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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2621 - Annual Report.

§ 2621. Annual report. The authority shall submit to the governor, the
  chairman  of  the senate finance committee, the chairman of the assembly
  ways and means committee, the comptroller, the director of  the  budget,
  the  supervisor  of the town of Johnsburg, the supervisor of the town of
  Shandaken, the supervisor of the town of Middletown, and the  supervisor
  of the town of North Elba within ninety days after the end of its fiscal
  year,  a  complete and detailed report setting forth: (1) its operations
  and accomplishments and (2) its receipts and  expenditures  during  such
  fiscal  year  in  accordance  with  the  categories  or  classifications
  established by the  authority  for  its  operating  and  capital  outlay
  purposes.  Such report shall not be required to be submitted in print if
  the recipient of the report agrees to accept such report  in  electronic
  format.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2622 - Actions.

§  2622.  Actions.  1. In any case founded upon tort a notice of claim
  shall be required as a condition precedent to  the  commencement  of  an
  action  or  special  proceeding  against  the  authority or any officer,
  appointee or employee thereof, and the provisions of section fifty-e  of
  the general municipal law shall govern the giving of such notice.
2.  Except  in  an  action  for  wrongful  death,  no  action shall be
  commenced (a) prior to the expiration of thirty days from  the  date  on
  which  the  demand claim or claims upon which the action is founded were
  presented to  a  member  of  the  authority  or  other  officer  thereof
  designated  for such purpose; nor (b) more than one year and ninety days
  after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued. An action against
  the authority for wrongful death shall be commenced in  accordance  with
  the  notice  of  claim and time limitation provisions of title eleven of
  article nine of this chapter.
3. The venue of any action or proceeding against the authority or  its
  members,  officers, employees or agents, or in which any question arises
  as to the validity of any section of this act,  shall  be  laid  in  the
  county in which the principal office of the authority is located.
4.  Notwithstanding  subdivision  three  of  this  section,  exclusive
  jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the court of claims  to  hear  and
  determine  any  claim  of  any  person  brought  hereafter  against  the
  authority to recover damages for injuries to property  or  for  personal
  injury   arising   out   of  the  operation  by  the  authority  of  any
  participating olympic facility owned by the state or  of  the  Belleayre
  Mountain  ski  center  or  of  the Gore mountain ski center, in the same
  manner and to the extent provided and subject to the provisions  of  the
  court  of  claims  act  with respect to claims against the state, and to
  make awards and render judgments therefor. The  payment  of  awards  and
  judgments  for  any such claims brought in the supreme court pursuant to
  this title or in the court of claims shall be made  from  appropriations
  for  judgments against the state pursuant to section twenty of the court
  of claims act.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2623 - Limitation of Liability.

§  2623.  Limitation  of  liability.  1.  Neither  the  members of the
  authority, nor any person or persons acting in its behalf, while  acting
  within  the  scope  of their authority, shall be subject to any personal
  liability resulting from carrying out any of the powers of this title.
2. The provisions of section seventeen  of  the  public  officers  law
  shall  apply  to  members,  officers,  and  employees  and agents of the
  authority in connection with any and all claims, demands, suits, actions
  or proceedings which may be made or brought against any of them  arising
  out of any determination made or actions taken or omitted to be taken in
  compliance  with  any obligations under or pursuant to the terms of this
  title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2624 - Exemption From Taxation.

§  2624.  Exemption from taxation. 1. It is hereby determined that the
  creation of the authority and the conduct of its corporate  purposes  is
  in  all  respects  for  the  benefit of the people of this state and the
  United States, and is a public  purpose,  and  the  authority  shall  be
  regarded  as  performing  a governmental function in the exercise of the
  powers conferred upon it by this title.
2. The authority, its operations, property and moneys  shall  be  free
  from  taxation  of  every  kind  and nature by a public corporation, the
  state and any subdivision thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2625 - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Laws Superseded.

§  2625.  Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded. Insofar as
  the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions of any
  other law, general, special or local, the provisions of this title shall
  be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2627 - Separability.

