N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1075: Statement of purpose

§ 1075. Statement of purpose. Prior to the enactment of section five

of article ten of the constitution (effective on January first, nineteen

hundred thirty-nine) public benefit corporations could be created

pursuant to general law and chapter eight hundred forty-seven of the

laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four, as amended, authorized the

creation of county water authorities. On the twenty-ninth day of March,

nineteen hundred thirty-seven, the board of supervisors of Suffolk

county pursuant to such chapter created the Suffolk county water

authority, which since such date has been in continuous existence as a

body corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit corporation.

Thereafter the provisions of such chapter were reenacted and continued

as article seven of the county law by chapter one hundred ninety-five of

the laws of nineteen hundred forty. The Suffolk county water authority

is the only county water authority created pursuant to such chapter

eight hundred forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four,

as amended, or pursuant to such article seven of the county law. Since

the enactment of section five of article ten of the constitution public

benefit corporations may be created only by special act of the

legislature and, to the extent that the provisions of article seven of

the county law purport to authorize the creation of county water

authorities pursuant to its provisions subsequent to January first,

nineteen hundred thirty-nine, such provisions of the county law are

obsolete. The purpose of this title is to continue the existence of the

Suffolk county water authority, to place the statutory provisions of law

applicable thereto in the public authorities law where they

appropriately belong, to provide for the powers and duties of the

authority, and to repeal the provisions of present article seven of the

county law.