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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9 - New York City Transit Authority › 1216 - Exemption From Taxation and Fees.

§  1216.  Exemption  from  taxation  and  fees.  It  is  hereby found,
  determined and declared that the  creation  of  the  authority  and  the
  carrying  out  of its purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the
  people of the state of New York and for the improvement of their health,
  welfare and prosperity and is a public purpose, and that  the  authority
  will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of
  the  powers  conferred  upon  it  by  this  title.  Without limiting the
  generality of the following provisions of this section,  property  owned
  by  the authority, and property leased by the authority and used for any
  of its authorized purposes shall be exempt from taxation and special  ad
  valorem levies. The authority shall be required to pay no fees, taxes or
  assessments,  whether state or local, including but not limited to fees,
  taxes or assessments on real estate, franchise  taxes,  sales  taxes  or
  other  excise  taxes, upon any of its property, or upon the use thereof,
  or  upon  its  activities  in  the  operation  and  maintenance  of  its
  facilities  or  on  any  fares,  tolls, rentals, rates, charges or other
  fees, revenues or other income received by the authority and  the  bonds
  and  notes  of the authority and the income therefrom shall at all times
  be exempt from taxation, except for gift and estate taxes and  taxes  on
  transfers.  This  section shall constitute a covenant and agreement with
  the holders of all bonds and notes issued by the  authority.  The  terms
  "taxation" and "special ad valorem levy" shall have the same meanings as
  defined in section one hundred two of the real property tax law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9 - New York City Transit Authority › 1217 - Records; Prima Facie Evidence.

§  1217.  Records; prima facie evidence. The record of the proceedings
  of the authority and of the board of  transportation,  the  records  and
  printed  minutes  of  the  transit  commission,  of  the  former transit
  construction commissioner, of the former public service  commission  for
  the  first  district,  and of the former board of rapid transit railroad
  commissioners,  transferred  to  the  authority,  or  certified   copies
  thereof,  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  proceedings of the
  authority, of the board of transportation, of the transit commission, of
  the former transit  construction  commissioner,  of  the  former  public
  service  commission  for  the  first district, or of the former board of
  rapid transit railroad commissioners, as the case may be, in respect  to
  matters  concerning  which  such  records  or  minutes relate. Certified
  copies of such records or papers shall in like manner  constitute  prima
  facie evidence.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9 - New York City Transit Authority › 1218 - Pending Actions and Proceedings.

§ 1218. Pending actions and proceedings. 1. Provision shall be made in
  the  agreement described in section eighteen hundred three of this title
  for the assumption by the city of the payment  of  judgments  or  claims
  based  upon  a  cause of action arising prior to the date of transfer of
  transit facilities.
2. This title shall not affect any action or proceeding brought by  or
  against  the  board of transportation, transit commission, or the former
  transit construction commissioner, public  service  commission  for  the
  first  district,  or  the board of rapid transit railroad commissioners,
  and, upon application by the authority to the court, the authority shall
  be substituted as a party in such pending action or proceeding and  such
  action  or  proceeding  may be prosecuted or defended in the name of the
  authority.  Any  investigation,  examination  or   hearing   undertaken,
  commenced   or  instituted  by  the  board  of  transportation,  transit
  commission or the former transit construction commissioner or the public
  service commission for the first district or the board of rapid  transit
  railroad  commissioners  before  the  time  this title takes effect, and
  relating to a subject or matter, jurisdiction whereof  was  conveyed  to
  the authority, may be conducted to final determination by the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9 - New York City Transit Authority › 1219 - Continuity of Jurisdiction.

§  1219. Continuity of jurisdiction. The authority shall be deemed and
  held  to  constitute  a  continuation,  as   to   matters   within   its
  jurisdiction,  of  the  board  of  transportation  for  the  purpose  of
  succession to the rights, powers, duties and obligations of the board of
  transportation transferred to such authority. Upon  the  termination  of
  the agreement of transfer provided for in section eighteen hundred three
  of  this  title or of any renewal thereof, all the rights and properties
  of the authority shall pass to the city and the city  shall  succeed  to
  the rights, powers, duties and obligations of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9 - New York City Transit Authority › 1220 - Separability.

