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2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 233-B - Payment in Lieu of Taxes for Property Acquired for Park or Recreational Purposes.

* §  233-b. Payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for park or
  recreational purposes. The county  of  Nassau  having  acquired  certain
  property  for  park  or  recreational  purposes  in the Lido Beach-Point
  Lookout area shall have the power and authority  with  respect  to  such
  property,  to  pay  or transfer out of any county funds available to it,
  annual sums in lieu of taxes to the affected  taxing  jurisdictions,  in
  order  that none of such taxing jurisdiction shall suffer an inequitable
  loss of revenue by virtue of such park or recreational program; provided
  further, that the amount so paid or transferred for any year  shall  not
  exceed  the  sum last levied for the benefit of such taxing jurisdiction
  as an annual tax on such property prior to the time of  its  acquisition
  for such purpose or purposes.
As  used  in  this  section,  the term "taxing jurisdiction" means any
  municipal corporation or  district  corporation,  including  any  school
  district  or  any special district, having the power to levy and collect
  taxes and benefit assessments upon real property in the Lido Beach-Point
  Lookout area, or in whose behalf such taxes or benefit  assessments  may
  be levied or collected.
* NB Expires June 30, 2025
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 234 - Additional Powers Granted Under Other Laws.

§  234.  Additional  powers  granted  under other laws. Nothing herein
  shall be deemed to affect or impair the provisions of any other  act  of
  the  legislature  granting  additional  powers to appropriate and expend
  county funds for county objects and purposes.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 234-A - Service of Notice in Relation to Constitutionality of Local Law, Ordinance, Rule or Regulation of a County.

§  234-a.  Service of notice in relation to constitutionality of local
  law,  ordinance,  rule  or  regulation  of  a   county.   Whenever   the
  constitutionality  of  any local law, ordinance, rule or regulation of a
  county is brought into issue upon a trial or hearing of any civil  cause
  of  action  or proceeding in any court, and the county is not a party to
  such action or proceeding, notice shall be served  upon  the  county  in
  accordance  with  section  one thousand twelve of the civil practice law
  and rules.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 235 - Enacted Without Section Heading.

§  235. The board of supervisors by resolution may appoint a committee
  of citizens of the  county  to  act  in  an  advisory  capacity  to  any
  committee,  department  or  office  on  any  subject  relating to county
  government.  The  members  of  such  committee   shall   serve   without
  compensation  and  it  shall  be  the duty of such advisory committee to
  meet, consult and advise with the officers or department heads named  in
  the  resolution. Such advisory committee shall have no powers other than
  advisory. The board of supervisors may authorize the payment of the just
  and  reasonable  actual  expenses  of  the  members  of  such   advisory
  committee.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 236 - County Plumbing Licensing.

§ 236. County plumbing licensing. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of
  the  general  city  law  or any other law to the contrary, the county of
  Westchester is hereby authorized to establish a Westchester county board
  of plumbing examiners and to empower such board to assume all  licensing
  duties within the county of Westchester with respect to the licensure of
  plumbers.  The  county of Westchester shall provide for plumbers' duties
  and responsibilities in accordance with the local law of such county.
2. Local laws enacted pursuant to this  section  shall  supercede  the
  provisions  of any licensing requirements promulgated by a city pursuant
  to the general city law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 236-A - County Master Electrician Licensing.

§  236-a.  County master electrician licensing. 1. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of the general city law or any other law to the contrary, the
  counties of Dutchess, Suffolk and Westchester are each hereby authorized
  to establish a county board of examiners for master electricians and  to
  empower  such  board  to  assume  all  licensing duties within each such
  county with  respect  to  the  licensure  of  master  electricians.  The
  counties  of  Dutchess, Suffolk and Westchester shall provide for master
  electrician's duties and responsibilities in accordance with  the  local
  law of each such county.
2. The local laws enacted pursuant to this section shall supercede the
  provisions  of any licensing requirements promulgated by a city pursuant
  to the general city law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 237 - Alcoholic Beverage Control.

§  237.  Alcoholic  beverage control. Pursuant to section seventeen of
  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  the  board  of  supervisors  by
  resolution  may  request  the state liquor authority to further restrict
  the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold at retail.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 251 - County Agency.