§  2627.  Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
  part of  this  title  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or
  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section  or  part  thereof  directly
  involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  such judgment shall have been
  rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28 - New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority › 2628 - Temporary Assignment and Transfer of Employees.

§  2628.  Temporary  assignment and transfer of employees. Whenever in
  the opinion of the authority it would be in the public interest, it may,
  after prior  approval  of  the  director  of  the  budget,  request  the
  temporary  assignment  and  transfer  of certain employees of any board,
  commission,  agency  or  department  of  the  state  or  its   political
  subdivisions, and said board, commission, agency or department shall, if
  in  its opinion such transfer will not interfere with the performance of
  its duties and functions, make such  assignment  and  transfer  of  said
  employees  to  the  authority  for  a period of up to one year, with one
  extension of one year permitted if the authority so  requests  and  said
  board,  commission,  agency or department which permanently employs such
  person consents. Such assignment and transfer or extension thereof shall
  not in any way affect the civil service status, continuity  of  service,
  retirement plan status, rights to compensation, grade or compensation or
  other  rights or privileges of any employee so transferred. Any employee
  transferred under the authority of this section shall be paid  as  total
  reimbursement  for  expenses in the course of their duties incurred only
  the actual and necessary expenses incurred up to the  maximum  rates  as
  established by the New York state department of audit and control.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2631 - Definitions.

§  2631.  Definitions.  As  used  in  this  title,  unless the context
  otherwise requires:
1. "Commission" shall  mean  the  Hudson-Mohawk  urban  cultural  park
  commission   created  pursuant  to  section  two  thousand  six  hundred
  thirty-two of this title.
2. "Board" shall mean the members of the commission.
3.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  the  cities  of  Troy,   Cohoes   and
  Watervliet,  the  town of Waterford and the villages of Green Island and
  Waterford.
4. "Management plan" shall mean the management plan prepared  pursuant
  to section 35.05 of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law.
5.  "Urban  cultural park" shall mean the Hudson-Mohawk urban cultural
  park designated pursuant to section 35.03 of the parks,  recreation  and
  historic  preservation  law  and recognized pursuant to section 13.27 of
  such law.
6. "Bonds" shall mean the bonds authorized by this title.
7. "Project" shall mean any land, any building or  other  improvement,
  and  all real and personal properties located within or partially within
  and partially without the urban cultural  park  for  whose  benefit  the
  commission  is  created, including but not limited to, facilities deemed
  necessary or desirable in connection therewith, whether or  not  now  in
  existence,  which  may  include  a  recreational,  educational  or urban
  cultural facility, a transportation or service facility related  to  the
  plans  and  needs  of  the  urban cultural park or any economic use in a
  facility, the preservation of which is a feature of the  urban  cultural
  park.
8.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures, franchises, and
  interest in lands, and any and all things usually  included  within  the
  said  term,  and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and
  all lesser interest, such as easements, rights  of  way,  uses,  leases,
  licenses,  and  all  other  incorporeal  hereditaments and every estate,
  interest or right, legal or equitable, including  terms  of  years,  and
  liens  thereon  by  way  of  judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and also
  claims for damage to real estate, in the  area  of  the  urban  cultural
  park.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2632 - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission.

§  2632. Hudson-Mohawk urban cultural park commission. A commission to
be known as the "Hudson-Mohawk urban cultural park commission" is hereby
created.
1. Such commission shall be a body corporate and politic, constituting
a public benefit corporation.
2. The commission shall have a board of directors which shall  consist
of ten voting members, as follows:
(a) The mayor of the city of Troy.
(b) The mayor of the village of Waterford.
(c) The supervisor of the town of Waterford.
(d) The mayor of the city of Cohoes.
(e) The mayor of the village of Green Island.
(f) The mayor of the city of Watervliet.
(g) The supervisor of the town of Colonie.
(h)  A  resident  official or employee of Saratoga county appointed by
and serving at the pleasure of the board of supervisors of such county.
(i) The county executive of Rensselaer county.
(j) The county executive of Albany county.
The commissioner of the  office  of  parks,  recreation  and  historic
preservation  shall be a non-voting member of the board. Each member may
designate a representative to participate  in  his  place.  The  members
shall   choose   from   their  number  a  chairman,  vice-chairman,  and
secretary-treasurer.  Six of the board's voting members shall constitute
a quorum. The members of the board shall be entitled to no  compensation
for  their  services  but  shall  be entitled to reimbursement for their
actual and necessary expenses  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their
official  duties. The voting powers of the commission shall be vested in
and exercised by a majority of the members of the board.  Such board may
delegate to one or more of its members or to its  officers,  agents  and
employees such powers and duties as it may deem proper.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2634 - Cooperation With Municipalities.

