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2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 190-A - Water Storage and Distribution Districts.

§  190-a.  Water  storage  and  distribution  districts. In the manner
  hereinafter provided, the town board of any town may establish or extend
  in such town a water storage and distribution district for  the  purpose
  of acquiring or developing a supply of water for sale to water and water
  supply  districts within the water storage and distribution district for
  redistribution by them. A water storage and distribution district  shall
  consist  of water districts and water supply districts which need not be
  contiguous.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 190-B - Sewage Disposal Districts.

§   190-b.  Sewage  disposal  districts.  In  the  manner  hereinafter
  provided, the town board of any town may establish  or  extend  in  such
  town  a  sewage  disposal  district  for  the  purpose  of conveying and
  disposing, or conveying, treating and disposing  of  sewage  from  sewer
  districts  or  wastewater disposal districts within such sewage disposal
  district. A sewage disposal district shall consist of sewer districts or
  wastewater disposal districts, or any combination  thereof,  which  need
  not be contiguous.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 190-D - Procedure for Establishment of a Sewage Disposal District.

§  190-d.  Procedure  for establishment of a sewage disposal district.
  All of the provisions of section one hundred ninety-c of  this  chapter,
  relating  to  the  preparation  of maps and plans and establishment of a
  water storage and distribution district, shall apply to the  preparation
  of  maps  and  plans  and  establishment  of a sewage disposal district,
  except that in the case of a sewage disposal district, the map and  plan
  shall  show  the  mode of constructing the proposed sewer facilities and
  the location thereof, including trunk, interceptor and  outfall  sewers,
  pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal works.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 190-E - Wastewater Disposal Districts.

§  190-e. Wastewater disposal districts. 1. The town board of any town
  is hereby authorized  to  establish  or  extend  a  wastewater  disposal
  district,  or  more than one such district, in said town, outside of any
  incorporated village or city, for  the  purpose  of  administration  and
  planning   (including   educational   programs),  design,  installation,
  construction, rehabilitation,  replacement,  operation  and  maintenance
  (including  pumping and inspections), monitoring, residual treatment and
  disposal and regulation of private on-site wastewater  disposal  systems
  of  such district. Such wastewater disposal district shall be created or
  extended in the manner provided by and pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
  this article. The territory embraced within any such wastewater disposal
  district may be composed of noncontiguous areas or properties (but shall
  not  include  any areas or properties included in sewer districts). When
  so created, a wastewater disposal district shall  be  deemed  to  be  an
  improvement district created pursuant to the provisions of this article,
  and shall be subject to the procedural requirements therein set forth.
2.  All  of  the  provisions  of  section one hundred ninety-c of this
  article, relating to the preparation of maps and plans and establishment
  of a water  storage  and  distribution  district,  shall  apply  to  the
  preparation of maps and plans and establishment of a wastewater disposal
  district, except that in the case of a wastewater disposal district, the
  map  and  plan  shall  also  show  the mode and frequency of collection,
  conveying, treating and disposing of wastewater or residual  wastewater,
  the mode and frequency of inspections and monitoring and the location of
  properties  requiring  construction  or  replacement  of private on-site
  wastewater disposal systems in the next five years.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 190-F - Additional Powers of Sewer Districts.

§  190-f.  Additional  powers  of sewer districts. Notwithstanding any
  other provision of law a sewer district may also exercise all the powers
  of a wastewater disposal district if the map and plan prepared  pursuant
  to  section  one  hundred  ninety-c  of  this  article  includes on-site
  wastewater disposal systems.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 191 - Petition.