§  251.  County  agency.  The  board  of  supervisors  may  appoint or
  establish an officer, board  or  body,  or  may  designate  an  existing
  officer,  board or body, or public authority which possesses the express
  power to act as such an agency, to act as a county water, water  quality
  treatment, sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage, refuse or public inland
  lake  protection  and  rehabilitation agency (hereinafter referred to in
  this article as the "agency") having the powers  hereinafter  prescribed
  in  sections  two  hundred  fifty-two,  two  hundred fifty-three and two
  hundred fifty-four, and such other powers and duties  as  the  board  of
  supervisors  may determine necessary to carry into effect the provisions
  of this article. Except in the case of a public  authority,  the  agency
  may  also be designated as the administrative head or body of any county
  district which may be established pursuant to  the  provisions  of  this
  article.  All  matters  relating  to  the  membership  of  such  agency,
  including, but not limited to, numbers,  method  of  selection,  tenure,
  qualifications  and  compensation,  shall  be determined by the board of
  supervisors.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 255 - Representation by Municipalities and District.

§  255.  Representation  by municipalities and district. At the public
  hearing on the establishment of a county  district  which  includes  the
  whole  or  any  part  of  a  city, village or such district furnishing a
  similar service as the proposed district, the inhabitants of such  city,
  village or district may be represented jointly by an officer or official
  of the municipality or district duly designated by the governing body of
  the municipality or district to attend.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 257 - Permissive Referendum.

§  257.  Permissive  referendum.  1.  The  provisions  of sections one
  hundred one and one hundred two  of  this  chapter  and  the  applicable
  provisions   of  the  election  law  as  to  conduct  of  elections  and
  qualifications of voters shall apply to permissive  referenda  conducted
  hereunder,  except that only those electors shall be qualified to sign a
  petition and to vote who are resident within an  area  included  in  the
  proposed  county  district,  and  provided  further  that  the number of
  signatures required on the petition shall be one  hundred  or  five  per
  centum  of  the  owners  of  taxable  real  property situated within the
  proposed district, whichever shall be less.
2. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause  to  be  prepared
  and  have  available for distribution proper forms for such petition and
  shall distribute a supply to any person requesting the same.
3. Where there are no resident electors within an area included in the
  proposed  county  district,  the   referendum   may   be   waived   upon
  certification  by  the  county  board  of  elections  that  there are no
  qualified electors.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 259 - Recording and Filing of Determination.

§  259.  Recording and filing of determination. The clerk of the board
  of supervisors shall within ten days cause a certified copy of the order
  of the board of supervisors  establishing  or  extending  the  district,
  consolidating  two  or  more  districts, or authorizing the increase and
  improvement of facilities previously authorized for an existing district
  to be recorded in the office of the clerk of  the  county  and  when  so
  recorded  such  order shall be presumptive evidence of the regularity of
  the proceedings for  the  establishment  of  the  district  or  for  the
  authorization  of  the increase and improvement of facilities previously
  authorized for an existing district and of all other action taken by the
  board of supervisors in relation thereto. A certified copy of such order
  shall also be filed in the office of the state department of  audit  and
  control at Albany, New York.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 260 - Review.

§ 260. Review. Any interested party, including a city or village, or a
  town  board or board of commissioners on behalf of a district, aggrieved
  by the final determination or order made by  the  board  of  supervisors
  establishing the district or authorizing the increase and improvement of
  facilities  previously  authorized  for  an  existing district, may make
  application for review of any and all of the final  determinations  made
  by   the   board  of  supervisors  in  connection  with  the  proceeding
  establishing the district or authorizing the increase and improvement of
  facilities previously authorized for an existing district 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  or
  authorizing  the  increase  and  improvement  of  facilities  previously
  authorized for an existing 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  or authorizing the increase and
  improvement of facilities previously authorized for an existing 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 board of supervisors 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-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 261 - Administration of the County District.

§  261.  Administration of the county district. When a county district
  shall have been established, the board  of  supervisors  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 board  of  supervisors.  A  member  of  the  board  of
  supervisors  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 board of  supervisors,  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-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 262 - Performance of the Work.

§  262.  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  fifty-four  of  this article. In the event that a
  system owned by a municipal corporation or 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-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 263-A - Powers With Respect to Lake Protection and Rehabilitation.