§  1220.  Separability.  If  any  section, clause or provision of this
  title shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or  in  part,
  to  the  extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall
  be valid and effective and no other section, clause or  provision  shall
  on account thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9 - New York City Transit Authority › 1221 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

§ 1221. Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded. In so far as
  the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions of any
  other  act,  general  or  special,  or of any local law of the city, the
  provisions of this title shall be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-B - Definitions.

§ 1225-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this title:
1. "City" means the city of New York.
2.   "Director  of  management  and  budget"  means  the  director  of
  management and budget of the city of New York.
3. "Fund" means the transit construction fund as established  by  this
  title.
4. "Mayor" means the mayor of the city of New York.
5. "State" means the state of New York.
6.  "Transit  authority"  means  the  New  York city transit authority
  created by section twelve hundred one of this article.
7. "Transit facility" means "transit facility" as such term is defined
  from time to time in section twelve hundred of this article.
8. "Transportation authority" means  the  metropolitan  transportation
  authority,  as  created  by  section  twelve hundred sixty-three of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-C - Transit Construction Fund.

§  1225-c.  Transit construction fund. (a) There is hereby created the
transit construction fund. The fund is a corporate  governmental  agency
constituting  a  public  benefit  corporation.  It  has  the  powers and
privileges of a corporation and all of its business shall be transacted,
all funds invested, all warrants for money drawn and payments made,  and
all  cash  and  securities  and  other  personal property held under its
corporate name.
(b) The fund shall continue until all its liabilities have been met or
otherwise discharged and until its existence shall have been  terminated
by  law.  Upon  the termination of the existence of the fund, all of its
rights and property shall pass to and be vested in the city.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-D - Purpose of the Fund.

§  1225-d.  Purpose  of  the fund. The purpose of the fund shall be to
  provide through agreements with  the  transportation  authority  transit
  facilities,  to  be  used  by  the  transit authority or any subsidiary,
  including the planning, design,  construction,  acquisition,  extension,
  reconstruction,  rehabilitation, modernization, and other improvement of
  such facilities. Such purpose shall be in  all  respects  a  public  and
  governmental purpose.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-F - General Powers of the Fund.

§  1225-f.  General  powers  of  the  fund.  The  fund  shall have the
  following powers in addition to those specially conferred  elsewhere  in
  this  title:  (1)  to  sue and be sued; (2) to have a seal and alter the
  same at its pleasure; (3) to make and alter by-laws for its organization
  and internal management; (4) to prescribe a system of accounts  for  the
  fund;  (5)  to  purchase,  receive,  lease,  accept jurisdiction over or
  otherwise acquire real or personal property necessary and convenient for
  its corporate purposes; to execute and deliver deeds for  real  property
  held in its own name; and to transfer, lease, sublease or otherwise make
  such real or personal property available to the transportation authority
  or  the  transit authority or their subsidiaries or to sell or otherwise
  to dispose of such real or personal property that, in  the  judgment  of
  the fund, is no longer necessary for its corporate purposes; (6) subject
  to  other  provisions of law, to transfer upon such terms and conditions
  as is deemed appropriate such sums of money  as  are  not  required  for
  other purposes; (7) to make and execute contracts, leases, subleases and
  all  other  instruments  or  agreements  necessary or convenient for the
  exercise of its corporate powers and purposes; (8) with the  consent  of
  the  transportation  authority  or  the transit authority to use with or
  without compensation the  agents,  employees  and  facilities  of  those
  authorities  or  their  subsidiaries;  (9)  to  engage  the  services of
  construction,   engineering,   architectural,   legal   and    financial
  consultants,  surveyors  and  appraisers,  on  a  contract  basis  or as
  employees, for professional service and technical assistance and advice;
  (10) to cause, by agreement with the transportation  authority,  transit
  facilities  to  be  planned,  designed, constructed, acquired, extended,
  reconstructed, rehabilitated, modernized,  and  otherwise  improved,  in
  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  title; (11) to procure such
  insurance as  is  deemed  necessary;  (12)  to  accept,  administer  and
  disburse  federal  and  state  aid  and  (13)  to  do any and all things
  necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate powers and purposes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-H - Resources of the Fund.

