New York § 116 - 116Consent to incorporation

Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 116 — 116Consent to incorporation, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 116. 116Consent to incorporation

§ 116. Consent to incorporation. 1. No certificate of incorporation of a sewage-works corporation shall be filed unless there be annexed thereto a certificate or certificates duly executed in behalf of the local governing bodies of the city, town or village, as the case may be, in which any part of a sewer system provided by such corporation is situate and, in the county of Suffolk, an additional certificate duly executed in behalf of the county sewer agency, consenting to the formation of the corporation for the area described in such certificate. 2. Upon receipt of a request for consent to incorporation, the local governing body shall grant or deny such request within sixty days thereafter or within sixty days after notice to it of the approval of maps and specifications of the proposed system filed with the department of health having jurisdiction pursuant to section one hundred seventeen of this article, whichever is later.

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