2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 10-C - New York Health Care Corporations › Title 1 - Westchester County Health Care Corporation › 3305 - General Powers of the Corporation.

§  3305.  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  or  any  other  applicable  law  or
regulation, the corporation shall have power:
1. to sue and be sued;
2. to have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3. to borrow money and 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;
4. 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;
5. (a) to acquire by purchase, grant, lease, gift, or otherwise and to
hold  and  use  property necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
its corporate purposes, and to sell, convey,  mortgage,  lease,  pledge,
exchange or otherwise dispose of any such property in such manner as the
corporation shall determine;
(b)  to  acquire  by  condemnation  pursuant  to the provisions of the
eminent domain procedures  law  any  real  property  within  Westchester
county  required  by  the corporation to carry out the powers granted by
this title with the approval of both the county board of legislators and
the county executive;
6. to acquire, construct, lease,  expand,  improve,  maintain,  equip,
furnish,  operate  one  or  more  projects  and, if necessary, to pay or
finance the cost thereof;
7. to accept  gifts,  grants,  loans  or  contributions  of  funds  or
property  or  financial  or  other  aid in any form from, and enter into
contracts or other transactions with, the federal government, the  state
or  any  public  corporation  or  any  other source, and to use any such
gifts, grants, loans or contributions for any of its corporate purposes;
8. to grant options to renew any lease with respect to any project  or
projects  and  to  grant options to buy any project at such price as the
corporation may deem desirable;
9. to designate the depositories of its money;
10. to establish its fiscal year;
11. to enter into contracts and to execute all  instruments  necessary
or  convenient or desirable for the purposes of the corporation to carry
out any powers expressly given to it in this title;
12. to appoint such officers, employees and agents as the  corporation
may  require  for the performance of its duties and to fix and determine
their qualifications, duties, and compensation subject to the provisions
of the civil  service  law  and  any  applicable  collective  bargaining
agreement,  and  to  retain  or  employ counsel, auditors, engineers and
private consultants on a  contract  basis  or  otherwise  for  rendering
professional, management or technical services and advice;
13.  to  use  employees,  agents,  consultants  and  facilities of the
county, paying the county its agreed proportion of the  compensation  or
costs pursuant to an agreement with the county;
14. to make and adopt plans, surveys and studies necessary, convenient
or  desirable  to  the  effectuation  of  the purposes and powers of the
corporation and to prepare recommendations in regard thereto;
15. except as limited by state law or regulation, to fix  and  collect
rates,  rentals,  fees and other charges for the services rendered by or
for use of the facilities or in  the  exercise  of  the  powers  of  the
corporation;
16. to enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of
the  corporation  may  be  necessary,  convenient  or  desirable for the

purpose of  making  surveys,  soundings,  borings  and  examinations  to
accomplish  any purpose  authorized by this title, the corporation being
liable for actual damage done;
17.  the corporation may covenant and consent that the interest on any
of its bonds or notes issued pursuant to this title shall be includable,
under the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as  amended  (the
"code")  or  any  subsequent  corresponding  internal revenue law of the
United States, in gross income of the holders of the bonds or  notes  to
the  same  extent  and  in  the  same manner that the interest on bills,
bonds, notes or other obligations of the United States is includable  in
the  gross  income  of  the  holders  thereof under the code or any such
subsequent law;
18. to insure or  otherwise  to  provide  for  the  insurance  of  the
corporation's  property  or  operations  and  also contract against such
other risks  as  the  corporation  may  deem  advisable,  including  the
interest  rate  risk  for  obligations  it  issues bearing interest at a
floating or otherwise adjustable rate which  prevents  the  actual  rate
over  the  term  of  the  debt from being ascertained at the date of its
incurrence, and including the power to make any  payments  with  respect
thereto; and
19.  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.