorize the
  service supplier to begin billing its customers for such surcharge prior
  to the date the E911 system service is to begin.
3. Any service supplier within a  municipality  which  has  imposed  a
  surcharge  pursuant  to  the provisions of this section shall be given a
  minimum of forty-five days written notice prior to  the  date  it  shall
  begin to add such surcharge to the billings of its customers or prior to
  any modification to or change in the surcharge amount.
4.  The  surcharge  established  pursuant  to  the  provisions of this
  section shall be imposed on a per access line basis on all current bills
  rendered for local exchange access service within the 911 service area.
5. No such surcharge shall be  imposed  upon  more  than  seventy-five
  exchange access lines per customer per location.
6.  Lifeline  customers,  a  public safety agency and any municipality
  which has enacted a local law pursuant to the provisions of this section
  shall be exempt from any surcharge imposed under this section.
* NB Repealed July 28, 2029