NY Pub Auth L § 553 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities Title 3 - Triborough Bridge Authority 553 - Powers of the Authority.

§ 553. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power   1. to sue and be sued;   2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;   * 3.  To  acquire,  hold  and  dispose  of  personal  property for its corporate purposes, including, the power to dispose of personal property with a value of five hundred thousand dollars or less by public  auction in accordance with guidelines adopted by the authority pursuant to title five-A of article nine of this chapter. The board shall adopt guidelines that  shall  provide  for  advertising  and such other safeguards as the authority may deem appropriate in the public interest.   * NB Effective until April 1, 2024   * 3. To acquire,  hold  and  dispose  of  personal  property  for  its corporate purposes;   * NB Effective April 1, 2024   4.  To  acquire,  in the name of the city, by purchase or condemnation real property or rights or easements therein necessary or convenient for its corporate purposes, and, except as may otherwise be provided herein, to use the same so long as its corporate existence shall continue;   4-a. Whenever any real property is determined by the authority  to  be unnecessary for its corporate purpose.  (a)  to  surrender  such real property to the board of estimate of the city for other public use or purpose of such city, or  (b) to sell and convey or lease  in  behalf  of  such  city  any  real property  acquired  by  the  city  at  the expense of the authority. The proceeds of any such sale or lease shall be paid to  the  authority  and applied  to  its  corporate purpose. Any such lease shall run for a term not to exceed ten years, and a renewal thereof for a term not to  exceed ten years.   4-b. To apply for and receive and accept grants of property, money and services  and  other  assistance  offered or made available to it by any person, government or agency whatever, which it may use to meet  capital or  operating  expenses  and  for  any other use within the scope of its powers, and to negotiate for the same upon such terms and conditions  as the  authority  may  determine to be necessary, convenient or desirable. Subject to the rights of the holders of any outstanding bonds, notes  or other   obligations   of   the  authority,  metropolitan  transportation authority, and New York city transit authority, and  to  facilitate  the efficient   financial   management   of   the   authority,  metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiary corporations, and New York city transit authority  and  its  subsidiary  corporations  (the  "affiliated entities"),  the authority may, and may permit and direct any affiliated entity to, transfer revenues, subsidies and other monies  or  securities to one or more funds or accounts of another affiliated entity for use by such  other  affiliated entity, provided at the time of such transfer it is reasonably anticipated that the monies and securities so  transferred will  be  reimbursed, repaid or otherwise provided for by the end of the next succeeding calendar year if reimbursement or repayment is  required by  law  or  by  any  agreement  to which any of the affected affiliated entities is subject. Any revenues  of  an  affiliated  entity  that  are transferred  to  another  affiliated  entity,  which  transfer  was  not authorized by a provision of law other than this subdivision,  shall  be considered  to  be  required to be repaid to the affiliated entity which was the source of such revenues  by  the  end  of  the  next  succeeding calendar year following such transfer.   5.  To  make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs, and subject to agreements with bondholders, rules  and  regulations  for the  regulation  of  the  use  of  the project and the establishment and collection of tolls thereon. Violations of such  rules  and  regulations  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not longer than  thirty  days,  or  both, except  that violation of any rule or regulation governing or regulating traffic  on  the projects of the authority shall be a traffic infraction as the same is defined in the vehicle  and  traffic  law  and  shall  be punishable as such;   6.  With  the  consent  of  the  city  to  use  agents,  employees and facilities of the city, paying its proper proportion of the compensation or cost, and to use the corporation counsel as legal adviser;   7.  To  appoint  officers,  agents  and  employees   and   fix   their compensation;  subject,  however, to the provisions of the civil service law, as hereinafter provided;   7-a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the bridge and tunnel officers employed by the authority shall have the power to  issue simplified  traffic  informations  for traffic infractions as defined in section one hundred fifty-five of the vehicle and traffic law, committed on the sites owned, operated and maintained by the triborough bridge and tunnel authority, such informations to be administered pursuant  to  the provisions of title A of chapter forty of the administrative code of the city  of  New  York  or article two-A of the vehicle and traffic law, as applicable and also shall have the power to issue notices  of  violation for  transit  infractions  committed  in  and  about  any  or all of the facilities, equipment or real property owned, occupied  or  operated  by the  metropolitan  transportation  authority or its subsidiaries and the New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries, as provided and in accordance with section twelve hundred nine-a of this  chapter.  