2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-C - North Country Power Authority Service Area; Extension of Service Area.

§  1021-c.  North  Country  power authority service area; extension of
  service area. 1. The service area of the North Country  power  authority
  shall  include all the territory located within so much of the county of
  Franklin as constitutes the Towns of Bombay, Fort Covington,  Moira  and
  Westville,  and so much of the county of St. Lawrence as constitutes the
  Towns of Brasher, Canton, Colton, DeKalb, Edwards,  Fowler,  Gouverneur,
  Hermon,   Lisbon,  Louisville,  Madrid,  Norfolk,  Pierrepont,  Potsdam,
  Russell, Stockholm, and Waddington and the Villages of Canton,  Norwood,
  and  Potsdam  or  such  portions  thereof  as shall be determined by the
  directors, but the service area  shall  exclude  the  portions  of  said
  municipalities in Franklin and St. Lawrence counties which are served as
  of  the  effective  date  of  this  title by another existing non-profit
  municipal electric utility. The service area of the North Country  power
  authority  shall  include such other territories, as shall be determined
  by the directors, wholly within Franklin or  St.  Lawrence  county,  and
  adjacent to one or more of the above-referenced municipalities, in which
  rate payers rely on uninterrupted electric service from power facilities
  of  the  authority  located  within  said  municipalities.  A map of the
  service area shall be filed in the  offices  of  the  county  clerks  of
  Franklin and St. Lawrence counties.
2.  The  service  area  of  the  North  Country power authority may be
  extended at any time to include additional territory within Franklin  or
  St.  Lawrence counties by the directors in accordance with the following
  procedure,  provided  however,  the procedure does not conflict with any
  rule or regulation of the public service commission or  any  other  law.
  Whenever  the directors determine that the territory included within the
  service area should be extended, consistent with the provisions of  this
  title,  the  directors shall adopt a resolution proposing the additional
  territory,  wholly  within  Franklin  or  St.  Lawrence  county,  to  be
  included,  which  may  be  all  the  territory  within one or more named
  municipalities or, by  adequate  description,  a  portion  of  any  such
  municipality or municipalities. The directors shall fix the dates, hours
  and  places  for  three  public  hearings before such directors upon the
  question  of  such  extension  and  cause  notice  thereof  and  of  the
  additional  territory  to  be  included  within  the  service area to be
  published in two newspapers of general circulation  in  the  county  not
  less  than  twenty  nor more than thirty days before such date. At least
  one of such hearing shall be held within  the  bounds  of  the  proposed
  additional territory. At such time the directors shall hear all persons,
  taxpayers  or  officials  who  may  wish  to  be heard and shall finally
  determine the additional territory, if  any,  to  be  included  in  such
  extension.  Such  determination  shall  be  made  by  resolution  of the
  directors adopted by a two-thirds vote of all directors then in  office.
  A  map of the service area, as extended, shall thereupon be filed in the
  offices of the county clerks of Franklin and St. Lawrence counties.