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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 103-A - Ground for Cancellation of Contract by Municipal Corporations and Fire Districts.

§ 103-a. Ground for cancellation of contract by municipal corporations
and fire districts.  A clause shall be inserted in all specifications or
contracts  made  or  awarded  by  a  municipal corporation or any public
department, agency or official thereof on or  after  the  first  day  of
July, nineteen hundred fifty-nine or by a fire district or any agency or
official  thereof  on  or  after  the  first  day of September, nineteen
hundred sixty, for work or services performed or  to  be  performed,  or
goods  sold or to be sold, to provide that upon the refusal of a person,
when called before a grand jury, head of a state  department,  temporary
state  commission  or other state agency, the organized crime task force
in the department of law, head of  a  city  department,  or  other  city
agency,  which  is  empowered  to compel the attendance of witnesses and
examine them under oath, to testify in an investigation  concerning  any
transaction  or  contract  had with the state, any political subdivision
thereof, a public authority or with any  public  department,  agency  or
official  of  the  state or of any political subdivision thereof or of a
public authority, to  sign  a  waiver  of  immunity  against  subsequent
criminal  prosecution or to answer any relevant question concerning such
transaction or contract,
(a) such person, and any firm, partnership or corporation of which  he
is  a  member,  partner,  director or officer shall be disqualified from
thereafter selling to or submitting bids to or receiving awards from  or
entering  into  any  contracts  with  any  municipal corporation or fire
district, or any public department,  agency  or  official  thereof,  for
goods,  work or services, for a period of five years after such refusal,
and to provide also that
(b) any and all contracts made with any municipal corporation  or  any
public  department, agency or official thereof on or after the first day
of July, nineteen hundred fifty-nine or with any fire  district  or  any
agency  or  official  thereof  on  or  after the first day of September,
nineteen hundred sixty, by such person, and by any firm, partnership, or
corporation of which he is a member, partner, director or officer may be
cancelled or terminated by the municipal corporation  or  fire  district
without incurring any penalty or damages on account of such cancellation
or  termination,  but  any  monies owing by the municipal corporation or
fire district for goods delivered or work done prior to the cancellation
or termination shall be paid.
The provisions of this section as in force and  effect  prior  to  the
first   day  of  September,  nineteen  hundred  sixty,  shall  apply  to
specifications or contracts made or awarded by a  municipal  corporation
on  or  after  the  first  day of July, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, but
prior to the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 103-E - Conspiracies to Prevent Competitive Bidding or Competitive Offering on Public Contracts.

§  103-e.  Conspiracies  to prevent competitive bidding or competitive
  offering on public contracts. 1.  A  person  or  corporation  who  shall
  wilfully,  knowingly  and with intent to defraud, make or enter into, or
  attempt to make or enter into, with any other person or  corporation,  a
  contract,  agreement,  arrangement or combination to submit a fraudulent
  or collusive bid or offer, or to refrain from  submitting  a  bona  fide
  competitive  bid  or  competitive  offer, to any board, officer, agency,
  department, commission or other agency of  the  state  or  of  a  public
  corporation  on  a  contract  for public work or purchase which has been
  advertised for bidding or offering, shall be guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,
  and  on  conviction thereof shall, if a natural person, be punished by a
  fine not exceeding five thousand dollars  or  by  imprisonment  for  not
  longer  than  one  year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and if a
  corporation  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  twenty  thousand  dollars.  An
  indictment  or  information  based  upon a violation of any provision of
  this section must be found within three years after its commission.
2. For the purpose of this section a public corporation shall  mean  a
  county,  city, town, village, school district, a territorial division of
  the state established by  law  and  possessing  the  power  to  contract
  indebtedness  and  levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real estate or
  to require the levy of such taxes or assessments, whether  or  not  such
  territorial  division  is  expressly declared to be a body corporate and
  politic by the statute creating or  authorizing  the  creation  of  such
  territorial  division,  and  a  corporation  organized  to  construct or
  operate a public improvement wholly or  partly  within  the  state,  the
  profits  from  which  inure to the benefit of this or other states or to
  the people thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 103-F - Security Bonds; Municipal Projects.

§  103-f. Security bonds; municipal projects. Whenever a security bond
  is posted by a successful bidder  for  the  faithful  performance  of  a
  municipal project, for which state aid is approved, the name and address
  of  the  bonding company or person issuing the security bond, the number
  of such bond, and such other information as may be required by the state
  department  or  agency  responsible  for  supervising  the  aid  program
  regarding  the  project,  shall  be  transmitted  to  such department or
  agency, where it shall be reviewed to determine its  authenticity  prior
  to award of such contract. The original of such bond shall remain in the
  office  of  the municipality. Upon request of such department or agency,
  the superintendent of financial services shall render such assistance as
  is necessary to determine the authenticity of the security bond.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 104-C - Disposal of Surplus Computer Equipment.

