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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 minutes of its
proceedings reciting a description of the  boundaries  of  the  proposed
district  or  extension  in  a  manner  sufficient to identify the lands
included therein as in a deed of conveyance, the improvements  proposed,
the  maximum  amount  proposed  to  be expended for the improvement, the
estimated cost of hook-up fees, if any, to, and the cost of the district
or extension to, the typical property and, if different, the typical one
or two family home, the proposed method of financing to be employed, the
fact that a map, plan and report describing the same are on file in  the
town  clerk's  office for public inspection and specifying the time when
and the place where said board will meet and hold a  public  hearing  to
hear all persons interested in the subject thereof, concerning the same.
If  such  order  proposes  only  the performance or supplying of certain
services, it may state the maximum amount to be  expended  annually  for
such  services.  The  board  shall  cause  a  copy  of  such order to be
published at least once in the official  paper,  the  first  publication
thereof to be not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the day
set  therein  for  the hearing as aforesaid, and shall also cause a copy
thereof to be posted on the sign-board of the town  maintained  pursuant
to  subdivision six of section thirty of this chapter, not less than ten
nor more than twenty days before the day designated for the  hearing  as
aforesaid.  Such  order may further state such place other than the town
clerk's office where the map, plan and report may be examined in advance
of the hearing, if  the  town  board  determines  that,  in  the  public
interest,  some  other  additional place is necessary or desirable. If a
water district, sidewalk district, a public parking district,  a  refuse
and  garbage  district, aquatic plant growth control district, watershed
protection improvement district or beach  erosion  control  district  is
proposed,   such  order  may  contain  a  statement  that  the  cost  of
constructing the water system, sidewalks or acquiring lands  for  public
parking  or  for  refuse  and  garbage purposes, or aquatic plant growth
control  purposes  or  for  beach  erosion  control  or  for   watershed
protection  improvement  purposes shall be assessed by the town board in
proportion as nearly as may be to the benefit which each lot  or  parcel
will  derive therefrom. Prior to the publication of the order, the board
shall cause to be prepared, and file for public inspection with the town
clerk, a detailed explanation of how the estimated cost of hook-up fees,
if any, to, and the cost of the district or extension  to,  the  typical
property  and,  if  different,  the  typical one or two family home, was
computed.
  2. (a) If the permission of the  state  comptroller  is  not  required
pursuant  to  section  two  hundred nine-f of this article because it is
proposed or required that the town in which the district or extension is
located shall finance the cost thereof by the issuance of bonds,  notes,
certificates  or other evidences of indebtedness of the town therefor or
debt service is proposed to be assumed pursuant to subdivision twelve of
section one hundred ninety-eight of this chapter but  the  cost  to  the
typical  property  or,  if different, the cost to the typical one or two
family home is not above the average cost threshold  described  in  such
section,  a  certified  copy  of  the  order  of  the town board adopted
pursuant to this section shall also be filed with the state  comptroller
on or about the date of the publication of a copy of such order.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the state comptroller shall not be precluded from requiring the submission of additional information or data in such form and detail as the state comptroller shall deem sufficient or from causing an investigation to be made with respect to the establishment or extension of a district or an increase in the maximum amount to be expended.