§ 207 — Re-establishment of certain water supply districts as water districts

§ 207. Re-establishment of certain water supply districts as water\ndistricts.\n 1. The town board of any town in which a water supply district\nestablished prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred\nthirty-four, shall exist, may re-establish any such water supply\ndistrict as a water district in the manner herein provided.\n 2. Order. The town board of any such town shall adopt an order\nspecifying the time when and place where such town board will meet to\nconsider whether such water supply district shall be re-established as a\nwater district and describing the boundaries of the water supply\ndistrict to be so re-established.\n 3. Notice. Notice of such hearing shall be given in the manner\nprovided in section one hundred ninety-three for giving notice of\nhearings upon petitions for the establishment or extension of\nimprovement districts.\n 4. Hearing. If the town board shall so determine, a joint hearing may\nbe held upon the re-establishment of two or more water supply districts\nproposed to be re-established as water districts. After such hearing or\nhearings, and upon evidence given thereat, the town board shall\ndetermine separately with respect to each district, (a) whether it is in\npublic interest to re-establish such water supply district as a water\ndistrict, and (b) whether all the property and property owners within\nthe district will be benefited by such re-establishment.\n 5. Re-establishment. If the town board shall determine in the\naffirmative both questions set forth in the preceding subdivision, the\ntown board may adopt an order re-establishing any such district as a\nwater district and thereafter such district shall be governed, operated\nand managed and improvements may be made therein in accordance with the\nprovisions of this chapter relating to water districts as now in force\nor hereafter amended, and the town board shall have such powers for the\ngoverning, operation and the management of such water districts and for\nthe making of improvements therein and shall be subject to such duties\nin relation thereto, as shall be prescribed in said chapter.\n 6. Recording. A certified copy of the determination or order of the\ntown board shall be duly recorded in the manner provided in section one\nhundred ninety-five in the office of the clerk of the county in which\nsuch town is located and when so recorded shall be presumptive evidence\nof the regularity of the proceedings of the town board. Any interested\nperson aggrieved by any final determination or order made pursuant to\nthe provisions of this act, may review the same in the manner provided\nin subdivision two of said section one hundred ninety-five. The said\ndetermination or order shall be final and conclusive unless application\nhas been made for review by certiorari within thirty days from the time\nof recording thereof.\n 7. Effect of section. The re-establishment of any water supply\ndistrict as a water district pursuant to this section shall not impair\nor affect the validity of any obligations issued by the town to provide\nfor the supplying of water in such water supply district nor any tax or\nassessment heretofore levied for such purposes on the property within\nsuch district, nor any action or proceeding pending in any court at the\ntime this section became effective.\n