* §  104-c. Disposal of surplus computer equipment. 1. Definitions. As
used in this section:
(a) "Computer" means a computer central  processing  unit  and,  where
attached  to  a  computer  central processing unit, such computer cases,
computer memory, card and other peripheral devices as may reasonably  be
viewed functionally as one unit.
(b)  "Computer  equipment" means computers, computer memory, cards and
associated peripheral devices including, but not limited to, floppy disk
drives, hard disk drives, printers, modems, computer-related cables  and
networking devices, scanners, computer monitors, and computer software.
(c) "Computer software" means executable computer programs and related
data  files  on  computer-related  media  including, but not limited to,
floppy disks, hard disks,  optical  and  magneto-optical  computer  data
storage devices.
2.  The  governing board of a political subdivision may by resolution,
adopt policies authorizing the disposal of computers, computer  software
and  computer  equipment  no  longer  needed  for  the  purposes  of the
political  subdivision  through  donation  to  public  schools,   public
libraries,  and  other  public  and  private  institutions  for  secular
educational  use,  and  to  not-for-profit  institutions  for   use   by
individuals   with   disabilities,   senior   citizens,  or  low  income
individuals, upon proof of need by such institution and  subordinate  to
the  requirements of the public schools and libraries of the state. Such
donation shall be based on a public notification process and competitive
proposals  from  schools,  libraries,  and  other  public  and   private
educational  programs  for  secular  education  use,  and not-for-profit
institutions serving persons with disabilities, senior citizens, or  low
income  individuals, which shall demonstrate need and specific plans for
the use of such equipment.
3. Every resolution enacted pursuant to  this  section  shall  provide
that   no   computer  software  of  a  political  subdivision  shall  be
transferred if such transfer would cause a breach of a computer software
license agreement or an infringement of a copyright.
* NB Repealed July 1, 2025
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 104-D - The New York State Buy American Salt Act.

§  104-d. The New York state buy American salt act. 1. Use of American
materials.  (a)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,   when
soliciting  a contract for the purchase of rock salt or sodium chloride,
any department or agency of  a  political  subdivision  may  award  such
contract  to the responsible and reliable bidder offering to supply rock
salt or sodium chloride that is mined or hand harvested  in  the  United
States,  and  which  offer  is within ten percent of the lowest price or
best value offer, rather than to the  lowest  responsible  and  reliable
bidder.
(b)  If  it  has been determined by a court or federal or state agency
that any person intentionally:
(i) affixed a label bearing a "Made in America"  inscription,  or  any
inscription  with the same meaning, to any rock salt, or sodium chloride
product used in projects to which  this  section  applies,  sold  in  or
shipped to the United States that was not mined or hand harvested in the
United States; or
(ii)  represented  that  any  rock  salt,  or  sodium chloride product
procured in a contract to  which  this  section  applies  that  was  not
produced  in  the United States, was produced in the United States; then
that person shall be ineligible to receive any contract  or  subcontract
with  this  state  pursuant  to  the  debarment or suspension provisions
provided under section one hundred thirty-nine-a of  the  state  finance
law.
(c)  This  section  shall  be  applied in a manner consistent with the
state's  obligations  under  any  applicable  international   agreements
pertaining to government procurement.
2.  Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following words
shall have the following meanings unless specified otherwise:
(a) "Public agency" means  a  governmental  entity  as  that  term  is
defined in section one hundred thirty-nine-j of the state finance law;
(b) "Mined or hand harvested in the United States" means: extracted or
collected  from  land or ponds within the boundary of the United States,
from the initial separation from the earth through the addition  of  any
additives necessary for commercial sale;
(c)  "United  States"  means the United States of America and includes
all territory, continental or insular, subject to  the  jurisdiction  of
the United States.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 105 - Disposition of Deposit Accompanying Bid.

§  105.  Disposition of deposit accompanying bid.  Notwithstanding any
  inconsistent provision of any general, special or local law, whenever as
  a condition precedent to the reception or consideration  of  a  bid  for
  furnishing  supplies,  materials,  or equipment or performing work for a
  political subdivision or any officer, board or agency thereof or of  any
  district  therein, a deposit of a certified check, money, bonds or other
  obligations is required, a person or corporation submitting  a  bid  may
  withdraw  the same if no award of the contract be made within forty-five
  days after the receipt thereof, and upon such  withdrawal  such  deposit
  shall  be  forthwith  returned. A certified check, money, bonds or other
  obligations or security deposited to secure  a  bid  shall  be  retained
  under  the jurisdiction and control of the chief fiscal officer or other
  officer of the political subdivision or district having custody  of  its
  money, until returned to the bidder or forfeited.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 106 - Withdrawal of Retained Percentages.