§  191.  Petition. Except as otherwise provided in the case of a water
  storage and distribution district, water quality treatment  district  or
  sewage  disposal  district,  a  petition  for  the  establishment or the
  extension of an improvement district shall be signed by  the  owners  of
  taxable  real  property  situate  in  the proposed district or extension
  thereof, owning in the aggregate  at  least  one-half  of  the  assessed
  valuation  of  all the taxable real property of the proposed district or
  extension thereof, as shown upon the latest completed assessment-roll of
  said town; provided, however, that if there be any resident owners,  the
  petition  shall include the signatures of resident owners owning taxable
  real property aggregating at least one-half of the assessed valuation of
  all the taxable real property of  the  proposed  district  or  extension
  owned   by   resident   owners,   according   to  the  latest  completed
  assessment-roll. If a portion only of  a  parcel  of  such  real  estate
  appearing  upon  the  assessment-roll  is  situate  within  the proposed
  district or extension thereof, then the town  board  may  determine  the
  relative  value  of  the  part  thereof  within the proposed district or
  extension thereof, based upon the valuation of the entire parcel as  the
  same  appears upon the assessment-roll. Such petition shall describe the
  boundaries of the proposed district or extension in a manner  sufficient
  to  identify  the lands included therein as in a deed of conveyance, and
  shall be signed by the petitioners, and acknowledged or  proved  in  the
  same  manner  as  a  deed to be recorded, or authenticated in the manner
  provided by the  election  law  for  the  authentication  of  nominating
  petitions.     If  such  petition  shall  request  the  construction  or
  acquisition of  an  improvement,  it  shall  state  the  maximum  amount
  proposed  to be expended therefor. If the petition shall not request the
  construction or acquisition of an  improvement  but  shall  propose  the
  performance  or  supplying of certain services, it may state the maximum
  amount to be  expended  annually  for  such  services.  In  addition,  a
  petition  for the establishment or extension of a park or public parking
  district shall describe the property proposed to  be  acquired  for  the
  purposes thereof.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 191-A - Preparation of Maps and Plans for Sewer, Wastewater Disposal, Drainage and Water Districts Before Petition.

§ 191-a. Preparation of maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal,
  drainage and water districts before petition. The town board of any town
  may   adopt   a   resolution,   subject   to  a  permissive  referendum,
  appropriating a specific amount to pay the cost of preparing  a  general
  map and plan for providing sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage or water
  facilities  and  services in any portion of the town not included within
  the boundaries of any incorporated village, city or existing improvement
  district in which such facilities or services are provided, except  that
  all  or  part  of  an  incorporated  village  may be included therein on
  consent  of  the  village  expressed  in  a  local  law,  ordinance   or
  resolution,   subject   to   a  referendum  on  petition  under  section
  twenty-four of the municipal home rule law or  a  permissive  referendum
  under  article  five-a  of the village law, as the case may be. All such
  maps and plans shall  conform  with  the  requirements  of  section  one
  hundred  ninety-two  of  this  article, and shall be filed with the town
  clerk. The town board may determine that such maps and  plans  shall  be
  prepared  by  or under the supervision of town officers and employees to
  be designated by the town board, or by persons to be employed  for  that
  purpose,  or  the  town  board may contract for the preparation thereof,
  within the limitations of the amount appropriated. Except  as  otherwise
  provided  herein,  the expense incurred for the preparation of such maps
  and plans shall be a town charge, and  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and
  collected  in  the  same manner as other town charges. If the town board
  shall thereafter establish  or  extend  a  sewer,  wastewater  disposal,
  drainage  or  water district and construct a sewer, wastewater disposal,
  drainage or water system therein, pursuant to the provisions of  section
  one hundred ninety-one of this article, the expense incurred by the town
  for the preparation of the maps and plans therefor shall be deemed to be
  part  of  the cost of such improvement, and the town shall be reimbursed
  the amount paid therefor, or such portion of that amount which the  town
  board,  at  the  public  hearing  held  pursuant  to section one hundred
  ninety-four of this chapter, shall allocate against such district.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 192 - Maps and Plans for Sewer, Wastewater Disposal, Drainage and Water Districts.

