Section 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 of

  each of such original sewer districts as if such indebtedness  had  been
  incurred subsequent to the consolidation.