N.Y. Village Law § 14-1400: Establishment of sewerage system

§ 14-1400 Establishment of sewerage system. The board of trustees of

any village may, upon its own motion or shall upon the petition of

twenty five owners of real property within the village, according to the

last completed village assessment roll, cause a map and plan to be

prepared for a complete sewerage system for the village. The board of

trustees may establish, extend and maintain a sewerage system, including

laterals, therein in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and

may, as provided by this chapter, abolish an existing sewer or

wastewater disposal district created under the town, county or general

district law, coterminous with or wholly included in the limits of the

village, and use the sewerage system of such abolished district as a

complete village sewerage system or as a part or extension of any

existing village sewerage system. Before taking any proceeding for the

construction of a sewerage system or any part thereof the board, at the

expense of the village, shall, unless such map and plan have been

heretofore officially approved by the state commissioner of health and

copies filed in the state department of health and in the office of the

village clerk, cause a map and plan of a permanent sewerage system for

such village to be made, with plans and specifications for sewage

treatment or disposal works. It may also include any existing sewerage

or private on-site wastewater disposal system in the village, which on

examination by the village engineer shall be found feasible and proper

to incorporate or include in the proposed system. Such map and plan

shall be comprehensive and shall cover all portions of the village, but

the village may construct the whole of the said system or may

temporarily omit any portion thereof until such portions may be

necessary, subject to the approval of such omission by the state

commissioner of health as hereinafter provided. Such map and plan shall

be submitted to the state commissioner of health for his approval, and

if approved shall be filed in the office of the state commissioner of

health. A copy thereof shall also be filed in the office of the village

clerk. The map and plan may be amended, with the approval of the state

commissioner of health, and when so amended and approved shall be filed

in the same offices as the original. No work of any kind shall be done

on or for the construction, extension, reconstruction, removal or

modification of any system of sewerage or of any part thereof until a

map and plan covering the entire system shall first have been duly

approved and filed as above provided, and in the execution of the

construction, extension, reconstruction, removal or modification of any

system of sewerage or of any part thereof, no deviations from the plans

as finally approved and filed shall be made until plans or descriptions

adequately showing such deviations are first approved and filed as above

provided. Whenever the board of trustees of the village shall deem it

desirable to the interests of the village that a portion of the

permanent general system of sewers, private on-site wastewater disposal

systems and sewage disposal thereof may be temporarily omitted or

deferred, it shall certify that fact in writing to the state

commissioner of health, designating by a map or otherwise the portions

of the system to be omitted, or the portion not to be omitted, and on

receipt of the same the state commissioner of health may approve of such

temporary omission and shall certify his determination to the board of

trustees of the village. The term "sewerage system" as used in this

article shall be understood to mean a complete system for the removal,

treatment or disposal of sewage or wastewater, including private on-site

wastewater disposal systems. The village board of trustees is authorized

to establish and impose sewer rents pursuant to the provisions of

article fourteen-f of the general municipal law.