2006 New York Code - Municipal Consent To Use Streets.

 
    §  111. Municipal consent to use streets. A district steam corporation
  shall have power to lay and maintain  suitable  pipes  and  conduits  or
  other  fixtures in and under the streets, parks and public places of the
  cities, villages or towns mentioned in its certificate of  incorporation
  upon  obtaining the written consent of the local authorities thereof and
  upon such reasonable regulations  as  they  may  prescribe.  Such  local
  authorities  shall be: in a city, a majority of the members of the local
  legislative body; in a village, a majority of the members of  the  board
  of trustees; in a town, outside of a village, the town superintendent of
  highways and a majority of the members of the town board.