Section 2053-V. Contracts with municipalities; powers of municipalities  


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      The county and one or more municipalities  within  the  county,  or  the
      authority and the county, shall have power to contract from time to time
      between or among themselves, or among themselves and with the authority,
      in   relation  to  the  receiving,  transporting,  storage,  processing,
      treatment or disposal of solid waste or for the purchase or use  of  any
      materials,  energy, byproducts or residue generated by or resulting from
      the operation of any solid waste management facility.  Any such contract
      to which the authority, the  county  and  any  municipality  within  the
      county are parties may include provisions stipulating the maximum rates,
      rentals,  fees  and  other  charges  to  be  collected  for  the  use or
      availability of facilities. Any contract to  which  the  authority,  the
      county  and  any  municipality within the county are parties may include
      provisions  (i)  requiring  the  periodic  delivery  to  the  particular
      facilities of minimum amounts of solid waste and providing for specified
      minimum  period  payments  whether or not such delivery is made, or (ii)
      requiring the county and any municipality  within  the  county  to  pay,
      within  appropriations  available  therefor,  such  amounts  as shall be
      necessary  to  assure  the  continued  operation  and  solvency  of  the
      authority, such payments to be determined and paid in such manner and at
      such times as may be provided in such contract or contracts.
        2.  In  recognition of existing state policy, as declared in title one
      of article twenty-seven  of  the  environmental  conservation  law,  the
      legislature  hereby  affirms  that  the  basic  responsibility  for  the
      planning and operation of solid waste management facilities remains with
      local governments; and further recognizes the county's role as  planning
      unit  under  section  27-0107  of the environmental conservation law. To
      further the governmental and public purposes of the authority, including
      the implementation of any contract or proposed contract contemplated  by
      this  title, and in recognition of the public policy of the state in the
      area of the control and  management  of  solid  waste  and  solid  waste
      disposal  activities to displace competition with regulation or monopoly
      public control, the county  and  all  other  municipalities  within  the
      county  shall  have  the power to adopt and amend local laws, ordinances
      and regulations  imposing  appropriate  and  reasonable  limitations  on
      competition   with   respect  to  collecting,  receiving,  transporting,
      delivering, storing, processing, treating and disposing of  solid  waste
      or  the  recovery  by  any  means  of  any material or energy product or
      resource therefrom, and shall further have the power to adopt and  amend
      local  laws  requiring  that  all  solid  waste generated, originated or
      brought within their respective boundaries, subject to  such  exceptions
      as may be determined to be in the public interest, shall be delivered to
      a  specified  facility  or  facilities;  provided however, that any such
      local law enacted by the county shall take  precedence  over  and  shall
      supersede any inconsistent provisions of any such local law enacted by a
      municipality  with  the  county.  Any such local law shall be adopted in
      accordance with the procedure provided by the municipal home  rule  law,
      except  that  no  such local law shall be subject to either mandatory or
      permissive referendum. Any such local law may include provisions for the
      enforcement thereof and penalties for the violation thereof,  which  may
      provide,  but shall not be limited to providing, that any violation of a
      local law may be punished by  civil  penalty,  fine  or  other  monetary
      charge,  and/or,  the  suspension  or  revocation of permits or licenses
      granted by any  other  jurisdiction  with  respect  to  the  collecting,
      receiving,  transporting,  delivery  or  storing of solid waste. For the
      purposes of this section, solid waste shall have  the  same  meaning  as
      defined  in  section  two thousand fifty-three-b of this title. Upon the
      adoption of any local law, ordinance  or  regulation  pursuant  to  this
    
      section,  the county or municipality shall file with the commissioner of
      the department of environmental conservation a  verified  copy  of  such
      local  law,  ordinance or regulation; provided, however, that failure to
      so  file  such a local law, ordinance or regulation shall not invalidate
      such local law, ordinance or regulation.  The  foregoing  provisions  of
      this  subdivision  shall not be construed to limit, alter or abridge the
      powers granted to the  county  under  the  provisions  of  chapter  five
      hundred  sixty-nine  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred ninety-one, as
      amended.
        3. The county is hereby authorized to resell or otherwise  dispose  of
      all  or  any  part  of  the  materials,  energy,  by-products or residue
      purchased from  the  authority  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this
      section.  Any  resale or other disposition may be made in such manner as
      the county may deem proper and upon such terms and conditions as may  be
      agreed upon by the parties thereto.
        4.  The  county  and  all other municipalities within the county shall
      have power to  perform  such  other  acts,  to  enter  into  such  other
      contracts, including contracts between or among themselves, execute such
      instruments  and  to  undertake  such  future  proceedings  as  shall be
      determined necessary or desirable to  effectuate  the  purpose  of  this
      title,  including the making of gifts, grants, loans or contributions to
      the authority.
        5. Except as otherwise provided by section one hundred twenty-w of the
      general municipal law, any  contract  entered  into  by  a  municipality
      pursuant to this section may be for such term or duration, not to exceed
      thirty years, as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto.
        6.  Any  contract  entered  into pursuant to this section to which the
      authority shall be a party may be pledged by the authority  as  security
      for any issue of bonds, and may be assigned, in whole or in part, by the
      authority  to  any  public  corporation or person which shall construct,
      purchase,  lease  or  otherwise  acquire  any  solid  waste   management
      facility,  or  part  thereof,  financed  in  whole  or  in  part  by the
      authority.