Section 191-A. Preparation of maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage and water districts before petition

The town board of any town
  may   adopt   a   resolution,   subject   to  a  permissive  referendum,
  appropriating a specific amount to pay the cost of preparing  a  general
  map and plan for providing sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage or water
  facilities  and  services in any portion of the town not included within
  the boundaries of any incorporated village, city or existing improvement
  district in which such facilities or services are provided, except  that
  all  or  part  of  an  incorporated  village  may be included therein on
  consent  of  the  village  expressed  in  a  local  law,  ordinance   or
  resolution,   subject   to   a  referendum  on  petition  under  section
  twenty-four of the municipal home rule law or  a  permissive  referendum
  under  article  five-a  of the village law, as the case may be. All such
  maps and plans shall  conform  with  the  requirements  of  section  one
  hundred  ninety-two  of  this  article, and shall be filed with the town
  clerk. The town board may determine that such maps and  plans  shall  be
  prepared  by  or under the supervision of town officers and employees to
  be designated by the town board, or by persons to be employed  for  that
  purpose,  or  the  town  board may contract for the preparation thereof,
  within the limitations of the amount appropriated. Except  as  otherwise
  provided  herein,  the expense incurred for the preparation of such maps
  and plans shall be a town charge, and  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and
  collected  in  the  same manner as other town charges. If the town board
  shall thereafter establish  or  extend  a  sewer,  wastewater  disposal,
  drainage  or  water district and construct a sewer, wastewater disposal,
  drainage or water system therein, pursuant to the provisions of  section
  one hundred ninety-one of this article, the expense incurred by the town
  for the preparation of the maps and plans therefor shall be deemed to be
  part  of  the cost of such improvement, and the town shall be reimbursed
  the amount paid therefor, or such portion of that amount which the  town
  board,  at  the  public  hearing  held  pursuant  to section one hundred
  ninety-four of this chapter, shall allocate against such district.