184-A - Contract for water supply outside of fire districts.

§ 184-a. Contract for water supply outside of fire districts. The town  board of any town, on behalf of a fire protection district or fire alarm  district  situated therein, or on behalf of the area of the town outside  of any village, fire district, fire protection district  or  fire  alarm  district,  which  area  is  hereinafter  referred to as the "unprotected  area", may contract for a  supply  of  water  and  for  the  furnishing,  erection,  maintenance, care and replacement of fire hydrants, including  the erection and maintenance of markers therefor,  and  the  removal  of  snow  and  ice to provide access thereto, for fire purposes for a period  not exceeding five years.    Before a contract shall be entered  into  pursuant  to  the  authority  given in this section, the town board shall hold a public hearing in the  district  or  unprotected area or at such other place within the town as  the town board shall designate. Notice of the hearing shall be published  at least once in at least one newspaper having  general  circulation  in  the district or unprotected area, the first publication thereof to be at  least  ten  days  prior to the day specified for the hearing. The notice  shall specify the time when and place where the hearing  will  be  held,  and shall describe in general terms the proposed contract. The amount of  any contract that may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of this  section  together  with  all  other  expenses  necessarily  incurred  or  occasioned thereby, shall be assessed and levied upon the  taxable  real  property  in  the district or unprotected area and collected in the same  manner, at the same time and by the same  officers  as  town  taxes  are  assessed,  levied  and collected and, when collected, the amount thereof  shall be paid to the supervisor of the town. The supervisor shall pay to  the person, company or corporation entitled thereto the amount specified  in the contract.    If a fire protection district or fire alarm district shall be situated  partly in each of two or more towns any action which would be  taken  by  the town board in the case of a district situated in only one town shall  be  taken  by  the  town boards of the several towns acting jointly by a  majority vote of the members of each of such town boards, and the notice  of public hearing required by this section shall be given  by  the  town  clerks of the several towns acting jointly.