N.Y. Village Law § 17-1712: Water districts

§ 17-1712 Water districts. In every such village any water districts

created or organized under the provisions of the town law, shall

continue and the board of trustees shall be and they are hereby vested

with the full management and control of such districts, and the water

systems constructed therein, and the assessment of the cost and expenses

thereof, which water districts shall until discontinued in the manner

hereinafter provided, be managed, controlled and operated and may be

extended or enlarged, by said board of trustees in the manner provided

in the town law; provided, however, that if any such village shall adopt

a general village water system, such water district or districts may be

discontinued upon the adoption of a proposition for such discontinuance

at a village election. In every such village any water supply district

organized under the town law or under the transportation corporations

law shall continue and the boundaries thereof may be extended or

modified by the board of trustees, or the board of trustees may

establish one or more additional water supply districts in said village,

by filing a certified copy of a resolution describing the bounds thereof

as extended or modified, or as established by the board of trustees, in

the office of the village clerk; and may contract with any corporation

in the name of the village to supply water for fire or other public

purposes to any such district or districts, or in case any such village

shall own or operate a water supply system the board of trustees may

supply water therefrom to any such district or districts for such

purposes and fix the amount of the rentals and charges therefor; and the

rentals or expenses thereof under any such contract, or for the supply

of water by the village shall annually, and in the same manner as other

expenses of the village are raised, be assessed, levied upon and

collected from the taxable property within such water supply districts,

respectively. No such contract shall be made for a longer period than

five years, nor shall the tax in any year for such rentals and expenses

exceed four mills on each dollar of the assessed value of the taxable

property within any such water supply district.