§  106.  Withdrawal  of  retained  percentages.    Notwithstanding any
  inconsistent provision of any general, special or local law,  under  any
  contract  heretofore  or  hereafter  made  or  awarded  by any political
  subdivision, or any officer, board or agency thereof, or of any district
  therein, the contractor may, from time to time, withdraw  the  whole  or
  any  portion  of  the  amount  retained  from payments to the contractor
  pursuant to the terms of the contract, upon depositing with  the  fiscal
  officer  of  the  political  subdivision  or  district therein or, if so
  directed by the fiscal officer of the political subdivision or  district
  therein,  with  a  bank  or  trust  company  which  has  entered into an
  agreement with said fiscal officer to provide the  services  which  said
  fiscal officer is required to perform pursuant to the provisions of this
  section  (1)  bonds  or  notes  of  the  United  States  of  America, or
  obligations, the payment of which is guaranteed by the United States  of
  America, or (2) bonds or notes of the state of New York, or (3) bonds of
  any  political  subdivision  in the state of New York, of a market value
  equal to the amount so withdrawn. The fiscal officer  of  the  political
  subdivision  or  of a district therein, from time to time, shall collect
  all interest and income on the obligations so deposited, and  shall  pay
  the  same,  when  and as collected, to the contractor who deposited such
  obligations.   When the deposit is in the  form  of  coupon  bonds,  the
  coupons  shall  be  clipped,  presented  for  payment,  and the proceeds
  remitted to the contractor as they respectively come due. The contractor
  shall not be entitled to interest or income on, or the coupons  of,  any
  obligations  so  deposited by him, the proceeds of which shall have been
  used or  applied  by  the  political  subdivision  or  district  therein
  pursuant  to  the  terms  of  the  contract.   The fiscal officer of the
  political subdivision or district therein or  any  such  bank  or  trust
  company  when  authorized  by  said fiscal officer, may impose upon each
  contractor a service  charge  for  receiving,  handling  and  disbursing
  obligations,  funds  and  coupons  pursuant  to  the  provisions of this
  section in amount to be  determined  by  said  fiscal  officer.  Such  a
  service  charge  shall not exceed a reasonable amount which is generally
  consistent with charges by a bank or trust company for such a service.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 106-A - Service Charge for Receiving, Handling and Disbursing Funds and Coupons.

§  106-a.  Service charge for receiving, handling and disbursing funds
  and coupons. The fiscal officer of the political  subdivision  or  of  a
  district  therein  shall impose upon each contractor such service charge
  for receiving, handling and disbursing funds  and  coupons  pursuant  to
  section  one  hundred six of this article as the local governing body of
  the political subdivision may provide by local law  or  ordinance.  Such
  service  charge  shall not exceed a reasonable amount which is generally
  consistent with charges by a bank or trust company for such  a  service.
  This  section  shall not apply where a political subdivision or district
  therein has entered into an agreement  with  a  bank  or  trust  company
  pursuant to section one hundred six of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 107 - Claims Against Political Subdivisions; Contractor's Undertaking.

§   107.   Claims   against   political   subdivisions;   contractor's
  undertaking.  A contractor under a contract heretofore or hereafter made
  or awarded by any political subdivision, or by  any  officer,  board  or
  agency  thereof, or of any district therein, in case any claim or notice
  of claim for injury or damage to person or property arising out of or in
  connection with the performance of such contract,  be  made  against  or
  filed  with  such  municipality  or  district therein, may file with the
  fiscal officer of such political  subdivision  or  district  therein  an
  undertaking  as  prescribed  in  this section, and thereupon such fiscal
  officer shall be authorized to make payments to such contractor pursuant
  to the terms of such contract. Such undertaking shall be  executed  with
  such sureties, in such form and for such amount as the fiscal officer of
  such  political subdivision or district therein may prescribe, and shall
  be conditioned for the payment by such contractor of any judgment  which
  may be recovered in an action brought upon such claim.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 108 - Workmen's Compensation Insurance on Public Works.

§  108.  Workmen's  compensation  insurance  on  public  works.   Each
  contract to which a political  subdivision  or  any  officer,  board  or
  agency  thereof,  or of any district therein, is a party and which is of
  such a character that the employees engaged thereon are required  to  be
  insured  under  the  provisions of the workmen's compensation law, shall
  contain a stipulation that such contract shall be void and of no  effect
  unless  the  person  or  corporation  making or performing such contract
  shall secure compensation for the benefit of, and  keep  insured  during
  the  life  of  such  contract,  such  employees,  in compliance with the
  provisions of the workmen's compensation law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 109 - Assignment of Public Contracts.