§ 1225-h. Resources of the fund. (a) Subject to the provisions of this
title   the   trustees  of  the  fund  shall  receive,  accept,  invest,
administer, expend and disburse for its corporate  purposes  all  monies
for the transit construction fund from whatever sources derived.
(b)  The  monies  of  the fund shall be paid to the comptroller of the
city as agent of the fund, who shall not commingle such monies with  any
other monies.
(c)  The  monies  in  any  of the fund's accounts shall be paid out on
checks signed by the comptroller of the  city  on  requisitions  of  the
chairman  of  the  trustees  of  the  fund  or  of such other officer or
employee as the trustees shall authorize to make such requisition.
(d) Subject  to  the  terms  of  any  lease,  sublease,  or  agreement
undertaken  by  the  fund,  any such monies of the fund not required for
immediate use may, at  the  discretion  of  the  fund,  be  invested  in
obligations  of  the  United  States,  the  state  or  the  city  or  in
obligations the principal and interest of which are  guaranteed  by  the
United  States  or  the  state or for the payment of which the faith and
credit of the United States or the state is pledged.  The comptroller of
the city, as agent of the fund,  shall  make  the  investments  when  so
requested by the fund.
(e)   The   comptroller   of   the  city  or  his  legally  authorized
representative from time to time may examine the books and  accounts  of
the  fund,  including  its receipts, disbursements, contracts, reserves,
investments, and any other matters relating to its  financial  standing.
Such an examination shall be conducted by the comptroller of the city at
least  once  every  five  years  or, in lieu of such an examination, the
comptroller of the city may accept from the fund an external examination
of the fund's books and accounts made at the request of the trustees  of
the fund.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-J - Federal, State and Other Aid.

§  1225-j.  Federal, state and other aid. Subject to the provisions of
  chapter ten hundred  seventy-three  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-nine  as  amended  by  a  chapter  of the laws of nineteen hundred
  seventy-two, in the event that  the  transportation  authority  receives
  state  or  federal  or other aid for a transit facility which defrays or
  reimburses expenditures paid for by the city or the fund or made out  of
  the  proceeds  of bonds or notes of the transportation authority secured
  by and payable from rental or other payments receivable from  the  fund,
  the  transportation  authority  shall forthwith pay over to the city the
  entire amount of such aid unless a lease or other agreement between  the
  fund and the transportation authority shall provide otherwise.
For  the purposes of any law conditioning the receipt of state aid for
  a transit facility on the appropriation, payment or expenditures by  the
  city of a local share of the cost of such transit facility, the proceeds
  of  bonds or notes issued by the transportation authority and secured by
  and payable from a pledge of payments or  rentals  receivable  from  the
  fund  pursuant  to any lease or other agreement between the fund and the
  transportation authority shall be counted toward the fulfillment of such
  local share.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-L - Employees of the Fund.

§  1225-l.  Employees of the fund. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent
  provisions of this title, the appointment and promotion of all employees
  of and for the fund shall be made in accordance with the  provisions  of
  the  civil  service law under the jurisdiction of the city civil service
  commission and the compensation for such employees shall be fixed by the
  fund.
2. The city and the fund shall have  the  power  to  provide  for  the
  transfer  to the fund of agents, employees and facilities of the city to
  enable the fund to fulfill its corporate purposes. Employees of the city
  to be transferred to the fund pursuant to this title shall  be  eligible
  for  such  transfer and appointment to offices and positions of the fund
  without further examination,  and  all  such  employees  who  have  been
  appointed to positions in city service in accordance with the provisions
  of  the  civil  service  law  under  the rules of the city civil service
  commission shall have the  same  status  with  respect  thereto  in  the
  service  of  the  fund  as  they  had in city service. Employees who are
  members or beneficiaries of any existing pension  or  retirement  system
  shall  continue  to  have such rights, privileges, obligations or status
  with respect to such system or systems as are prescribed by law  on  the
  date  this  title  takes  effect,  and  all such employees who have been
  appointed to positions in city service in accordance with the provisions
  of the civil service law under the  rules  of  the  city  civil  service
  commission  shall  have  the  same  status  with  respect thereto in the
  service of the fund as they had in city service.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-M - Actions Against Fund.