Nothing set  forth in this subdivision shall be construed to impede, infringe or diminish the rights and benefits that accrue to employees and  employers through  collective  bargaining  agreements,  or  impact  or  change  an employee's membership in a bargaining unit.   8. To make contracts, and to  execute  all  instruments  necessary  or convenient;   9.  To  acquire,  design,  construct,  maintain,  operate, improve and reconstruct, so long as its  corporate  existence  shall  continue,  the following projects,  (a)  a  bridge  heretofore  constructed,  known  as  Robert F. Kennedy bridge, over the East river from the borough of Queens to  the  boroughs of  Manhattan and the Bronx, over and across Ward's island and Randall's island  in  said  river,  together  with  such  incidental  bridges  and structures  as  shall be necessary or convenient in order to give access from the bridge to both of said islands,  together  with  approaches  to said  bridges (herein collectively referred to as the "Robert F. Kennedy bridge project"); and  (b) a bridge heretofore constructed, known as Bronx-Whitestone bridge, over the East river from a point at or near Whitestone in the borough of Queens to the borough of the Bronx, together  with  approaches  to  such bridge  (herein  collectively  referred  to  as  the  "Whitestone bridge project"); and  (c) a bridge heretofore constructed, known  as  Henry  Hudson  bridge, across  the  Harlem  river  ship  canal together with approaches to such bridge and together with so much of the parkway known  as  Henry  Hudson parkway  as  extends southerly from said bridge through Inwood Hill park to the  northerly  end  of  Riverside  drive,  (as  it  was  before  the construction  of  said  parkway) (herein collectively referred to as the "Henry Hudson bridge project"); and  (d) a bridge heretofore constructed, known as Marine  parkway  bridge, to  be known hereafter as the Marine parkway-Gil Hodges memorial bridge, from the borough of Brooklyn across the  waters  of  Rockaway  inlet  to  Jacob  Riis  park in the borough of Queens, together with the approaches to such bridge and together with the parkway of which said bridge  is  a part,  (and  the  parking field connected therewith), from and including the  toll  plaza  north  of  said  bridge extending eastwardly from said bridge to the easterly boundary of Jacob Riis park (herein  collectively referred to as the "Marine parkway bridge project"); and  (e) a bridge heretofore constructed known as Cross Bay parkway bridge, to  be  known  hereafter as the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial bridge, from Big Egg marsh in Jamaica bay in the borough of Queens across the  waters of  Beach  channel  to Rockaway peninsula in said borough, together with the parkway known as Cross Bay parkway, of which said bridge is a  part, from  and including the toll plaza north of said bridge southerly to the right of way of the Long Island railroad on Rockaway  peninsula  (herein collectively referred to as the "Cross Bay parkway bridge project"); and  (f)  a  vehicular  tunnel  or tunnels heretofore constructed, known as Queens Midtown  tunnel,  under  the  East  river  from  the  borough  of Manhattan  to  the  borough  of  Queens,  together  with such incidental bridges and tunnels, including but not limited to, a tunnel  or  tunnels or bridge across Newtown creek from the borough of Queens to the borough of  Brooklyn  and  such  other structures, appurtenances, facilities and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and  (g) a vehicular tunnel or tunnels under construction, known as Hugh L. Carey tunnel, under the East river from the southerly end of the borough of Manhattan to the general vicinity of Hamilton avenue in  the  borough of  Brooklyn,  together  with  such  incidental  tunnels  and such other structures,  appurtenances,  facilities  and  approaches  as  shall   be necessary or convenient; and  (h)  a  vehicular  tunnel  or  tunnels  or  bridge,  herein called the Brooklyn Richmond project, under or across New York bay from the borough of Richmond to the borough of Brooklyn, together  with  such  incidental tunnels,  bridges  and  such other structures, appurtenances, facilities and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and  (i) a vehicular tunnel or  tunnels  or  arterial  highway  across  the borough  of  Manhattan  connecting  the  Queens  Midtown tunnel with the Lincoln (Midtown Hudson) tunnel, together with such  incidental  tunnels and  such  other structures, appurtenances, facilities and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and  (j) Bus stations or terminals or automobile parking garages at  or  in the  vicinity  of the Columbus circle in the borough of Manhattan and of the Manhattan plazas of the Queens Midtown and Hugh  L.  