§ 47A-1. Legislative findings.  


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  • The Water Authority of Great Neck North (hereinafter referred to as the "Authority") has been established as a public benefit corporation, under Article 5, Title 8-B, of the Public Authorities Law, to provide potable water to the area within Union Free School District No. 7, Great Neck, lying northerly of the north line of Manhasset-Lakeville Water District, which is situated within the Town of North Hempstead (hereinafter referred to as the "town"). The State Legislature found, in establishing the Authority, that the groundwater supply system presently operated by Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown, a private utility in the northern portion of the Great Neck peninsula, is fragile and subject to episodic deficiencies of varying magnitude; and it was hoped that the Authority would protect, preserve and enhance the quality and quantity of the water supply area. The Authority has applied to the town for a nonexclusive franchise to transmit and distribute potable water on, in, under and through all streets within the town in order to carry out the purposes for which it was created and the duties with which it has been charged. The town believes that it is in the best interests of the town and that it will promote the health, safety and welfare of its inhabitants to grant the franchise applied for.