N.Y. County Law § 280-d: Preparation of maps and plans

§ 280-d. Preparation of maps and plans. A petition may be presented to

the governing body requesting that a certain area or areas of the county

be established as a county district. Such petition shall be executed and

acknowledged on behalf of a municipality or existing district, any part

of which is included within such area or areas, by the chief executive

officer of such municipality, or of such existing district serving a

similar function as the district to be established hereunder. In lieu of

execution of the petition by the chief executive officer of such

municipality or existing district, the petition may be executed and

acknowledged by at least twenty-five owners of taxable real property of

record situated within such municipality or existing district. Upon

presentation of such a petition or on its own motion, the governing body

may direct the agency to cause maps and plans to be prepared for a

project as requested in the petition or for the establishment of a

certain area or areas of the county as a county district, provided,

however, that if the petitioning municipality, existing district or

owners of taxable property undertake to furnish or pay the cost of such

maps and plans at its or their cost and expense, the governing body

shall direct the agency to accept or prepare the same. Such maps or

plans shall show (1) the boundaries of the area or areas which the

agency in its judgment considers will be benefited by the particular

project, (2) a description of the area or areas sufficient to permit

definite and conclusive identification of all parcels of property

included therein, (3) the proposed location of all dunes, bluffs,

bulkheads, dikes, groins, jetties, fills and other works, facilities and

improvements, (4) a description of the land or water rights to be

acquired, and (5) estimates of the cost of construction of the

facilities as shown on the maps and plans and the method of financing

the same. Such maps and plans shall be consistent with, so far as

possible, any comprehensive plan for hurricane protection, flood and

shoreline erosion control developed by the state or national government

for that purpose.

If the report of the agency required by section two hundred eighty-e

of this article shall contain recommendations for the establishment of

two or more zones of assessment within a county district, such maps and

plans shall show the boundaries of each of such zones and the estimated

initial allocation of the cost of the construction of the facilities

recommended to be charged to each of such zones.

Where acceptable maps, plans and related data have theretofore been

prepared by or for one or more existing or proposed hurricane

protection, flood and shoreline erosion control districts, the governing

body may, instead, authorize the agency to adopt and utilize such maps,

plans and data and, where a county district is thereafter established

and facilities constructed thereby on the basis of such maps, plans and

data, the agency shall reimburse the municipalities, existing districts

or persons who have paid for all or part of the cost of such maps, plans

and data in a reasonable amount to be agreed upon among them, which

amount shall not exceed their net expenditures therefor, and shall not

include any portion of the cost paid from federal or state aid and which

amount, when paid, shall be deemed part of the cost of the construction

of the facilities by the agency.