§  1225-m.  Actions  against  fund. (a) An action against the fund for
personal injury or property damage or founded on tort, except an  action
for wrongful death, shall not be commenced more than one year and ninety
days  after  the cause of action thereof shall have accrued nor unless a
notice of claim shall have been served on  a  trustee  of  the  fund  or
officer  or  employee  thereof  designated by the fund for such purpose,
within the time limited by, and in compliance with the  requirements  of
section fifty-e of the general municipal law. An action against the fund
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.
(b)  The  venue  of  every  action, suit or special proceeding brought
against the fund shall be laid in the county of New York.
(c) Neither any trustee of the fund  nor  any  officer,  employee,  or
agent  of  the  fund,  while acting within the scope of their authority,
shall be subject to any personal liability resulting from exercising  or
carrying out of any of the fund's purposes or powers.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 9-A - Transit Construction Fund › 1225-N - Assistance to the Fund.

§ 1225-n. Assistance to the fund. The city may make grants of money or
  property  to  the  fund  for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its
  public purposes and for the exercise of its powers. This  section  shall
  not be construed to limit any other power the city may have to make such
  grants to the fund.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-K - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  1226-k.  Transfer  of officers and employees. 1. In accordance with
  the provisions of section seventy of the civil service law, any  officer
  or  employee  of  the  board of water supply, may, at the request of the
  authority and with the consent of such  board,  be  transferred  to  the
  authority  and  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, but
  during  the  period  of  their  employment   by   the   authority,   all
  contributions  to  such  funds  or systems to be paid by the employer on
  account of such officers or employees shall be paid by the authority.
2.  A  transferred  employee  shall  remain  in  the  same  collective
  bargaining  unit as was the case prior to his or her transfer; successor
  employees to the positions held by  such  transferred  employees  shall,
  consistent  with the provisions of article fourteen of the civil service
  law, be included in the  same  unit  as  their  predecessors.  Employees
  serving  in  positions  in newly created titles shall be assigned to the
  same collective bargaining unit as they would have been assigned to such
  unit were  such  titles  created  prior  to  the  establishment  of  the
  authority.  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 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-N - State, Water Board or Municipality, Other Than the Authority, Not Liable on Authority Bonds.

§   1226-n.  State,  water  board  or  municipality,  other  than  the
  authority, not liable on authority bonds. Neither the state,  the  water
  board nor any municipality, other than the authority, shall be liable on
  the  bonds of the authority and such bonds shall not be a debt of either
  the state, the water board or any municipality, and each such bond shall
  contain, on the face thereof, a statement to such effect.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-O - Moneys of the Authority.

§  1226-o.  Moneys  of the authority. All moneys of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of the  authority
  and shall be deposited forthwith in a bank or trust company in the state
  designated  by  the governing body. The moneys in such accounts shall be
  paid out on check of the treasurer upon  requisition  by  the  governing
  body  or  of  such  other  person  or  persons as the governing body may
  authorize to make such requisitions. All deposits of such  moneys  shall
  be  secured  by  obligations  of  the United States 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.  To  the  extent  practicable,  consistent   with   the   cash
  requirements  of  the  authority,  all such moneys shall be deposited in
  interest   bearing   accounts.   The   authority   shall   have   power,
  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this section, to contract with the
  holders of any bonds as to the custody, collection, security, investment
  and payment of any moneys of the authority or any moneys held  in  trust
  or otherwise for the payment of bonds or in any way to secure bonds, and
  to carry out any such contract notwithstanding that such contract may be
  inconsistent  with the provisions of this section.  Moneys held in trust
  or otherwise for the payment of bonds or in any way to secure  bond  and
  deposits  of  such moneys may be secured in the same manner as moneys of
  the authority and all banks and trust companies are authorized  to  give
  such  security  for  such  deposits.  Any  moneys  of  the authority not
  required for immediate use or disbursement may, at the discretion of the
  authority, be invested in those obligations specified  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  section ninety-eight-a of the state finance law. Subject
  to the provisions of any contract with bondholders and with the approval
  of the comptroller, the authority shall prescribe a system of accounts.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-P - Bonds Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§  1226-p.  Bonds  legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds of the
  authority are hereby made securities in which all public  officials  and
  bodies  of the state and all municipalities, all insurance companies and
  associations and other persons carrying on an  insurance  business,  all
  banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations,
  including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations,
  investment  companies  and other persons carrying on a banking business,
  and administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries
  and all other persons whatsoever,  who  are  not  or  may  hereafter  be
  authorized  to  invest  in  bonds or other obligations of the state, may
  properly and legally invest funds including capital in their control  or
  belonging  to them.   Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
  the bonds are also hereby made securities which may  be  deposited  with
  and  may be received by all public officers and bodies of this state and
  all municipalities for any purposes for which the deposit  of  bonds  or
  other obligations of this state are now or hereafter may be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-Q - Agreement With the State.

