§ 1075. Statement of purpose. Prior to the enactment of section five
of article ten of the constitution (effective on January first, nineteen
hundred thirty-nine) public benefit corporations could be created
pursuant to general law and chapter eight hundred forty-seven of the
laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four, as amended, authorized the
creation of county water authorities. On the twenty-ninth day of March,
nineteen hundred thirty-seven, the board of supervisors of Suffolk
county pursuant to such chapter created the Suffolk county water
authority, which since such date has been in continuous existence as a
body corporate and politic, constituting a public benefit corporation.
Thereafter the provisions of such chapter were reenacted and continued
as article seven of the county law by chapter one hundred ninety-five of
the laws of nineteen hundred forty. The Suffolk county water authority
is the only county water authority created pursuant to such chapter
eight hundred forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four,
as amended, or pursuant to such article seven of the county law. Since
the enactment of section five of article ten of the constitution public
benefit corporations may be created only by special act of the
legislature and, to the extent that the provisions of article seven of
the county law purport to authorize the creation of county water
authorities pursuant to its provisions subsequent to January first,
nineteen hundred thirty-nine, such provisions of the county law are
obsolete. The purpose of this title is to continue the existence of the
Suffolk county water authority, to place the statutory provisions of law
applicable thereto in the public authorities law where they
appropriately belong, to provide for the powers and duties of the
authority, and to repeal the provisions of present article seven of the
county law.