§  192.  Maps  and  plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage and
  water districts. Every petition for the establishment or extension of  a
  sewer,   wastewater  disposal,  drainage  or  water  district  shall  be
  accompanied by a map and plan prepared by  a  competent  engineer,  duly
  licensed  by  the  state  of  New  York,  showing  the boundaries of the
  proposed district and a general plan of the proposed  sewer,  wastewater
  disposal,  drainage  or  water system, as the case may be. If a sewer or
  drainage district is proposed, such map shall show all outlets  and  the
  terminus  and  course of each proposed main sewer or drain together with
  the location and a general description of all  sewage  disposal  plants,
  pumping stations and other public works, if any, and shall be consistent
  with,  so  far  as possible, any comprehensive plan for sewers developed
  and  maintained  pursuant  to  section  ninety-nine-f  of  the   general
  municipal  law. If a water district is proposed, said map and plan shall
  show the source of water supply and a description of the lands, streams,
  water or water rights to be acquired therefor, the mode of  constructing
  the proposed water works and the location thereof, including reservoirs,
  water  purification  or treatment works, water mains, distributing pipes
  and hydrants, and shall be consistent with,  so  far  as  possible,  any
  comprehensive  plan  for  public  water  supply  systems  developed  and
  maintained pursuant to section ninety-nine-f of  the  general  municipal
  law. If, however, the petition shall specify that the supply of water to
  be  used  in  said water district shall be purchased from a municipal or
  other corporation, or any person, then said map and plan shall set forth
  and show only the water mains, distributing pipes, hydrants, reservoirs,
  if any, and location of each.  Before any sewer system is constructed in
  any such district, the town board shall cause a copy of the map and plan
  of the proposed sewer system  and  sewage  disposal  plant  or  proposed
  extension  thereto  to  be  submitted to the state department of health,
  and, if approved,  it  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  state
  department  of health and the town clerk. The state department of health
  may require profiles to be submitted for any sewers or drains  shown  on
  such map and plan. Such map and plan may be amended with the approval of
  the  state  department  of health, and if approved, it shall be filed in
  the office of the state department of health and the town clerk.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 194-A - Powers of Town Boards With Respect to Certain Contracts.

§ 194-a. Powers of town boards with respect to certain contracts. Upon
  the  adoption of a resolution, the town board of any town 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 any
  improvement 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  town  board
  to ensure the performance of such contracts.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 195 - Recording of Determination; Review by Certiorari.

§  195.  Recording of determination; review by certiorari. 1. The town
  clerk shall cause a certified copy of the determination or order of  the
  town  board  adopted  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of this article, or
  adopted pursuant to the provisions of article seventeen-A of the general
  municipal law, establishing, extending, dissolving  or  diminishing  any
  district,  consolidating  districts  or  increasing  the  maximum amount
  proposed to be expended for the improvement in any district or extension
  thereof, or determining to construct any improvement authorized by  this
  article, to be duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in
  which  the  town  is located, within ten days after the adoption of such
  order or determination by the town board,  and  when  so  recorded  such
  determination  or  order shall be presumptive evidence of the regularity
  of the proceedings for  the  establishment,  extension,  dissolution  or
  diminution  of  such  district,  of  the  proceedings instituted for the
  construction of such improvement and of all other action taken  by  said
  town board in relation thereto.
Within  ten days after the adoption of a determination or order by the
  town  board  establishing,  extending,  dissolving  or   diminishing   a
  district,  or  consolidating  districts,  the  town  clerk shall cause a
  certified copy thereof to be filed in the office of the state department
  of audit and control at Albany, New York.
2. Any interested person aggrieved by any final determination or order
  made pursuant to the provisions of this article may review the  same  by
  certiorari provided that the application for such order of certiorari is
  made  within thirty days from the date of the recording of the certified
  copy of the order or determination in the office of  the  clerk  of  the
  county.  The  said  determination or order shall be final and conclusive
  unless application has been made for review by certiorari within  thirty
  days  from  the time of recording thereof. No review shall be had unless
  at the time of the application for a  certiorari  order  the  interested
  person  seeking  the  review  shall  give an undertaking approved by the
  supreme court, or a justice thereof, as to form, amount and  sufficiency
  sureties,   that,   in  the  event  of  failure  to  modify  said  final
  determination or order he or they will pay to the town board,  all  such
  costs  and  expenses  as  are  incurred  by  it  on  account of the said
  certiorari proceedings, as shall be determined  by  the  court.  In  the
  event that upon such review there shall be any modification by the court
  of  said  final  determination  or  order  the  court  shall  direct the
  modification thereof by order which shall be final  and  conclusive  and
  such  town  board shall cause such order to be recorded and filed in the
  same places and manner as was the determination or order appealed from.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 196 - Modification of Plans for Sewer, Wastewater Disposal, Drainage, Water or Water Quality Treatment Districts.

