§ 15-1501. New or additional sources of water supply; permit. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this title, no person or public corporation who is authorized and engaged in, or proposing to engage in, the acquisition, conservation, development, use and distribution of water for potable purposes, for the irrigation of agricultural lands, for projects taken pursuant to Article 5-D of the County Law, or for multi-purpose projects authorized by a general plan adopted and approved pursuant to title 11 of this article, shall have any power to do the following until such person or public corporation has first obtained a permit from the department pursuant to this title: a. To acquire or take a water supply or an additional water supply from an existing approved source; or b. To take or condemn lands for any new or additional sources of water supply or for the utilization of such supplies; or c. To commence or undertake the construction of any works or projects in connection with the proposed plans; or d. To exercise any franchise hereafter granted to supply water to any inhabitants of the state; or e. To extend its supply or distribution mains into a municipality, water district, water supply district, or other civil division of the state wherein it has not heretofore legally supplied water; or f. To construct any extension of its supply mains except within a service area approved by the department after public hearing; or g. To extend the boundaries of a water district; or h. To supply water in or for use in any other municipality or civil division of the state which owns and operates a water supply system therein, or in any duly organized water supply or fire district supplied with water by another person or public corporation. 2. A permit shall not be necessary for the extension of supply or distributing mains or pipes of a municipal water supply plant into and for the purpose of supplying water in any territory within the limits of the municipality owning such plant, including territory which has not been heretofore supplied with water by such plant, nor for the reconstruction or replacement of existing facilities in connection with an existing plant wherein the capacity of the plant is in no way increased, nor for the construction of filtration or other treatment facilities which will not in any way increase the amount of water which can be made available from the present sources of supply. A permit shall not be necessary for the extension of supply or distributing mains or pipes of a county water authority into and for the purpose of supplying water in any territory assigned to such county water authority within the limits of the county but excluding territory specifically assigned to private or other municipal water companies by the department which has not been heretofore supplied with water by such county water authority, nor for the reconstruction or replacement of existing facilities in connection with an existing plant wherein the capacity of the plant is in no way increased, nor for the construction of filtration or other treatment facilities which will not in any way increase the amount of water which can be made available from the present sources of supply, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be held to authorize such county water authority to enter into competition with, for the purpose of service in the area served by the mains, the transmission or distribution mains of any other water works system, either publicly or privately owned, already legally established in said county for the sale of water at wholesale or retail, or which hereafter may legally be established for said purpose; or to sell water to any other water works system, either publicly or privately owned, and not now served by said county authority.3. Nothing in this section provided shall be deemed to nullify the requirements of Regulation 2, Chapter V of the State Sanitary Code, as in effect on January 1, 1960, that plans for a new water treatment plant for the treatment of an existing public water supply or for any addition to or modification of an existing water treatment plant, or for any addition to or modification of a public water supply system which will or may affect the quality of the public water supply, shall be submitted to and approved by the Commissioner of Health, which regulation has no application to a new or additional source or sources of public water supply of a permanent character which require a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation under the provisions of this article.
§ 15-1501. New or additional sources of water supply; permit. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this title, no person or public corporation who is authorized and engaged in, or proposing to engage in, the acquisition, conservation, development, use and distribution of water for potable purposes, for the irrigation of agricultural lands, for projects taken pursuant to Article 5-D of the County Law, or for multi-purpose projects authorized by a general plan adopted and approved pursuant to title 11 of this article, shall have any power to do the following until such person or public corporation has first obtained a permit from the department pursuant to this title: a. To acquire or take a water supply or an additional water supply from an existing approved source; or b. To take or condemn lands for any new or additional sources of water supply or for the utilization of such supplies; or c. To commence or undertake the construction of any works or projects in connection with the proposed plans; or d. To exercise any franchise hereafter granted to supply water to any inhabitants of the state; or e. To extend its supply or distribution mains into a municipality, water district, water supply district, or other civil division of the state wherein it has not heretofore legally supplied water; or f. To construct any extension of its supply mains except within a service area approved by the department after public hearing; or g. To extend the boundaries of a water district; or h. To supply water in or for use in any other municipality or civil division of the state which owns and operates a water supply system therein, or in any duly organized water supply or fire district supplied with water by another person or public corporation. 