§  2634.  Cooperation  with  municipalities.  1.  The  commission is a
  cooperative regional organization of six municipalities to implement and
  manage an urban cultural park encompassing all or part of each of  their
  territory  and  based  upon  the mutual assent and participation of each
  municipality. The activities of the commission shall be coordinated with
  the local planning, cultural and park activities of  each  municipality.
  No real property may be acquired or project undertaken by the commission
  in  a  municipality  without the written approval for such action of the
  member of the board from such municipality.
2. Each municipality may provide the commission with the  services  of
  its  agents, employees and facilities without charge to the corporation.
  Persons serving as officers  or  employees  of  the  commission  may  be
  employees  of  a  municipality and the commission, in such case, may pay
  the municipality an agreed portion of the compensation or costs.
3. For purposes of implementing the management  plan,  any  individual
  municipality  may  act with the agreement of the commission to carry out
  an individual project in its own name or acquire  real  property  for  a
  project  in  the  name  of the commission at the cost and expense of the
  commission. In case the commission shall have the use and  occupancy  of
  any  real  property which it shall determine is no longer required for a
  project then, if such property was acquired at the cost and expense of a
  municipality, the commission shall have the power to surrender  its  use
  and occupancy thereof to the municipality, or, if such real property was
  acquired  at the cost and expense of the commission, then the commission
  shall have power to sell,  lease  or  otherwise  dispose  of  said  real
  property  at public sale, and shall retain and have the power to use the
  proceeds of sale, rentals, or other moneys derived from the  disposition
  thereof for its purposes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2635 - Civil Service Status of Officers and Employees.

§  2635.  Civil service status of officers and employees. Officers and
  employees of any board, commission or department of the municipality may
  be transferred to the commission in accordance with  the  provisions  of
  the  civil  service  law  and  shall  be  eligible for such transfer and
  appointment without examination  to  offices  and  positions  under  the
  commission.  Officers  and  employees  of  the  city  who are members or
  beneficiaries  of  any  existing  pension  or  retirement  system  shall
  continue  to  have  the  rights, privileges, obligations and status with
  respect to such system or systems as are now prescribed by law, and  all
  such  employees  who  have been appointed to positions in the service of
  the city under the rules of the municipal civil  service  commission  of
  the  municipality  shall have the same status with respect thereto after
  transfer  to  the  commission  as  they   had   under   their   original
  appointments.  The  appointment  and  promotion  of all employees of the
  commission shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the  civil
  service  law  and  the  rules of the appropriate municipal civil service
  commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2636 - Moneys of the Commission.

§  2636.  Moneys  of the commission. All moneys of the commission from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to  the  treasurer  and  shall  be
  deposited  forthwith  in one or more banks and/or trust companies in the
  state designated by the commission. The moneys in such accounts shall be
  paid out on checks of the treasurer upon requisition by the chairman  of
  the  commission  or  of such other officer or officers as the commission
  may authorize to make such requisitions. All  deposits  of  such  moneys
  shall be secured by obligations of or guaranteed by the United States of
  America  or  of  the  state  of a market value equal at all times to the
  amount on deposit and all banks and trust companies  are  authorized  to
  give  such  security for such deposits. Any moneys of the commission not
  required for immediate use or disbursement may, at the discretion of the
  commission, be invested in those obligations specified pursuant  to  the
  provisions of section ninety-eight-a of the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2637 - Tax Exemptions.

§  2637.  Tax exemptions. It is hereby determined that the creation of
  the commission and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in  all
  respects  for  the  benefit  of  the people of the state and is a public
  purpose,  and  the  commission  shall  be  regarded  as   performing   a
  governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by
  this title and shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any
  of  the  property acquired by it or under its jurisdiction or control or
  supervision or upon its activities.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2638 - Actions Against the Commission.

