§ 2709. Special powers with regard to sewerage facilities. The\nauthority shall have power:\n 1. to acquire, construct, purchase or lease, in the name of the\nauthority, any sewerage facility, sewer system, including plants, works,\ninstrumentalities or parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, lands,\neasements, rights in land and water rights, rights-of-way, contract\nrights, franchises, approaches, connections and pipe lines, pumping\nstations and equipment or any other property incidental to and included\nin such sewerage facility system or part thereof, and any improvements,\nextensions and betterments, situated within the participating counties\nfor the purpose providing adequate sanitary and storm water drainage to\nusers, including the United States, within the participating counties;\nand as a means of so acquiring for such purposes, the authority may\npurchase all of the assets of any existing privately owned sewerage\ncorporation or company;\n 2. to have and take ownership, jurisdiction, control, possession and\nsupervision of any existing sewer system and any sewer facility\nfinanced, constructed or acquired pursuant to this title; to maintain,\noperate, reconstruct and improve the same as a comprehensive sewerage\nsystem and to make additions, betterments and extensions thereto, and to\nhave all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction necessary or proper for\ncarrying such power into execution. No enumeration of powers in this or\nany other general, special or local law shall operate to restrict the\nmeaning of this general grant of power or to exclude other powers\ncomprehended within this general grant;\n 3. to dispose of the sewage and waste of all persons, public\ncorporations, the state, and the United States in the participating\ncounties;\n 4. upon the filing by the governing body of any municipality within a\nparticipating county with the secretary of state of the state of New\nYork, of its certificate delineating the existing sewer system and such\nmunicipality's intention and desire to transfer the existing sewer\nsystem to the authority, thereupon, and by virtue of this title, the\nexisting sewer system, together with all contracts, books, maps, plans,\npapers and records of whatever description pertaining to subjects or\nmatters relating to the design, construction, operation and affairs of\nthe existing sewer system shall be assigned, transferred and dedicated\nto the use of and be in the possession of and under the jurisdiction,\ncontrol and supervision of the authority and the authority is empowered\nto take possession thereof for its uses and purposes. The authority\nshall thereafter have complete jurisdiction, control, possession and\nsupervision of the existing sewer system and of all the facilities in\nthe municipality for the disposal of sewerage and storm water, and shall\ncontinue to exercise such power for a period not to exceed thirty years\nas contained in such certificate and so long thereafter as any of the\nbonds and liabilities of the authority shall remain unpaid or shall not\nhave otherwise been discharged. When all of the bonds and liabilities of\nthe authority shall have been paid in full or shall have otherwise been\ndischarged and the authority shall have ceased to exist, the powers,\njurisdiction and duty of the authority shall cease and the property and\nassets acquired or held by it pursuant to this section, together with\nany additions within the boundaries of such municipality shall\nthereafter become the property of, and shall be under the jurisdiction,\ncontrol, possession and supervision of such municipality;\n 5. to establish a schedule of rates, rentals or charges, to be called\n"sewer rents," to be collected from all real property served by its\nsewerage facilities, and to prescribe the manner in which and the time\nat which such sewer rents are to be paid, provided that in no event\nshall the authority collect rents within any city within a participating\ncounty,
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