[Amended 1-17-2012; 10-17-2016 by L.L. No. 5-2016]
A. A municipal board or commission shall be established authorized by
§ 3-308 of the Village Law, such municipal board or commission
to consist of five members. The Board of Trustees shall appoint such
commissioners, whose terms shall be five years and shall be fixed
so that one shall expire on December 1 in each official year for the
following five years, as provided by the Village Law.
B. Except as provided in §
28-2 below, there be and is hereby conferred upon such municipal board or commission all the powers, duties and responsibilities which could or might be exercised by a separate board of water, light, gas and sewer commissioners, hereby giving and granting to such municipal board or commission, when appointed, all the powers, rights, duties, privileges and responsibilities which, under the provisions of the law, can be delegated to such municipal board or commission in the care, maintenance, control, operation, supervision and management of the municipal waterworks and the light, gas and sanitary sewer systems.
[Amended 10-17-2016 by L.L. No. 5-2016]
A. The Utility Commission may make recommendations to the Village Board
of Trustees pertaining to the employment, hiring, removal, termination
or suspension of persons under consideration for or holding the utility
positions of director, assistant director, and accounting supervisor;
B. The Village Board of Trustees of the Village of Bath shall have the
sole power to employ, hire, remove, terminate or suspend persons under
consideration for or holding the utility positions of director, assistant
director, and accounting supervisor, with or without the recommendation
of the Utility Commission.
C. Subject to the express approval of the Village Board of Trustees,
the following powers are hereby conferred upon said municipal board
or commission by this chapter:
(1) Hire and employ the necessary supervisors and labor, fix their compensation
and discharge the same.
(2) Adopt such ordinances, rules, regulations and rates as it may deem
necessary and proper.
(3) Make such extensions, additions and improvements as it may deem expedient
and proper.
[Added 10-17-2016 by L.L.
No. 5-2016]
It shall be the duty of each Utility Commissioner to attend
all meetings of the Commission; and if any Commissioner shall fail
to attend two consecutive meetings of the Utility Commission after
having been regularly notified and a satisfactory cause for each nonattendance
is not shown, the Village Board of Trustees may declare that office
vacant and proceed to fill said vacancy.
The Village Clerk shall be the Clerk of said municipal board
or commission.
All funds coming into the hands of the board or commission or
any of its agents or employees shall be promptly paid to the Village
Treasurer to the credit of the proper fund. Separate funds shall be
maintained as to all moneys belonging to or pertaining to the waterworks
system, the electric light system, the gas system and the sanitary
sewer system.
The municipal board or commission shall pay all bills, debts
and expenses contracted by it out of the several funds available for
the several purposes hereinbefore specified when the proper claims
therefor have been presented and have been audited by the board or
commission, by orders drawn upon the Village Treasurer and signed
by the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the municipal board or commission
and countersigned by the Village Clerk.