NY Pub Auth L § 1299-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority 1299-H - Co-Operation and Assistance of Other Agencies.

§ 1299-h. Co-operation and assistance of other agencies. --1. To avoid duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the authority may make  use  of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other materials in the possession of any state agency or any municipality  or  political subdivision  of the state. Each such agency, municipality or subdivision is hereby authorized to make the same available  to  the  authority  and otherwise  to  assist  it  in  the  performance of its functions. At the request of the authority, each such agency, municipality or  subdivision which  is  engaged  in  highway or other transportation activities or in land use or development planning, or which is charged with the  duty  of providing  or regulating any transportation facility or any other public facility,  is  further  authorized  to  provide   the   authority   with information   regarding   its   plans   and   programs   affecting   the transportation district so that the authority may have available  to  it current  information with respect thereto. The officers and personnel of such  agencies,  municipalities  or  subdivisions,  and  of  any   other government or agency whatever, may serve at the request of the authority upon such advisory committees as the authority shall determine to create and  such  officers and personnel may serve upon such committees without forfeiture of office or employment and with no loss or diminution in the compensation, status, rights and privileges which they otherwise enjoy.   2. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law,  every  municipality in  this  transportation district is authorized and empowered to consent to the use by the authority of any real or personal  property  owned  by any  such  municipality  and  necessary,  convenient or desirable in the opinion  of  the  authority  for  any  of  the  facilities  or  projects authorized under this title, including such real property as has already been  devoted  to  a  public use, and as an incident to such consent, to lease or otherwise transfer and convey to the authority any such real or personal property upon such terms as may be determined by the  authority and  any  such  municipality. Every such municipality is also authorized and empowered, as an incident to such consent, to vest in the  authority the  control, possession, operation, maintenance, rents, charges and any and all  other  revenues  of  any  facilities  now  owned  by  any  such municipality,   the   title   to   such  facilities  remaining  in  such municipality.   3. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law,  every  municipality in  the  transportation  district  may,  by  ordinance,  local  law,  or resolution of its governing body,  make  covenants  with  the  authority which  shall  inure  to the benefit of the holders of any bonds or notes issued by the authority under this title and which shall be  a  part  of the contract with the holders of such bonds or notes, as to  (a).  The authorizing of the construction of any facilities which will be competitive with any facilities owned or operated by the authority or within a reasonable sphere of operation or extension of such  facilities by the authority;  (b).  Discontinuing  of  any  facilities  owned  or  operated  by  the municipality or any department or agency thereof;  (c). Limitations on the licensing of  private  facilities  within  the territorial  limits  of  the  municipality  which  may  compete with the facilities owned or operated by the authority  or  within  a  reasonable sphere of operation or extension by the authority; and  (d).  Transferring  to  the  authority  any powers or functions of the municipality or any department or agency thereof, or the control of  any property thereof.   4.  The  commissioner  of  general  services  shall have power, in his discretion, from time to time to transfer and convey to  the  authority, or   to  a  subsidiary  corporation  of  the  authority,  and  for  such  consideration as may be determined by him  to  be  paid  to  the  state, unappropriated  state  lands  and  lands under water which the authority shall certify to be necessary or desirable for the corporate purposes of the authority.