§  1226-q.  Agreement  with the state. The state does hereby pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the authority pursuant
  to this title and with those persons  or  public  corporations  who  may
  enter  into  contracts  with the authority pursuant to the provisions of
  this title that the state will not alter, limit  or  impair  the  rights
  hereby  vested in the authority to purchase, construct, own and operate,
  maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct, renovate, rehabilitate, enlarge,
  increase and extend, or dispose of any project, or  any  part  or  parts
  thereof  for  which  bonds  of  the authority shall have been issued, to
  establish and collect rates, rents, fees and other charges  referred  to
  in  this title, to fulfill the terms of any contracts or agreements made
  with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or with  any  person  or
  public corporation with reference to such project or part thereof, or in
  any way to impair the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds, until
  the  bonds,  together  with  interest thereon, including interest on any
  unpaid  installments  of  interest,  and  all  costs  and  expenses   in
  connection  with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders
  of bonds, are fully met and discharged  and  such  contracts  are  fully
  performed  on  the part of the authority. The authority is authorized to
  include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with the
  holders of bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-T - Contracts.

§  1226-t.  Contracts.  All contracts for construction shall be let by
  the authority in conformity with the applicable  provisions  of  section
  one  hundred  thirty-five  of  the state finance law and shall be let in
  accordance with the provisions of state  law  pertaining  to  prevailing
  wages, labor standards and working hours.
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. The authority shall not award any
  construction contract except 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-W - Audit and Annual Report.

§  1226-w.  Audit and annual report. In conformity with the provisions
  of section five of article ten of the constitution, the accounts of  the
  water  board and of the authority shall be subject to the supervision of
  the comptroller and an annual audit shall be performed by an independent
  certified accountant. The water board and the authority  shall  annually
  submit  to  the  governor  and  comptroller  and to the chairs of senate
  finance and  assembly  ways  and  means  committees  a  detailed  report
  pursuant to the provisions of section two thousand eight hundred of this
  chapter,  and a copy of such report shall be filed with the clerk of the
  county and city and of each town and village in the service area.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-X - Limited Liability.

§ 1226-x. Limited liability. Neither the members of the governing body
  of  either  the  water  board  or  of  the authority, nor any officer or
  employee acting in their  behalf,  shall  be  subject  to  any  personal
  liability  resulting  from the construction, maintenance or operation of
  any of the properties of either the water board or the authority or from
  carrying out any of the powers expressly given in this title;  provided,
  however, that this section shall not be held to apply to any independent
  contractor.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-Y - Separability.

§  1226-y.  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 involved in
  the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10 - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Finance Authority › 1226-Z - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§  1226-z.  Effect  of  inconsistent  provisions.  In  so  far  as the
  provisions of this title are inconsistent with  the  provisions  of  any
  other  act,  general or special, or of any charter, local law, ordinance
  or resolution of any 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. Except as specifically  provided  for
  in  this  title,  in the performance of any of its functions, powers and
  duties, the authority shall be subject  to  all  applicable  general  or
  special  laws  of  the  state,  the  county  charter, and any local law,
  ordinance or resolution of the county.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-A - Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Board › 1226-BB - "Upper Mohawk Valley Regional Water Board".

