Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 119-b. Jurisdiction of other state agencies. Nothing contained in\nthis article shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of\nthe state department of health, the state conservation department or the\nwater pollution control board over sewage treatment and disposa…

§ 119-bb. Definitions. When used in this article, unless a different\nmeaning clearly appears from the context, the terms listed below shall\nhave the following meanings:\n 1. "Development rights" means the rights granted to a lot or parcel of\nland under a zoning ordinance or l…

§ 119-c. Construction and development of excess drainage facilities.\nAny city, town or village, any county on behalf of a county drainage\ndistrict and any town on behalf of a town drainage district may, in\naddition to all other powers possessed with respect to the constructio…

§ 119-cc. Local historic preservation report. 1. In order to\nfacilitate the coordination between state and local preservation\npolicies and activities and to provide necessary information for the\neffective financial and technical assistance to local government and for\na state…

§ 119-d. Contracts. Any municipality authorized herein to construct\nand develop drainage facilities in excess of its own needs is hereby\nempowered to enter into contracts for such periods as it may deem\nnecessary but not in excess of forty years. Such contracts may contain\np…

§ 119-dd. Local historic preservation programs. In addition to\nexisting powers and authorities for local historic preservation programs\nincluding existing powers and authorities to regulate by planning or\nzoning laws and regulations or by local laws and regulations for\nprese…

§ 119-e. Jurisdiction of state agencies. Nothing contained in this\narticle shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of any\nstate department or agency in relation to drainage matters.\n

§ 119-ee. Legislative findings and declaration. The legislature finds\nand declares that it is the policy of the state to achieve statewide\nenergy efficiency and renewable energy goals, reduce greenhouse gas\nemissions and mitigate the effect of global climate change, and advan…

§ 119-f. Definition. The term "municipality" as used in this article\nshall mean a city, a village, a county on behalf of a county drainage\ndistrict, a town and a town acting on behalf of a town drainage\ndistrict.\n

§ 119-ff. Definitions. For purposes of this article:\n 1. "Authority" means the New York state energy research and\ndevelopment authority, as defined by subdivision two of section eighteen\nhundred fifty-one of the public authorities law, or its successor.\n 2. "Credit support" …

§ 119-g. Contracts. Two or more municipalities are hereby empowered to\nenter into contracts to provide for common drainage facilities,\nincluding joint acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance.\nSuch contracts shall provide for the method of acquisition or\nconstruc…

§ 119-gg. Sustainable energy loan program. 1. The legislative body of\nany municipal corporation may, by local law, establish a sustainable\nenergy loan program using federal grant assistance or federal credit\nsupport or monies from the state of New York or any state authority …

§ 119-h. Development of common facilities. Common drainage facilities\nmay be acquired and developed by all of the contracting municipalities\nacting jointly or by the individual action of one of the contracting\nmunicipalities, acting for all of the contracting municipalities, …

§ 119-i. Management and operation. The common facilities may be\nmanaged and operated by a joint operating agency or by one of the\nparticipating municipalities.\n

§ 119-j. Costs. The share of each participating municipality of the\ncost of providing common drainage facilities shall be fixed by the\ncontract. In the event that the acquisition and development of common\ndrainage facilities shall be effected by the individual action of one o…

§ 119-k. Authorization to participate. Before any municipality shall\nparticipate in a joint project pursuant to this article, it shall\nauthorize such participation by taking the same procedural steps which\nit would be required to take if it proposed to effectuate such\nimprov…

§ 119-l. Jurisdiction of state agencies. Nothing contained in this\narticle shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the\nstate conservation department or any other state department or agency\nover drainage matters.\n

§ 119-m. Legislative intent. The provisions of this article are\ndesigned to effectuate in part (1) section two-a of article eight of the\nconstitution and (2) section one of article eight of the constitution as\namended January first, nineteen hundred sixty, and shall be in add…

§ 119-n. Definitions. As used herein:\n a. The term "municipal corporation" means a county outside the city of\nNew York, a city, a town, a village, a board of cooperative educational\nservices, fire district or a school district.\n b. The term "district" means a county or town …

§ 119-o. Performance of municipal cooperative activities; alternative\npowers; alternative assignment of responsibilities. 1. In addition to\nany other general or special powers vested in municipal corporations and\ndistricts for the performance of their respective functions, po…

§ 119-oo. Expenses. The board of supervisors of a county, the town\nboard of a town, the common council of a city, and the board of trustees\nof a village, or the governing bodies of the participating\nmunicipalities comprising membership in a regional planning council or\ncount…

§ 119-000. Inclusion of Cornell University as a member of the\ngoverning body of an entity created by intermunicipal agreement to\nconstruct and operate water treatment plants and water distribution\nsystems in or adjoining the county of Tompkins. 1. Notwithstanding any\nother p…

§ 119-p. Projects relating to the use of atmospheric water resources.\nEvery municipal corporation is, and any two or more municipal\ncorporations are, hereby authorized and empowered to conduct or engage\nin projects, experiments and other activities designed to develop the\nus…

§ 119-q. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall mean and include:\n a. "Municipal corporation". A city, town, village, county not wholly\ncontained within a city, special transportation district, public benefit\ncorporation or other public corporation, …

§ 119-r. Provision of mass transportation by certain municipal\ncorporations. * 1. To assure the provision of mass transportation\nservices to the public at adequate levels and at reasonable cost, every\ncity, town, village or county not wholly contained within a city, shall\nha…

§ 119-s. Participation in federal and state assistance programs for\nmass transportation and airport and aviation projects. 1. Any municipal\ncorporation shall have power, either individually or jointly with one or\nmore other municipal corporations, to apply for, accept, and ex…

