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NY Pub Auth L § 2930 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 8 - Internal Control Responsibilities of Public Authorities 2930 - Definitions.

§  2930.  Definitions.  For  the purposes of this title, the following   terms shall have the following meanings:1. "Internal control".  A  process  that  integrates  the  activities,   plans, attitudes, policies, systems, resources and efforts of the people   of  an  organization  working  together, and that is designed to provide   reasonable assurance that the organization will achieve  its  objectives   and  mission.  The objectives of an internal control system include, but   are not limited to: the safeguarding of assets;  checking  the  accuracy   and  reliability  of  accounting data and financial reporting; promoting   the effectiveness and efficiency of operations; ensuring compliance with   applicable laws and regulations; and encouraging adherence to prescribed   managerial  policies.  Internal  control  review  processes   are   used   periodically  to  evaluate  the  ongoing  internal control system and to   assess and monitor the implementation of necessary corrective actions.2.  "Internal  audit".  An  appraisal  activity  established  by   the   management of an organization for the review of operations as a means of   assuring  conformity  with  management policies and the effectiveness of   internal control, and conducted in conformance with  generally  accepted   standards for internal auditing.3.  "Covered  authority".  Any  public  authority  or  public  benefit   corporation,  other  than  a  bi-state  authority  or   public   benefit   corporation,  a  majority of whose members are appointed by the governor   or serve as members by virtue of holding state  offices  to  which  they   were appointed by the governor, or any combination thereof.
NY Pub Auth L § 2931 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 8 - Internal Control Responsibilities of Public Authorities 2931 - Internal Control Responsibilities.

§ 2931. Internal control responsibilities. The governing board of each   covered  authority  shall:  1.  establish and maintain for the authority   guidelines for a system of internal control that are in accordance  with   this article and internal control standards;2.  establish  and  maintain  for  the  authority a system of internal   control and a  program  of  internal  control  review.  The  program  of   internal   review   shall  be  designed  to  identify  internal  control   weaknesses,  identify  actions  that  are  needed   to   correct   these   weaknesses,  monitor  the implementation of necessary corrective actions   and periodically assess the adequacy of the authority's ongoing internal   controls;3. make available to each member, officer and  employee  a  clear  and   concise  statement  of  the generally applicable managerial policies and   standards with which he or she is expected  to  comply.  Such  statement   shall  emphasize  the  importance  of  effective internal control to the   authority and the responsibility of each member,  officer  and  employee   for effective internal control;4. designate an internal control officer, who shall report to the head   of   the  authority,  to  implement  and  review  the  internal  control   responsibilities established pursuant to this section; and5. implement education and training efforts to  ensure  that  members,   officers   and   employees   have   achieved   adequate   awareness  and   understanding  of  internal  control  standards  and,  as   appropriate,   evaluation techniques.
NY Pub Auth L § 2932 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 8 - Internal Control Responsibilities of Public Authorities 2932 - Internal Audit Responsibilities.

§  2932.  Internal  audit  responsibilities. 1. The governing board of   each covered authority or its designee shall determine, and periodically   review the determination of, whether an internal audit  function  within   the  covered authority is required. Establishment of such function shall   be based upon an evaluation of exposure to risk, costs and  benefits  of   implementation,  and  any  other  factors  that  are  determined  to  be   relevant. In the event it is determined that an internal audit  function   is  required,  the  governing  board  of  each  covered  authority shall   establish an internal audit function which operates in  accordance  with   generally  accepted  professional  standards  for internal auditing. Any   such internal audit function shall be  directed  by  an  internal  audit   director  who  shall  report  directly  to  the  governing  board of the   authority. Internal  audit  director  appointments  shall  be  based  on   appropriate  internal  auditing  credentials  of the proposed appointee,   consistent with generally  accepted  standards  for  internal  auditing,   including internal auditing education and experience. The internal audit   function   shall   evaluate   the   authority's  internal  controls  and   operations, identify internal control  weaknesses  that  have  not  been   corrected and make recommendations to correct these weaknesses.2.  In  the  event  the governing board does not establish an internal   audit function pursuant to subdivision one  of  this  section  it  shall   nevertheless  establish  and  maintain  the  program of internal control   review required by section twenty-nine hundred thirty-one of this title.
NY Pub Auth L § 2960 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 9 - Interest Rates on Public Authority Bonds and Notes 2960 - Interest Rates.