§  109. Assignment of public contracts.  1. A clause shall be inserted
  in all specifications or contracts hereafter  made  or  awarded  by  any
  officer,  board or agency of a political subdivision, or of any district
  therein, prohibiting any contractor, to whom any contract shall be  let,
  granted  or  awarded,  as required by law, from assigning, transferring,
  conveying, subletting or otherwise disposing of  the  same,  or  of  his
  right,  title,  or  interest  therein,  or  his  power  to  execute such
  contract, to any  other  person  or  corporation  without  the  previous
  consent  in  writing  of  the  officer,  board  or  agency  awarding the
  contract.
2. If any contractor, to whom any contract is let, granted or awarded,
  as required by law, by any officer,  board  or  agency  of  a  political
  subdivision,  or  of  any  district  therein, shall without the previous
  written consent specified in subdivision one of  this  section,  assign,
  transfer,  convey,  sublet or otherwise dispose of such contract, or his
  right, title or interest therein, or his power to execute such contract,
  to any other person or corporation, the officer, board or  agency  which
  let,  made, granted or awarded such contract shall revoke and annul such
  contract, and the political subdivision or district therein, as the case
  may be, and  such  officer,  board  or  agency  shall  be  relieved  and
  discharged  from  any  and  all liability and obligations growing out of
  such contract to such contractor, and to the person  or  corporation  to
  which  such  contract  shall  have been assigned, transferred, conveyed,
  sublet or otherwise disposed of, and such contractor, and his assignees,
  transferees or sublessees shall forfeit and lose all moneys, theretofore
  earned under such contract, except so much as may be required to pay his
  employees. The provisions of this section shall not hinder, prevent,  or
  affect  an  assignment  by  any  such  contractor for the benefit of his
  creditors made pursuant to the laws of this state.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 109-A - Purchases Through the Office of General Services by Certain Public Associations.

§  109-a.  Purchases through the office of general services by certain
  public associations. The New York State  Association  of  Counties,  the
  Association  of  Towns of the State of New York, the New York State Town
  Clerk's Association, Inc., the New York State Conference of  Mayors  and
  Other Municipal Officials, the New York State School Boards Association,
  Inc.,  the  New  York  Planning  Federation  and the Association of Fire
  Districts of the State of New York, the New York  State  Association  of
  School  Business  Officials,  the  New  York  state  council  of  school
  superintendents, any nonpublic elementary and/or secondary school of the
  state of New York, which provides the instruction  required  by  section
  thirty-two  hundred four and article seventeen of the education law, and
  which is chartered by, registered with or  subject  to  examination  and
  inspection  by the department of education and which is a not for profit
  institution and any public library, association library, library system,
  cooperative library system, the New York Library  Association,  and  the
  New York State Association of Library Boards or any other library except
  those  which  are  operated  by  for profit entities, may make purchases
  through the office of general services subject to such rules as  may  be
  promulgated  pursuant  to  section  one hundred sixty-three of the state
  finance law and subdivision eight-a of section one hundred three of this
  article which may establish limitations with respect to commodities  and
  impose  such  other  appropriate  conditions  upon  purchasing as deemed
  necessary by the commissioner of general services in  order  to  protect
  the state's own purchasing interests; and that such association, school,
  library,  library system or cooperative library system shall accept sole
  responsibility for any payment due the vendor. Boards of  education  may
  permit such nonpublic schools to make purchases pursuant to this section
  through  the  school  district in which the nonpublic school is located,
  provided that any administrative costs incurred by the  school  district
  will be paid by the nonpublic school.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 109-C - Purchases Through County Contracts by Certain Not-for-Profit Corporations.

§  109-c. Purchases through county contracts by certain not-for-profit
  corporations. Not-for-profit corporations that provide a  service  to  a
  county  are  authorized  to  make  purchases or to contract for services
  other than services subject to article eight or any  provisions  of  the
  labor  law  and other than purchases of motor fuel, diesel motor fuel or
  cigarettes, through the county which the not-for-profit has  a  contract
  with.  Such  purchases  or  contracts for services made through a county
  contract by a not-for-profit shall directly relate to  the  service  for
  which  the  not-for-profit  provides  to  such  county.  The  county may
  establish limitations with  respect  to  commodities  and  services  and
  impose  such  other  appropriate  conditions  upon  purchasing as deemed
  necessary by the chief fiscal officer of the county in order to  protect
  the   county's   own   purchasing  interests;  and  such  not-for-profit
  corporation shall make any purchase pursuant to this section in its  own
  name  and  accept  sole responsibility for any payment due to the vendor
  and such not-for-profit corporation and vendor shall each be responsible
  for any tax due with respect to  the  purchases  by  the  not-for-profit
  corporation.  Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering any
  tax exemption afforded to the not-for-profit corporation or as  creating
  a  principal/agent  relationship  between  the county and not-for-profit
  corporation.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 110 - Definition.

