§ 14-1400 Establishment of sewerage system. The board of trustees of
any village may, upon its own motion or shall upon the petition of
twenty five owners of real property within the village, according to the
last completed village assessment roll, cause a map and plan to be
prepared for a complete sewerage system for the village. The board of
trustees may establish, extend and maintain a sewerage system, including
laterals, therein in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and
may, as provided by this chapter, abolish an existing sewer or
wastewater disposal district created under the town, county or general
district law, coterminous with or wholly included in the limits of the
village, and use the sewerage system of such abolished district as a
complete village sewerage system or as a part or extension of any
existing village sewerage system. Before taking any proceeding for the
construction of a sewerage system or any part thereof the board, at the
expense of the village, shall, unless such map and plan have been
heretofore officially approved by the state commissioner of health and
copies filed in the state department of health and in the office of the
village clerk, cause a map and plan of a permanent sewerage system for
such village to be made, with plans and specifications for sewage
treatment or disposal works. It may also include any existing sewerage
or private on-site wastewater disposal system in the village, which on
examination by the village engineer shall be found feasible and proper
to incorporate or include in the proposed system. Such map and plan
shall be comprehensive and shall cover all portions of the village, but
the village may construct the whole of the said system or may
temporarily omit any portion thereof until such portions may be
necessary, subject to the approval of such omission by the state
commissioner of health as hereinafter provided. Such map and plan shall
be submitted to the state commissioner of health for his approval, and
if approved shall be filed in the office of the state commissioner of
health. A copy thereof shall also be filed in the office of the village
clerk. The map and plan may be amended, with the approval of the state
commissioner of health, and when so amended and approved shall be filed
in the same offices as the original. No work of any kind shall be done
on or for the construction, extension, reconstruction, removal or
modification of any system of sewerage or of any part thereof until a
map and plan covering the entire system shall first have been duly
approved and filed as above provided, and in the execution of the
construction, extension, reconstruction, removal or modification of any
system of sewerage or of any part thereof, no deviations from the plans
as finally approved and filed shall be made until plans or descriptions
adequately showing such deviations are first approved and filed as above
provided. Whenever the board of trustees of the village shall deem it
desirable to the interests of the village that a portion of the
permanent general system of sewers, private on-site wastewater disposal
systems and sewage disposal thereof may be temporarily omitted or
deferred, it shall certify that fact in writing to the state
commissioner of health, designating by a map or otherwise the portions
of the system to be omitted, or the portion not to be omitted, and on
receipt of the same the state commissioner of health may approve of such
temporary omission and shall certify his determination to the board of
trustees of the village. The term "sewerage system" as used in this
article shall be understood to mean a complete system for the removal,
treatment or disposal of sewage or wastewater, including private on-site
wastewater disposal systems. The village board of trustees is authorized
to establish and impose sewer rents pursuant to the provisions of
article fourteen-f of the general municipal law.