§ 196. Modification of plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage,
  water or water quality treatment districts. 1. When the town board shall
  have  established a sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage, water or water
  quality treatment district and adopted a plan  of  sewerage,  wastewater
  disposal,  drainage,  water  or  water quality treatment system for such
  district, such plan shall not be modified  by  the  board,  nor  by  any
  officer  of the town, except after public notice given by publication in
  the official paper of intention to modify the same, which  notice  shall
  specify the particulars in which it is proposed to modify it, and a time
  and  place when the board will consider any objections which may be made
  thereto, which time shall not be less than ten nor more than twenty days
  after the first publication of said notice. When  any  change  shall  be
  made  in the plan proposed and once adopted, a revised or additional map
  and profile shall be made showing the change,  and  all  such  maps  and
  profiles  shall  be  carefully preserved in the office of the town clerk
  and open to inspection by all persons interested.
2. In the case of water quality  treatment  districts,  amendments  or
  modifications  of plans must have the written approval of the department
  of health prior to adoption. At the request of an owner of a  parcel  of
  property  within the town, if the private well water on such property is
  contaminated, a water quality treatment district plan  may  be  amended,
  from  time to time, to include said parcel of property. If an owner of a
  parcel of property within the town requests exclusion from the district,
  such request shall be granted without the  state  department  of  health
  approval.  The  removal of a parcel of property from a district shall in
  no way affect the owner's  liability  for  charges  which  have  accrued
  against   the  owner's  property,  prior  to  said  exclusion,  for  the
  procurement, installation, modification, replacement and  removal  of  a
  water  quality treatment unit or device or for expenses of operation and
  maintenance including monitoring, testing,  regenerating  and  treating.
  Should  a public or private water system, supplier or authority commence
  supplying water to  any  parcel  of  property  within  a  water  quality
  treatment   district,  such  parcel  of  property  shall  no  longer  be
  considered part  of  the  water  quality  treatment  district,  and  all
  services  to  such  parcels shall be terminated. Termination of services
  shall include, the removal of  all  water  quality  treatment  units  or
  devices and a charge for the cost of doing so to the benefited property,
  except  when  such unit or device was acquired and owned by the property
  owner or when the district  determines  that  such  unit  or  device  is
  obsolete and no longer useful for any district purpose.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 197-A - Contracts by Water Districts or Town Water Storage and Distribution Districts With Water Authorities.

§  197-a.  Contracts  by  water  districts  or  town water storage and
  distribution districts with water authorities. The town board may  enter
  into  an agreement with a public water authority which possesses express
  reciprocal  powers  whereby  the  award  of  contracts  or  orders   for
  engineering  services,  and for work performed, or materials or supplies
  furnished in connection with the construction, development, extension or
  improvement of a water supply or distribution system,  or  any  part  or
  parts  thereof,  for  or  on  behalf of a water district or a town water
  storage and distribution district may  be  made  by  such  public  water
  authority,  and  such  an  agreement  may  contain  provisions equitably
  allocating costs. If such  agreement  shall  authorize  a  public  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 town would be subject in relation to advertising and awarding any such
  contracts for supplies, equipment or public works. The town board, where
  a water district exists, may enter into an agreement with a public water
  authority which possesses express reciprocal powers whereby the award of
  contracts or orders for engineering services, and for work performed, or
  materials or supplies furnished in  connection  with  the  construction,
  development,  extension or improvement of a water supply or distribution
  system, or any part or parts thereof, for or on behalf  of  such  public
  water  authority  may  be  made  by such town, and such an agreement may
  contain provisions equitably allocating costs.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 201 - Sewer and Water Connections.

§ 201. Sewer and water connections. Whenever the town board shall have
  established  one  or  more  sewer  or water districts, or both, the town
  board shall adopt a resolution or ordinance  prescribing  how  sewer  or
  water  connections  shall  be  made  therein. After the board shall have
  adopted such resolution or ordinance prescribing  how  sewer  and  water
  connections  shall  be  made,  the  board may adopt orders, from time to
  time, directing the owners of the respective lots and parcels of land in
  front of which it is desired that a sewer or water connection  be  made,
  to  make  the  same  to  conform  to  such  resolution  or ordinance and
  specifying the time within which the  same  must  be  done.  Before  any
  highway  in which sewer or water mains have been laid, shall be paved or
  otherwise improved, the town board may, in its  discretion,  direct  the
  owners  of  adjoining  lots  or parcels of land to make connections with
  such sewers or water mains, at the curb line or at the  sewer  or  water
  main  if  extensions  to the curb line have not been provided, under the
  supervision of the town  board,  and  in  the  manner  required  by  the
  resolution  or  ordinance,  at  such  a  distance apart as the board may
  prescribe. The town clerk shall publish a notice thereof in the official
  paper at least twice, the first publication of which shall be  at  least
  fifteen  days  before the time specified for the completion of the work.
  If, within the time prescribed in the order and notice, the  connections
  required  to  be  made  shall  not have been so made, then the board may
  cause the same to be done and audit and pay the  expense  of  doing  the
  same and assess the expense thereof against the property benefited.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 202-D - Increase of Maximum Amount to Be Expended.