§  263-a.  Powers  with respect to lake protection and rehabilitation.
  The administrative head or body shall be responsible for:
1. Initiating and coordinating research and surveys for the purpose of
  gathering data on the lake, related shorelands, and the drainage basin;
2. Planning lake rehabilitation projects;
3. Adopting by resolution rules for  carrying  out  their  duties  and
  plans for lake rehabilitation projects;
4. Contacting and attempting to secure the cooperation of officials of
  units  of  general  purpose  government  in  the area for the purpose of
  enacting ordinances deemed necessary by  the  board  of  supervisors  as
  furthering the objectives of the district;
5.  Carrying  out  lake  protection  and  rehabilitation  projects and
  obtaining any necessary permits therefor; and
6. Maintaining liaison with those officials of  state  government  and
  local government involved in lake protection and rehabilitation.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 264 - Rules and Regulations.

§  264.  Rules  and  regulations.  The board of supervisors shall have
  power to  adopt,  amend  and  repeal,  from  time  to  time,  rules  and
  regulations  for the operation of a county district and the use of water
  in a water  district  including  regulation  of  the  manner  of  making
  connections and the construction of the county system and all facilities
  and appurtenances.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 265 - Contracts.

§   265.   Contracts.  a.  The  administrative  head  or  body,  where
  applicable, may contract (1) for the purchase,  from  any  legal  entity
  having  water  available, of any quantity of water for resale within the
  water district on either a wholesale or retail  basis,  subject  to  the
  approval  of the contract by the county legislative body, or (2) for the
  collection, conveyance, treatment  or  disposal  of  sewage,  wastewater
  disposal,  water  quality  treatment residuals, drainage and refuse with
  any  public  corporation  or  any  county  or  town  on  behalf  of  any
  improvement  district and also with any other sewer district, wastewater
  disposal  district,  water  quality  treatment   district   or   private
  corporation.  If  the county drainage district has capacity in excess of
  its own  needs,  the  county  legislative  body  may  contract  for  the
  conveyance   of   storm   water  and  other  waters,  both  surface  and
  sub-surface, from municipalities, districts and  persons,  corporate  or
  otherwise, outside the drainage district.
If  a  Suffolk county sewer district has capacity in excess of its own
  needs,  the  administrative  head  may  contract  with   municipalities,
  districts,  public  or  private  corporations,  or individuals within or
  without the  district  for  the  collection,  conveyance,  treatment  or
  disposal of sewage including scavenger waste.
b.  Upon the adoption of a resolution, the administrative head or body
  of a district, with the approval of the  county  legislative  body,  may
  enter  into  such  contracts, as it may deem necessary, with any person,
  corporation or association for the purpose of ensuring that the cost  of
  the  county  district  will  not  constitute  an  undue  burden upon the
  property within such district and may require the  filing  of  a  surety
  bond  or  bonds  or  the  deposit  of cash or securities with the county
  treasurer to ensure the performance of such contracts.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 267 - Expense of the Improvement.

§  267.  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 board of supervisors  may  make  for  expenditures  made  by  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-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 269 - Increase of Maximum Amount to Be Expended.

§  269.  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 fifty-three-a of this article,  in  such
  district may be increased by a resolution of the board of supervisors on
  its  own motion or provided a petition requesting such increase executed
  and acknowledged in accordance with section two hundred  fifty-three  of
  this  article is presented to the board of supervisors, and provided the
  board of supervisors shall, after a public hearing called  and  held  in
  the manner prescribed by section two hundred fifty-four of this article,
  determine that it is in the public interest to authorize the increase of
  such  maximum  amount  and  provided  that  whenever  it  is proposed or
  required that the county in which such district is located shall finance
  the cost thereof by the issuance of the bonds,  notes,  certificates  or
  other  indebtedness  of the county therefor, or shall assume the payment
  of annual installments of debt service on obligations issued to  finance
  the  cost  of  facilities,  pursuant to section two hundred sixty-two of
  this article, and the cost to the typical property or, if different, the
  cost to the typical  one  or  two  family  home  is  above  the  average
  estimated  cost to the typical properties or homes for the establishment
  of similar types of districts as may be annually computed by  the  state
  comptroller,  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 motion or 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 board of supervisors of the county in
  which the district is located.
If zones of assessment have been established, such resolution  of  the
  board  of  supervisors 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.
The  resolution  of  the  board  of  supervisors shall be subject to a
  permissive referendum in the same manner and extent as provided  for  in
  section two hundred fifty-six of this article.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 272 - Taxation of District Property.

