N.Y. Town Law § 190: Establishment or extension of improvement districts

§ 190. Establishment or extension of improvement districts. Upon a

petition as hereinafter provided, the town board of any town may

establish or extend in said town a sewer, drainage, water, water quality

treatment, park, public parking, lighting, snow removal, water supply,

sidewalk, a fallout shelter district or refuse and garbage district,

aquatic growth control district, ambulance district, watershed

protection improvement district, and in any town bordering upon or

containing within its boundaries any navigable waters of this state, a

harbor improvement district, a public dock district, or beach erosion

control district, and provide improvements or services, or both, in any

such district, wholly at the expense of the district; but no water

supply district shall be established or extended to include lands

situate within the boundaries of a water district. No such district

shall be established or extended in a city or in an incorporated village

provided, however, that such a district may be established or extended

wholly or partly within an incorporated village on consent of the

village expressed in a local law, ordinance or resolution, subject to a

referendum on petition under section twenty-four of the municipal home

rule law or a permissive referendum under article nine of the village

law, as the case may be, and except, in the case of a water quality

treatment district, on consent of a village expressed in a local law or

by resolution of the board of trustees and not subject to any

referendum.