Carey  tunnels. Any  such project may, subject to zoning restrictions, include space and facilities for any or all of the following: public recreation, business, trade and  other  exhibitions,  sporting  and  athletic  events,  public meetings,  conventions  and  all  kinds  of assemblages, and in order to obtain additional  revenues,  space  and  facilities  for  business  and commercial purposes. Whenever the authority deems it to be in the public interest,  the authority may lease any such project or any part or parts thereof or contract for the management and operation thereof or  of  any part or parts thereof. Any such lease or contract may be for a period of not exceeding ten years, or, if any of the revenues therefrom are or are to  be  pledged to secure bonds then such lease or contract may be for a period extending not later by more than one year than the last  maturity of such bonds.  (k)  Subject  to  and  in accordance with all contract provisions with respect to any bonds and the rights of the holders of bonds, a vehicular bridge across the East river between  the  boroughs  of  the  Bronx  and Queens,   east  of  the  Bronx-Whitestone  bridge,  together  with  such incidental bridges and other structures, appurtenances,  facilities  and  approaches  as  shall  be  necessary  or convenient (herein collectively referred to as the "Throgs Neck bridge project"). With  the  consent  of the  United  States  of  America,  the  Throgs  Neck bridge project or a portion thereof, if deemed necessary or convenient by the authority, may be  constructed  upon  or pass over any part of the military reservation known as Fort Schuyler and owned by the United  States  of  America.  No lands,  easements  or  rights in land shall be acquired by the authority for the purposes of this paragraph without  the  prior  consent  of  the board of estimate of the city.  (l)  Subject  to  section  five hundred fifty-three-b of this title, a convention and exhibition  center,  including  facilities  ancillary  or functionally  related  thereto,  to  be  built  in  New York county at a location  generally  bounded  by  thirty-ninth  street  on  the   north, thirtieth  street  on the south, eleventh avenue on the east and twelfth avenue on the west (herein referred to as the convention center).  (m) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the acquisition  of  new  rapid transit cars and the transfer of the same to the New York city transit authority for  a  nominal  consideration.  The authority  shall  have  no  obligation  to  operate, repair, maintain or reconstruct such cars subsequent to their acquisition and  transfer  nor shall  it  be liable to the New York city transit authority by reason of any warranty, express or implied, in respect to such cars. Manufacturers or other warranties furnished to the authority in  connection  with  the purchase  of  such  cars  shall be assigned to the New York city transit authority for enforcement.  (n) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the rehabilitation  of  existing  rapid  transit  cars  of the New York city transit authority upon such terms and conditions as shall be  agreed  to by  the  parties.  The  authority  shall  have no obligation to operate, repair,  maintain  or  reconstruct   such   cars   subsequent   to   the rehabilitation  and transfer back to the New York city transit authority nor shall it be liable to the New York city transit authority by  reason of   any  warranty,  express  or  implied,  in  respect  to  such  cars. Manufacturers  or  other  warranties  furnished  to  the  authority   in connection  with  the purchase of parts or materials for such cars shall be assigned to the New York city transit authority for enforcement.  (o) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the acquisition of new diesel self-propelled railroad passenger cars and the transfer of the same to the metropolitan transportation authority, for a nominal consideration, for use on commuter railroads owned or controlled by  the  metropolitan transportation authority. The authority shall have no obligation to operate, repair,  maintain  or  reconstruct  such  cars subsequent  to their acquisition and transfer, nor shall it be liable to the metropolitan transportation authority by  reason  of  any  warranty, express  or  implied,  in  respect  of such cars. Manufacturers or other warranties furnished to the authority in connection with the purchase of such cars shall be assigned to the metropolitan transportation authority for enforcement.  (p) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the acquisition of land in the name of the authority in the vicinity of Penn Station  in the city of New York and/or the improvement of such land for the benefit of the Long Island Rail Road for a  lay-up  yard  and  other railroad purposes and the transfer of the said land and any improvements thereon to the metropolitan transportation authority, parent corporation of  the  said railroad, for a nominal consideration. The authority shall have no obligation to operate, repair, maintain or reconstruct such land or its improvements subsequent to such transfer.  (r) In its discretion and  subject  to  and  in  accordance  with  all contract  provisions  with  respect  to  any bonds and the rights of the holders of bonds, at the request of the New York city transit  authority or  the  metropolitan transportation authority, (i) the planning for and the  design,  acquisition,  construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation, in the name of the  authority,  of  any  capital  asset, whether  in  the  nature  of  personal or real property (or any interest therein) which is used or useful for a transit or transportation purpose other than a marine or aviation purpose of the requesting  authority  or its  designated  subsidiary  (and in the case of such assets then owned, operated by or under lease to the requesting authority or its designated subsidiary, the receipt by the authority of the use, occupancy,  control or  possession  of  such  assets for the purpose of planning, designing, constructing, improving, reconstructing or rehabilitating the same)  and the transfer or transfer back of such asset to the requesting authority, its  designated subsidiary or other designee for a nominal consideration upon its  acquisition  or  upon  the  completion  of  such  improvement, construction,  reconstruction or rehabilitation; or, alternatively or in combination with the foregoing, (ii) the making of capital grants to the requesting authority or  its  designated  subsidiary  to  permit  it  to undertake   and   to   finance   such   planning,  design,  acquisition, improvement,  construction,  reconstruction   or   rehabilitation,   or, alternatively  or in combination with the foregoing, (iii) the financing of all or any part of the costs to the authority or to any other  person or  entity,  public  or  private, of such planning, design, acquisition, construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of any  such capital  asset  through or accompanied by a leasing of the asset by such person or entity to the authority or through or accompanied by a sale by the authority to  any  such  person  or  entity  and  leaseback  to  the authority,  in each case for subleasing to the requesting authority, its designated subsidiary or other designee for  a  nominal  rental,  except that  such  leasing  or  leaseback  from  such  person  or entity may be directly to the requesting authority or  its  designated  subsidiary  or other  designee,  for consideration, with the consent and at the expense of the authority.  The  foregoing  authorization  shall  extend  to  and include  the continuation of projects enumerated in paragraphs (m), (n), (o) and (p) of this subdivision without regard to  any  limitations  set forth in section five hundred fifty-three-c of this title. The authority shall  have  no  obligation  to  operate  or, except as may otherwise be provided in any lease to which it may be a party as aforesaid, repair or maintain  any  capital  asset  after  its   acquisition,   construction, improvement,  reconstruction  or rehabilitation and subsequent transfer, lease or sublease, nor shall it be liable to the transferee,  lessee  or sublessee  by  reason  of  any  warranty, express or implied, in respect thereof. Warranties  furnished  in  connection  with  such  acquisition, improvement,  construction,  reconstruction  or  rehabilitation shall be assignable and assigned as directed  by  the  requesting  authority  and approved by the authority.  (s)  The  central  business  district  tolling  program  to the extent specified in article forty-four-C of the vehicle and traffic law and  in this title.   The  word  "approaches"  shall  include  all  structures  necessary or convenient to give access to the project  from  connecting  streets  and roads;   10. In its discretion  (a)  in  the  case  of  the  Robert  F. Kennedy bridge project and the Whitestone bridge project to pay to the city not  exceeding  thirty-five per  centum  of  the cost (including awards for damages and expenses) of  the acquisition of land for the widening  of  existing  roads,  streets, parkways  or  avenues  and  for new roads, streets, parkways or avenues, connecting with the approaches.  (b)  to  purchase  from  the  persons,  partnerships,  associations or corporations who were the owners of any land acquired for  the  widening of  existing  roads,  streets,  parkways  or  avenues  or for new roads, streets, parkways or avenues connecting with the approaches  or  of  any interest  in  such land at the date title to such land was vested in the city in any  proceeding  heretofore  or  hereafter  instituted  for  the acquisition  thereof  by  condemnation,  or  from  their  successors  in interest or legal representatives, their right, title,  interest  and/or claim  in  and  to the award or awards or any part thereof to be made in such proceeding after  the  date  of  such  purchase,  and  to  take  an assignment thereof to the authority, provided, however, that in the case of  the  Robert  F.  