Section 410-B. 1  


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  • Special water districts. Real property in the county of
      Oswego owned by a  special  water  district,  not  within  its  district
      boundaries  and  used  as  a  pumping  station,  water  treatment plant,
      pipeline and/or  reservoir,  including  all  necessary  connections  and
      appurtenances, for purposes of drawing water from Lake Ontario, shall be
      wholly  exempt  from  taxation and exempt from special ad valorem levies
      and special assessments to the extent provided in section  four  hundred
      ninety  of this chapter if: (a) such special district makes available to
      customers within the county of Oswego at least  twenty-five  percent  of
      the  water  drawn  from  Lake  Ontario; (b) the municipal corporation in
      which such property is situated  shall  use  or  shall  have  created  a
      special  assessment  district to use water from any of the facilities of
      said special water district; and (c) said special water  district  makes
      water  available  to  any users in such municipal corporation or special
      assessment district at the same rate as  it  is  supplied  in  the  said
      special  water  district to users in the municipal corporation where the
      said special water district's pipeline first enters  the  special  water
      district.  As used herein, "rate" shall include all user charges and any
      charges imposed upon real property by the special water district for the
      cost of capital improvements.
        2.  Real property in the county of Cayuga owned  by  a  special  water
      district,  not  within its district boundaries and used or to be used as
      or for  a  pumping  station,  water  treatment  plant,  pipeline  and/or
      reservoir,  including  all  necessary connections and appurtenances, for
      the purpose of supplying or drawing water from Lake  Ontario,  shall  be
      wholly  exempt  from  taxation and exempt from special ad valorem levies
      and special assessments to the extent provided in section  four  hundred
      ninety of this chapter if: (a) at any time hereafter, such special water
      district,  at the request of the county of Cayuga, supplies to customers
      within the county of Cayuga water drawn from Lake Ontario, and (b)  said
      special  water  district  makes  such water available to users in Cayuga
      county at the same  rate  as  it  is  supplied  to  users  in  the  most
      northwesterly  town  located within said special water district. As used
      herein, "rate" shall include all user charges and  any  charges  imposed
      upon real property by the special water district for the cost of capital
      improvements.