N.Y. County Law § 280-r: Expense of the improvement

§ 280-r. Expense of the improvement. The cost of establishment of a

county district and the furnishing of the improvement therein shall

include the amount of all contracts, the costs of all lands and

interests therein necessarily acquired, the costs of erection of

necessary facilities and appurtenances for operation or administration

of the improvement, the costs of necessary original equipment for

operation or administration of the improvement, printing, publishing,

interest on loans, legal and engineering services and all other expenses

incurred or occasioned by reason of the establishment of the district

and the furnishing of the improvement. In addition there shall be

apportioned against, charged to and included in such cost such allowance

as the governing body may make for expenditures made to the initiating

agency which are directly attributable to the establishment of the

county district, as well as for any services rendered by the county

attorney, the county engineer, or any other salaried county officer or

employee, when such services have been necessary to or occasioned by

reason of the establishment of the county district.