Kennedy  bridge  project  and the Whitestone bridge project the aggregate amount expended by the authority on account of all such purchases together with the aggregate amount paid to  the  city  in accordance  with  paragraph  (a)  of  this subdivision, shall not exceed thirty-five per centum of the cost (including  awards  for  damages  and expenses) of the acquisition of land for the widening of existing roads, streets,  parkways  or  avenues, and for new roads, streets, parkways or avenues, connecting with the approaches,  (c) to construct, in whole or in part,  an  elevated  parkway  in  the borough  of  Brooklyn  from  the southerly terminus of the Gowanus creek bridge project to a point at or near Owls Head park connecting with  the Gowanus creek bridge project, and  (d)  with  the  consent  of  the city to construct and develop for the purpose of public parks so much of the area of  lands,  selected  as  in this title provided, or otherwise acquired or to be acquired and used in connection  with  the  project  and with new or existing roads, streets, parkways or avenues connecting with such projects, and so  much  of  the area  of  lands now owned by the city to be used in connection with such projects or with new or existing roads,  streets,  parkways  or  avenues connecting  with such projects, as shall be agreed upon under a contract or contracts hereby authorized to be entered into between the  authority and  the  city,  at  the  sole  expense  of the authority and done under construction contracts let and supervised by the authority, pursuant  to plans  and specifications prepared by the authority, the commissioner of parks and recreation of the city or other agency.   The city shall maintain such connecting roads, streets,  parkways  and avenues  as  provided  by  law. The public parks and the parkways herein referred to as connecting with the approaches, any part of the  cost  of which  is  paid by the authority, shall be under the jurisdiction of the department of parks and recreation of the city and shall  be  maintained by  that department. Service roads appurtenant to said parkways shall be under the jurisdiction of the city commissioner  of  transportation  and shall be maintained by him;   11.  To  design  and  with  the  consent of the city, to construct new parks, parkways or highways or improvements to existing parks,  parkways or highways either connecting directly or indirectly with the project or for  the  purpose  of  attracting  or  facilitating traffic or improving approaches to and connections with the project. The authority shall have no jurisdiction or control over any  new  parks,  parkways  or  highways constructed  by  it  pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph eleven after the completion of the construction  thereof.  The  general  powers conferred  in this subdivision eleven shall include the power heretofore conferred on the parkway authority to construct a northerly extension of Cross Bay parkway in the borough of Queens, as  authorized  in  sections  two  hundred  seventy-eight,  two  hundred  eighty-two-a and two hundred eighty-two-b of this chapter, and  such  general  powers  shall  not  be construed to be limited by the provisions of this act granting the power to  construct  any  particular improvement, but shall be construed as an extension of the powers of the authority.   12. To charge tolls, fees or rentals  for  the  use  of  the  project, subject to and in accordance with such agreement with bondholders as may be  made  as hereinafter provided. The toll rates charged for the use of either the Triborough or Whitestone bridge project shall, however, never be less than the toll rates charged for the use of the other,  and  this clause shall be deemed an obligation to the holders of any and all bonds at  any time issued secured by the revenues of said projects. Subject to contracts with bondholders, all tolls and other  revenues  derived  from any project shall be applied to the payment of operating, administration and  other  necessary  expenses  of the authority properly chargeable to such project and thereafter to the payment of interest or  principal  of bonds  or  for  making  sinking  fund  payments for bonds, not otherwise adequately provided for, whether issued in connection with such  project or any other project. It is the intention hereof that surplus funds from any  project remaining after providing for the payment of all operating, administration and other necessary expenses of  the  authority  and  all contract  provisions  with  respect  to  any  bonds, may be used to meet obligations incurred for other projects and if not so used  or  reserved for  such  use  shall,  at the discretion of metropolitan transportation authority, be transferred to metropolitan  transportation  authority  or New  York  city  transit  authority  pursuant  to  section  five hundred sixty-nine-c of this title. Subject to contracts with  bondholders,  the authority  may  treat  one  or  more  projects as a single enterprise in respect of revenues,  expenses,  the  issuance  of  bonds,  maintenance, operation or other purposes;   12-a.  To  establish and charge variable tolls, fees and other charges for vehicles entering or remaining within the central business  district and to make rules and regulations for the collection of such tolls, fees and other charges, subject to and in accordance with such agreement with bondholders  and  applicable  federal  law as may be made as hereinafter provided. Subject to agreements with bondholders and applicable  federal law,  all  tolls,  fees  and  other  revenues  derived  from the central business district tolling program shall be applied  to  the  payment  of operating, administration, and other necessary expenses of the authority properly  allocable to such program, including the capital costs of such program, and to the payment of interest or principal of bonds, notes  or other  obligations  of  the authority or the metropolitan transportation authority issued for  transit  and  commuter  projects  as  provided  in section  five  hundred  fifty-three-j  of  this  title, and shall not be subject to distribution under section five hundred sixty-nine-c of  this title  or  section  twelve  hundred  nineteen-a  of  this  chapter.  