N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 120-C
Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts

Such sewer system, extension or part thereof shall, when accepted under such contract, and such works, plants or stations, may if so provided therein, pass into the use, possession, management and control of such municipality or municipalities, and it or they shall, by proper provision in the said contract, subject such contract to its or their right at any time to terminate all its or their liability under the same for such rental by paying for such system, extension or part thereof a price named therein or to be determined in accordance with the provisions thereof, and it or they map by proper provision in such contract, covenant to terminate its or their liability in such manner at a time or within a period named therein, but the sum or rental to be paid for such use and possession or the price which must be paid for such system, extension or part thereof in order to terminate the liability of such municipality or municipalities under such contract, shall not be fixed by said contract beyond a period of thirty years, after which and at any time thereafter, if such municipality or municipalities shall not have terminated its or their liability under said contract, the sum or rental to be paid for the continued use and possession of such system, extension or part thereof or the price at which the same must be paid for in order to terminate such liability, which sum or rental and which price shall be based on the value of such system, extension or part thereof at any such time, shall be fixed by agreement, or in the absence of agreement by application to a competent court and under its order, but each such agreement or order shall be limited to a period not exceeding ten years. And such local authorities may also at any time contract for the maintenance and operation of any such system, extension or part thereof, including any such works, plants or stations or of any sewerage or sewage disposal system or part thereof owned or used by any such municipality or municipalities.

Source: Section 120-C — Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/120-C (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed May 4, 2024).

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Contracts for purification of water and sewerage 120‑A
Contracts for sewerage disposal 120‑AA
Source separation and segregation of recyclable or reuseable materials 120‑B
Supervision of sewage system 120‑BB
Town of Huntington solid waste management resource recovery facility 120‑C
Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts 120‑CC
Enforcement of unpaid solid waste collection and/or disposal fee 120‑D
Officers of meeting 120‑E
By whom proposed district represented 120‑F
Contract 120‑G
Apportionment of cost 120‑H
Further provisions as to apportionment of cost 120‑I
Means of payment 120‑K
Payments 120‑L
Letting of contracts 120‑M
Application of other laws to procedure 120‑N
Maps and plans of sewers 120‑O
Definitions 120‑P
Referendum in cities and villages 120‑Q
Rules and regulations 120‑R
Cancellation of sewerage contracts for neglect 120‑S
Joint meeting for acquisition and operation of property 120‑T
Town and village may establish a joint water district 120‑U
Mutual aid for water service 120‑V
Contracts for disposal of sewage outside the state 120‑W
Contracts and agreements for solid waste management, collection and disposal 120‑X
Agreements for joint acquisition, construction and operation of public docks 120‑Z
Sewer hook-ups by private contractors 121
Establishment and maintenance of free public baths 121‑A
Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages 121‑B
Care of children admitted to certain places of amusement in certain cities, villages and towns under a local law or ordinance 122
Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited 122‑B
General ambulance services 122‑C
Transport of police work dogs injured in the line of duty 123
Erection and operation of life-saving apparatus 124
Inspection of building elevators in Nassau county 125
Issuance of building permits 125‑A
Posting signs on dead-end roads 126
Establishment of public general hospitals 126‑A
Joint hospitals for cities, towns or villages 126‑B
Public hospitals for chronically ill 126‑B*2
Establishment of Broome county nursing home 126‑C
Appointment to board of managers of county hospital 127
Appointment and terms of office of managers 128
General powers and duties of managers 128‑A
Petty cash fund 129
General powers and duties of superintendent 129‑A
Erie county 130
Admission and maintenance of patients 131
Training school for nurses 132
Room for detention and examination of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill 133
Visitation and inspection 134
Existing county, town, city or village public general hospitals 135
Application of preceding sections 135‑A
Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the aged 135‑B
Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria 135‑C
Prenatal and maternity care 136
Regulation of automobile junk yards 139‑C
Sheltered workshops 139‑D
Storage and display of firearms, ammunition and explosives
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Accessed:
May 4, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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