§  202-d.  Increase  of  maximum amount to be expended. 1. At any time
  after the establishment of an improvement district  the  maximum  amount
  proposed  to be expended for the improvement in such district, as stated
  in the petition for the establishment of such district, may be increased
  by an order of the  town  board  provided  a  petition  requesting  such
  increase  signed  as  required by section one hundred ninety-one of this
  article is presented to the town  board  and  provided  the  town  board
  shall,  after a public hearing ordered and held in the manner prescribed
  by sections one hundred ninety-three and one hundred ninety-four of this
  article, determine that it is in the public interest  to  authorize  the
  increase  of  such  maximum  amount, and provided the comptroller of the
  state of New York shall  have  made  as  may  be  required  pursuant  to
  subdivision  six  of  section  one  hundred ninety-four of this article,
  after such public hearing, an  order  approving  the  increase  of  such
  maximum  amount  as stated in the petition. The order of the comptroller
  shall be prepared in duplicate and one copy thereof filed in the  office
  of  the department of audit and control and the other copy in the office
  of the town clerk of the town.
2. If the petition for establishment of the district proposes only the
  performance or supplying of certain services,  and  states  the  maximum
  amount  to be expended annually for such services, the maximum amount to
  be expended annually may be increased by an  order  of  the  town  board
  provided the town board shall, after a public hearing, determine that it
  is  in  the  public  interest  to authorize the increase of such maximum
  amount. The town board shall give notice of such hearing by  publication
  of  a notice in at least one newspaper having general circulation in the
  district specifying the time when and the place where such hearing  will
  be  held  and  stating the increase proposed in the maximum amount to be
  expended annually. Such notice shall be published once at least ten days
  prior to the date specified for such hearing. The approval of the  state
  comptroller  to  such  increase  in  the  maximum  amount to be expended
  annually shall not be required.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 203 - Existing Districts Preserved.

§  203.  Existing  districts  preserved.  Districts now existing shall
  continue as now established  and  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  be
  governed  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  in this act for districts
  established pursuant to the provisions of article twelve. In  the  event
  that  any  bonds  shall have been issued by any town prior to the taking
  effect of this act, taxes or assessments shall be levied  and  collected
  for  the  payment  of  the  principal and interest of said bonds as they
  become due pursuant to and in accordance with the statutes and  practice
  relating to such matters in force immediately prior to the time this act
  takes  effect, except as the method of levying such taxes or assessments
  may have been changed in accordance with the provisions of chapter three
  hundred thirty-three of the laws of nineteen  hundred  thirty-four,  and
  the  town  board  shall have all the powers with respect to such matters
  conferred  by  such  statutes  upon  any  commissioners  or   commission
  appointed,  elected,  or  created pursuant to such statutes, or upon the
  town board.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 208 - Joint Administration and Operation of Special or Improvement Districts With Town Functions.

§  208.  Joint  administration and operation of special or improvement
  districts with town functions. The town board of a town may for  use  in
  common  by  one or more special or improvement districts therein and one
  or more town functions, or combination thereof:
1. Acquire real or personal property.
2. Construct and maintain buildings and other structures.
3. Purchase and maintain equipment, materials and supplies.
4. Contract for services.
5. Transfer  or  reallocate  real  or  personal  property,  equipment,
  material,  supplies  and  personnel  between or among such participating
  districts and functions.
Whenever the powers hereinbefore provided are exercised  by  the  town
  board  on  behalf  of  one  or more districts, such expenditure shall be
  subject to the limitations provided in section two hundred two-b of this
  chapter and shall be authorized in the manner provided in said section.
Any resolution providing for such joint operation  and  administration
  shall fix a method for equitably allocating the cost and expense between
  or among the various participating districts and functions on a ratio of
  assessed valuations, or on the basis of the amount of services rendered,
  or  the  cost  of  materials  used  or other benefit conferred. Any such
  resolution authorizing the acquisition or  transfer  of  property  shall
  provide for debit, credit or reimbursement of the appropriate fund.  The
  affairs  of  such joint administration and operation shall be so managed
  and adjusted that each participating district or function shall bear not
  more than its equitable share of the common cost and expense.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 208-A - Acquisition of Land for Proposed District.

