§ 1021-c. North Country power authority service area; extension of
service area. 1. The service area of the North Country power authority
shall include all the territory located within so much of the county of
Franklin as constitutes the Towns of Bombay, Fort Covington, Moira and
Westville, and so much of the county of St. Lawrence as constitutes the
Towns of Brasher, Canton, Colton, DeKalb, Edwards, Fowler, Gouverneur,
Hermon, Lisbon, Louisville, Madrid, Norfolk, Pierrepont, Potsdam,
Russell, Stockholm, and Waddington and the Villages of Canton, Norwood,
and Potsdam or such portions thereof as shall be determined by the
directors, but the service area shall exclude the portions of said
municipalities in Franklin and St. Lawrence counties which are served as
of the effective date of this title by another existing non-profit
municipal electric utility. The service area of the North Country power
authority shall include such other territories, as shall be determined
by the directors, wholly within Franklin or St. Lawrence county, and
adjacent to one or more of the above-referenced municipalities, in which
rate payers rely on uninterrupted electric service from power facilities
of the authority located within said municipalities. A map of the
service area shall be filed in the offices of the county clerks of
Franklin and St. Lawrence counties.

2. The service area of the North Country power authority may be
extended at any time to include additional territory within Franklin or
St. Lawrence counties by the directors in accordance with the following
procedure, provided however, the procedure does not conflict with any
rule or regulation of the public service commission or any other law.
Whenever the directors determine that the territory included within the
service area should be extended, consistent with the provisions of this
title, the directors shall adopt a resolution proposing the additional
territory, wholly within Franklin or St. Lawrence county, to be
included, which may be all the territory within one or more named
municipalities or, by adequate description, a portion of any such
municipality or municipalities. The directors shall fix the dates, hours
and places for three public hearings before such directors upon the
question of such extension and cause notice thereof and of the
additional territory to be included within the service area to be
published in two newspapers of general circulation in the county not
less than twenty nor more than thirty days before such date. At least
one of such hearing shall be held within the bounds of the proposed
additional territory. At such time the directors shall hear all persons,
taxpayers or officials who may wish to be heard and shall finally
determine the additional territory, if any, to be included in such
extension. Such determination shall be made by resolution of the
directors adopted by a two-thirds vote of all directors then in office.
A map of the service area, as extended, shall thereupon be filed in the
offices of the county clerks of Franklin and St. Lawrence counties.