§  2960.  Interest rates. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this   chapter or the provisions of any other general, special  or  local  law,   any  public  authority  may  agree  or  contract  to pay interest on its   certificates, notes or bonds, including those now outstanding,  at  such   rate  or  rates,  without limit, as may be necessary for an authority to   sell such notes or bonds.
NY Pub Auth L § 2977 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 10 - State Governmental Cost Recovery System 2977 - Applicability of Title.

§  2977. Applicability of title. 1. The provisions of this title shall not be construed to, nor shall they be implemented in such a  manner  as to:  (a)  require  the  application  of  monies  pledged to the security of bonds, notes or  other  obligations  in  violation  of  applicable  bond covenants; or  (b)  otherwise  impair the rights of bondholders of the public benefit corporations affected by this title.   2. To the extent precluded  by  interstate  or  international  compact which  creates  any  public  benefit corporation, the provisions of this title shall not apply to any such public benefit corporation  until  the passage  of  legislation,  by  the  other  party  to such compact, which validates or has the same effect as this title.
NY Pub Auth L § 2980 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 11 - Wrongful Death Actions 2980 - Wrongful Death; Notice of Claim.

§  2980.  Wrongful  death;  notice  of claim. No wrongful death action   against a public  authority  or  public  benefit  corporation  shall  be   commenced  unless  a notice of claim has been served on the authority or   corporation in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-e of  the   general municipal law.
NY Pub Auth L § 2981 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 11 - Wrongful Death Actions 2981 - Wrongful Death; Limitation Period.

§  2981.  Wrongful  death;  limitation period. A wrongful death action   against a public  authority  or  public  benefit  corporation  shall  be   commenced within two years of the happening of the death.
NY Pub Auth L § 2982 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 11 - Wrongful Death Actions 2982 - Scope of Title.

§  2982.  Scope  of  title. Except where such an action is statutorily   required to be brought only in the court of claims, this title shall  be   applicable  to  all  wrongful  death  actions  brought  against a public   authority   or   public   benefit   corporation,   notwithstanding   any   inconsistent  provisions  of  law,  general,  special  or  local, or any   limitation contained in the provisions of any city charter.
NY Pub Auth L § 2986 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 12 - Whistleblower Access and Assistance Program 2986 - Whistleblower Access and Assistance Program.

§  2986.  Whistleblower access and assistance program. 1. Definitions.   a. "Employees of  state  and  local  authorities"  means  those  persons   employed  at  state and local authorities, including but not limited to:   full-time and part-time employees, those  employees  on  probation,  and   temporary employees.b.  "Attorney general" shall mean the attorney general of the state of   New York.c. "Whistleblower" shall  mean  any  employee  of  a  state  or  local   authority  who  discloses  information  concerning  acts  of wrongdoing,   misconduct, malfeasance, or other inappropriate behavior by an  employee   or   board   member   of   the  authority,  concerning  the  authority's   investments, travel, acquisition  of  real  or  personal  property,  the   disposition  of  real  or personal property and the procurement of goods   and services.2. The director of the authorities budget office,  after  consultation   with   the   attorney  general,  shall  develop  and  recommend  to  the   legislature a whistleblower access and assistance  program  which  shall   include, but not be limited to:a. evaluating and commenting on whistleblower programs and policies by   state and local authorities pursuant to paragraph (e) of subdivision one   of section twenty-eight hundred twenty-four of this article;b.  establishing  toll-free telephone and facsimile lines available to   employees at state and local authorities;c. offering advice regarding employee rights  under  applicable  state   and federal laws and advice and options available to all persons; andd.   offering   an  opportunity  for  employees  of  state  and  local   authorities to identify concerns regarding any issue at a state or local   authority.3. Any communications between an employee and the  authorities  budget   office  pursuant  to this section shall be held strictly confidential by   the authorities budget office, unless the employee  specifically  waives   in   writing   the   right   to   confidentiality,   except   that  such   confidentiality shall not exempt  the  authorities  budget  office  from   disclosing  such  information, where appropriate, to the state inspector   general in accordance with section fifty-five of the executive  law,  or   prevent disclosure to any law enforcement authority.
NY Pub Auth L § 2987 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 9 - General Provisions Title 12-A - Public Authorities Lobbying Contacts 2987 - Lobbying Contacts.