2. A permit shall not be necessary for the extension of supply or distributing mains or pipes of a municipal water supply plant into and for the purpose of supplying water in any territory within the limits of the municipality owning such plant, including territory which has not been heretofore supplied with water by such plant, nor for the reconstruction or replacement of existing facilities in connection with an existing plant wherein the capacity of the plant is in no way increased, nor for the construction of filtration or other treatment facilities which will not in any way increase the amount of water which can be made available from the present sources of supply. A permit shall not be necessary for the extension of supply or distributing mains or pipes of a county water authority into and for the purpose of supplying water in any territory assigned to such county water authority within the limits of the county but excluding territory specifically assigned to private or other municipal water companies by the department which has not been heretofore supplied with water by such county water authority, nor for the reconstruction or replacement of existing facilities in connection with an existing plant wherein the capacity of the plant is in no way increased, nor for the construction of filtration or other treatment facilities which will not in any way increase the amount of water which can be made available from the present sources of supply, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be held to authorize such county water authority to enter into competition with, for the purpose of service in the area served by the mains, the transmission or distribution mains of any other water works system, either publicly or privately owned, already legally established in said county for the sale of water at wholesale or retail, or which hereafter may legally be established for said purpose; or to sell water to any other water works system, either publicly or privately owned, and not now served by said county authority.3. Nothing in this section provided shall be deemed to nullify the requirements of Regulation 2, Chapter V of the State Sanitary Code, as in effect on January 1, 1960, that plans for a new water treatment plant for the treatment of an existing public water supply or for any addition to or modification of an existing water treatment plant, or for any addition to or modification of a public water supply system which will or may affect the quality of the public water supply, shall be submitted to and approved by the Commissioner of Health, which regulation has no application to a new or additional source or sources of public water supply of a permanent character which require a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation under the provisions of this article.
§ 15-1501. New or additional sources of water supply; permit. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this title, no person or public corporation who is authorized and engaged in, or proposing to engage in, the acquisition, conservation, development, use and distribution of water for potable purposes, for the irrigation of agricultural lands, for projects taken pursuant to Article 5-D of the County Law, or for multi-purpose projects authorized by a general plan adopted and approved pursuant to title 11 of this article, shall have any power to do the following until such person or public corporation has first obtained a permit from the department pursuant to this title: a. To acquire or take a water supply or an additional water supply from an existing approved source; or b. To take or condemn lands for any new or additional sources of water supply or for the utilization of such supplies; or c. To commence or undertake the construction of any works or projects in connection with the proposed plans; or d. To exercise any franchise hereafter granted to supply water to any inhabitants of the state; or e. To extend its supply or distribution mains into a municipality, water district, water supply district, or other civil division of the state wherein it has not heretofore legally supplied water; or f. To construct any extension of its supply mains except within a service area approved by the department after public hearing; or g. To extend the boundaries of a water district; or h. To supply water in or for use in any other municipality or civil division of the state which owns and operates a water supply system therein, or in any duly organized water supply or fire district supplied with water by another person or public corporation. 2. A permit shall not be necessary for the extension of supply or distributing mains or pipes of a municipal water supply plant into and for the purpose of supplying water in any territory within the limits of the municipality owning such plant, including territory which has not been heretofore supplied with water by such plant, nor for the reconstruction or replacement of existing facilities in connection with an existing plant wherein the capacity of the plant is in no way increased, nor for the construction of filtration or other treatment facilities which will not in any way increase the amount of water which can be made available from the present sources of supply. A permit shall not be necessary for the extension of supply or distributing mains or pipes of a county water authority into and for the purpose of supplying water in any territory assigned to such county water authority within the limits of the county but excluding territory specifically assigned to private or other municipal water companies by the department which has not been heretofore supplied with water by such county water authority, nor for the reconstruction or replacement of existing facilities in connection with an existing plant wherein the capacity of the plant is in no way increased, nor for the construction of filtration or other treatment facilities which will not in any way increase the amount of water which can be made available from the present sources of supply, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be held to authorize such county water authority to enter into competition with, for the purpose of service in the area served by the mains, the transmission or distribution mains of any other water works system, either publicly or privately owned, already legally established in said county for the sale of water at wholesale or retail, or which hereafter may legally be established for said purpose; or to sell water to any other water works system, either publicly or privately owned, and not now served by said county authority.3. Nothing in this section provided shall be deemed to nullify the requirements of Regulation 2, Chapter V of the State Sanitary Code, as in effect on January 1, 1960, that plans for a new water treatment plant for the treatment of an existing public water supply or for any addition to or modification of an existing water treatment plant, or for any addition to or modification of a public water supply system which will or may affect the quality of the public water supply, shall be submitted to and approved by the Commissioner of Health, which regulation has no application to a new or additional source or sources of public water supply of a permanent character which require a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation under the provisions of this article.
