2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 7 - Parking Authorities › Title 7* - Endicott Parking Authority › 1553*2 - Purpose and Powers of the Authority.

* §  1553.  Purpose  and  powers  of the authority. The purpose of the
  authority shall be to  construct,  operate  and  maintain  one  or  more
  projects  in the village. To carry out said purpose, 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  purchase  prospective  or  tentative
  awards in connection with the condemnation of real property;
4.  To acquire in the name of the village by purchase or condemnation,
  and use necessary real property.  All  real  property  acquired  by  the
  authority  by  condemnation  shall be acquired in the manner provided in
  the  condemnation  law  or  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the
  condemnation of land by the village;
5.  To  make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs,
  and, subject to agreements with bondholders, for the regulation  of  the
  project;
6.  With  the  consent  of  the  village to use agents, employees, and
  facilities of the village, paying to the village its  agreed  proportion
  of the compensation or costs;
7.  To  appoint  officers,  agents  and  employees, to prescribe their
  qualifications and to fix their compensation; subject, however,  to  the
  provisions of the civil service law, as hereinafter provided;
8.  To appoint an attorney, who may be the corporation counsel, and to
  fix his compensation;
9. To make contracts  and  leases,  and  to  execute  all  instruments
  necessary or convenient;
10.  To  construct such buildings, structures and facilities as may be
  necessary;
11. To reconstruct, improve, maintain and operate the projects:
12. To accept grants, loans or contributions from the  United  States,
  the  state  of  New  York, or any agency or instrumentality of either of
  them, or the village, or an individual, by bequest or otherwise, and  to
  expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;
13.  To fix and collect rentals, fees and other charges for the use of
  the projects or any of them subject  to  and  in  accordance  with  such
  agreements with bondholders as may be made as hereinafter provided;
14.  To  construct, operate or maintain in the projects all facilities
  necessary or convenient in connection therewith; and to contract for the
  construction, operation or maintenance  of  any  parts  thereof  or  for
  services  to be performed; to rent parts thereof, and grant concessions,
  all on such terms and conditions as it may determine; provided, however,
  that neither the authority, the village of Endicott, or  any  agency  of
  the  authority  or  village,  or  any  other person, firm or corporation
  shall, within or on any  property  comprising  a  part  of  any  project
  authorized by this title, sell, dispense or otherwise handle any product
  used  in  or for the servicing of any motor vehicle using any project or
  facility authorized by this section; provided further, that the location
  of sites of the projects shall be subject to the prior approval  of  the
  board of trustees of the village.
* NB Dissolved December 31, 1977
* NB There are 2 § 1553's