§  110.  Definition.   The term "municipality" as used in this article
  shall mean a city, a village, a county  on  behalf  of  a  county  water
  district  and  a  town  acting  on  behalf  of a water district or water
  storage and distribution district, including a water  district  governed
  by a separate board of commissioners.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 111 - Contracts.

§  111. Contracts.  Two or more municipalities are hereby empowered to
  enter into a contract to provide for a common supply of water, including
  joint  acquisition,  construction,  operation  and   maintenance.   Such
  contract  shall provide for the method of acquisition or construction of
  the common supply; the management  and  operation  of  the  system;  the
  method   of   fixing  the  proportionate  share  of  each  participating
  municipality and of making contributions; the method  of  making  annual
  adjustments  of the proportionate shares of the annual cost and expense;
  the  method  of  collection  of  water  rates  and  other  charges,  and
  enforcement  thereof;  the  accumulation of reserves; the fixing of rate
  schedules and other charges;  the  adoption  of  rules  and  regulations
  covering  the  operation  of  the system and the conditions of sale; the
  adjudication of disputes and all other matters necessary  to  effectuate
  such an arrangement.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 112 - Acquisition of a Common Supply.

§  112.  Acquisition of a common supply.  A common supply of water may
  be acquired and developed (including acquisition or construction of  all
  facilities  necessary  for  distribution of water in bulk) by all of the
  contracting municipalities acting jointly or by the individual action of
  one of the contracting municipalities, acting for all of the contracting
  municipalities, as such municipalities may provide in the contract,  or,
  pursuant  to  contract  therewith, by a public authority which possesses
  express reciprocal powers of contract. Regardless of the  method  agreed
  upon,  title  to  all  real or personal property acquired or constructed
  shall  be  held  jointly  in  the  names  of  all  of  the   contracting
  municipalities  subject  to  such  provisions  for  disposition  as  the
  contract between such municipalities may contain.
Rider I. Such water authority shall be deemed the agent of the  county
  or  counties  which  are  a  party  or parties to such contract. If such
  contract shall authorize the water authority  to  purchase  supplies  or
  equipment  or to construct public works, such authority shall be subject
  to all provisions of law to which a county would be subject in  relation
  to  advertising  and awarding any such contracts for supplies, equipment
  or public works.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 112-A - Certain Acquisitions by Eminent Domain.

§  112-a.  Certain acquisitions by eminent domain. Notwithstanding any
  provision of the eminent domain procedure law to the  contrary,  in  any
  proceeding  brought  pursuant  to such law, by any municipal corporation
  located in the county of  Nassau  regarding  the  Jamaica  water  supply
  company,  title shall vest in the municipal corporation and compensation
  shall be paid only (a)  upon  a  decision  by  the  supreme  court  that
  compensation for the property so condemned shall be determined solely by
  the  income  capitalization method of valuation, based on the actual net
  income as allowed by the public service commission, and  (b)  upon  such
  court's determination of the amount of such compensation, based upon the
  income capitalization method, entry of the final judgment, the filing of
  the  final decree, and the conclusion of any appeal or expiration of the
  time to file an appeal related to the  condemnation  proceeding.  Should
  any  court determine that a method of compensation other than the income
  capitalization method be utilized, or if the proposed award is more than
  the rate base of the assets taken in condemnation  as  utilized  by  the
  public  service  commission  in  setting  rates  and as certified by the
  public service commission, the municipal corporation  may  withdraw  the
  condemnation proceeding without prejudice or costs to any party.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 113 - Management and Operation.

§  113. Management and operation.  The joint water works system may be
  managed and operated  by  a  joint  operating  agency,  by  one  of  the
  contracting municipalities or by contract with a public authority as the
  contracting  municipalities  shall  provide.  A  contract  with a public
  authority shall provide  for  periodic  reports  of  operations  to  the
  participating municipalities.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 114 - Costs.

