N.Y. Village Law § 11-1114: Alternative provision for connections with mains

§ 11-1114 Alternative provision for connections with mains. The board

of commissioners shall have authority to determine the manner and

conditions under which said supply pipes shall be installed and shall

have authority to install and maintain said supply pipes and to adopt

such uniform service charges as they deem just for each supply pipe so

connected with the mains or distributing pipes and extending to the

street or right of way lines, regardless of the location of said water

mains or distribution pipe within said streets or rights of way lines

and regardless of the soil, rock or other physical conditions within

said streets or rights of way lines.

Such uniform service charge as the board may adopt shall be any

percentage of the cost up to but not exceeding the average actual cost

of installing such supply pipes as before described. Such percentage of

the average actual cost of installing such supply pipes as may not be

charged shall be borne by the village.

The said board shall have authority to apply such percentage of the

average actual cost of installing such supply pipes as the village might

pay, to such other supply pipe connection for the same property or

properties as in the judgment of the board might be advisable.

The board of water commissioners may cause a notice to be published in

the official newspaper of the village and if so published, shall serve

on the owners or occupants a printed notice notifying such owners and

occupants of any and all property fronting or abutting on any street,

right of way or portion thereof, in or upon which any public water main

or distributing pipe is about to be laid or is being laid or has been

laid by said board, that connection pipes to and from the water mains or

distribution pipes in said street, right of way or any portion thereof

in front of each separate piece of property and where directed by said

board, shall be installed by said board in such manner and under such

conditions and at such prices as said board shall prescribe.

The said board shall have authority to assess the actual cost of such

connection pipes or such service charge as may be determined and the

actual cost of maintaining the same upon the property so connected.

Should the owner of said property so connected fail to pay the cost or

charge thereof, the said board shall have authority to add such cost or

charge to the annual tax on such property and collect the same,

therewith, and when so collected, the amount thereof shall be paid into

the water fund of the village. Nothing herein contained shall be

construed to prevent the financing, in whole or in part, pursuant to the

local finance law, of any expense incurred by the village pursuant to

this section.