§ 1226-bb. "Upper Mohawk Valley regional water board". For the benefit
  of the Upper Mohawk Valley and the inhabitants thereof, a water board to
  be  known  as  the  Upper  Mohawk  Valley regional water board is hereby
  established for the  accomplishment  of  any  or  all  of  the  purposes
  specified  in  title  ten of article five of this chapter. It shall have
  the powers and duties now or hereafter conferred by title ten of article
  five of this chapter upon a water board. It  shall  be  organized  in  a
  manner  prescribed  by  and be subject to the provisions of title ten of
  article five of this chapter. The water board, its members, officers and
  employees and its operations and activities shall  in  all  respects  be
  governed by the provisions of title ten of article five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-L - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  1230-l.  Transfer  of officers and employees. 1. In accordance with
  the provisions of section seventy of the civil service law, any  officer
  or  employee of the city that currently works in the system, may, at the
  request of the water board and with the consent of such city and  board,
  be  transferred  to  the  water  board  and  shall  be eligible for such
  transfer and appointment, without  further  examination,  to  applicable
  offices,  positions  and  employment  under  the  water  board. Any such
  officers or employees so transferred to the water board 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, but during the period of their employment
  by the water board, all contributions to such funds  or  systems  to  be
  paid  by  the employer on account of such officers or employees shall be
  paid by the water board.
2.  A  transferred  employee  shall  remain  in  the  same  collective
  bargaining  unit as was the case prior to his or her transfer; successor
  employees to the positions held by  such  transferred  employees  shall,
  consistent  with the provisions of article fourteen of the civil service
  law, be included in the  same  unit  as  their  predecessors.  Employees
  serving  in  positions  in newly created titles shall be assigned to the
  same collective bargaining unit as they would have been assigned to such
  unit were such titles created prior to the establishment  of  the  water
  board.    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 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-O - State, City, Water Board or Municipality, Other Than the Authority, Not Liable on Authority Bonds.

§  1230-o.  State,  city,  water board or municipality, other than the
  authority, not liable on authority bonds. Neither the state,  the  city,
  the water board nor any municipality, other than the authority, shall be
  liable  on the bonds of the authority and such bonds shall not be a debt
  of either the state, the water board, the city or any municipality,  and
  each  such  bond shall contain, on the face thereof, a statement to such
  effect.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-P - Moneys of the Authority.

§  1230-p.  Moneys  of the authority. All moneys of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of the  authority
  and shall be deposited forthwith in a bank or trust company in the state
  designated  by  the governing body. The moneys in such accounts shall be
  paid out on check of the treasurer upon  requisition  by  the  governing
  body  or  of  such  other  person  or  persons as the governing body may
  authorize to make such requisitions. All deposits of such  moneys  shall
  be  secured  by  obligations  of  the United States 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.  To  the  extent  practicable,  consistent   with   the   cash
  requirements  of  the  authority,  all such moneys shall be deposited in
  interest   bearing   accounts.   The   authority   shall   have   power,
  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this section, to contract with the
  holders of any bonds as to the custody, collection, security, investment
  and payment of any moneys of the authority or any moneys held  in  trust
  or otherwise for the payment of bonds or in any way to secure bonds, and
  to carry out any such contract notwithstanding that such contract may be
  inconsistent  with  the provisions of this section. Moneys held in trust
  or otherwise for the payment of bonds or in any way to secure  bond  and
  deposits  of  such moneys may be secured in the same manner as moneys of
  the authority and all banks and trust companies are authorized  to  give
  such  security  for  such  deposits.  Any  moneys  of  the authority not
  required for immediate use or disbursement may, at the discretion of the
  authority, be invested in those obligations specified  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  section ninety-eight-a of the state finance law. Subject
  to the provisions of any contract with bondholders and with the approval
  of the comptroller, the authority shall prescribe a system of accounts.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-Q - Bonds, Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§  1230-q.  Bonds, legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds of the
  authority are hereby made securities in which all public  officials  and
  bodies  of the state and all municipalities, all insurance companies and
  associations and other persons carrying on an  insurance  business,  all
  banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations,
  including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations,
  investment  companies  and other persons carrying on a banking business,
  and administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries
  and all other persons whatsoever,  who  are  not  or  may  hereafter  be
  authorized  to  invest  in  bonds or other obligations of the state, may
  properly and legally invest funds including capital in their control  or
  belonging  to  them.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
  the bonds are also hereby made securities which may  be  deposited  with
  and  may be received by all public officers and bodies of this state and
  all municipalities for any purposes for which the deposit  of  bonds  or
  other obligations of this state are now or hereafter may be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-R - Agreement With the State.

