N.Y. Public Service Law § 89-l: Municipal water systems

§ 89-l. Municipal water systems. 1. For the purposes of this section,

and for the purposes of any jurisdiction conferred by it upon the public

service commission, a municipality is one which owns, maintains or

operates, or proposes to own, maintain or operate, a water system, or

which sells, furnishes or distributes, or proposes to sell, furnish or

distribute, water for domestic, commercial or public uses, whether

provided by its own system or the system of a water-works corporation or

another municipality. As so limited, the term "municipality" for the

purposes of this section, means a city, town, village or public

district; and a "public district," as here used, is a district or other

territorial division, whether incorporated or not, whose affairs are

managed by any officer or officers, person or persons, elected by voters

or taxpayers or appointed by a public officer or officers, and includes,

without excluding others, a water district, water supply district and a

fire district. The other provisions of this chapter shall not apply to

such a municipality, nor to its said business of owning, maintaining or

operating a water system or of selling, furnishing or distributing

water, except such provisions as are applied by this section by express

reference. The jurisdiction of the public service commission, with

respect to such a municipality or its said business, is that, and only

that, provided for in this section.

2. Each such municipality shall file with the public service

commission a copy of the annual report of its division, bureau or

department of water.