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N.Y. Town Law § 189-F Powers of board of commissioners
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§ 189-f. Powers of board of commissioners. The board of commissioners shall have and exercise, with respect to such district, the applicable powers and duties of a board of fire district commissioners as prescribed by the town law, with respect to similar functions of a fire dis…
N.Y. Town Law § 189-G Appointment of district treasurer
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§ 189-g. Appointment of district treasurer. The board of fire commissioners shall appoint to serve during its pleasure, a district treasurer, who shall receive and have the custody of the funds of the district and shall disburse the same for the purposes herein authorized on the…
N.Y. Town Law § 189-H Annual statement of expenditures and levy of taxes
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§ 189-h. Annual statement of expenditures and levy of taxes. 1. (a) The fiscal year of each joint fire district shall begin on the first day of January and end on the thirty-first day of December. For each fiscal year, the board of commissioners of each joint fire district shall…
N.Y. Town Law § 189-I Fire protection
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§ 189-i. Fire protection. The board of fire commissioners shall provide fire protection throughout the entire district and for that purpose may accept the services of any volunteer fire department or company organized and operating within the village, or if the commissioners are…
N.Y. Town Law § 190 Establishment or extension of improvement districts
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§ 190. Establishment or extension of improvement districts. Upon a petition as hereinafter provided, the town board of any town may establish or extend in said town a sewer, drainage, water, water quality treatment, park, public parking, lighting, snow removal, water supply, sid…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-A Water storage and distribution districts
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§ 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 wat…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-B Sewage disposal districts
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§ 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 w…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-C Preparation of maps and plans
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§ 190-c. Preparation of maps and plans. 1. Upon a petition signed, 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, by at least twenty-five owners o…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-D Procedure for establishment of a sewage disposal district
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§ 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…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-E Wastewater disposal districts
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§ 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 plan…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-F Additional powers of sewer districts
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§ 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 wa…
N.Y. Town Law § 190-G Water quality treatment districts
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§ 190-g. Water quality treatment districts. 1. The town board of any town is hereby authorized to establish or extend a water quality treatment district, or more than one such district, for the purposes of (a) procuring by purchase, lease or other means, and installing water qua…
N.Y. Town Law § 191 Petition
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§ 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 tax…
N.Y. Town Law § 191-A Preparation of maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage and water districts before petition
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§ 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 …
N.Y. Town Law § 192 Maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage and water districts
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§ 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 license…
N.Y. Town Law § 192-A Provision for excess sewer, drainage or water facilities
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§ 192-a. Provision for excess sewer, drainage or water facilities. 1. The town board, in causing maps and plans to be prepared or in approving the establishment or extension of a sewer, drainage or water district may provide by resolution that the map and plan include sewer, dra…
N.Y. Town Law § 193 Notice of hearing on petition; cost to typical property; definitions
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§ 193. Notice of hearing on petition; cost to typical property; definitions. 1. a. Whenever a petition shall be presented to the town board pursuant to this article, for the establishment or extension of a sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage, water, water quality treatment, par…
N.Y. Town Law § 194 Establishment or extension of districts
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§ 194. Establishment or extension of districts. 1. After a hearing held upon notice as hereinbefore provided and upon the evidence given thereat, the town board shall determine by resolution: (a) whether the petition is signed, and acknowledged or proved, or authenticated, as re…
N.Y. Town Law § 194-A Powers of town boards with respect to certain contracts
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§ 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 i…
N.Y. Town Law § 195 Recording of determination; review by certiorari
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§ 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…
N.Y. Town Law § 196 Modification of plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage, water or water quality treatment districts
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§ 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, wast…
N.Y. Town Law § 197 Performance of the work
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§ 197. Performance of the work. If the town board shall upon the petition determine to grant the relief sought by the petitioners and establish or extend a district either in whole or in part, or if the town board shall determine to establish or extend a district on its own moti…
N.Y. Town Law § 197-A Contracts by water districts or town water storage and distribution districts with water authorities
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§ 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 engineer…
N.Y. Town Law § 198 Powers of town boards with respect to improvement districts
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§ 198. Powers of town boards with respect to improvement districts. The town board of every town, except as otherwise provided by law, shall have authority to and may exercise the following powers with respect to improvement districts, heretofore or hereafter established, subjec…
N.Y. Town Law § 198-A Special districts for disposal of duck waste in Suffolk county
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§ 198-a. Special districts for disposal of duck waste in Suffolk county. 1. The town board of any town in Suffolk county is hereby authorized to create a special waste disposal district, or more than one such district, in said town, outside of any incorporated village or city, t…
N.Y. Town Law § 199 Proceedings for lateral sewers, drains or water mains
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§ 199. Proceedings for lateral sewers, drains or water mains. 1. Powers of town board. Whenever a sewer, drainage or water district shall have been established by the town board and a trunk system of sewers, drains or water mains shall have been constructed therein or contracted…