§  208-a. Acquisition of land for proposed district. Upon the adoption
  of a resolution, subject to a permissive referendum, the town board  may
  acquire in the name of the town any lands or rights therein for use by a
  future  district  or  districts,  of  one  or  more types, or extensions
  thereof in such town.
Any acquisition of such lands or rights therein as  herein  authorized
  shall  be  for  the  purposes  of  one  or more improvement districts or
  extensions thereof proposed to be established in such  town,  and  after
  the  establishment  thereof  such  lands  shall  be  utilized  for  such
  purposes; provided, however, that in the event such district,  districts
  or extensions thereof are not created or the property becomes unsuitable
  or  undesirable for such district purposes, the property may be used for
  other town purposes, if practicable so to do, and if not,  the  property
  may  be  sold  and  disposed  of  in the same manner as town property no
  longer needed for town purposes.
2. The expense of any improvement authorized pursuant to this  section
  shall  be  a  town charge and shall be assessed, levied and collected in
  the same manner and at the same time as other  town  charges;  provided,
  however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the
  financing in whole or in part, pursuant to the local finance law, of any
  improvement  authorized  pursuant  to this section. Any such improvement
  shall be deemed to be a district or special  improvement  authorized  by
  article  twelve  or  twelve-A  of  this  chapter  within  the meaning of
  paragraph b of section 35.00 of the local finance law.
3. The town board may authorize the use  of  any  property  or  rights
  therein  acquired pursuant to this section by any district, districts or
  extensions thereof, thereafter established in such town, in  the  manner
  provided  in  section  two  hundred  eight of this chapter, provided the
  expense of such acquisition or the proportionate share of the expense as
  shall be allocated to a district or extension thereof by the town board,
  together  with  the  expense  of  the  construction  of   the   original
  improvement for such district or extension, shall not exceed the maximum
  amount  authorized  to  be  expended  in  such  district  or  extension.
  Whenever the town board shall authorize the use of any property or right
  therein acquired pursuant to this section by any district, districts  or
  extension  thereof,  the  same  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a part of the
  improvement authorized by such district or  extension  thereof  and  the
  entire   cost  of  such  acquisition  and  the  maintenance  thereof  as
  apportioned to such district or extension, shall be deemed to be a  part
  of  the  cost  of  such  improvement  and  shall be assessed, levied and
  collected in the same manner as other charges against such  district  or
  extension.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12-A - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts--Alternate Procedure › 209 - Application of Article.

§ 209. Application of article. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
  this  chapter, the town board of any town may, in the manner provided by
  this article, establish or extend in said town, improvement districts as
  defined in this article and provide improvements or services,  or  both,
  in  any  such  district,  wholly  at the expense of the district; but no
  water supply district shall be established or extended to include  lands
  situate  within  the  boundaries  of  a  water district. Any improvement
  district as defined in this article established pursuant to this article
  or otherwise may be extended pursuant to the provisions of this  article
  or  any  other  applicable provision of law. However, this article shall
  not apply to the extension of any such improvement  districts  to  which
  the  provisions  of  article  thirteen  of  this  chapter are applicable
  without the prior approval in writing of a majority of the commissioners
  of such district. No such district shall be established or extended in a
  city or in an  incorporated  village  provided,  however,  that  such  a
  district  may  be  established  or  extended  wholly or partly within an
  incorporated village on consent of the village expressed in a local law,
  ordinance or resolution, subject  to  a  referendum  on  petition  under
  section  twenty-four  of  the  municipal  home  rule law or a permissive
  referendum under article five-a of the village law, as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12-A - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts--Alternate Procedure › 209-A - Definitions.

§  209-a.  Definitions. For the purposes of this article the following
  definitions shall apply:
1. the  term  "improvement  district"  shall  include  only  a  sewer,
  wastewater  disposal,  drainage,  water, park, public parking, lighting,
  snow removal, water supply, sidewalk, refuse and garbage, aquatic growth
  control, or  watershed  protection  improvement  district  or  ambulance
  district  in  any  town,  and,  in any town bordering upon or containing
  within its boundaries any navigable water of this state a public dock or
  beach erosion control district;
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 as 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 improvements;
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 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 › TWN - Town › Article 12-A - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts--Alternate Procedure › 209-B - Appropriation for Preparation of Maps, Plans and Reports.

