§ 1230-k. Appropriations for purposes of the water board or the\nauthority; transfer of property to the water board or authority;\nacquisition of property by the city or municipality for the authority;\ncontracts with the city or any municipality.
1.In addition to any\npowers granted to it by law, the city or any municipality may, from time\nto time, appropriate by resolution sums of money for purposes of either\nthe water board or the authority to defray project costs or any other\ncosts and expenses of either the water board or the authority or to pay\namounts payable or anticipated to be payable to either the water board\nor the authority pursuant to any agreement authorized by this title.\nSubject to the rights of bondholders, the city, or such municipality may\ndetermine if the mon
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§ 1230-k. Appropriations for purposes of the water board or the\nauthority; transfer of property to the water board or authority;\nacquisition of property by the city or municipality for the authority;\ncontracts with the city or any municipality. 1. In addition to any\npowers granted to it by law, the city or any municipality may, from time\nto time, appropriate by resolution sums of money for purposes of either\nthe water board or the authority to defray project costs or any other\ncosts and expenses of either the water board or the authority or to pay\namounts payable or anticipated to be payable to either the water board\nor the authority pursuant to any agreement authorized by this title.\nSubject to the rights of bondholders, the city, or such municipality may\ndetermine if the moneys so appropriated shall be subject to repayment by\neither the water board or the authority and, in such event, the manner\nand time or times for such repayment.\n 2. The city, any state agency or any municipality may give, grant,\nsell, convey, loan or license the use of or lease to either the water\nboard or to the authority any properties which are useful to either the\nwater board or the authority in order to carry out their powers under\nthis title. Any such transfer of property shall be for such term and\nupon such terms and conditions, subject to the rights of the holders of\nany bonds, as the water board, the authority, such state agency and such\nmunicipality may agree, including provision for the authority to assume\nthe primary responsibility for the payment of any bonds or notes issued\nby the city, such state agency or such municipality for such properties.\n 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special\nor local to the contrary, real property acquired by either the water\nboard, the authority or any municipality from the state or a state\nagency may be used for any corporate purpose of either the water board\nor the authority.\n 4. Any municipality, state agency, the water board and/or the\nauthority shall have the power to contract, from time to time, between\nor among themselves, or with any other person, in relation to the\npurchase, sale, production, accumulation, supply, transmission, or\ntreatment of water, or the provision of wastewater or storm water\nservices and/or the construction, use, sale and/or leasing, of any\nsystem facility of the water board, which contracts may include any or\nall of the following provisions: (a) requiring the purchase by any\nmunicipality of specified amounts of water, wastewater or storm water\nservices; (b) requiring the use by any municipality of a system\nfacility; (c) limiting the right, including a prohibition, of any\nmunicipality to construct a facility which will serve the same, or\nsubstantially the same, function as a system facility constructed or to\nbe constructed by the water board; (d) requiring the water board to\nreserve capacity in any system facility to assure the availability to\nany municipality of a specified amount of use of any system facility;\n(e) providing for specified minimum periodic payments whether or not\nwater, wastewater or storm water services are actually taken and used,\nor such system facility is actually used, subject to such limitations,\nexceptions and provisions therein, and (f) requiring any municipality to\npay to the water board such amounts as shall be necessary to assure the\ncontinued operation of the water board. All such payments shall be\ndetermined and paid in such manner and at such times as may be provided\nin such contracts.\n 5. No gift, grant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract or lease\nauthorized by this section shall be subject to referendum, permissive or\notherwise.\n 6. Any agreement for the supply of water services, wastewater services\nor storm water services between the city or an agency thereof and any\nother municipality or state agency, or any administrative determination\nby a state agency, or any other arrangement in this regard, in effect at\nthe time the water board shall be established, shall remain in full\nforce and effect and be binding upon the water board as if it were a\nparty to such agreement, determination or other arrangement.\n 7. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, neither the\nauthority nor the water board shall supply, or enter into any agreement\nto supply water to any municipality within the Niagara county water\ndistrict, or any person or entity within the boundaries of the Niagara\ncounty water district without the consent and approval by resolution of\na majority of the members of the Niagara county water district\nadministrative board; (b) that nothing contained in paragraph (a) of\nthis subdivision, or elsewhere in this title shall affect in any manner\neither the existing rights of the city, or such rights assumed by the\nauthority or the water board, or the existing rights of any other\nmunicipality with respect to those persons or entities presently\nreceiving water from the city.\n