N.Y. Town Law § 209: Application of article

§ 209. Application of article. Notwithstanding any other provisions of

this chapter, the town board of any town may, in the manner provided by

this article, establish or extend in said town, improvement districts as

defined in this article 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. Any improvement

district as defined in this article established pursuant to this article

or otherwise may be extended pursuant to the provisions of this article

or any other applicable provision of law. However, this article shall

not apply to the extension of any such improvement districts to which

the provisions of article thirteen of this chapter are applicable

without the prior approval in writing of a majority of the commissioners

of such 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 five-a of the village law, as the case may be.