§ 110. Definition. The term “municipality” as used in this article shall mean a city, a village, a county on behalf of a county water district and a town acting on behalf of a water district or water storage and distribution district, including a water district governed by a separate board of commissioners.
§ 111. Contracts. Two or more municipalities are hereby empowered to enter into a contract to provide for a common supply of water, including joint acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance. Such contract shall provide for the method of acquisition or construction of the common supply; the management and operation of the system; the method of […]
§ 112. Acquisition of a common supply. A common supply of water may be acquired and developed (including acquisition or construction of all facilities necessary for distribution of water in bulk) by all of the contracting municipalities acting jointly or by the individual action of one of the contracting municipalities, acting for all of the […]
§ 112-a. Certain acquisitions by eminent domain. Notwithstanding any provision of the eminent domain procedure law to the contrary, in any proceeding brought pursuant to such law, by any municipal corporation located in the county of Nassau regarding the Jamaica water supply company, title shall vest in the municipal corporation and compensation shall be paid […]
§ 113. Management and operation. The joint water works system may be managed and operated by a joint operating agency, by one of the contracting municipalities or by contract with a public authority as the contracting municipalities shall provide. A contract with a public authority shall provide for periodic reports of operations to the participating […]
§ 114. Costs. The cost of providing a common supply of water may be financed either by the issuance and sale of the joint obligations of the contracting municipalities or by individual issuance and sale of obligations to finance the proportionate share of each contracting municipality, as such shares shall be fixed pursuant to the […]
§ 115. Sale of Water. Water shall be sold in bulk to the several contracting municipalities. Rates shall be fixed in such amounts that revenue therefrom shall be at least sufficient to pay all estimated annual costs of operation and maintenance and debt service on all obligations issued for the purposes of a common supply, […]
§ 116. 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 improvements itself. Other municipalities may be permitted to participate in the joint project […]
§ 117. Jurisdiction of state agencies. Nothing contained in this article shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the state department of health or of the water power and control commission over water supply matters.
