New York Laws
Title 8-F - Saratoga County Water Authority
1199-EEE - Powers of the Authority.

(a) establishment of criteria and procedures to determine critical
water levels or safe yield of system;
(b) identification of existing and future sources of water under
normal conditions and emergency conditions;
(c) system capacity and ability to meet peak demand and fire flows
concurrently;
(d) storage capacities;
(e) current condition of present interconnections and identification
of additional interconnections to meet a water supply emergency;
(f) specific action plan to be followed during a water supply
emergency including a phased implementation of the plan;
(g) general water conservation programs and water use reduction
strategies for water supply users;
(h) prioritization of water users;
(i) identification and availability of emergency equipment needed
during a water supply emergency; and
(j) public notification program coordinated with the phased
implementation schedule. Such plan shall not be adopted until a public
hearing on such plan shall have been held, upon not less than fourteen
days' notice thereof to each customer, either by mail or by publication
once in a newspaper having general circulation within the district;
every five years, such plan shall be reviewed and revised if necessary
after a public hearing, with notice to each customer as aforesaid;
16. To enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of
the authority shall be necessary for the purpose of making surveys,
soundings, borings and examinations to accomplish any purpose authorized
by this title, the authority being liable only for actual damage done;
17. To apply for and to accept any gifts or grants or loans of funds
or property or financial or other aid in any form from the federal
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from the state
or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from any other source, for
any or all of the purposes specified in this title, and to comply,
subject to the provisions of this title, with the terms and conditions
thereof;
18. To obtain, store, treat, distribute, supply and sell water for
domestic, commercial and public purposes at retail to individual
consumers within the district;
19. To purchase water in bulk from any person, private or public
benefit corporation or municipality when necessary or convenient for the
operation of such water system;
20. To produce, develop, distribute and sell water or water services
within or without the territorial limits of the district; and to
purchase water from any municipality, town water district, person,
association or corporation, provided, however, that water may be sold at
retail to individual consumers only within the district and further
provided that in exercising the powers granted by this title, the
authority shall not sell water in any area which is served by a water
system owned or operated by a municipality or special improvement
district unless the governing body of such municipality or district
shall adopt a resolution requesting the authority to sell water in such
served areas;
21. To make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs
and rules and regulations for the conservation, preservation, protection
and distribution of the authority's water supply and, subject to
agreements with bondholders, rules for the sale of water and the
collection of rents and charges therefor. A copy of such rules,
regulations and bylaws and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
subdivision eleven of this section, and all amendments thereto, duly
certified by the secretary of the authority shall be filed in the office
of the county clerk of the county. In addition, the board of supervisors
by local law shall have power to prescribe that violation of specific
bylaws, rules, or rules and regulations of the authority, published once
in a newspaper having general circulation within the county, shall be
punishable by fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment for not longer than fifteen days, or both;
22. To fix rates and collect charges for the use of the facilities of,
or services rendered by, or any commodities furnished by the authority
such as to provide revenues sufficient at all times to pay, as the same
shall become due, the principal of and interest on the bonds, notes, or

other obligations of the authority together with the maintenance of
proper reserves therefor, in addition to paying as the same shall become
due, the expense of operating and maintaining the properties of the
authority together with proper maintenance reserves, capital reserves,
repair reserves, tax stabilization reserves and other contingency
reserves, and all other obligations and indebtedness of the authority;
however, no such rates or charges shall be changed until a public
hearing on such changes shall have been held upon not less than fourteen
days notice thereof to each customer, either by mail or by publication
once in a newspaper having general circulation within the district;
23. To enter into cooperative agreements with other authorities,
municipalities, counties, cities, towns, villages, water districts,
utility companies, individuals, firms or corporations, within or without
the territorial limits of the district for the interconnection of
facilities, the provision, exchange or interchange of services and
commodities, the conservation, preservation and protection of the
authority's supply area, and, within the territorial limits of the
district, to enter into a contract for the construction, operation and
maintenance of a water supply and distribution system by the authority
for any municipality, upon such terms and conditions as shall be
determined to be reasonable including, but not limited to, the
reimbursement of all costs of such construction, or for any other lawful
purposes necessary or desirable to effect the purposes of this title;
24. To provide for the discontinuance or disconnection of the supply
of water for nonpayment of fees, rates, rents or other charges therefor
imposed by the authority, provided such discontinuance or disconnection
of any supply of water shall not be carried out except in the manner and
upon the notice as is required of a waterworks corporation pursuant to
subdivisions three-a, three-b and three-c of section eighty-nine-b and
section one hundred sixteen of the public service law;
25. To act as a county water agency, pursuant to the provisions of
article five-A of the county law; and
26. To do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
its purposes and for all exercise of the powers granted in this title.