§ 2987. Lobbying contacts. 1. Definitions. As used in this title:   a.  "lobbyist" shall have the same meaning as defined in section one-c of the legislative law.   b. "lobbying" shall mean and include any attempt to influence:  (i) the adoption or rejection of any rule  or  regulation  having  the force and effect of law by a public authority, and  (ii) the outcome of any rate making proceeding by a public authority.   c.  "contact"  shall mean any conversation, in person or by telephonic or other remote means, or correspondence between any lobbyist engaged in the act of lobbying and any person within a state authority who can make or influence a decision on the subject of the lobbying on behalf of  the authority, and shall include, at a minimum, all members of the governing board and all officers of the state authority.   2.  Every  state  authority  shall  maintain  a record of all lobbying contacts made with such authority.   3. Every member, officer or employee  of  a  state  authority  who  is contacted  by  a  lobbyist  shall  make a contemporaneous record of such contact containing the day and time of the contact, the identity of  the lobbyist and a general summary of the substance of the contact.   4.  Each  state  authority  shall  adopt  a  policy  implementing  the requirements of this section. Such policy shall appoint  an  officer  to whom  all  such  records shall be delivered. Such officer shall maintain such records for not less than seven years in a filing  system  designed to  organize  such records in a manner so as to make such records useful to determine whether the decisions of the authority were  influenced  by lobbying contacts.
NY Pub Auth L § 3001 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10 - New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act Title 1 - Short Title; General Definitions; Legislative Findings and Statement of Purposes 3001 - Short Title.

§  3001.  Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as   the "New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act".
NY Pub Auth L § 3002 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10 - New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act Title 1 - Short Title; General Definitions; Legislative Findings and Statement of Purposes 3002 - Legislative Findings and Statement of Purposes.

§  3002.  Legislative findings and statement of purposes. It is hereby   found and declared that, by reason of the  severe  economic  and  social   dislocations  of  recent  years,  there has been a great increase in the   need and demand for public  services  at  a  time  when  financing  such   services  has  become increasingly difficult, and that, due to a general   decline in investor acceptance of local  government  securities  and  to   almost  unprecedented interest rates, a number of municipalities in this   state have,  despite  the  financial  soundness  of  their  obligations,   recently  faced  increased  difficulty in selling a sufficient amount of   their securities to enable them to refund their outstanding  obligations   or  to  meet  their  cash  requirements.  For the immediate future, this   increased difficulty has caused concern that such municipalities may  be   unable  to  provide,  without  interruption,  many services essential to   their inhabitants while also meeting their obligations to the holders of   their outstanding securities as they come  due.  It  is  in  the  public   interest  and  is  the  policy  of  this  state to assist municipalities   attempting to provide, without interruption, services essential to their   inhabitants while meeting their obligations  to  the  holders  of  their   outstanding   securities.   The   impairment   of   the  credit  of  the   municipalities within the state may affect the ability of the  state  to   issue  its  own  obligations  at normal interest rates. Such effect is a   matter of state concern. It is further declared that  the  state  should   exercise  its  power  in  the interest of such municipalities and should   implement such policy by authorizing  on  behalf  of  each  municipality   which  is found by the legislature to require the state's assistance and   which expressly requests  such  assistance,  the  creation  of  a  state   instrumentality  to  be a body corporate and politic, having full powers   to borrow money and to issue its bonds and  notes  for  the  purpose  of   providing  to  that  municipality  assistance sufficient to enable it to   avoid the interruption of services essential to  its  inhabitants  while   meeting its obligations to the holders of its outstanding securities. It   is  further  declared  to be in the public interest and is the policy of   this state  that  each  such  instrumentality  shall  provide  financial   assistance  to  a  municipality only if that municipality agrees to make   and observe such changes in its record  keeping,  accounting,  budgeting   and  financial  management  practices  as  that  instrumentality  may be   authorized, by the special law creating it, to require as a condition of   providing financial assistance.
NY Pub Auth L § 3003 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10 - New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act Title 1 - Short Title; General Definitions; Legislative Findings and Statement of Purposes 3003 - Definitions.

