New York Laws
Title 8-G - Cayuga County Water and Sewer Authority
1199-EEEE - 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;

17. 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;
18. 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;
19. To supply and sell water for domestic, commercial and public
purposes at retail to individual consumers within the district or to
collect, treat or discharge sewage produced within the district;
20. 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;
21. To produce, develop, distribute and sell water or sewerage
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 and sewerage
services 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 services in any area
which is served by a water system or sewerage services in any area which
is served by a sewerage 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 or sewerage services, as the case may be, in
such served areas;
22. To make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs
and rules and regulations for the conservation, preservation and
protection of the authority's water supply and, subject to agreements
with bondholders, rules for the sale of water or collection of sewage
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 twelve 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 county legislature
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 fifty dollars per violation;
23. 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 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;
provided 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
bounds of the authority;

24. 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 water reserve as it is affected within and outside 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 or sewerage system
or facilities by the authority for any municipality having power to
construct and develop a water supply and distribution or sewerage system
or facilities, 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;
25. To provide for the discontinuance or disconnection of water or
sewerage service, or both, as the case may be, for nonpayment of fees,
rates, rents or other charges therefor imposed by the authority,
provided such discontinuance or disconnection of any water or sewerage
service, or both, as the case may be, 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;
26. To act as a county water agency in accordance with the provisions
of article five-A of the county law;
27. For the purposes of article fifteen-A of the executive law only
the authority shall be deemed a state agency as that term is defined in
such article and its contracts for procurement, design, construction,
services and materials shall be deemed state contracts within the
meaning of that term as set forth in such article; and
28. To do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
its purposes and for all exercise of the powers granted in this title.
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