The provisions of section twenty-eight hundred four of  this  chapter  shall not  be  applicable  to  the tolls and fees established by the authority pursuant to this subdivision. Any such fares, tolls, and  other  charges shall  be  established and changed only if approved by resolution of the authority adopted by not less than a majority vote of the  whole  number of members of the authority then in office, with the chairman having one additional  vote  in  the  event  of a tie vote, and only after a public hearing.   13. To construct and maintain over, under, along or across the project telephone, telegraph, or electric wires and  cables,  gas  mains,  water mains   and   other  mechanical  equipment  not  inconsistent  with  the appropriate use of the project, to contract for such construction and to  lease the right to construct and/or use the same on such terms  and  for such  considerations  as  it shall determine, provided, however, that no lease shall be made except with the approval of the board of estimate of the  city,  or for a period of more than twenty years from the date when it is made;   14.  To  construct  and  maintain  facilities  for  the  public,   not inconsistent  with  the  use  of  the  project,  to  contract  for  such construction, and to lease  the  right  to  construct  and/or  use  such facilities  on  such  terms  and  for  such  considerations  as it shall determine, provided, however, that no lease shall be made for  a  period of  more  than  five years from the date when it is made except with the approval of the board of estimate of the city;   15. To issue negotiable bonds and to provide for  the  rights  of  the holders thereof;   16.  To  enter  on  any lands, waters, and premises for the purpose of making surveys, soundings and examinations;   16-a. With the consent of  the  city  and  notwithstanding  any  other provision  of  law,  whenever  real  property  having dwellings or other structures thereon has been acquired by the authority or  the  city  for the purpose of constructing any project authorized by this title, (a) to acquire  real  property by purchase, gift, devise or condemnation in the manner provided in this title, and as the agent of  the  city,  for  the purpose  of  providing  new  sites  on  which  such  dwellings  or other structures may be  relocated;  (b)  to  sell  such  dwellings  or  other structures  or to provide for the removal, relocation and improvement of such dwellings or other structures on new foundations at such new  sites by  contract  or  by its own labor force or by a combination of methods; (c) to contract for the installation of water, sewer, gas and electrical facilities and other necessary appurtenances required for the completion and restoration of such dwellings or other structures; (d) to  landscape such  new sites; (e) to contract with any person, firm or corporation or with the city for the improvement or installation  of  streets,  sewers, water  lines  or  other  facilities in connection with the relocation of such dwellings or other structures and to pay the cost thereof;  (f)  to contract  with the several owners of such property for the conveyance of the new sites with improvements thereon to such owner in  settlement  in part  or  in  whole  of  the  compensation  and damage to which they are entitled; and (g) to sell such sites with or without dwellings or  other structures and improvements thereon.   The  authority  may  agree  with  the  owners of property acquired, in settlement in part or  in  whole  of  the  damages  to  which  they  are entitled, to compensate such owners for the cost of acquiring new sites, removing  dwellings  thereto  on  new  foundations,  the installation of water,  sewer,  gas  and  electrical  facilities  and  other   necessary appurtenances required for the complete restoration of such dwellings or other structures and landscaping of the new site.   For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "structures" shall mean and  include buildings used as and for hospitals, schools, community and religious institutions, cultural and recreational and other neighborhood and community facilities, but shall exclude retail stores, factories and commercial and industrial establishments of any kind.   17. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out  the  powers expressly  given  in  this  title  and  to assist and cooperate with the metropolitan transportation authority to carry out  the  powers  of  the metropolitan transportation authority in furtherance of the purposes and powers  of the authority as provided in this article, including, without limitation,  the  transactions  described  in  sections  twelve  hundred  sixty-six-c,  twelve hundred sixty-nine, and twelve hundred seventy-d of this chapter.   18.  A  copy  of  any  report  submitted  by the authority pursuant to sections twenty-eight hundred, twenty-eight hundred one and twenty-eight hundred two of this chapter shall be submitted contemporaneously to  the mayor of the city.   19.  