2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-L - Oneida County Sports Facility Authority Act › 2052-E - Appropriations for Purposes of the Authority; Transfer of Property to Authority; Acquisition of Property by County or Other Municipality for Authority

§  2052-e.  Appropriations  for purposes of the authority; transfer of
  property to authority;  acquisition  of  property  by  county  or  other
  municipality for authority; contracts with county or other municipality;
  use  of  Murnane  Field by Utica city school district. 1. In addition to
  any powers granted to it by law, the county board of legislators, or the
  finance board, as such term is defined in the local finance law, of  any
  other  municipality in the county may, from time to time, appropriate by
  resolution sums of money for purposes of the authority to defray project
  costs or any other costs and expenses of the authority or to pay amounts
  payable or anticipated to be payable to the authority  pursuant  to  any
  contract  or  lease  authorized  by  this  title.  Such  county board of
  legislators or finance board may determine if the moneys so appropriated
  shall be subject to  repayment  by  the  authority  to  the  appropriate
  municipality  and,  in such event, the manner and time or times for such
  repayment. In the event there shall remain at the end of any fiscal year
  of the county or any such municipality an unexpended balance of any such
  appropriation, such unexpended balance shall remain on  deposit  in  the
  fund or account and such appropriation shall not lapse.
2.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of any other law, general, special
  or local to the contrary, real property acquired by the  authority,  the
  county  or  any  other  municipality  from the state may be used for any
  corporate purpose of the authority.
3. The county, one or more municipalities and the authority shall have
  the power to contract, from time to time, between or  among  themselves,
  in  relation to the use of the project of the authority, which contracts
  may include any or all of the following provisions:  (a)  requiring  the
  use  of  such project by the county or such municipality for a specified
  period of time; (b) limiting the right, including a prohibition, of  the
  county  or  any  such  municipality to construct a sports facility which
  will serve the same, or substantially the same, function as the  project
  owned,  leased  or  to  be  constructed  or leased by the authority; (c)
  providing for specified minimum  periodic  payments  whether  or  not  a
  project  is  actually  used, subject to such limitations, exceptions and
  provisions  therein;  and  (d)  requiring  the  county   or   any   such
  municipality  to pay to the authority such amounts as shall be necessary
  to assure the continued operation of the authority.  All  such  payments
  shall  be determined and paid in such manner and at such times as may be
  provided in such contracts.
4.  Any  gift,  grant,  sale,  conveyance,  loan,  contract  or  lease
  authorized  by  this  section may be made or entered into by the county,
  any other such municipality and/or  the  authority  and  no  such  gift,
  grant,  sale,  conveyance,  loan,  contract or lease shall be subject to
  referendum, permissive or otherwise.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law,  general,  special
  or  local  to  the  contrary,  the  authority shall allow the Utica city
  school district to use Murnane Field, and the Utica city school district
  shall be authorized to use Murnane Field, for the use of  its  students,
  subject  only  to  general rules for the use of such sports facility and
  reasonable  scheduling  requirements,  without  charge  to  said  school
  district,  except for reimbursement of actual expenses occasioned by its
  use.