N.Y. County Law § 280-e: Public hearing

§ 280-e. Public hearing. When the agency has caused such maps and

plans to be prepared, it shall transmit them to the governing body,

together with a report of its proceedings and its recommendations,

including a recommendation as to what officer, board or body should be

the administrative head or body of the proposed district. Such report

may further include the recommendations relating to the establishment of

two or more zones of assessment within the proposed district and the

estimated initial allocation of the cost of the construction of the

facilities as between such zones to be assessed, levied and collected in

each zone in the same manner and at the same time as other county

charges. Upon receipt of the report and the maps and plans, the

governing body shall call a public hearing upon a proposal to establish

a county district, to comprise the area or areas described and defined

in said maps and plans. The clerk of the governing body shall cause a

notice of the public hearing to be published at least once in the

official newspapers of the county and in such other newspapers having a

general circulation in the proposed district as the governing body may

direct, the first publications thereof to be not less than ten or more

than twenty days before the day set therein for the hearing. The notice

of hearing shall contain a description of the area or areas to be

included within the proposed district, and if the report shall have

recommended the establishment of zones of assessment, a description of

the area or areas to be included within each zone of assessment, the

improvements proposed, the maximum amount to be expended for the

improvement, the allocation of such maximum amount as between the zones

of assessment recommended, if any, the proposed method of assessment of

the cost and shall specify the time when and place where the governing

body will meet to consider the matter and to hear all parties interested

therein concerning the same. In the event that zones of assessment are

provided for and an allocation of cost of the facilities between such

zones of assessment, said notice shall further state that said zones of

assessment and said allocations of cost may be changed from time to time

by resolution of the governing body adopted after a public hearing

whenever said governing body shall determine that such changes are

necessary in the public interest.