§  2638.  Actions  against the commission. 1. In an action against the
  commission founded upon tort, the complaint shall contain an  allegation
  that at least thirty days have elapsed since the demand, claim or claims
  upon  which  the  action  is  founded  were presented to a member of the
  commission and to its secretary or to its chief executive  officer,  and
  that  the  commission  has neglected or refused to make an adjustment or
  payment thereof for thirty days after the presentment.
2. In a case founded upon tort, a notice of claim shall be required as
  a condition precedent to  the  commencement  of  an  action  or  special
  proceeding  against  the commission or an officer, appointee or employee
  thereof, and the provisions of section fifty-e of the general  municipal
  law shall govern the giving of such notice. No action shall be commenced
  more  than  one  year and ninety days after the cause of action therefor
  shall have accrued, except an action against the commission for wrongful
  death shall be commenced in accordance with the notice of claim and time
  limitation provisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2639 - Conflicts of Interest.

§  2639. Conflicts of interest. No member of the board of directors or
  officer or employee of the commission shall have  any  interest  in  any
  contract,  or take any action or otherwise involve himself or herself in
  any  activity  which,  pursuant  to  article  eighteen  of  the  general
  municipal  law,  would  be deemed a conflict of interest for a municipal
  officer or employee holding a position with a  municipality  similar  to
  the   position  held  by  the  member,  officer  or  employee  with  the
  commission.
It shall not be  deemed  a  conflict  of  interest  for  a  person  to
  simultaneously  hold  positions  as  a  member  and as an officer of the
  commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2640 - Construction and Purchase Contracts.

§  2640. Construction and purchase contracts. The commission shall let
  contracts for  construction  or  purchase  of  supplies,  materials,  or
  equipment pursuant to section one hundred three of the general municipal
  law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-A - Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park Commission › 2641 - Severability.

§  2641.  Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
  part of  this  title  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or
  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section  or  part  thereof  directly
  involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  such judgment shall have been
  rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642 - Short Title.

§  2642.  Short  title.  This  title  may be cited as the "Chautauqua,
  Cattaraugus, Allegany  and  Steuben  southern  tier  extension  railroad
  authority act".
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-A - Legislative Findings and Intent.

§  2642-a.  Legislative  findings  and  intent. The legislature hereby
  finds and determines that:
1.  The  continued  existence  and  strengthening  of  the  system  of
  railroads serving Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben counties
  in  New  York  state and Warren and Erie counties in the Commonwealth of
  Pennsylvania is essential to the long term viability of  the  economies,
  municipalities, and ways of life in these counties.
2.  The  viability  and  existence  of the system of railroads serving
  Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben counties in New York state
  and Warren and Erie counties in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  is
  threatened by the dynamic economics of the railroad industry.
3.  By  creating  the  Chautauqua,  Cattaraugus,  Allegany and Steuben
  southern tier extension railroad authority, it  is  the  intent  of  the
  legislature  to  preserve  and  enhance  the system of railroads serving
  Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben counties in New York state
  and Warren and Erie counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so  as
  to insure a healthy economy for these counties.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-D - Purposes of the Authority.

§  2642-d. Purposes of the authority. 1. The purposes of the authority
  shall  be  the  continuance,  further  development  and  improvement  of
  railroad  transportation  and  other services related thereto within the
  counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben, in accordance
  with the provisions of this title. It shall be the  further  purpose  of
  the authority to develop and implement a unified railroad transportation
  policy and strategy for such counties.
2.  It  is  hereby  found  and  declared that such purposes are in all
  respects for the benefit of the people of the state  and  the  authority
  shall  be  regarded  as performing an essential governmental function in
  carrying out its purposes and in exercising the powers granted  by  this
  title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-E - General Powers of the Authority.

