256-A - Consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number two - Holbrook and Suffolk county sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore.

§  256-a.  Consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number two -  Holbrook and Suffolk county sewer district number four - Birchwood North  Shore. 1. The county legislature of Suffolk county is hereby  authorized  to  consolidate  Suffolk  county  sewer district number two Holbrook and  Suffolk county sewer district number four -  Birchwood  North  Shore  in  accordance with the procedure contained in this section.    2.  Resolution.  The  county legislature of Suffolk county may adopt a  resolution calling a public hearing upon the proposed  consolidation  of  Suffolk  county  sewer district number two - Holbrook and Suffolk county  sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore.    3. Notice. The clerk of the county legislature shall  give  notice  of  the  hearing  described  in  subdivision  two  of  this  section in such  newspapers and within such time period  as  set  forth  in  section  two  hundred  fifty-four  of this article. Such notice shall specify the time  when and the place where such hearing  will  be  held  and,  in  general  terms, describe the proposed consolidation and the proposed basis of the  future   assessment   of   all   costs  of  operation,  maintenance  and  improvements of such consolidated sewer district.    4. Hearing. The county legislature shall meet at the  time  and  place  specified  in such notice and hear all persons interested in the subject  matter thereof concerning the same.  If  the  county  legislature  shall  determine  that  it  is  in  the  public interest to consolidate Suffolk  county sewer district number two - Holbrook  and  Suffolk  county  sewer  district  number  four  -  Birchwood  North  Shore  as specified in said  notice, the Suffolk county legislature may adopt a  resolution,  subject  to a permissive referendum, so consolidating such sewer districts.    5.  Notice  of  adoption  of  resolution.  Within  ten  days after the  adoption by the Suffolk county legislature of the  resolution  described  in  subdivision  four  of  this  section, the Suffolk county legislature  shall give notice  thereof,  at  the  expense  of  the  county,  by  the  publication  of  a notice in such newspapers and within such time period  as set forth in section one hundred one of  this  chapter.  Such  notice  shall  set  forth  the date of adoption of the resolution and contain an  abstract of such resolution, describing, in  general  terms,  the  sewer  districts so consolidated and the basis for the future assessment of all  costs   of   operation,  maintenance  and  improvements  and  that  such  resolution was adopted subject to a permissive referendum.    6.  Petition.  The  resolution  of  the  Suffolk  county   legislature  described  in  subdivision  four  of  this section shall not take effect  until forty-five days  after  its  adoption  and  shall  be  subject  to  permissive referendum in each sewer district proposed to be consolidated  in  accordance with the provisions of section two hundred fifty-seven of  this article.    7. Consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number two  Holbrook  and  Suffolk  county sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore.  The consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number  two  Holbrook  and  Suffolk  county  sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore  shall  become  effective  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  December  next  succeeding;  provided,  however,  that  if  the  resolution described in  subdivision four of this section shall  be  adopted  subsequent  to  the  first  day  of  October  in  any  year,  such consolidation shall become  effective on the thirty-first day of December  of  the  next  succeeding  calendar  year. Upon such consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district  number two - Holbrook and Suffolk county sewer district  number  four  -  Birchwood  North  Shore,  all the property of such sewer districts shall  become  the  property  of  the  consolidated  sewer  district  and   the  consolidated  sewer  district  shall  assume and pay the indebtedness ofeach of such original sewer districts as if such indebtedness  had  been  incurred subsequent to the consolidation.