N.Y. County Law § 299-q: Expense of the improvement

§ 299-q. Expense of the improvement. The cost of establishment of a

watershed 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 buildings 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 watershed 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 board of supervisors may make for expenditures made by the

initiating agency which are directly attributable to the establishment

of the watershed 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 watershed district.