§ 2642-e. General powers of the authority. Except as otherwise limited
  by this title, the authority shall have power:
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3. To borrow money;
4. To invest any funds held in reserve or sinking funds, or any monies
  not required for immediate use or disbursement, at the discretion of the
  authority,  in  obligations  in  which  the state comptroller may invest
  pursuant to section ninety-eight or ninety-eight-a of the state  finance
  law;
5.  To  make  and  alter  by-laws  for  its  organization and internal
  management, and rules and regulations  governing  the  exercise  of  its
  powers and the fulfillment of its purposes under this title;
6.  To  enter into contracts and leases and to execute all instruments
  necessary or convenient;
7. To acquire, hold and dispose of real or personal  property  in  the
  exercise of its powers for its corporate purposes;
8.  The  authority  may, whenever it shall determine that it is not in
  conflict with the interests or purposes of the authority, rent, lease or
  grant easements or  other  rights  in,  any  land  or  property  of  the
  authority, including the granting of municipal utility easements;
9.  To  appoint  such officers and employees as it may require for the
  performance  of  its  duties,   and   to   fix   and   determine   their
  qualifications,  duties,  and  compensation  and  to  retain  or  employ
  counsel, auditors, engineers and private consultants on a contract basis
  or otherwise  for  rendering  professional  or  technical  services  and
  advice;  such  counsel,  auditors,  engineers,  and private consultants,
  officers and employees may not be a member of the authority;
10. To make plans,  surveys,  and  studies  necessary,  convenient  or
  desirable  to  the  effectuation  of  the  purposes  and  powers  of the
  authority and to prepare recommendations in regard thereto;
11. To contract for and accept any gifts or grants, subsidies or loans
  of funds or property or financial or other aid  in  any  form  from  the
  federal  or state government or Commonwealth government or any agency or
  instrumentality thereof, or from any other source,  public  or  private,
  and  to  comply, subject to the provisions of this title, with the terms
  and conditions thereof;
12. To designate the depositories of its money;
13. To establish its fiscal year; and
14. To do all things necessary or convenient or desirable to carry out
  its purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-G - Cooperation and Assistance of Other Agencies.

§  2642-g.  Cooperation  and assistance of other agencies. 1. To avoid
  duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the authority may
  make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and  other  materials
  in  the  possession of any state agency or any municipality or political
  subdivision of the state. Each such agency, municipality or  subdivision
  located  in or serving some portion of the state is hereby authorized to
  make the same available to the authority and otherwise to assist  it  in
  the  performance of its functions. At the request of the authority, each
  such agency, municipality or subdivision  located  in  or  serving  some
  portion   of   the   state   which  is  engaged  in  railroad  or  other
  transportation activities or in land use  or  development  planning,  or
  which   is  charged  with  the  duty  of  providing  or  regulating  any
  transportation  facility  or  any  other  public  facility,  is  further
  authorized to provide the authority with information regarding its plans
  and  programs affecting railroad transportation within the participating
  counties so  that  the  authority  may  have  available  to  it  current
  information  with  respect  thereto.  The officers and personnel of such
  agencies, municipalities or subdivisions, and of any other government or
  agency whatever, may serve at the request of  the  authority  upon  such
  advisory  committees as the authority shall determine to create and such
  officers and personnel may serve upon such committees without forfeiture
  of  office  or  employment  and  with  no  loss  or  diminution  in  the
  compensation, status, rights and privileges which they otherwise enjoy.
2.  Notwithstanding  any contrary provision of law, every municipality
  located in the counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany or  Steuben
  is  authorized  and  empowered to consent to the use by the authority of
  any real or  personal  property  owned  by  any  such  municipality  and
  necessary,  convenient  or desirable in the opinion of the authority for
  any of the facilities or projects authorized under this title, including
  such real property as has already been devoted to a public use,  and  as
  an  incident  to such consent, to lease or otherwise transfer and convey
  to the authority any such real or personal property upon such  terms  as
  may be determined by the authority and any such municipality. Every such
  municipality  also  is  authorized and empowered, as an incident to such
  consent, to vest in the authority the  control,  possession,  operation,
  maintenance,  rents,  charges  and  any  and  all  other revenues of any
  facilities now owned  by  any  such  municipality,  the  title  to  such
  facilities remaining in such municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-H - Exemption From Taxation.