§  272.  Taxation of district property. All real property acquired for
  the purposes of the county district shall be acquired  in  the  name  of
  such  county  district. Real property acquired in the name of the county
  district 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 such county district, provided
  however, that in those cases where the  county  district  acquires  real
  property  already  containing improvements intended for the very purpose
  for which the particular district was established, the real property  so
  acquired  shall be assessed at the value of the land alone, exclusive of
  such improvements. 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-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 274 - Extension of the District.

§ 274. 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  of  the
  original district and of providing the improvement therein was assessed,
  levied  and  collected pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred
  seventy, 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 seventy-one,
  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 board of supervisors
  shall determine.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 276 - Jurisdiction of Other State Agencies.

§ 276. Jurisdiction of other state agencies. Nothing contained in this
  article  shall  be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the
  state department of health, the water pollution control  board,  or  any
  other state department or agency over district matters.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 278 - Definitions.

§  278.  Definitions.    For  purposes  of  this article the following
  definitions shall apply:
1. the term "board of supervisors" shall be  deemed  to  mean  "county
  legislature" in those counties having county legislatures;
2.  the term "typical property" shall mean a benefited property having
  an assessed value that approximates the assessed value of  the  mode  of
  the benefited properties situated in the district or extension that will
  be required to finance the cost of the proposed improvements;
3.  the  term  "typical one or two family home" shall mean a benefited
  property improved by a one or two family dwelling and having an assessed
  value that approximates the assessed value of the mode of the  benefited
  properties  improved  by  one  or  two  family dwellings situated in the
  district or extension that will be required to finance the cost  of  the
  proposed improvement;
4.  the  terms  "cost  of  the  district  or  extension to the typical
  property" and "cost of the district or extension to the typical  one  or
  two  family  home"  shall  mean the amount that it is estimated that the
  owner of such  a  typical  property  or  home  within  the  district  or
  extension  will  be  required  to  pay  for  debt service, operation and
  maintenance and other charges, such as  user  charges,  related  to  the
  improvements  in  the  first year following formation of the district or
  extension or, if greater, in the first year in which both principal  and
  interest on any indebtedness and operation and maintenance costs will be
  paid;
5.  the  term  "mode" shall mean, in connection with assessed value of
  property, the most frequently occurring assessed value as shown  on  the
  latest completed final assessment roll.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 279 - Operation of Certain Collection and Disposal Facilities in Suffolk County.

§  279.  Operation  of  certain  collection and disposal facilities in
  Suffolk county. In the county  of  Suffolk,  the  county  department  of
  environmental   conservation  may  contract  with  non-county  sewer  or
  wastewater  disposal  districts,   private   or   public   corporations,
  municipalities,  government  agencies,  and  individuals  to operate and
  maintain their sewage collection and disposal facilities including those
  for  scavenger  waste  on  such  terms  and  conditions  as  the  county
  legislature shall approve.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 279-A - Acquisition of Real Property for Future Districts in Suffolk County.

§  279-a. Acquisition of real property for future districts in Suffolk
  county. 1. In the county of Suffolk, upon the adoption of a  resolution,
  the  county legislature may acquire, in the name of the county, any real
  property or rights therein for use by a future district or districts, or
  extensions thereof in such county.
2. Any such acquisition of real property or rights therein  as  herein
  authorized  shall be for the purposes of one or more future districts or
  extensions thereof which may be established and after the  establishment
  thereof,  such real property shall be utilized for such purposes. In the
  event, however, such district, districts or extensions are  not  created
  or  the  property  becomes  unsuitable  or undesirable for such district
  purposes, the property  may  be  used  for  other  county  purposes,  if
  practicable  to do so, but if not, the property may be sold and disposed
  of in the same manner as other county  property  no  longer  needed  for
  county purposes.
3. The initial expense, if any, of any acquisition authorized pursuant
  to  this section shall be a general county charge and shall be assessed,
  levied and collected in the same manaer and at the same  time  as  other
  county  charges,  provided,  however,  nothing herein contained shall be
  construed to  prevent  financing  acquisition,  in  whole  or  in  part,
  pursuant to the local finance law.
4.  When  the  county  authorizes  the  use  of any property or rights
  therein acquired pursuant to this section and conveys the  same  to  any
  district,  districts  or  extensions thereof thereafter established, the
  expense, if any, of such acquisition or a proportionate  share  of  such
  expense  and  the cost of maintenance, if any, shall be allocated to the
  district or  extension  thereof  by  the  county  legislature  upon  the
  establishment  of  such  district  or  extension. Such allocated amount,
  together with the expense, if any, of the construction of  the  original
  improvement  for such district or extension, shall be included as a part
  of the original improvement and maximum amount authorized for and to  be
  spent  by  such  district or extension. Upon conveyance to the district,
  the district shall repay to the county the aforesaid allocated amount.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 279-B - Agreements of County District; Certain Cases.

