2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1112 - Connections With Mains.

§  11-1112  Connections  with  mains. 1. Supply pipes, connecting with
  mains and used by private owners or occupants, shall be laid and kept in
  repair at their expense, as in this section or in other sections of this
  act provided. Such pipes can only be connected with  the  mains  by  the
  permission  and  under the direction of the board of water commissioners
  and in accordance with their rules and  regulations.  A  member  of  the
  board  or its authorized agents may at any time enter a building or upon
  the premises where there is a supply pipe or pipes, and  make  necessary
  examinations or repairs.
2. The board of water commissioners may cause a notice to be published
  in  the  official  newspaper  of  the  village,  requiring the owners or
  occupants of any and all property fronting or abutting on any street  or
  portion  thereof  in or upon which any public water main or distributing
  pipe is about to be laid or is being laid or has been laid by  the  said
  board  to  make  and lay connection pipes to and from the water mains or
  distributing pipes in said street or any portion  thereof  in  front  of
  each  separate  piece  of property or to repair such connection pipes to
  and from the water mains or distributing pipes in  said  street  or  any
  portion  thereof in front of or upon each separate piece of property and
  where directed by said board, within such time and in  such  manner  and
  under  such  inspection  as said board shall prescribe, and whenever any
  such  owner  or  occupant  shall  have  made  default  in  making   such
  connections  with  said  water  mains or distributing pipes opposite the
  lands and premises owned or occupied by him or whenever  such  owner  or
  occupant  shall  have  made default in repairing supply pipes connecting
  with mains opposite or upon the land and premises owned or  occupied  by
  him  as  directed in and required by said printed notice therefor in the
  manner and within the time specified, the said board  shall  have  power
  and  authority  to  so make, extend and complete the same and the actual
  expense thereof, including all labor done and materials  used  in  doing
  and  completing  the  same,  shall  be  assessed  by the trustees of the
  village upon each separate piece of property opposite or upon which  the
  same  shall  be done and completed and shall be a lien and liens on said
  premises and lots of land respectively, and the same shall be  collected
  in  the  same manner as other local assessments or assessments for local
  improvements as provided by the special charter of the  village  or  the
  general  village  laws  of  the  state  as  the case may be, and when so
  collected the amount thereof shall be paid into the water  fund  of  the
  village.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be construed to prevent the
  financing, in whole or in part, pursuant to the local  finance  law,  of
  any expense incurred by the village pursuant to this section.
3.  If  the  notice  published  by  the  board of water commissioners,
  pursuant to the provisions of subdivision two of this section,  contains
  a  statement that the failure to comply with such notice shall cause the
  board of water commissioners to discontinue  the  water  supply  to  the
  property  concerned, the board of water commissioners may, after mailing
  a copy of the notice to the owner of the  property  at  his  last  known
  address,  discontinue the water supply within thirty days after the time
  for making the repairs which was  set  forth  in  the  notice  that  had
  elapsed.