§ 12-1204 Supervision and extension of system. The lighting system
acquired or established under this article shall be under the control
and supervision of the board of light commissioners. The board shall
keep it in repair and shall have authority to purchase such supplies and
materials as may be needed for the operation and maintenance of such
system for periods not exceeding one year. Such board may, from time to
time extend, alter or reconstruct such system and may use therefor
surplus funds it has on hand. However, nothing contained in this
section shall be construed to prevent the village from financing, in
whole or in part, expenditures for any such improvements pursuant to the
local finance law. Such system may with the permission and approval of
the public service commission be so extended, altered or reconstructed
outside the village wherever franchises are first obtained from the
local authorities. If such system shall be so extended, altered or
reconstructed outside of a village into a town or a lighting district
thereof, the board of light commissioners of the village may contract
with the town board of such town for lighting the streets, highways,
public grounds and public buildings of such town or lighting district,
in pursuance of the provisions of article twelve of the town law, which
shall be applicable to such contract and to the levying of a tax for the
payment of the amounts which shall be payable thereunder to the
treasurer of the village. Wherever such system shall be so extended,
altered or reconstructed outside of a village, occupants of premises
adjacent to such extended, altered or reconstructed system outside of
the village shall be entitled to be supplied with light therefrom under
such conditions and at such rates as the board of light commissioners
shall determine.