§ 2642-h. Exemption from taxation. 1. It is hereby determined that the
  creation  of  the  authority  and the carrying out of its purposes under
  this title are in all respects for the benefit  of  the  people  of  the
  state  of  New  York and is a public purpose. Accordingly, the authority
  shall be regarded as performing an essential  governmental  function  in
  the  exercise  of  the  powers  conferred upon it by this title, and the
  authority shall not be required to  pay  any  fees,  taxes,  special  ad
  valorem  levies  or  assessments  of  any  kind, whether state or local,
  including but not limited to fees, taxes, special ad valorem  levies  or
  assessments  on  real  property,  franchise  taxes, sales taxes or other
  taxes, upon or with respect to any property owned by  it  or  under  its
  jurisdiction,  control or supervision, or upon the uses thereof, or upon
  or with respect to its activities or operations in  furtherance  of  the
  powers  conferred  upon it by this title, or upon or with respect to any
  fares, tolls, rentals, rates, charges, fees, revenues  or  other  income
  received by the authority.
2.  Notwithstanding  subdivision one of this section, the authority or
  any lessees of the authority shall be required to pay  water  and  sewer
  fees,  water and sewer assessments or water and sewer special ad valorem
  levies.
3. The authority may pay,  or  may  enter  into  agreements  with  any
  municipality, including school districts, to pay, a sum or sums annually
  or  otherwise  or  to  provide other considerations with respect to real
  property owned by the authority located within such municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-I - Advances on Behalf of Authority; Transfer of Property to Authority; Acquisition of Property for Authority.

§  2642-i.  Advances  on  behalf of authority; transfer of property to
  authority; acquisition of property for authority. 1. In addition to  any
  powers  granted to it by law, any participating county may by resolution
  advance sums of money to or on behalf of the authority to  defray  costs
  or  expenses of the authority to be incurred prior to the first issuance
  of bonds. Subject to the  rights  of  any  bondholders,  the  moneys  so
  appropriated  may be repaid by the authority to the participating county
  at such time and in such manner  as  may  be  agreed  upon  between  the
  authority and the participating county.
2.  Any  participating  county  or any municipality along the southern
  tier extension railroad  line  may  by  resolution  give,  grant,  sell,
  convey,  lend,  or  license  the  use  of  or lease to the authority any
  property or facility which is useful to the authority in order to  carry
  out  its powers under this title. Any such transfer of property shall be
  upon  such  terms  and  conditions,  subject  to  the  rights   of   any
  bondholders,  as  the  authority  and  the  participating  county or the
  municipality may agree.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general,  special,
  or  local,  real property acquired by the authority or any participating
  county from the state may be used  for  any  corporate  purpose  of  the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-J - New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System Rights of Employees; Civil Service.

§ 2642-j. New York state and local employees' retirement system rights
  of  employees;  civil  service.  1. In accordance with the provisions of
  section seventy of the civil service law, any officer or employee  of  a
  municipality  transferred  to  the  authority shall be eligible for such
  transfer and appointment, without  further  examination,  to  applicable
  offices, positions and employment under the authority. Any such officers
  or  employees  so transferred to the authority pursuant to this section,
  who are members of or benefit under any existing pension  or  retirement
  fund   or  system,  shall  continue  to  have  all  rights,  privileges,
  obligations and status with respect to such fund or system  as  are  now
  prescribed by law.
2.  Nothing contained in this title shall be construed (a) to diminish
  the rights of employees pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or
  (b) to affect existing law with respect to an application to the  public
  employment  relations  board  seeking  a  designation  by the board that
  certain persons are managerial or confidential.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-K - Equal Employment Opportunity.

§  2642-k.  Equal  employment  opportunity. The authority shall ensure
  that all employees or  applicants  for  employment  are  afforded  equal
  opportunity  employment  without  discrimination on any basis prohibited
  under subdivision two of section forty-c of the civil rights law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-L - Monies of the Authority.