§  209-b.  Appropriation  for  preparation of maps, plans and reports.
  The  town  board  may  adopt  a  resolution,  subject  to  a  permissive
  referendum  in  the  manner  provided  in article seven of this chapter,
  appropriating a specific amount to pay the cost of preparing  a  general
  map,  plan,  and  report  for providing the facilities, improvements, or
  services in any portion of the town not included within  the  boundaries
  of  any  incorporated  village, city or existing improvement district in
  which such facilities or services are provided, except that all or  part
  of  an  incorporated  village  may be included therein on consent of the
  village expressed in a local law, ordinance, or resolution, subject to a
  referendum on petition under section twenty-four of the  municipal  home
  rule  law or a permissive referendum under article five-a of the village
  law, as the case may be. All such maps, plans and reports shall  conform
  with the requirements of section two hundred nine-c of this article. The
  town  board  may  determine  that  such maps, plans and reports shall be
  prepared by or under the supervision of town officers and  employees  to
  be  designated  by  the town board, or by persons to be employed for the
  purpose, or the town board may  contract  for  the  preparation  thereof
  within  the limitations of the amount appropriated.  Except as otherwise
  provided herein, the expense incurred for the preparation of such  maps,
  plans  and reports shall be a town charge, and shall be assessed, levied
  and collected in the same manner as other  town  charges.  If  the  town
  board  shall  thereafter establish or extend such district and construct
  the improvements or contract for the required services pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  this  article,  the expense incurred by the town for the
  preparation of the maps, plans and reports therefor shall be  deemed  to
  be  part  of  the  cost  of  such  improvement, or the rendering of such
  services, and the town shall be reimbursed in the amount paid  therefor,
  or  such  portion  of  that  amount  which the town board, at the public
  hearing held pursuant to section two hundred  nine-d  of  this  article,
  shall allocate against such district.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12-A - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts--Alternate Procedure › 209-C - Maps, Plans and Reports.

§ 209-c. Maps, plans and reports. The establishment or extension of an
  improvement district shall be based upon a map, plan and report prepared
  in  such  manner  and in such detail as determined by the town board and
  such map, plan and report shall be filed  in  the  office  of  the  town
  clerk.  In  the  case  of a sewer, drainage or water district such maps,
  plans and reports shall  be  prepared  by  a  competent  engineer,  duly
  licensed  by  the  state  of  New  York,  showing  the boundaries of the
  proposed district and a general plan of the proposed sewer, drainage  or
  water system, as the case may be, and a report of the proposed method of
  operation.  If  a sewer or drainage district is proposed, such map shall
  show all outlets and the terminus and course of each proposed main sewer
  or drain together with the location and a  general  description  of  all
  sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and other public works, if any,
  and shall be consistent with, so far as possible, any comprehensive plan
  for sewers developed and maintained pursuant to section ninety-nine-f of
  the general municipal law. If a water district is proposed, said map and
  plan  shall  show  the  source  of water supply and a description of the
  lands, streams, water or water rights to be acquired therefor, the  mode
  of  constructing  the  proposed  water  works  and the location thereof,
  including reservoirs,  water  purification  or  treatment  works,  water
  mains, distributing pipes and hydrants, and shall be consistent with, so
  far  as possible, any comprehensive plan for public water supply systems
  developed and  maintained  pursuant  to  section  ninety-nine-f  of  the
  general  municipal  law.  If, however, the supply of water to be used in
  said water district is  to  be  purchased  from  a  municipal  or  other
  corporation,  or  any person, then said map and plan shall set forth and
  show only the water mains, distributing pipes, hydrants, reservoirs,  if
  any, and location of each. Before any sewer system is constructed in any
  such  district, the town board shall cause a copy of the map and plan of
  the  proposed  sewer  system  and  sewage  disposal  plant  or  proposed
  extension  thereto  to  be  submitted to the state department of health,
  and, if approved,  it  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  state
  department  of health and the town clerk. The state department of health
  may require profiles to be submitted for any sewers or drains  shown  on
  such map and plan. Such map and plan may be amended with the approval of
  the  state  department  of health and if approved, shall be filed in the
  office of the state department of health and the town clerk.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12-A - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts--Alternate Procedure › 209-G - Recording of Determination; Review by Certiorari.