§ 119-s-1. Provision of mass transportation, in the county of\nTompkins. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,\nthe county of Tompkins, the city of Ithaca and Cornell University may\njointly provide for mass transportation services in the county of\nTomp…

§ 119-t. Creation of public authorities to provide mass\ntransportation. The commissioner of transportation shall prepare or\ncause to be prepared for submission to the next regular session of the\nlegislature such measures as may be appropriate to facilitate the\ncreation of pu…

§ 119-u. Intermunicipal cooperation in comprehensive planning and land\nuse regulation. 1. Legislative intent. This section is intended to\nillustrate the statutory authority that any municipal corporation has\nunder article five-G of this chapter and place within land use law\n…

§ 12. Deposits of public authorities, public benefit corporations and\nother corporations. In the event any public authority, public benefit\ncorporation or such other corporation to whose governing board the mayor\nof the city of New York appoints one or more members shall requ…

§ 120. Contracts for purification of water and sewerage. The local\nauthorities of the several counties, cities, towns and villages of the\nstate having charge of the supply of water and the care of sewerage in\ntheir respective localities, are hereby authorized, on behalf of th…

§ 120-a. Contracts for sewerage disposal. The respective\nmunicipalities and districts may contract with each other, or they may\njointly or severally contract with a third person, corporation or\nmunicipality, either for the construction, operation, maintenance or\nleasing of a…

§ 120-aa. Source separation and segregation of recyclable or reuseable\nmaterials. 1. The legislature hereby finds that it is in the public\ninterest, in order to further the purposes of the state policy on solid\nwaste management articulated in section 27-0106 of the environmen…

§ 120-b. Supervision of sewage system. If the public works herein\nprovided be constructed and operated by the municipalities acting\njointly, the local authorities of the contracting municipalities or\ndistricts having charge of sewage shall jointly supervise the\nconstruction …

§ 120-bb. Town of Huntington solid waste management resource recovery\nfacility; tax exemption; other contractual provisions related to towns\nof Huntington and Smithtown. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent\nprovision of article twenty-eight of the tax law, or of any other\ngen…

§ 120-c. Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts.\nSuch sewer system, extension or part thereof shall, when accepted under\nsuch contract, and such works, plants or stations, may if so provided\ntherein, pass into the use, possession, management and control of …

§ 120-cc. Enforcement of unpaid solid waste collection and/or disposal\nfee. 1. Any municipal corporation may adopt a local law providing that\nunpaid fees or charges for municipal or municipally contracted solid\nwaste collection and/or disposal services be included with the an…

§ 120-d. Officers of meeting. In order to facilitate business\nprocedure, the local authorities of the several municipalities or\ndistricts meeting jointly for the purposes herein provided shall, at a\nmeeting at which all the municipalities and districts intending to act\njoint…

§ 120-e. By whom proposed district represented. Until a sewer district\nof a town is organized as provided by the town law, the supervisor, or a\nmember of the town board appointed by the supervisor, of the town in\nwhich the proposed sewer district is located, may act for and o…

§ 120-f. Contract; how executed. No municipality or district acting\njointly as herein provided shall be bound by any contract or agreement\nunless such contract or agreement be signed and executed by a majority\nof the local authorities of such municipality having care of sewer…

§ 120-g. Apportionment of cost. Before any such contract for\nconstruction mentioned in section one hundred and twenty-c shall become\neffective, such local authorities shall determine the part or proportion\nof the annual cost thereof, if any, which is to be assessed upon the\n…

§ 120-h. Further provisions as to apportionment of cost. Each of the\ncontracting municipalities or districts shall pay its just and\nproportionate share for the public improvement authorized by this act\nand the general laws, including its just and proportionate share of the\nc…

§ 120-i. Means of payment. The indebtedness created for such public\nworks may be paid by each contracting municipality, including a sewer\ndistrict of a town, partly by assessment on the property deemed\nspecially benefited by such improvement and partly by a charge on such\nmu…

§ 120-k. Payments; how made. It shall be lawful for the governing body\nor board having control of the finances of such contracting\nmunicipality, in lieu of issuing the bonds of such municipality, to pay\nits proportion of the costs and expenses of any improvements jointly\ncon…

§ 120-l. Letting of contracts. 1. Whenever any work to be performed or\nmaterials to be furnished in or about any improvement to be made by two\nor more municipalities under the provisions of this act shall involve an\nexpenditure of any sum of money exceeding five hundred dolla…

§ 120-m. Application of other laws to procedure. Except where\ninconsistent with this act, or otherwise permitted hereunder the\napportionment of local assessments and the manner of payment of the\nexpenses of construction of such public works shall be as provided in\nthe town l…

§ 120-n. Maps and plans of sewers. Before taking any proceedings for\nthe construction of any sewer or of any system of sewers or of any\naddition thereto or alteration thereof, such municipality or\nmunicipalities acting severally or jointly shall cause to be made a map\nand pl…

§ 120-o. Definitions. The words "joint meeting" as used in this act\nshall be construed to mean the meeting or assembly of the members of the\ngoverning bodies or boards of the several municipalities having\nauthority to make and enter into a contract for the construction jointl…

§ 120-p. Referendum in cities and villages. In any such city or\nvillage, whether acting severally or jointly, a copy of such contract,\nfor construction mentioned in section one hundred twenty-c, with a copy\nof the determination required in section one hundred twenty-g, if the…

§ 120-q. Rules and regulations. Such person, persons or corporation\noperating and maintaining such system or contracting for the removal of\nsewage as herein provided shall be subject to such rules, ordinances and\nregulations as said municipalities may establish, not inconsist…