2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5-A - County Water, Sewer, Drainage and Refuse Districts › 253 - Preparation of Maps and Plans.

§  253. Preparation of maps and plans.  1. A petition may be presented
  to the board of supervisors requesting that a certain area or  areas  of
  the  county  be established as a county district. Such petition shall be
  executed and acknowledged on behalf of a municipality or  district,  any
  part  of  which  is  included  within  such  area or areas, by the chief
  executive officer of such municipality, or of such district furnishing a
  similar service as the district to be established hereunder. In lieu  of
  execution  of  the  petition  by  the  chief  executive  officer of such
  municipality or district, the petition may be executed and  acknowledged
  by  at  least  twenty-five  owners  of  taxable  real property of record
  situated within such municipality or district, or in Suffolk county,  if
  all  of  the  taxable  real  property  of  record  situate  within  such
  municipality which is to be included within a certain area or  areas  of
  the  county  to  be  established as a county district is owned by one or
  more but less than twenty-five owners, then the petition may be executed
  and acknowledged by one or more of said owners within the area or  areas
  to  be  established  as  a  county district. Upon presentation of such a
  petition or on its own motion, the board of supervisors may  direct  the
  agency to cause maps and plans to be prepared for a project as requested
  in  the  petition or for the establishment of a certain area or areas of
  the county  as  a  county  district,  provided,  however,  that  if  the
  petitioning   municipality,  district  or  owners  of  taxable  property
  undertake to furnish or pay the cost of such maps and plans  at  its  or
  their cost and expense, the board of supervisors shall direct the agency
  to  accept  or  prepare the same. In the case of a petition to create or
  extend a water quality treatment district, the petition may be  executed
  and  acknowledged  by one or more of the owners of taxable real property
  of record situated within such municipality whose private well water  is
  contaminated.  At  the  time  the petition is executed and acknowledged,
  notice and copy of  such  petition  shall  be  submitted  to  the  state
  department  of  health. Such maps or plans shall show (1) the boundaries
  of the area or areas which the agency in its judgment considers will  be
  benefited  by  the  particular project, (2) a description of the area or
  areas sufficient to permit definite and conclusive identification of all
  parcels of property included therein, (3) the proposed location  of  all
  facilities such as (a) reservoirs, stand pipes, wells, pumping stations,
  water purification or treatment works, mains and hydrants, the source of
  water supply, a description of the lands, streams, water or water rights
  to  be  acquired  and the mode of constructing the proposed water works,
  (b) benefited parcels of properties with water quality  treatment  units
  or devices installed prior to the formation of the district and/or those
  properties  requiring  installation  of water quality treatment units or
  devices and the mode and frequency of testing, monitoring, modifying  if
  required,  operation and maintenance, regenerating of such water quality
  treatment units or devices and the administering of  the  treatment  and
  disposal  of  residuals and any other requirements pursuant to rules and
  regulations adopted by the public health  and  health  planning  council
  under  section  two  hundred  twenty-five  of the public health law. Any
  water quality treatment unit or device which has been installed prior to
  the formation of the district must be approved  pursuant  to  rules  and
  regulations  adopted  by  the  public health and health planning council
  under section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law, prior to
  acceptance of such unit or device and its benefited property within  the
  district,  (c)  trunk, interceptor and outfall sewers, pumping stations,
  sewage  treatment  and  disposal   works,   (d)   properties   requiring
  construction  or  replacement  of  private  on-site  wastewater disposal
  systems and the mode and frequency of conveying, treating and  disposing
  of  wastewater  and  residual wastewater, (e) drains, ditches, channels,

  pumping stations, dams, dikes, bulkheads and  retaining  walls,  or  (f)
  refuse  disposal  and  incinerator  plants  and all necessary appliances
  appurtenant thereto, (4) estimates  of  the  cost  of  construction,  or
  procurement  and  installation  of the facilities, and/or in the case of
  water quality treatment districts, estimates of the costs of monitoring,
  testing, modifying, if required, operation and maintenance, regenerating
  of such water quality treatment units or devices and the  treatment  and
  disposal  of residuals, as shown on the maps and plans and the method of
  financing the same and (5) an evaluation of rehabilitation  needs  based
  upon   water  quality,  public  use  and  private  development,  special
  wildlife, scenic  or  other  values,  sedimentation,  shoreland  zoning,
  potential  for  adequate  pollution  and  erosion  controls  within  the
  drainage basin, and potential for  future  successful  management.  Such
  maps  and  plans pertaining to sewer districts shall be consistent with,
  so far as possible, any comprehensive plan for sewers developed pursuant
  to section 17-1901 of the environmental conservation law. Such maps  and
  plans  pertaining to water districts shall be consistent with, so far as
  possible,  any  comprehensive  plan  for  public  water  supply  systems
  developed   pursuant  to  title  thirteen  of  article  fifteen  of  the
  environmental conservation law.
2. If the report  of  the  agency  required  by  section  two  hundred
  fifty-four  of  this  chapter  shall  contain  recommendations  for  the
  establishment of two  or  more  zones  of  assessment  within  a  county
  district,  such maps and plans shall show the boundaries of each of such
  zones  and  the  estimated  initial  allocation  of  the  cost  of   the
  construction of the facilities recommended to be charged to each of such
  zones.
3. Where acceptable maps, plans and related data have theretofore been
  prepared by or for one or more existing or proposed municipal special or
  improvement  districts, the board of supervisors may, instead, authorize
  the agency to adopt and utilize such maps, plans and data and,  where  a
  county  district  is  thereafter  established and facilities constructed
  thereby on the basis of such maps, plans and data,  the  district  shall
  reimburse the municipalities, districts or persons who have paid for all
  or  part of the cost of such maps, plans and data in a reasonable amount
  to be agreed upon among them, which amount shall not  exceed  their  net
  expenditures  therefor,  and  shall  not include any portion of the cost
  paid from federal or state aid and which amount,  when  paid,  shall  be
  deemed  part  of  the  cost of the construction of the facilities by the
  agency.