§ 209-g. Recording of determination; review by certiorari. 1. The town
  clerk  shall cause a certified copy of the final order of the town board
  adopted pursuant to the provisions  of  this  article,  establishing  or
  extending  any district, or increasing the maximum amount proposed to be
  expended for the improvement in any district or  extension  thereof,  or
  determining  to construct any improvement authorized by this article, to
  be duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in  which  the
  town  is  located,  within  ten days after the adoption of such order or
  determination by the town board, and when so recorded such determination
  or order  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  of  the  regularity  of  the
  proceedings  for the establishment or extension of such district, of the
  proceedings instituted for the construction of such improvement  and  of
  all other action taken by said town board in relation thereto.
Within  ten  days  after  the  adoption of the final order by the town
  board establishing or extending a district, the town clerk shall cause a
  certified copy thereof to be filed in the office of the state department
  of audit and control at Albany, New York.
2. Any interested person aggrieved by any final determination or order
  made pursuant to the provisions of this article may review the  same  in
  the  manner  provided by article seventy-eight of the civil practice law
  and rules provided the proceeding is commenced within thirty  days  from
  the  date  of  the  recording  of  the  certified  copy  of the order or
  determination in the office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county.  The  said
  determination or order shall be final and conclusive unless a proceeding
  to  review  is  commenced  within thirty days from the time of recording
  thereof. No review shall be had unless  the  petitioner  shall  give  an
  undertaking  approved  by the supreme court, or a justice thereof, as to
  form, amount and sufficiency of sureties, that, in the event of  failure
  to  modify  said  final  determination  or order he will pay to the town
  board, all such costs and expenses as are incurred by it on  account  of
  the  said proceedings, as shall be determined by the court. In the event
  that upon such review there shall be any modification by  the  court  of
  said   final   determination   or  order  the  court  shall  direct  the
  modification thereof by judgment which shall be final and conclusive and
  such town board shall cause such judgment to be recorded  and  filed  in
  the  same  places  and manner as was the determination or order appealed
  from.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12-A - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts--Alternate Procedure › 209-H - Increase of Maximum Amount to Be Expended.

§  209-h.  Increase  of  maximum amount to be expended. 1. At any time
  after the establishment of an improvement district or  of  an  extension
  thereof  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  article  or  any other
  applicable provision of law, the maximum amount proposed to be  expended
  for  the improvement in such district, as stated in the notice of public
  hearing on the establishment or  extension  of  such  district,  may  be
  increased  by  an  order  of the town board provided that the town board
  shall, after a public hearing  is  held  in  the  manner  prescribed  by
  section  two hundred nine-d of this article, determine that it is in the
  public interest to authorize the increase of such  maximum  amount,  and
  provided the comptroller of the state of New York shall have made as may
  be required pursuant to subdivision one of section two hundred nine-f of
  this article, after such public hearing, an order approving the increase
  of  such  maximum  amount  as  stated in the said notice of hearing. 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 town clerk of the town. The order of
  the town board increasing the maximum amount to  be  expended  shall  be
  subject to a permissive referendum in the manner provided in subdivision
  three of section two hundred nine-e of this article. The comptroller may
  not  make  an  order approving the increase in such maximum amount until
  after the expiration of the time for filing a petition  requesting  that
  the  matter  be submitted to referendum or, if such a petition is filed,
  unless  the  vote  on  the  proposition  submitted  at  referendum   was
  affirmative.
2.  If the notice of public hearing for the establishment or extension
  of the district proposes only the performance or  supplying  of  certain
  services, and states the maximum amount to be expended annually for such
  services, the maximum amount to be expended annually may be increased by
  an order of the town board provided the town board shall, after a public
  hearing,  determine  that  it is in the public interest to authorize the
  increase of such maximum amount. The town board  shall  give  notice  of
  such hearing by publication of a notice in at least one newspaper having
  general  circulation  in  the  district specifying the time when and the
  place where such hearing will be held and stating the increase  proposed
  in  the  maximum  amount  to  be expended annually. Such notice shall be
  published once at least ten days prior to the date  specified  for  such
  hearing.  The  approval of the state comptroller to such increase in the
  maximum amount to be expended annually shall not be required.