N.Y. Transportation Corporations Law § 46: Corporations may contract with other cities, towns or villages; certificate of extension; effect of merger

§ 46. Corporations may contract with other cities, towns or villages;

certificate of extension; effect of merger. When any such corporation

has entered into a contract with the authorities of any city, town or

village not mentioned in its certificate of incorporation, but situated

in the same county as the city, towns or villages mentioned therein or

in an adjoining county, to supply it with pure and wholesome water, it

may file a certificate which shall be entitled and endorsed "certificate

of extension of territory of .......................... pursuant to

section forty-six of the transportation corporations law" (the blank

space being filled in with the name of the corporation) and which shall

state:

1. The name of the corporation, and, if it has been changed, the name

under which it was originally incorporated.

2. The name of such other city, town or village to be so supplied with

water.

Such certificate shall be signed and acknowledged by the president or

a vice-president and the secretary or an assistant secretary of the

corporation, who shall make and annex an affidavit that they have been

authorized to execute and file the same by the vote of a majority of the

directors of the corporation.

Such certificate shall be filed in each public office in which the

certificate of incorporation is filed. Any corporation which has

heretofore filed or shall file such certificate as aforesaid may

thereupon supply any such city, town or village with water in the same

manner and with the same rights and subject to the same requirements as

if it had been named in the original certificate of incorporation, and

as if such certificate of incorporation had had annexed thereto a

consent to the formation of the corporation, signed and acknowledged by

the local authorities of such municipal corporation, as defined in

section forty-one of this chapter.

The right of merger of waterworks corporations shall not be limited to

corporations operating in the same or adjoining counties, and if a

waterworks corporation be merged pursuant to law with another waterworks

corporation operating in the state, any municipal corporation or

political subdivision of the state, and any public officer, board or

body, authorized by statute to contract with such a merged corporation,

shall have power and authority to contract and deal with the possessor

corporation in the same manner and with the same effect as with such

merged corporation.