§  114. Costs.   The cost of providing a common supply of water may be
  financed either by the issuance and sale of the joint obligations of the
  contracting  municipalities  or  by  individual  issuance  and  sale  of
  obligations  to  finance  the  proportionate  share  of each contracting
  municipality, as such shares shall be fixed pursuant to the contract. In
  the event that the acquisition and development of a common water  supply
  and  the  construction  of a water works system shall be effected by the
  individual action of one of the contracting municipalities, it shall  be
  lawful  for  any  of the other contracting municipalities to make a lump
  sum payment to such contracting municipality either from moneys on  hand
  and available for such purpose or from moneys received from the issuance
  and  sale  of  obligations.  Nothing  herein contained shall prevent the
  purchase or condemnation of existing  sources  of  supply,  water  works
  systems  or  portions  thereof  necessary  for the purposes of the joint
  project, provided, however, that there shall  be  no  power  to  condemn
  property  the  legal  title  to which is vested in a public corporation,
  district corporation or a special improvement district unless the  owner
  shall  consent  thereto.  In  the event that any source of water supply,
  water works system or portion thereof owned by one  of  the  contracting
  municipalities  is  acquired  for  the purposes of the common supply and
  joint water works system, such municipality  may  be  allowed  a  credit
  against its share of the cost equal to the agreed value of the assets so
  acquired.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 115 - Sale of Water.

§  115.  Sale  of  Water.  Water  shall be sold in bulk to the several
  contracting municipalities. Rates shall be fixed in  such  amounts  that
  revenue  therefrom  shall  be  at  least sufficient to pay all estimated
  annual costs of operation  and  maintenance  and  debt  service  on  all
  obligations  issued  for the purposes of a common supply, whether or not
  such obligations are joint obligations. In the event that such  revenues
  in  any  year  are insufficient, the excess of cost over revenues may be
  apportioned to the participating municipalities and shall be assessed by
  each against the real property within its boundaries.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-B - Common Water Supplies › 116 - Authorization to Participate.

§  116.  Authorization to participate.   Before any municipality shall
  participate in a joint  project  pursuant  to  this  article,  it  shall
  authorize  such  participation by taking the same procedural steps which
  it would  be  required  to  take  if  it  proposed  to  effectuate  such
  improvements   itself.   Other   municipalities   may  be  permitted  to
  participate in the joint project by making a lump  sum  contribution  in
  such amount and such manner as the original participating municipalities
  may  determine.  Necessary  funds for such contribution may be raised in
  the manner provided in the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-C - Water Supply › 118 - Development of a Supply of Water for Sale.

§ 118. Development of a supply of water for sale. Any city or village,
  any  county  on behalf of a county water district and any town on behalf
  of a town water district or water storage and distribution district may,
  in  addition  to  all  other  powers  possessed  with  respect  to   the
  development  and distribution of water, provide for the development of a
  supply of water in excess of its own needs, for the purpose of sale to a
  public corporation or improvement district which possesses the power  to
  purchase  a  supply  of water, and, any provision of law to the contrary
  notwithstanding, may contract indebtedness for such  purpose.  The  term
  "public  corporation"  as  used  in  this  article  shall  mean a public
  corporation as defined in the general corporations law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-C - Water Supply › 118-A - Contracts.

§  118-a.  Contracts.  Any municipality authorized herein to develop a
  supply of water for sale is hereby empowered to enter into contracts for
  such periods as it may deem necessary but not in excess of forty  years.
  Such  contracts may contain provisions for establishment and revision of
  charges for water, for adjudication of disputes and,  in  return  for  a
  guaranteed  minimum consumption by the purchaser, for the application of
  conservation methods by the  seller  when  necessary  to  preserve  such
  excess.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-C - Water Supply › 118-B - Jurisdiction of Other State Agencies.

§  118-b.  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  or  of  the  water power and control
  commission over water supply matters.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-C - Water Supply › 118-C - Financing.

§  118-c. Financing. Any municipal corporation shall have the power to
  enter  into  contracts  with  any  public  benefit  corporation  created
  pursuant  to  article  five  of  the  public  authorities  law  which is
  authorized by law  to  furnish  water  to  such  municipal  corporation,
  providing  for  the  financing  of  the  acquisition and construction of
  improvements to the water supply system or water distribution system  of
  such  municipal  corporation.  The  terms  of such contract may include,
  among other provisions, provisions requiring such municipal  corporation
  to  purchase  water  only  from such public authority during the term of
  such contract, and which term shall be limited  to  the  lesser  of  (i)
  thirty years or (ii) the probable useful life of the items for which any
  bonds  are  issued  by  such  public  benefit corporation to finance the
  acquisition and construction of improvements to such water supply system
  or water distribution system. The resolution of the municipal  governing
  body  authorizing  the  municipality  to  enter  into  the  contract for
  financing shall be subject to the same referendum requirements as if  it
  were a resolution of the municipality to authorize the sale of bonds for
  the  same  purpose  and  amount.  For purposes of this section, the term
  "municipal corporation" shall mean any city or village or any county  on
  behalf  of a county water district or any town on behalf of a town water
  district, water storage and distribution district or  water  improvement
  area.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-D - Sewage Disposal › 119 - Construction and Development of Excess Sewage Capacity.

