§ 191-a. Preparation of maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal,
drainage and water districts before petition. The town board of any town
may adopt a resolution, subject to a permissive referendum,
appropriating a specific amount to pay the cost of preparing a general
map and plan for providing sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage or water
facilities and services in any portion of the town not included within
the boundaries of any incorporated village, city or existing improvement
district in which such facilities or services are provided, except that
all or part of an incorporated village may be included therein on
consent of the village expressed in a local law, ordinance or
resolution, subject to a referendum on petition under section
twenty-four of the municipal home rule law or a permissive referendum
under article five-a of the village law, as the case may be. All such
maps and plans shall conform with the requirements of section one
hundred ninety-two of this article, and shall be filed with the town
clerk. The town board may determine that such maps and plans shall be
prepared by or under the supervision of town officers and employees to
be designated by the town board, or by persons to be employed for that
purpose, or the town board may contract for the preparation thereof,
within the limitations of the amount appropriated. Except as otherwise
provided herein, the expense incurred for the preparation of such maps
and plans shall be a town charge, and shall be assessed, levied and
collected in the same manner as other town charges. If the town board
shall thereafter establish or extend a sewer, wastewater disposal,
drainage or water district and construct a sewer, wastewater disposal,
drainage or water system therein, pursuant to the provisions of section
one hundred ninety-one of this article, the expense incurred by the town
for the preparation of the maps and plans therefor shall be deemed to be
part of the cost of such improvement, and the town shall be reimbursed
the amount paid therefor, or such portion of that amount which the town
board, at the public hearing held pursuant to section one hundred
ninety-four of this chapter, shall allocate against such district.