§   279-b.   Agreements   of   county   district;  certain  cases.  1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a  county  district  in
  the county of Suffolk, acting through its administrative head, is hereby
  authorized  and  empowered,  from  time to time, to enter into or amend,
  supplement, modify, change  or  extend  agreements,  including  but  not
  limited  to, contracts, leases, rental or management agreements with, or
  grant licenses, permits, concessions or any other authorizations to  any
  private  corporation,  partnership  or  individual,  upon such terms and
  conditions and for such consideration and for such term or duration  not
  to   exceed   twenty-five   years,   as  may  be  agreed  upon  by  said
  administrative head, with the approval of the county legislature of  the
  county  wherein  such  private entity is granted the right to construct,
  operate, maintain, use, manage, occupy, lease, own, or any of them,  all
  or part of certain facilities it or the district owns or will own and to
  carry on activities or furnish services, in whole or in part relative to
  the  manner  of sewerage and wastewater treatment and collection for the
  district on sites approved by the district which may either be owned  by
  the district, county or privately.
2.  A private entity which is a party to such agreement may be granted
  the rights hereinbefore referred to for any purpose  or  purposes  which
  shall,  by  utilization  of  such  sewerage and wastewater treatment and
  collection facilities, benefit the people  of  the  county  district  or
  provide  for  the  improvement  of  their  health and welfare or aid and
  assist in the financing of the construction, operation or maintenance of
  such facilities.
3. The by-products, if any, generated by the  facility  may  be  sold,
  utilized  or otherwise disposed of by the private entity pursuant to the
  agreement, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration  as
  may be agreed upon by the parties thereto.
4.  Nothing  contained  in the provisions of this section shall exempt
  the district from any  applicable  provision  of  law  relating  to  the
  requirements for public bidding.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280 - Declaration of Policy and Purposes.

§ 280. Declaration of policy and purposes. Whereas beach erosion along
  the  shoreline  of  this state and especially along the shoreline in the
  county of Suffolk causes  loss  of  life  and  damage  to  property  and
  constitutes  a menace to the health, safety and welfare of the people of
  this state in general and the residents of Suffolk in particular, it  is
  the  sense  of  the  legislature  that  in  order  to arrest erosion and
  alleviate or prevent damage resulting therefrom and as  protection  from
  storms, the governing body of the county of Suffolk is hereby authorized
  to  establish or extend county hurricane protection, flood and shoreline
  erosion control districts in the manner  hereinafter  provided  for  the
  purpose  of  constructing  and  reconstructing dunes, bluffs, bulkheads,
  dikes, groins, jetties, fills and  other  works  and  improvements  upon
  lands  and lands under water owned by such county, or any town, village,
  park, or existing hurricane  protection,  flood  and  shoreline  erosion
  control  district  or  private  lands upon which the county has obtained
  easements or a fee  title.  No  county  district  shall  be  established
  hereunder  which  shall  consist  wholly of territory within one town or
  village.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-A - Definitions.

