STATE OF NEW YORK
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7708
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT authorizing the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk, upon the
dissolution of the East Hampton wastewater disposal district, to use
any remaining funds of the district for the purposes of paying all or
a portion of the cost of one or more town-wide capital projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding paragraph (d) of subdivision 12 of section
2 198 of the town law to the contrary, a resolution of the Town Board for
3 the dissolution of the East Hampton wastewater disposal district ("the
4 district") shall be subject to permissive referendum and the proceeds
5 from the dissolution of the district may be used for the purposes of
6 paying all or a portion of the cost of one or more town-wide capital
7 projects; provided however any such authorizations shall be the subject
8 of a public hearing held in the manner provided in subdivision 12 of
9 section 198 of the town law. If the town board shall decide, after such
10 hearing and upon the evidence given thereat, that it is in the public
11 interest to dissolve the district and upon dissolution to deposit any
12 remaining funds in one or more capital reserve funds in accordance with
13 the general municipal law and use such funds for the purposes of paying
14 all or a portion of the cost of one or more town-wide capital projects,
15 the town board may adopt a resolution, subject to permissive referendum,
16 to authorize such deposit. The town board shall file a copy of said
17 resolutions in the office of the county clerk and the state department
18 of audit and control at Albany, New York.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11494-03-1
