1. Any municipal corporation may apply for and expend state aid for comprehensive studies and reports, designate an appropriate official, department, bureau, or agency therefor and to administer such studies, and contract for the accomplishment of such studies, pursuant to section twelve hundred sixty-three-a of the public health law and part five-A of article five of the conservation law. Any such comprehensive study undertaken by a town may include an area within any village partly or wholly located within the town, provided that the board of trustees of any such village shall have consented to such inclusion. 2. The governing board of any municipal corporation may confer upon an appropriate official, department, bureau or agency the duty of planning for the sewer and water needs of the municipality.
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