N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 122: Powers

§ 122. Powers. Every sewage-works corporation shall have the power:

1. To lay, maintain, repair and operate its pipes, conduits and sewers

in any street, highway or public place of any city, town, village or

other municipal area, in which it has obtained the consent required by

section one hundred sixteen for the disposal, treatment and removal of

sewage, and to operate and maintain and keep in repair its sewage

disposal plants, and prescribe the manner in which sewer connections

shall be made. No pipes, sewers or conduits shall be laid or repaired

under any highway, road, street or avenue by such corporation, without

the consent of the local governing body or its official in charge of

highways or streets or if such highway be a state highway, or a highway

constructed pursuant to section one hundred ninety-four or one hundred

ninety-five or article six of the highway law, the consent of the state

commissioner of transportation nor in any street, highway, road, avenue

or public place in Suffolk county without the prior written consent of

the county sewer agency or the county department of environmental

control.

2. To cause examinations and surveys to be made for the purpose of

determining the proper location of its disposal system, and, for such

purpose by its officers, agents or servants, to enter upon any lands or

waters, subject to liability for all damages done.

3. To enter into appropriate agreements with the secretary of

agriculture of the United States department of agriculture to operate

without profit for the term specified therein for the purpose of

qualifying to receive federal assistance pursuant to the consolidated

farmers home administration act of nineteen hundred sixty-one and any

federal laws amendatory and supplementary thereto. Any such agreement to

operate without profit shall be subject to the approval of a majority of

the stockholders entitled to vote thereat at any regular or special

stockholders' meeting. Any stockholder so entitled to vote who does not

vote for or consent in writing to the taking of this action, shall,

subject to and by complying with the provisions of section six hundred

twenty-three of the business corporation law, have the right to receive

payment of the fair value of his stock and the other rights and benefits

provided by such section.