§  280-a.  Definitions.  Whenever  used in this article, the following
  terms shall have  the  respective  meanings  hereinafter  set  forth  or
  indicated:
1.  Governing  body.  The  term  "governing  body"  means  the elected
  legislative body of the county.
2. District. The term "district" means a county  hurricane  proection,
  flood  and  shoreline  erosion  control  district except where otherwise
  stated.
3. Agency. The term "agency"  means  a  county  hurricane  protection,
  flood and shoreline erosion control agency.
4. Administrative head or body. The term "administrative head or body"
  means  the  chief  official  or  board of a county hurricane protection,
  flood and shoreline erosion control district.
5. Shoreline. The term "shoreline" means the lands  between  high  and
  low water mark, the lands contiguous or adjacent to the high water mark,
  beaches, dunes and bluffs.
6.  Single  purpose  flood  or shoreline erosion control project.  The
  term "single purpose flood or shoreline erosion control project" means a
  project which benefits only private properties within a district without
  substantial  benefit  to  adjacent  lands  or  waters  not  within  such
  district.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-B - County Agency.

§ 280-b. County agency. The governing body may appoint or establish an
  officer,  board  or body, or may designate an existing officer, board or
  body, or public authority which possesses the express power  to  act  as
  such  an  agency,  to  act  as  a county hurricane protection, flood and
  shoreline erosion  control  agency  (hereinafter  referred  to  in  this
  article  as  the  "agency")  having the powers hereinafter prescribed in
  sections two hundred eighty-c, two  hundred  eighty-d  and  two  hundred
  eighty-e,  and  such  other powers and duties as the governing board may
  determine necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this article.
  Except in the case of  a  public  authority,  the  agency  may  also  be
  designated  as  the  administrative  head or body of any county district
  which may be established pursuant to the provisions of this article. All
  matters relating to the membership of such agency,  including,  but  not
  limited  to,  numbers,  method  of selection, tenure, qualifications and
  compensation, shall be determined by the governing body.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-C - Powers of County Agency.

§  280-c.  Powers  of  county  agency. The agency, as empowered by the
  governing body, may assemble data relating to (1) problems and solutions
  in hurricane protection, flood and shoreline  erosion  control  and  the
  areas  of  immediate  need  within  the  county,  (2) the techniques and
  effectiveness of providing  dunes,  bluffs,  bulkheads,  dikes,  groins,
  jetties,  fills  and  alternative methods of hurricane protection, flood
  and shoreline erosion control, (3) the methods  of  financing  hurricane
  protection,  flood and shoreline erosion control and the availability of
  aid and assistance from alternative  sources,  (4)  the  possibility  of
  developing  and  utilizing existing facilities and a plan of development
  for the county district which most complements more comprehensive  plans
  of  hurricane  protection,  flood  and shoreline erosion control and (5)
  employ such engineering, legal, professional  and  other  assistance  as
  from  time  to  time may be needed, and may incur such other expenses as
  may be necessary within the amounts made available  therefor  by  budget
  appropriations.  When  authorized  by the governing body, the agency may
  also apply for and  expend  state  and  federal  aid  for  comprehensive
  studies and reports.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-E - Public Hearing.

§  280-e.  Public  hearing.  When  the agency has caused such maps and
  plans to be prepared, it shall transmit  them  to  the  governing  body,
  together  with  a  report  of  its  proceedings and its recommendations,
  including a recommendation as to what officer, board or body  should  be
  the  administrative  head  or body of the proposed district. Such report
  may further include the recommendations relating to the establishment of
  two or more zones of assessment within the  proposed  district  and  the
  estimated  initial  allocation  of  the  cost of the construction of the
  facilities as between such zones to be assessed, levied and collected in
  each zone in the same manner and  at  the  same  time  as  other  county
  charges.  Upon  receipt  of  the  report  and  the  maps  and plans, the
  governing body shall call a public hearing upon a proposal to  establish
  a  county  district, to comprise the area or areas described and defined
  in said maps and plans. The clerk of the governing body  shall  cause  a
  notice  of  the  public  hearing  to  be  published at least once in the
  official newspapers of the county and in such other newspapers having  a
  general  circulation  in the proposed district as the governing body may
  direct, the first publications thereof to be not less than ten  or  more
  than twenty days before the day set therein for the hearing.  The notice
  of  hearing  shall  contain  a  description  of  the area or areas to be
  included within the proposed district, and  if  the  report  shall  have
  recommended  the  establishment of zones of assessment, a description of
  the area or areas to be included within each  zone  of  assessment,  the
  improvements  proposed,  the  maximum  amount  to  be  expended  for the
  improvement, the allocation of such maximum amount as between the  zones
  of  assessment recommended, if any, the proposed method of assessment of
  the cost and shall specify the time when and place where  the  governing
  body will meet to consider the matter and to hear all parties interested
  therein  concerning  the same. In the event that zones of assessment are
  provided for and an allocation of cost of the  facilities  between  such
  zones  of assessment, said notice shall further state that said zones of
  assessment and said allocations of cost may be changed from time to time
  by resolution of the governing  body  adopted  after  a  public  hearing
  whenever  said  governing  body  shall  determine  that such changes are
  necessary in the public interest.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-F - Representation by Municipalities and District.