§  119.  Construction  and development of excess sewage capacity.  Any
  city or village, any county on behalf of a county sewer district and any
  town on behalf of a town sewer district or sewage disposal district may,
  in  addition  to  all  other  powers  possessed  with  respect  to   the
  construction  and  development  of  sewage  facilities,  provide for the
  construction and development of capacity in excess of its own needs  for
  conveyance,  treatment  and  disposal  of  sewage  for  the  purpose  of
  conveying,  treating  and  disposing  of  sewage   of   another   public
  corporation  or  improvement  district, and, any provision of law to the
  contrary notwithstanding, may contract indebtedness  for  such  purpose.
  The  term  "public  corporation"  as  used  in this article shall mean a
  public corporation as defined in the general corporation law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-D - Sewage Disposal › 119-A - Contracts.

§  119-a.  Contracts.  Any municipality authorized herein to construct
  and develop sewage facilities in excess  of  its  own  needs  is  hereby
  empowered  to  enter  into  contracts  for  such  periods as it may deem
  necessary but not in excess of forty years. Such contracts  may  contain
  provisions  for  establishment  and  revision of charges for conveyance,
  treatment and disposal of sewage and for adjudication of disputes.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-D - Sewage Disposal › 119-B - Jurisdiction of Other State Agencies.

§  119-b.  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 state conservation department or the
  water  pollution  control  board  over  sewage  treatment  and  disposal
  matters.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-E - Drainage › 119-C - Construction and Development of Excess Drainage Facilities.

§  119-c.  Construction and development of excess drainage facilities.
  Any city, town or village, any county on behalf  of  a  county  drainage
  district  and  any  town  on  behalf of a town drainage district may, in
  addition to all other powers possessed with respect to the  construction
  and development of drainage facilities, provide for the construction and
  development  of  capacity  in excess of its own needs for the purpose of
  conveying and disposing of storm waters and other surface or sub-surface
  waters collected by another public corporation or improvement  district,
  and,  any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, may contract
  indebtedness for such purpose. The term "public corporation" as used  in
  this  article  shall mean a public corporation as defined in the general
  corporations law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-E - Drainage › 119-D - Contracts.

§  119-d.  Contracts.  Any municipality authorized herein to construct
  and develop drainage facilities in excess of its  own  needs  is  hereby
  empowered  to  enter  into  contracts  for  such  periods as it may deem
  necessary but not in excess of forty years. Such contracts  may  contain
  provisions  for establishment and revision of charges for conveyance and
  disposing of storm water and other surface  and  sub-surface  waters  so
  collected and for adjudication of disputes.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-F - Common Drainage Facilities › 119-F - Definition.

§  119-f.  Definition. The term "municipality" as used in this article
  shall mean a city, a village, a county on behalf of  a  county  drainage
  district,  a  town  and  a  town  acting  on  behalf  of a town drainage
  district.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-F - Common Drainage Facilities › 119-G - Contracts.

§ 119-g. Contracts. Two or more municipalities are hereby empowered to
  enter   into  contracts  to  provide  for  common  drainage  facilities,
  including joint acquisition, construction,  operation  and  maintenance.
  Such   contracts   shall  provide  for  the  method  of  acquisition  or
  construction of the common facilities; the management and  operation  of
  the  system;  the  method  of  fixing  the  proportionate  share of each
  participating municipality and of making contributions;  the  method  of
  making annual adjustments of the proportionate shares of the annual cost
  and  expense;  the  adoption  of  rules  and  regulations  covering  the
  operation of the system; the adjudication  of  disputes  and  all  other
  matters necessary to effectuate such an arrangement.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-F - Common Drainage Facilities › 119-H - Development of Common Facilities.

§  119-h. Development of common facilities. Common drainage facilities
  may be acquired and developed by all of the  contracting  municipalities
  acting  jointly  or  by  the individual action of one of the contracting
  municipalities, acting for all of  the  contracting  municipalities,  as
  such  municipalities  may  provide  in  the  contract. Regardless of the
  method agreed upon, title to all real or personal property  acquired  or
  constructed shall be held jointly in the names of all of the contracting
  municipalities  subject  to  such  provisions  for  disposition  as  the
  contract between such municipalities may contain.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-F - Common Drainage Facilities › 119-J - Costs.

