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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7016                                                  A. 9539
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 16, 2016
                                       ___________
 
        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
          ment
 
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Local Governments
 
        AN  ACT  in relation to dissolving the Madison County Sewer District and
          to transfer the physical, financial and all other property and assets,
          obligations and liabilities of  the  Madison  County  Sewer  District,
          including the Madison County Sewage Treatment Facility, to the Town of
          Cazenovia
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The  legal  entity  known  as  the  "Madison  County  Sewer
     2  District"  established  pursuant  to  article  5-A of the county law, is
     3  hereby dissolved in its entirety and the  physical,  financial  and  all
     4  other property and assets of the District, together with the obligations
     5  and  liabilities  thereof are hereby transferred to and shall be assumed
     6  by the Town of Cazenovia as follows:
     7    1. The following property and assets of Madison County relative to the
     8  Madison County Sewer District are hereby  transferred  to  the  Town  of
     9  Cazenovia:
    10    (a)  the  Madison  County Sewage Treatment Facility (to be renamed the
    11  "Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control Facility");
    12    (b) all those public sewer lines, sewer trunks and  appurtenances  and
    13  pump  stations  located  within the geographic boundaries of the Town of
    14  Cazenovia;
    15    (c) all those public sewer lines, sewer trunks and  appurtenances  and
    16  pump stations located within the geographic boundaries of the Village of
    17  Cazenovia  (excluding  all  those  sewer lines and appurtenances histor-
    18  ically and currently owned by the Village of Cazenovia);
    19    (d) all those public sewer lines, sewer trunks and  appurtenances  and
    20  pump  stations  located  within the geographic boundaries of the Town of
    21  Nelson;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14666-01-6
        S. 7016                             2                            A. 9539
 
     1    (e) all surplus funds of the Madison County Sewer District, which upon
     2  transfer, shall be placed in a designated capital reserve fund  for  the
     3  operation and maintenance and infrastructure and capital improvements of
     4  the Sewage Treatment Facility;
     5    (f) all accounts receivable due and owing to the former Madison County
     6  Sewer District;
     7    (g)  all other surplus real and chattel property owned by and utilized
     8  by the Madison County Sewer District for the operation  and  maintenance
     9  of the district and the sewage treatment facility.
    10    2.  The  obligations and liabilities of Madison County relative to the
    11  Madison County Sewer District are hereby deemed assumed by the  Town  of
    12  Cazenovia  which  shall  indemnify and defend the County with respect to
    13  the same. The obligations and liabilities assumed shall include, but not
    14  be limited  to,  retiree  health  insurance  expenses,  other  insurance
    15  expenses, indirect cost recovery expenses, sludge disposal expenses, and
    16  any potential employee or other obligations that may arise.
    17    §  2.  This act shall take effect upon the completion and execution of
    18  appropriate and necessary inter-municipal agreement or agreements by and
    19  between the Town of Cazenovia, Town of Cazenovia  Consolidated  Sanitary
    20  Sewer  District,  Village  of  Cazenovia,  Town of Nelson, and County of
    21  Madison relative to the aforementioned transfer of assets and assumption
    22  of obligations and liabilities, and relative to the management,  mainte-
    23  nance, operation, billing, financing and future infrastructure and capi-
    24  tal improvements of the Town of Cazenovia Water Pollution Control Facil-
    25  ity  and  corresponding  sewerage  system  formerly known as the Madison
    26  County Sewer District; provided that the town supervisor of the Town  of
    27  Cazenovia shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the
    28  completion and execution of such appropriate and necessary inter-munici-
    29  pal agreement or agreements in order that the commission may maintain an
    30  accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws
    31  of  the  state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions
    32  of section 44 of the legislative law and  section  70-b  of  the  public
    33  officers law.