Title GMU, General Municipal

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

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

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

§ 119-cc. Local historic preservation report. 1. In order to facilitate the coordination between state and local preservation policies and activities and to provide necessary information for the effective financial and technical assistance to local government and for a state cle…

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

§ 119-dd. Local historic preservation programs. In addition to existing powers and authorities for local historic preservation programs including existing powers and authorities to regulate by planning or zoning laws and regulations or by local laws and regulations for preservat…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 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 may be acquired and developed by all of the contracting municipalities acting jointly or by the individual action of one of the contracting municipalities, acting for all of the contracting municipalities, as …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 119-000. Inclusion of Cornell University as a member of the governing body of an entity created by intermunicipal agreement to construct and operate water treatment plants and water distribution systems in or adjoining the county of Tompkins. 1. Notwithstanding any other provi…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 119-t. Creation of public authorities to provide mass transportation. The commissioner of transportation shall prepare or cause to be prepared for submission to the next regular session of the legislature such measures as may be appropriate to facilitate the creation of public…

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

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

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

§ 120-a. Contracts for sewerage disposal. The respective municipalities and districts may contract with each other, or they may jointly or severally contract with a third person, corporation or municipality, either for the construction, operation, maintenance or leasing of a com…

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 120-e. By whom proposed district represented. Until a sewer district of a town is organized as provided by the town law, the supervisor, or a member of the town board appointed by the supervisor, of the town in which the proposed sewer district is located, may act for and on b…

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

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

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

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

§ 120-k. Payments; how made. It shall be lawful for the governing body or board having control of the finances of such contracting municipality, in lieu of issuing the bonds of such municipality, to pay its proportion of the costs and expenses of any improvements jointly contrac…

§ 120-l. Letting of contracts. 1. Whenever any work to be performed or materials to be furnished in or about any improvement to be made by two or more municipalities under the provisions of this act shall involve an expenditure of any sum of money exceeding five hundred dollars,…

§ 120-m. Application of other laws to procedure. Except where inconsistent with this act, or otherwise permitted hereunder the apportionment of local assessments and the manner of payment of the expenses of construction of such public works shall be as provided in the town law, …

§ 120-n. Maps and plans of sewers. Before taking any proceedings for the construction of any sewer or of any system of sewers or of any addition thereto or alteration thereof, such municipality or municipalities acting severally or jointly shall cause to be made a map and plan t…

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

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

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