§  119-j.  Costs.  The share of each participating municipality of the
  cost of providing common drainage  facilities  shall  be  fixed  by  the
  contract.    In the event that the acquisition and development of common
  drainage facilities shall be effected by the individual action of one of
  the participating municipalities, it shall be  lawful  for  any  of  the
  other  participating  municipalities  to  make a lump sum payment of its
  share from moneys on hand and available for such purpose. Nothing herein
  contained  shall  prevent  the  purchase  or  condemnation  of  existing
  drainage  facilities  or  portions thereof necessary for the purposes of
  the joint project, provided, however, that there shall be  no  power  to
  condemn  property  the  legal  title  to  which  is  vested  in a public
  corporation, district corporation  or  a  special  improvement  district
  unless  the  owner shall consent thereto. In the event that any drainage
  facility owned by one of the participating  municipalities  is  acquired
  for  the  purpose  of  the  common  facilities, such municipality may be
  allowed a credit against its share of the cost equal to the agreed value
  of the assets so acquired. The share of each participating  municipality
  may  be  paid  from  taxes  levied  for  the  fiscal  year in which such
  expenditure is to be made or may be financed as provided in title  one-A
  of article two of the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-F - Common Drainage Facilities › 119-K - Authorization to Participate.

§  119-k.  Authorization to participate. Before any municipality shall
  participate in a joint  project  pursuant  to  this  article,  it  shall
  authorize  such  participation by taking the same procedural steps which
  it would  be  required  to  take  if  it  proposed  to  effectuate  such
  improvements   itself.   Other   municipalities   may  be  permitted  to
  participate in the joint project by making a lump  sum  contribution  in
  such amount and such manner as the original participating municipalities
  may determine.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-G - Municipal Cooperation › 119-M - Legislative Intent.

§  119-m.  Legislative  intent.  The  provisions  of  this article are
  designed to effectuate in part (1) section two-a of article eight of the
  constitution and (2) section one of article eight of the constitution as
  amended January first, nineteen hundred sixty, and shall be in  addition
  to   and  not  in  substitution  for  or  in  limitation  of  any  other
  authorization for performance by municipal corporations or districts  of
  their  functions,  powers  or duties on a cooperative, joint or contract
  basis.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-G - Municipal Cooperation › 119-N - Definitions.

§ 119-n. Definitions. As used herein:
a. The term "municipal corporation" means a county outside the city of
  New  York, a city, a town, a village, a board of cooperative educational
  services, fire district or a school district.
b. The term "district" means a county or town improvement district for
  which the county or town or towns in which such district is  located  is
  or  are required to pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment
  of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness  to  be  contracted
  for  the purposes of such district. The term "district" shall also mean,
  for the purposes of joining a municipal cooperative health benefit  plan
  authorized  under  article  forty-seven of the insurance law, a soil and
  water  conservation  district  established  under  the  soil  and  water
  conservation districts law.
c.  The  term  "joint  service" means joint provision of any municipal
  facility,  service,  activity,  project  or  undertaking  or  the  joint
  performance  or  exercise  of  any  function  or power which each of the
  municipal corporations or districts has the power by any  other  general
  or  special  law  to  provide,  perform  or exercise, separately and, to
  effectuate the purposes of this  article,  shall  include  extension  of
  appropriate territorial jurisdiction necessary therefor.
d.  The  term  "joint water, sewage or drainage project" means a joint
  project to provide for a common supply of water, the common  conveyance,
  treatment  and  disposal  of  sewage  or  a  common  drainage system, as
  described in paragraphs B, D and F of section two-a of article eight  of
  the constitution.
e.  The  term  "voting  strength"  means the aggregate number of votes
  which all the members  of  the  local  governing  body  of  a  municipal
  corporation or district are entitled to cast.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-G - Municipal Cooperation › 119-OO - Expenses.

§  119-oo.  Expenses.  The  board of supervisors of a county, the town
  board of a town, the common council of a city, and the board of trustees
  of  a  village,  or  the   governing   bodies   of   the   participating
  municipalities  comprising  membership in a regional planning council or
  county planning board or agency are hereby authorized  independently  or
  in  collaboration  with other local governments, in their discretion, to
  appropriate and raise  by  taxation  money  for  the  expenses  of  such
  regional  planning council  or county planning board or agency; and such
  municipal corporations shall not be chargeable with any expense incurred
  by such regional planning council or county  planning  board  or  agency
  except  pursuant  to  such an appropriation. In the case of any regional
  planning council whose membership consists only of counties,  each  such
  county  is  authorized  to  provide  for  the  payment  of the moneys so
  appropriated for the expenses of such  council  to  an  officer  of  the
  council  designated by the council to receive such moneys, provided that
  before any such moneys shall be paid to such officer, such officer shall
  have executed an  official  undertaking  conditioned  for  the  faithful
  performance of his duties in the manner provided in section four hundred
  three  of  the  county law and provided that such undertaking shall have
  been approved by the governing body of each county involved.