NY Pub Auth L § 3554 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 10-C - New York Health Care Corporations Title 4 - Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation Act 3554 - General Powers of the Corporation.

§  3554.  General powers of the corporation. Except as limited by this   title, the public  health  law,  the  mental  hygiene  law,  the  social   services law, the education law, the civil practice law and rules or any   other applicable law or regulation, the corporation shall have power:1.  to  sue and be sued and to participate in actions and proceedings,   whether judicial, administrative, arbitrative or otherwise  and,  except   as  is  otherwise  provided  in  subdivision four of section thirty-five   hundred sixty-one  of  this  title,  the  court  of  claims  shall  have   exclusive  jurisdiction in all actions against the corporation for money   damages;2. to have a corporate seal, and to alter such seal at  pleasure,  and   to  use  it  by  causing it or a facsimile to be affixed or impressed or   reproduced in any other manner;3. to purchase, receive, take  by  grant,  gift,  devise,  bequest  or   otherwise,  lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use   and otherwise deal in and  with,  real  or  personal  property,  or  any   interest therein, wherever situated;4.  to  purchase,  take, receive, subscribe for, or otherwise acquire,   own, hold, vote, employ,  sell,  lend,  lease,  exchange,  transfer,  or   otherwise  dispose  of,  mortgage, pledge, use and otherwise deal in and   with, bonds and  other  obligations,  shares,  or  other  securities  or   interests  issued  by  others,  whether  engaged in similar or different   business, governmental, or other activities;5. to accept subventions from other persons or any unit of government;6. to sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of,   or mortgage or pledge, or create a security interest in, all or  any  of   its  property,  or  any  interest  therein, wherever situated, upon such   terms and conditions  and  in  such  manner  as  the  corporation  shall   determine;7. to make capital contributions to other not-for-profit corporations;8.  (a)  to  offer  participation  in  the  New  York  state and local   employees' retirement system for all its officers and employees, and  to   establish  and  carry  out other retirement plans authorized pursuant to   the retirement and social security law, which may be offered to  all  of   its  officers  and employees not participating in the New York state and   local employees' retirement systems, and  to  establish  and  carry  out   other  incentive and benefit plans, trusts and provisions for any or all   of its officers and employees, subject to the applicable  provisions  of   article  fourteen  of the civil service law; (b) provided, further, that   employees of the corporation established pursuant to section thirty-five   hundred fifty-three of this article  who  are  division  and  department   chairpersons holding scientific degrees, scientific faculty members such   as assistant members, associate members, members, distinguished members,   or  who have graduate faculty status at the level of assistant professor   or above at the Roswell Park graduate division of the  state  university   of  New  York  at  Buffalo and as certified by the dean of the division,   facility directors, and those  employees  who  are  in  titles  such  as   president  and  chief  executive  officer,  senior  vice president, vice   president, assistant vice  president,  general  counsel,  and  executive   director,  and who are eligible to participate in the New York state and   local employees' retirement system may elect, within ninety days of  the   effective  date  of  this  paragraph  or  within ninety days of becoming   eligible to participate in such system, in lieu of participating in such   system, to participate in the optional retirement program  available  to   employees  of  the  state  university  of  New  York pursuant to article   eight-B of the education law, subject to the  terms  and  conditions  of   that article and to the provisions of the retirement and social security   law; 9.  to  be  a promoter, partner, member, associate or manager of other   not-for-profit activities or business enterprises or ventures, or to the   extent permitted in any other jurisdiction  to  be  an  incorporator  of   other corporations of any type or kind;10.  except  as limited by state law or regulation, to fix, compromise   and collect rates, rentals, fees, lease payments and other  charges  for   the  services  rendered  by  it  or  for  use  of  the facilities owned,   controlled or administered by, or in the exercise of the powers of,  the   corporation;11.  to  make contracts, give guarantees and incur liabilities, borrow   money at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine,  issue   notes, bonds and other obligations, and secure any of its obligations by   mortgage  or  pledge  of  all  or  any  of  its property or any interest   therein, wherever situated;12. to issue bonds for any of its corporate purposes or its  projects,   or  to  refund  the  same,  and to provide for the rights of the holders   thereof;13. to lend money, invest and reinvest its funds, and  take  and  hold   real  and  personal  property  as  security  for the payment of funds so   loaned or invested;14. to conduct the activities of the corporation and have offices  and   exercise  the powers granted by this title in any jurisdiction within or   without the United States;15. to appoint such officers, employees and agents as the  corporation   may require for the performance of its duties and, subject to applicable   provisions  of agreements negotiated pursuant to article fourteen of the   civil service law, to fix and determine  their  qualifications,  duties,   and compensation;16.  to  retain or employ counsel, auditors, and engineers, subject to   applicable provisions  of  agreements  negotiated  pursuant  to  article   fourteen  of  the  civil  service  law  where  appropriate  and, private   consultants on a contract basis or otherwise for rendering professional,   management or technical services and advice;17. to make, adopt, amend, enforce and repeal rules for its governance   and internal management and  personnel  practices,  subject  to  article   fourteen of the civil service law, where applicable;18.  to  make  and  alter by-laws for its organization and management,   and, subject to agreements with its bondholders, to make and alter rules   and regulations governing the exercise of its powers and the fulfillment   of its purposes under this title;19. to designate the depositories of its money;20. to establish its fiscal year;21. to insure or  otherwise  to  provide  for  the  insurance  of  the   corporation's property or operations and against such other risks as the   corporation may deem advisable; and22.  to  do  all  things necessary, convenient or desirable, including   ancillary and incidental activities, to carry out its purposes  and  for   the exercise of the powers granted in this title.