N.Y. Town Law § 209-b: Appropriation for preparation of maps, plans and reports

§ 209-b. Appropriation for preparation of maps, plans and reports.

The town board may adopt a resolution, subject to a permissive

referendum in the manner provided in article seven of this chapter,

appropriating a specific amount to pay the cost of preparing a general

map, plan, and report for providing the facilities, improvements, or

services in any portion of the town not included within the boundaries

of any incorporated village, city or existing improvement district in

which such facilities or services are provided, except that all or part

of an incorporated village may be included therein 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. All such maps, plans and reports shall conform

with the requirements of section two hundred nine-c of this article. The

town board may determine that such maps, plans and reports shall be

prepared by or under the supervision of town officers and employees to

be designated by the town board, or by persons to be employed for the

purpose, or the town board may contract for the preparation thereof

within the limitations of the amount appropriated. Except as otherwise

provided herein, the expense incurred for the preparation of such maps,

plans and reports shall be a town charge, and shall be assessed, levied

and collected in the same manner as other town charges. If the town

board shall thereafter establish or extend such district and construct

the improvements or contract for the required services pursuant to the

provisions of this article, the expense incurred by the town for the

preparation of the maps, plans and reports therefor shall be deemed to

be part of the cost of such improvement, or the rendering of such

services, and the town shall be reimbursed in the amount paid therefor,

or such portion of that amount which the town board, at the public

hearing held pursuant to section two hundred nine-d of this article,

shall allocate against such district.