§  3003. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and   terms shall  have  the  following  meanings  unless  the  context  shall   indicate another or different meaning or intent:1. "Municipality" means any city in the state.2. "State" means the state of New York.3. "Governor" means the governor of the state of New York.4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state of New York.5.  "Director  of  the budget" means the director of the budget of the   state of New York.6. "Legislature" means the legislature of the state of New York.7. "Special law" means the special law of the legislature pursuant  to   which a municipal assistance corporation is created.8.  "Municipal  assistance  corporation"  means  a corporation created   pursuant to section three thousand ten of this article.9. "Bonds" and "notes" means bonds and notes, respectively, issued  by   a municipal assistance corporation pursuant to this article.10. "Obligations" means bonds and notes.11.  "Amortized  value"  means  for  securities purchased at a premium   above or a discount below par, the value as of any given  date  obtained   by  dividing  the  total amount of the premium or discount at which such   securities were purchased by the number of days remaining to maturity on   such securities at the time of such  purchase  and  by  multiplying  the   amount  so calculated by the number of days having passed since the date   of such purchase; and (a) in the  case  of  securities  purchased  at  a   premium, by deducting the product thus obtained from the purchase price,   and (b) in the case of securities purchased at a discount, by adding the   product thus obtained to the purchase price.12.  "Revenues"  means all federal or state aid, rents, fees, charges,   payments and other income and receipts paid or payable  to  a  municipal   assistance  corporation  or  for  the  account of a municipal assistance   corporation, including any payment permitted or required to be  made  to   such a corporation by this article.13.  "Board  of directors" means the board of directors of a municipal   assistance corporation.
NY Pub Auth L § 3014 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10 - New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act Title 2 - General Provisions Relating to Municipal Assistance Corporations 3014 - Conditions on Payment of Funds to or Purchase of Obligations of Municipality.

§  3014.  Conditions on payment of funds to or purchase of obligations   of municipality. 1. A corporation shall require, in connection with  any   payment  of funds to, or purchase or exchange of the obligations of, the   municipality being assisted, or the extension of other benefits thereto,   that such municipality agree to observe such conditions with respect  to   expenditure  control,  record  keeping, accounting, budgeting, financial   management and other practices of such municipality as may be set  forth   in  or  permitted  under the special law creating such corporation. Such   agreement  may  provide  such  remedies  for  failure  to  observe  such   conditions as shall be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes   of  this  article  and  such special law and are authorized or permitted   thereunder.2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law,  general,  special   or  local, inconsistent with the provisions hereof, any municipality may   sell notes and bonds authorized to  be  issued  pursuant  to  the  local   finance law by private sale to the corporation or to receive moneys from   the  corporation  as  herein  provided  and  such municipality is hereby   authorized to agree to and undertake any agreements made pursuant to the   terms hereof.
NY Pub Auth L § 3015 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10 - New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act Title 2 - General Provisions Relating to Municipal Assistance Corporations 3015 - Agreement With the State.

§  3015. Agreement with the state. The state does hereby pledge to and   agree with the holders of any notes or bonds  issued  by  a  corporation   under  this act that the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby   vested in such corporation to fulfill the terms of any  agreements  made   with  the  said  holders  thereof,  or  in any way impair the rights and   remedies of such holders until such notes and bonds  together  with  the   interest  thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest,   and all costs and expenses in connection with any action  or  proceeding   by  or  on  behalf  of  such  holders,  are fully paid and discharged. A   corporation is authorized to include this pledge and  agreement  of  the   state in any agreement with the holders of such notes or bonds.
NY Pub Auth L § 3016 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10 - New York State Municipal Assistance Corporation Act Title 2 - General Provisions Relating to Municipal Assistance Corporations 3016 - State or State-Aided Municipality Not Liable on Notes and Bonds.

§  3016.  State  or  state-aided  municipality not liable on notes and   bonds. The notes, bonds or other obligations of a  municipal  assistance   corporation  shall not be a debt of either the state or the municipality   being assisted, and neither the state nor  such  municipality  shall  be   liable  thereon,  nor  shall they be payable out of any funds other than   those of such corporation; and such notes and bonds shall contain on the   face thereof a statement to such effect.