§ 280-f. Representation by municipalities and district.  At the public
  hearing  on  the  establishment  of a county district which includes the
  whole or  any  part  of  a  town,  village  or  such  existing  district
  furnishing  a  similar service as the proposed district, the inhabitants
  of such town, village or existing district may be represented jointly by
  an officer or official of the municipality  or  existing  district  duly
  designated  by  the  governing  body  of  the  municipality  or existing
  district to attend.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-H - Permissive Referendum.

§ 280-h. Permissive referendum. The provisions of sections one hundred
  one and one hundred two of this chapter and the applicable provisions of
  the election law as to conduct of elections and qualifications of voters
  shall  apply  to  permissive  referenda conducted hereunder, except that
  only those electors shall be qualified to sign a petition  and  to  vote
  who  are  resident  within  an  area  included  in  the  proposed county
  district, and provided further that the number of signatures required on
  the petition shall be five hundred or five per centum of the  owners  of
  taxable  real  property situated within the proposed district, whichever
  shall be less.
The clerk of the governing body shall cause to be  prepared  and  have
  available  for  distribution  proper  forms  for such petition and shall
  distribute a supply to any person requesting the same.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-I - Application to the Department of Audit and Control.

§  280-i. Application to the department of audit and control. Whenever
  a resolution approving the establishment of a county district shall have
  become effective,  the  clerk  of  the  governing  body  shall  file  an
  application  in  the  office  of the department of audit and control for
  permission to establish the district. Such application shall be executed
  and verified by the chairman of the governing body or such other officer
  as the governing body may designate and be in such form and contain such
  information as may be prescribed by the state comptroller.    The  state
  comptroller may require the submission of additional information or data
  in  such  form  and  detail as he shall deem sufficient, or may cause an
  investigation to be made to aid him in making the  determinations  below
  mentioned.  Upon  such  application and such other information, data and
  material which may be submitted, the state comptroller  shall  determine
  whether  the  public  interest  will  be  served  by the creation of the
  district and also whether the cost thereof will be an undue burden  upon
  the  property  of  the  proposed district. If such resolution shall have
  provided for the establishment of zones of assessment and the allocation
  of the costs of the facilities as between such zones of assessment,  the
  state  comptroller  shall  further  determine  whether  the  cost of the
  facilities allocated to each of said zones  of  assessment  will  be  an
  undue burden upon the property of each proposed zone of assessment.
Upon   completion   of   his   examination   of  the  application  and
  investigation of the project, the state comptroller shall make an order,
  in duplicate, granting or denying permission for  the  establishment  of
  the  district and shall file one copy of such order in the office of the
  state department of audit and control at Albany, New York, and the other
  in the office of the clerk of the governing body of the county in  which
  the  proposed district is located. The clerk of the governing body shall
  present such order to the governing body at the next meeting thereof. If
  the state comptroller shall deny permission for the establishment of the
  district, no further proceedings shall be taken in the matter.   If  the
  state  comptroller  shall  grant permission for the establishment of the
  district, the  governing  body  may  adopt  an  order  establishing  the
  district.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-B - County Hurricane Protection, Flood and Shoreline Erosion Control Districts › 280-J - Recording and Filing of Determination.

§  280-j.  Recording  and  filing  of  determination. The clerk of the
  governing body shall within ten days cause a certified copy of the order
  of the governing body establishing the district to be  recorded  in  the
  office  of the clerk of the county and when so recorded such order shall
  be presumptive evidence of the regularity of  the  proceedings  for  the
  establishment  of  the  district  and  of  all other action taken by the
  governing body in relation thereto.