§ 277-a. Conveyance or lease to the county of Westchester by a city,\ntown or village in the county's New Rochelle sanitary sewer district of\nsewer system property and the establishment of certain county sewer\ndistricts, extensions or special transitional zones of assessment in the\ncounty of Westchester. 1. As used in this section, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n a. "Charter" shall mean the charter and administrative code of the\ncounty of Westchester.\n b. "City, town or village" shall mean the city of New Rochelle, town\nof Mamaroneck or villages of Larchmont or Pelham Manor in the county of\nWestchester.\n c. "Commissioner of finance" shall mean the commissioner of finance of\nthe county of Westchester.\n d. "Commissioner of environmental facilities" shall mean the\ncommissioner of environmental facilities of the county of Westchester.\n e. "County" shall mean the county of Westchester, including when\nacting on behalf of a county sewer district.\n f. "County legislature" shall mean the county legislature of the\ncounty of Westchester.\n g. "Governing board of a city, town or village in the county of\nWestchester" shall mean the finance board as such term is defined in\nsection 2.00 of the local finance law.\n h. "Sewer system" shall include sewage collection or conveyance\nfacilities, treatment or disposal plants, buildings, land and rights in\nland, furnishings, equipment, machinery and apparatus, appurtenant\nfacilities, all moneys on hand collected or received for the purposes of\nsuch sewer system, and all other items of property, either real or\npersonal or mixed, acquired for or incidental to such sewer system,\nprovided that no such property shall be located outside the boundaries\nof the county's New Rochelle sanitary sewer district.\n i. "Sewer system consolidation agreement" shall mean an agreement\nbetween the county and a city, town or village whereby such city, town\nor village shall convey or lease sewer system property to the county for\noperation, maintenance or improvement by the county described in\nsubdivision two of this section.\n j. "Special transitional zone of assessment" shall mean a zone of\nassessment within the county's New Rochelle sanitary sewer district\nestablished to allocate all or a portion of the costs of facilitating a\nconveyance or lease of sewer system property by a city, town or village\nto the county and a transfer of responsibilities for the operation,\nmaintenance and improvement thereof to the county sewer district. A\nspecial transitional zone of assessment may overlap all or portions of\nany zone of assessment established in the county's New Rochelle sanitary\nsewer district to allocate the costs of the operation, maintenance and\nimprovement of the county's trunk sewers and wastewater treatment plants\nand related facilities.\n k. "Town sewer district" shall mean a sewer district governed by the\nprovisions of articles twelve or twelve-A of the town law or a benefited\narea established to provide a sewer improvement pursuant to articles\nthree-A or twelve-C of such law.\n l. "Village sewer district" shall mean a sewer district governed by\nthe provisions of article fourteen and section 17-1718 of the village\nlaw.\n 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local\nlaw, the county and a city, town or village may enter into, and take the\nactions necessary to implement, sewer system consolidation agreements\nunder this section to facilitate the conveyance or lease to the county\nof sewer system property and the transfer to the county of the\nresponsibilities of operation, maintenance and improvement of sewer\nsystem property. Sewer system consolidation agreements shall include the\nfollowing provisions:\n a. an identification of the sewer system property of the city, town or\nvillage to be conveyed or leased to the county, the consideration, if\nany, for such conveyance or lease and the conditions, if any, under\nwhi
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