To  acquire in its own name certain real or personal property, or any interest therein, including leasehold interests, air and  subsurface rights,  easements  and  lands under water at a site located in New York county and generally  bounded  by  thirty-third  street  on  the  north, thirtieth  street  on  the  south, tenth avenue on the east and eleventh avenue on the west, such property or any interest therein to be acquired for railroad or other corporate purposes, and in the event such real  or personal property or any interest therein is determined by the authority to  be  unnecessary  for  railroad or other corporate purposes, to sell, convey or lease in its own name such real or personal  property  or  any interest therein.   20.  Prior  to  the  adoption  after  January  first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven by the authority of a general resolution pursuant to  which it  is  authorized  to  issue any general or special obligation bonds or notes to finance a project pursuant to the  authorization  contained  in paragraph  (r)  of  subdivision  nine of this section, not including any series resolution or resolutions, and  prior  to  the  adoption  of  any amendment  to  a general resolution, whenever adopted, pursuant to which it is authorized to issue any general or  special  obligation  bonds  or notes   for   such   purpose,  not  including  a  series  resolution  or resolutions,  the  authority  shall  submit  a  copy  of  such  proposed resolution  to the metropolitan transportation authority capital program review board (hereinafter referred to as the  "board").  Within  fifteen days  of  such  submission,  the  board  may notify the authority of its unanimous approval of the same by the members entitled to vote  thereon, or  if  the  resolution  is not approved and no individual member of the board who is entitled to  vote  on  such  resolution  has  notified  the authority  in writing of his disapproval, the resolution shall be deemed to have been approved. Neither the board nor any  member  thereof  shall disapprove a proposed resolution by reason of any covenant requiring the authority  to charge and fix tolls, rentals and other charges sufficient to pay its operating  expenses  and  the  debt  service,  including  the funding of requisite reserves, on the bonds and notes authorized by such resolution.  If the board or any member thereof entitled to vote thereon shall disapprove a proposed resolution, the authority may, at any  time, resubmit a reformulated resolution. Within ten days of the submission of such  reformulated  resolution the board may notify the authority of its unanimous approval of the same by the members entitled to vote  thereon, or,  if  the  reformulated  resolution is not approved and no individual member of the board who is entitled to vote  thereon  has  notified  the authority  in  writing  of  his  disapproval  within  such  period,  the reformulated resolution shall have been deemed to  have  been  approved. Any  individual  member of the board who votes against a resolution or a reformulated resolution or who notifies the authority of his disapproval shall  state  his  reasons  therefor.  The  member  appointed   on   the recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York shall participate in the  action of the board with respect to any resolution of the authority submitted pursuant to this subdivision. The authority shall not adopt  a resolution  or any amendment to a resolution disapproved by the board as herein provided.   21. To invest any funds, accounts or other  monies  not  required  for immediate  use  or  disbursement, at the discretion of the authority, in  any  of  the  investments  in  which  the  metropolitan   transportation authority is permitted to invest its monies pursuant to subdivision four of section twelve hundred sixty-five of this chapter.   * 22.  Section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine of this chapter shall apply to the authority's acquisition of goods or services of  any  kind, in  the  actual or estimated amount of fifteen thousand dollars or more, provided that (i) a contract for services in  the  actual  or  estimated amount  of  less  than  one  hundred  thousand dollars shall not require approval by the board of the authority regardless of the length  of  the period over which the services are rendered, and provided further that a contract  for  services in the actual or estimated amount of one hundred thousand dollars or more shall require approval  by  the  board  of  the authority regardless of the length of the period over which the services are rendered unless such a contract is awarded to the lowest responsible bidder  after  obtaining sealed bids and (ii) the board of the authority may by resolution adopt guidelines that authorize the award of contracts to small business concerns, to service disabled veteran owned businesses certified pursuant to article  seventeen-b  of  the  executive  law,  or minority  or  women-owned  business  enterprises  certified  pursuant to article fifteen-a of  the  executive  law,  or  purchases  of  goods  or technology  that  are  recycled  or  remanufactured, in an amount not to exceed four  hundred  thousand  dollars  without  a  formal  competitive process  and  without further board approval. The board of the authority shall adopt guidelines which shall be made publicly  available  for  the awarding of such contract without a formal competitive process.   * NB Repealed April 1, 2024