§  2642-l.  Monies  of the authority. All monies of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of the  authority
  and  shall  be  deposited  forthwith in an interest-bearing account in a
  bank or banks designated by the authority. The monies in  such  accounts
  shall be paid out or withdrawn on the order of such person or persons as
  the  authority  may authorize to make such requisitions. All deposits of
  such monies shall be secured by obligations of the United States  or  of
  the state or of any municipality of a market value equal at all times to
  the  amount  on deposit and all banks and trust companies are authorized
  to give such security for such  deposits.  To  the  extent  practicable,
  consistent  with the cash requirements of the authority, all such monies
  shall be deposited in  interest-bearing  accounts.  Any  monies  of  the
  authority  not  required  for  immediate  use  or  disbursement  may, be
  invested in accordance with section ninety-eight  or  ninety-eight-a  of
  the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-M - Contracts.

§   2642-m.   Contracts.   1.  All  contracts  for  the  construction,
  reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of buildings  let  by  the
  authority shall comply with the provisions of section two hundred twenty
  of  the  labor  law  and  shall also be subject to the provisions of law
  applicable to contracts  let  by  a  municipal  corporation,  except  as
  otherwise provided herein.
2.  All contracts for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation
  or improvement of buildings let by the authority shall be in  conformity
  with the applicable provisions of section one hundred thirty-five of the
  state finance law.
3.  The  authority  may,  in  its  discretion,  assign  contracts  for
  supervision  and  coordination  to  the  successful   bidder   for   any
  subdivision   of  work  for  which  the  authority  receives  bids.  Any
  construction contract awarded by the authority shall contain such  other
  terms  and conditions as the authority may deem desirable. The authority
  shall award any construction contract involving an expenditure  of  more
  than  five thousand dollars to the lowest bidder who, in its opinion, is
  qualified to perform the  work  required  and  who  is  responsible  and
  reliable.  The  authority  may, however, reject any or all bids or waive
  any informality in a bid if it believes that the public interest will be
  promoted thereby. The authority may reject any bid, if, in its judgment,
  the business and technical  organization,  plant,  resources,  financial
  standing,  or  experience of the bidder justifies such rejection in view
  of the work to be performed.
4. For the purposes of article fifteen-A of the  executive  law  only,
  the  authority  shall  be  deemed a state agency as that term is used in
  such article, and all contracts for procurement,  design,  construction,
  services  and  materials  shall  be  deemed  state  contracts within the
  meaning of that term as set forth in such article.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-N - Annual Report and Audit.

§  2642-n.  Annual report and audit. In conformity with the provisions
  of section five of article ten of the constitution, the accounts of  the
  authority  shall  be subject to the supervision of the state comptroller
  and an annual audit shall  be  performed  by  an  independent  certified
  public  accountant.  The  authority  shall annually submit to the county
  legislatures, county executives, governor and the state comptroller  and
  to  the  chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson
  of the assembly ways and means committee a detailed report  pursuant  to
  the  provisions  of  section twenty-eight hundred of this chapter, and a
  copy of such report  shall  be  filed  with  the  clerk  of  the  county
  legislature  and  the county executives; provided further that a copy of
  such report shall be  submitted  to  the  southern  tier  west  regional
  planning and development board.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-O - Defense and Indemnification.

§  2642-o.  Defense  and  indemnification.  1. The authority shall not
  execute any of its powers except as necessary to commence its  corporate
  existence,  until  it  has  elected  to  make  the  provision of section
  eighteen of the public officers law applicable to its employees (as such
  term is defined in section eighteen of the public officers law) pursuant
  to subdivision two of such  section;  provided,  however,  that  nothing
  contained within this section shall be deemed to permit the authority to
  extend  the  provisions  of  section eighteen of the public officers law
  upon any independent contractor.
2. Neither the members of the authority, nor any participating county,
  municipality, officer or employee  acting  on  the  authority's  behalf,
  while  acting  within  the  scope of his, her or its authority, shall be
  subject to any  personal  liability  resulting  from  the  construction,
  maintenance  or  operation  of any of the properties of the authority or
  from carrying out any of the  powers  expressly  given  in  this  title;
  provided,  however,  that  this  shall  not  be  held  to  apply  to any
  independent contractor.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-P - Action by or Against the Authority.

