1767 - Election of towns to participate.
§ 1767. Election of towns to participate. 1. Each of the towns of Ellicottville, Great Valley, Little Valley, Mansfield, Red House and Salamanca, or any other town desiring to vote, may, by a majority vote of its qualified voters voting at the general election to be held on the fourth day of November, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, elect to become a participating municipality in the hospital district and a member of the authority. The proposition to participate in said district authority shall be voted upon at said election in said named towns and in other towns where fifty qualified voters shall have signed and filed with their town board a request that such proposition be voted upon in said town at said general election. 2. Subject to the approval of a majority vote of the individual members of the authority, the voters of any township not a member of the authority and district shall have the right to vote on a proposition of affiliation with and participation in the authority and district, provided that twenty-five qualified voters of the township sign a petition addressed to their town board requesting a vote in said township on said proposition. 3. Within ten days after receiving any said petition, the town board concerned shall advise the authority of the receipt of any said petition. Within ten days after receipt of said notice from the town board, the authority shall advise the town board of its approval or disapproval of the request for affiliation. In the event that such affiliation is approved, the town board within ten days after receipt of said notice of approval from the authority, shall adopt a resolution calling a special election in said township on said proposition and fixing the date thereof which shall be within thirty days after the town board's receipt from the authority of the authority's approval of said special election. 4. The result of any such special election shall be reported forthwith by the town board to the Cattaraugus county board of elections and to the authority. The affiliation with and participation in the authority and district of any towns voting to join therein after the initial organization of the authority, shall take effect upon revision of the agreement entered into by the original authority members and upon the terms and at the time fixed in said revised agreement. No town may become a member of the authority after the date of first issuance of bonds by the authority. 5. The authority and district may be formed at any time during a period of three years from the effective date of this act. 6. The election of any city or town to become a member of said district and to participate in said authority may not be rescinded at any later date. 7. Any and all of the municipalities may by resolution of their governing boards and the authority may by resolution join together and enter into an agreement, which may be amended from time to time, with the other municipalities and the authority providing, as a joint undertaking, hospital service to and for such municipalities and the residents thereof and to that purpose join together in the erection, operation and maintenance, as a joint undertaking, of a hospital and hospital buildings and facilities and containing such provisions as may be necessary or convenient for the carrying out of such joint undertaking, including provisions fixing and determining by formula or otherwise the amounts to be paid by each such municipality for such hospital service. Any and all of such municipalities are hereby authorized to contract joint or several indebtedness, pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment of the indebtedness incurred for such joint undertaking and levy real estate or other taxes or imposecharges therefor. Such agreement may provide that the amount of such payments to be borne by each municipality shall be based on the ratio which the equalized assessed valuation of real property in each municipality bears to the total equalized assessed valuation of real property in all of the municipalities for the year in which the initial organization meeting of the authority was held. 8. Each of the municipalities may enter into an agreement and amendments thereto with the authority to provide hospital, medical and surgical care and treatment on behalf of the municipalities, fixing the terms and conditions upon which the same shall be provided and containing provisions relating to any other matters pertaining to the operation of the hospital and the facilities thereof not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 9. Any and all of the municipalities may by resolution of their governing boards and the authority may, from time to time, by resolution join together and enter into such additional agreement or agreements, which may be amended, with the other municipalities and the authority providing, for, as a joint undertaking, the erection, operation and maintenance, of an additional medical building and containing such provisions as may be necessary or convenient for the carrying out of such joint undertaking for providing medical service to and for such municipalities and the residents thereof, including provisions fixing and determining by formula or otherwise the amounts to be paid by each such municipality for such medical service. Such resolutions of the governing boards of the towns represented on the authority authorizing the entering into of each such agreement shall be subject to a permissive referendum or such resolutions may be submitted to a referendum by such governing boards on their own motion, in the manner prescribed by article seven of the town law, as amended from time to time. Such resolution of the city of Salamanca authorizing the entering into of each such agreement shall not be subject to a mandatory or permissive referendum unless the city of Salamanca has adopted a local law requiring bond resolutions authorizing that the issuance of bonds be subject to a mandatory or permissive referendum and in such event such resolution shall be subject to mandatory or permissive referendum in the same manner as such bond resolutions. Any and all of such municipalities are hereby authorized to contract joint or several indebtedness, pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment of the indebtedness incurred for such joint undertaking and levy real estate or other taxes or imposed charges therefor. Each such agreement may provide that the amount of such payments to be borne by each municipality shall be based on the ratio which the equalized assessed valuation of real property in each municipality bears to the total equalized assessed valuation of real property in all of the municipalities for the year in which each such agreement or agreements were executed except that the city of Salamanca may bear a greater proportion and the remaining municipalities a lesser proportion if fixed in such agreement or agreements.