2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 14 - Sewers › 14-1400 - Establishment of Sewerage System.

§  14-1400  Establishment of sewerage system. The board of trustees of
  any village may, upon its own motion  or  shall  upon  the  petition  of
  twenty five owners of real property within the village, according to the
  last  completed  village  assessment  roll,  cause  a map and plan to be
  prepared for a complete sewerage system for the village.  The  board  of
  trustees may establish, extend and maintain a sewerage system, including
  laterals, therein in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and
  may,  as  provided  by  this  chapter,  abolish  an  existing  sewer  or
  wastewater disposal district created under the town, county  or  general
  district  law,  coterminous with or wholly included in the limits of the
  village, and use the sewerage system of such  abolished  district  as  a
  complete  village  sewerage  system  or  as  a  part or extension of any
  existing village sewerage system. Before taking any proceeding  for  the
  construction  of a sewerage system or any part thereof the board, at the
  expense of the village, shall,  unless  such  map  and  plan  have  been
  heretofore  officially  approved by the state commissioner of health and
  copies filed in the state department of health and in the office of  the
  village  clerk,  cause a map and plan of a permanent sewerage system for
  such village to be  made,  with  plans  and  specifications  for  sewage
  treatment  or  disposal works. It may also include any existing sewerage
  or private on-site wastewater disposal system in the village,  which  on
  examination  by  the village engineer shall be found feasible and proper
  to incorporate or include in the proposed  system.  Such  map  and  plan
  shall  be comprehensive and shall cover all portions of the village, but
  the  village  may  construct  the  whole  of  the  said  system  or  may
  temporarily  omit  any  portion  thereof  until  such  portions  may  be
  necessary, subject to  the  approval  of  such  omission  by  the  state
  commissioner  of health as hereinafter provided. Such map and plan shall
  be submitted to the state commissioner of health for his  approval,  and
  if  approved  shall  be filed in the office of the state commissioner of
  health. A copy thereof shall also be filed in the office of the  village
  clerk.  The  map and plan may be amended, with the approval of the state
  commissioner of health, and when so amended and approved shall be  filed
  in  the  same offices as the original. No work of any kind shall be done
  on or  for  the  construction,  extension,  reconstruction,  removal  or
  modification  of  any  system of sewerage or of any part thereof until a
  map and plan covering the entire  system  shall  first  have  been  duly
  approved  and  filed  as  above  provided,  and  in the execution of the
  construction, extension, reconstruction, removal or modification of  any
  system  of sewerage or of any part thereof, no deviations from the plans
  as finally approved and filed shall be made until plans or  descriptions
  adequately showing such deviations are first approved and filed as above
  provided.  Whenever  the  board of trustees of the village shall deem it
  desirable to the  interests  of  the  village  that  a  portion  of  the
  permanent  general system of sewers, private on-site wastewater disposal
  systems and sewage  disposal  thereof  may  be  temporarily  omitted  or
  deferred,   it   shall  certify  that  fact  in  writing  to  the  state
  commissioner of health, designating by a map or otherwise  the  portions
  of  the  system  to be omitted, or the portion not to be omitted, and on
  receipt of the same the state commissioner of health may approve of such
  temporary omission and shall certify his determination to the  board  of
  trustees  of  the  village.  The  term "sewerage system" as used in this
  article shall be understood to mean a complete system for  the  removal,
  treatment or disposal of sewage or wastewater, including private on-site
  wastewater disposal systems. The village board of trustees is authorized
  to  establish  and  impose  sewer  rents  pursuant  to the provisions of
  article fourteen-f of the general municipal law.