§  2642-p.  Action by or against the authority. 1. Except in an action
  for wrongful death, no action or special proceeding shall be  prosecuted
  or  maintained against the authority, its members, officers or employees
  for personal injury or damage to real or personal  property  alleged  to
  have been sustained by reason of the negligence, tort or wrongful act of
  the  authority  or  of  any  member, officer, agent or employee thereof,
  unless (a) notice of claim shall have been  made  and  served  upon  the
  authority  within  the  time limit set by and in compliance with section
  fifty-e of the general municipal law, (b) it shall appear by and  as  an
  allegation  in  the complaint or moving papers that at least thirty days
  have elapsed since the service of such notice  and  that  adjustment  or
  payment  thereof  has  been  neglected or refused, and (c) the action or
  special proceeding shall be commenced within one year  and  ninety  days
  after  the  happening  of  the  event  upon which the claim is based. An
  action against the authority for wrongful death shall  be  commenced  in
  accordance  with  the  notice of claim and time limitation provisions of
  title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
2. Whenever a notice of claim is served upon the authority,  it  shall
  have  the right to demand an examination of the claimant relative to the
  occurrence and extent of the injuries or  damages  for  which  claim  is
  made,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section fifty-h of the
  general municipal law.
3. The authority shall have power to settle or adjust  all  claims  in
  favor of or against the authority.
4.  Any  action  or proceeding to which the authority or the people of
  the state may be parties,  in  which  any  question  arises  as  to  the
  validity  of  this title, shall be preferred over all other civil causes
  of action or cases, except election causes of action or  cases,  in  all
  courts  of  the state and shall be heard and determined in preference to
  all  other  civil  business  pending  therein  except  election  causes,
  irrespective  of  position on the calendar. The same preference shall be
  granted upon application of the authority or its counsel in  any  action
  or  proceeding  questioning  the  validity  of  this  title in which the
  authority may be allowed to intervene. The venue of any such  action  or
  proceeding   shall   be  laid  in  the  supreme  court  of  any  of  the
  participating counties.
5. The rate of interest to be paid by the authority upon any  judgment
  for  which  it  is  liable, shall be the rate prescribed by section five
  thousand four of the civil practice law and rules.
6. All actions or proceedings against the authority of whatever nature
  shall be brought  in  a  supreme  court  in  any  of  the  participating
  counties.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-Q - Track, Bridge, Signal, Station and Other Facility Operation and Maintenance.

§  2642-q. Track, bridge, signal, station and other facility operation
  and maintenance. The operation, maintenance and use of  track,  bridges,
  signals, freight stations, passenger stations and other facilities shall
  be  public purposes of the authority and the participating counties. The
  total cost to the authority of operation, maintenance and  use  of  each
  track,  bridge,  signal,  freight  station,  passenger station and other
  facility within the counties of the district located in  the  state  and
  serviced  by  one  or  more  railroad  facilities  of  the  authority or
  corporations, including the buildings, appurtenances,  platforms,  lands
  and  approaches  incidental  or  adjacent thereto, shall be borne by the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-R - State, Participating Counties, and Municipalities Not Liable for Obligations of Authority.

§ 2642-r. State, participating counties, and municipalities not liable
  for  obligations  of  authority. 1. Neither the state, the participating
  counties, nor any municipality or public corporation shall be liable  on
  any  bond,  note  or  other obligation of the authority, and such bonds,
  notes or other  obligations  shall  not  be  debts  of  the  state,  the
  participating  counties, nor any municipality or public corporation, and
  such bonds, notes or other obligations shall contain a statement to such
  effect.
2. Nothing in this title shall be construed to obligate the  state  in
  any  way  in  connection  with  the  operations  and  obligations of the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority › 2642-S - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§ 2642-s. Effect of inconsistent provisions. Insofar as the provisions
  of  this  title  are  inconsistent with the provisions of any other act,
  general or special, or of a county charter, any local law, ordinance  or
  resolution  of  a  municipality,  the  provisions of this title shall be
  controlling.  Nothing  contained  in  this  section  shall  be  held  to
  supplement  or  otherwise  expand  the powers or duties of the authority
  otherwise set forth in this title.