N.Y. Town Law § 2 Definition of town
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§ 2. Definition of town. A town is a municipal corporation comprising the inhabitants within its boundaries, and formed for the purpose of exercising such powers and discharging such duties of local government and administration of public affairs as have been, or, may be conferr…
N.Y. Town Law § 20 Town officers
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§ 20. Town officers. 1. (a) Every town of the first class shall have a supervisor, four town council members, unless the number of council members shall have been increased to six or decreased to two as provided by this chapter, a town clerk, two town justices, a town superinten…
N.Y. Town Law § 200 Petition for street improvement and proceedings thereon
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§ 200. Petition for street improvement and proceedings thereon. 1. The owners of real estate fronting or abutting upon either side of a street or highway or private road or right of way used for access to said premises or to a portion thereof to the extent of at least one-half o…
N.Y. Town Law § 200-A Construction and repair of sidewalks pursuant to order of town board
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§ 200-a. Construction and repair of sidewalks pursuant to order of town board. Whenever the town board shall have adopted an ordinance, rule or regulation pursuant to the provisions of article nine of this chapter, describing how sidewalks shall be built in such town, the town b…
N.Y. Town Law § 201 Sewer and water connections
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§ 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 ado…
N.Y. Town Law § 202 Expenses of improvement; how raised
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§ 202. Expenses of improvement; how raised. 1. The expense of any public improvement made under authority of this article shall include the amount of all contracts, the costs of all lands and interests therein necessarily acquired including the total payments of principal remain…
N.Y. Town Law § 202-A Expense of maintenance
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§ 202-a. Expense of maintenance. After the improvement is constructed and completed, it shall be maintained by the town board and the expense of such maintenance shall be a charge upon the district or upon the lots or parcels of land against which the expense of the improvement …
N.Y. Town Law § 202-B Increase or improvement of facilities
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§ 202-b. Increase or improvement of facilities. 1. Whenever it shall determine it to be in the public interest, after a public hearing as hereinafter provided, the town board may acquire or construct on behalf of a water, water storage and distribution, ambulance, sewer, sewage …
N.Y. Town Law § 202-C Dissolution and diminishing area of certain districts
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§ 202-c. Dissolution and diminishing area of certain districts. 1. The town board of any town may dissolve and discontinue those districts described hereinafter pursuant either to the provisions of article seventeen-A of the general municipal law or the procedures provided in th…
N.Y. Town Law § 202-D Increase of maximum amount to be expended
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§ 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 increas…
N.Y. Town Law § 202-E Acquisition and improvement of additional property in park districts
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§ 202-e. Acquisition and improvement of additional property in park districts. 1. Petition. After the establishment of a park district and the acquisition for park purposes of the property described in the petition for the establishment of the district, the town board upon a pet…
N.Y. Town Law § 202-F Construction or installation of certain improvements in state highways and county roads
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§ 202-f. Construction or installation of certain improvements in state highways and county roads. 1. In the event of the construction, reconstruction or relocation of a state highway or county road in any town outside of an existing water, water storage and distribution, sewer, …
N.Y. Town Law § 203 Existing districts preserved
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§ 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 bo…
N.Y. Town Law § 204 Transition to benefit basis levy of assessments in existing lighting districts
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§ 204. Transition to benefit basis levy of assessments in existing lighting districts. 1. If and when the town board shall determine it to be in the public interest for an existing lighting district levying assessments by the ad valorem basis on the effective date of this sectio…
N.Y. Town Law § 207 Re-establishment of certain water supply districts as water districts
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§ 207. Re-establishment of certain water supply districts as water districts. 1. The town board of any town in which a water supply district established prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred thirty-four, shall exist, may re-establish any such water supply district …
N.Y. Town Law § 208 Joint administration and operation of special or improvement districts with town functions
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§ 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 pe…
N.Y. Town Law § 208-A Acquisition of land for proposed district
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§ 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 extension…
N.Y. Town Law § 208-B Dissolution of lighting or public parking districts; town of Oyster Bay
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§ 208-b. Dissolution of lighting or public parking districts; town of Oyster Bay. 1. Whenever the town board of the town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau shall determine after a public hearing as hereinafter provided that it is in the public interest to manage, maintain, operate …
N.Y. Town Law § 209 Application of article
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§ 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, o…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-A Definitions
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§ 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 gar…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-B Appropriation for preparation of maps, plans and reports
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§ 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,…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-C Maps, plans and reports
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§ 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 tow…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-D Notice of hearing; cost to typical property
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§ 209-d. Notice of hearing; cost to typical property. 1. Subsequent to the date of the filing of the map, plans and report in the office of the town clerk as required in section two hundred nine-c of this article the town board may adopt an order and enter the same in the minute…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-E Establishment or extension of districts
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§ 209-e. Establishment or extension of districts. 1. After the hearing held upon notice as hereinbefore provided and upon the evidence given thereat, the town board shall determine by resolution: (a) whether the notice of hearing was published and posted as required by law, and …