§ 122. Powers. Every sewage-works corporation shall have the power:

1. To lay, maintain, repair and operate its pipes, conduits and sewers
in any street, highway or public place of any city, town, village or
other municipal area, in which it has obtained the consent required by
section one hundred sixteen for the disposal, treatment and removal of
sewage, and to operate and maintain and keep in repair its sewage
disposal plants, and prescribe the manner in which sewer connections
shall be made. No pipes, sewers or conduits shall be laid or repaired
under any highway, road, street or avenue by such corporation, without
the consent of the local governing body or its official in charge of
highways or streets or if such highway be a state highway, or a highway
constructed pursuant to section one hundred ninety-four or one hundred
ninety-five or article six of the highway law, the consent of the state
commissioner of transportation nor in any street, highway, road, avenue
or public place in Suffolk county without the prior written consent of
the county sewer agency or the county department of environmental
control.

2. To cause examinations and surveys to be made for the purpose of
determining the proper location of its disposal system, and, for such
purpose by its officers, agents or servants, to enter upon any lands or
waters, subject to liability for all damages done.

3. To enter into appropriate agreements with the secretary of
agriculture of the United States department of agriculture to operate
without profit for the term specified therein for the purpose of
qualifying to receive federal assistance pursuant to the consolidated
farmers home administration act of nineteen hundred sixty-one and any
federal laws amendatory and supplementary thereto. Any such agreement to
operate without profit shall be subject to the approval of a majority of
the stockholders entitled to vote thereat at any regular or special
stockholders' meeting. Any stockholder so entitled to vote who does not
vote for or consent in writing to the taking of this action, shall,
subject to and by complying with the provisions of section six hundred
twenty-three of the business corporation law, have the right to receive
payment of the fair value of his stock and the other rights and benefits
provided by such section.