N.Y. County Law § 280-m: Performance of the work

§ 280-m. Performance of the work. After a district shall have been

established, the administrative head or body shall cause to be prepared

by the county engineer, or other county officer having equivalent

qualifications, or a duly licensed engineer employed for that purpose,

detailed plans and specifications for the improvement, a careful

estimate of the expense, and, with the assistance of the county

attorney, or an attorney employed for that purpose, a proposed contract

or contracts for the execution of the work. The administrative head or

body shall examine such detailed plans, specifications, estimates and

contracts and may adopt, modify, amend or reject the same. Upon adoption

of the plans, specifications, estimates and proposed contract, the

administrative head or body shall cause contracts to be let in the same

manner provided for other county construction projects. Nothing herein

shall prevent the purchase or condemnation of any existing county

system, or portion or portions thereof, whether inside or outside of the

county, necessary for the purposes of the county district, provided,

however, that there shall be no power to condemn property the legal

title to which is vested in a public corporation or a special

improvement district unless the owner shall consent thereto. The cost

thereof, together with the cost of construction of those facilities

proposed to be constructed, shall not exceed the maximum cost of the

project as advertised in the notice of hearing published pursuant to

section two hundred eighty-e of this article. In the event that a

system owned by a municipal corporation or existing district is

purchased, the county may by agreement with the seller, assume the

payment of annual installments of principal of, and interest on,

obligations issued by the selling municipality to finance the cost of

the facilities so sold. If payment of annual installments of debt

service is not assumed, as aforesaid, the selling municipality shall set

aside in a reserve fund, so much of the purchase price received as is

sufficient to meet all future installments of principal of, and interest

on, outstanding obligations issued by it to finance the cost of the

facilities sold. Moneys in such a reserve fund may be invested as

provided in section eleven of the general municipal law.