§  1230-r.  Agreement  with the state. The state does hereby pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the authority pursuant
  to this title and with those persons  or  public  corporations  who  may
  enter  into contracts with the authority or the water board, pursuant to
  the provisions of this title that the state will  not  alter,  limit  or
  impair  the  rights hereby vested in the authority or the water board to
  purchase,  construct,  own  and  operate,  maintain,  repair,   improve,
  reconstruct,  renovate,  rehabilitate,  enlarge, increase and extend, or
  dispose of any project, or any part or parts thereof for which bonds  of
  the  authority  shall  have been issued, to establish and collect rates,
  rents, fees and other charges referred to in this title, to fulfill  the
  terms of any contracts or agreements made with or for the benefit of the
  holders of bonds or with any person or public corporation with reference
  to  such project or part thereof, or in any way to impair the rights and
  remedies of the  holders  of  bonds,  until  the  bonds,  together  with
  interest  thereon,  including  interest  on  any  unpaid installments of
  interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with  any  action  or
  proceeding  by  or  on behalf of the holders of bonds, are fully met and
  discharged and such contracts are fully performed on  the  part  of  the
  authority  or  the  water  board,  as  the case may be. The authority is
  authorized to include this pledge and agreement  of  the  state  in  any
  agreement with the holders of bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-U - Contracts.

§  1230-u.  Contracts.  All  contracts for construction or purchase of
  supplies, materials or equipment shall be let by the water board,  shall
  be  made  in  conformity  with  the applicable provisions of section one
  hundred three of the general  municipal  law  and  section  one  hundred
  thirty-five  of  the  state  finance  law.  For  the purposes of article
  fifteen-A of the executive law only, the authority and the  water  board
  shall  each  be  deemed  a  state  agency  as  that term is used in such
  article,  and  its  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.  All  construction
  contracts  shall  be  let in accordance with the provisions of state law
  pertaining to prevailing wages, labor standards and working  hours.  The
  water board may, in its discretion, assign contracts for supervision and
  coordination  to  the  successful bidder for any subdivision of work for
  which the water board receives bids. The water board shall not award any
  construction contract except to the lowest bidder who, in  its  opinion,
  is  qualified  to  perform  the work required and who is responsible and
  reliable. The water board 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  water  board  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. Nothing in this title shall be
  construed to limit or diminish the power of the water board  to  do  any
  construction  directly by the officers, employees or agents of the water
  board.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-X - Audit and Annual Report.

§  1230-x.  Audit and annual report. In conformity with the provisions
  of section five of article ten of the constitution, the accounts of  the
  water  board and of the authority shall be subject to the supervision of
  the comptroller and an annual audit shall be performed by an independent
  certified accountant. The water board and the authority  shall  annually
  submit  to  the  governor and comptroller and to the state legislature 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 and city.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-Y - Limited Liability.

§ 1230-y. Limited liability. Neither the members of the governing body
  of  either  the  water  board  or  of the authority, nor any officer, or
  employee thereof acting  in  their  behalf,  shall  be  subject  to  any
  personal   liability   resulting   from   the  ownership,  construction,
  maintenance or operation of any of the projects or properties of  either
  the  water board or the authority or from carrying out any of the powers
  expressly given in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-Z - Separability.

§  1230-z.  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 involved in
  the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-AA - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§   1230-aa.   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 any charter, local law, ordinance
  or resolution of any 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 or
  water board otherwise set forth in this title.  Except  as  specifically
  provided  for in this title, in the performance of any of its functions,
  powers and duties, the authority and the water board shall be subject to
  all applicable general or special laws of the state, the county charter,
  city charter and any local law or ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-C - Niagara Falls Water Board › 1231-B - Niagara Falls Water Board.

§  1231-b.  Niagara  Falls water board. For the benefit of the city of
  Niagara Falls and the inhabitants thereof, a water board to be known  as
  the   Niagara   Falls   water   board  is  hereby  established  for  the
  accomplishment of any or all of the purposes specified in title ten-B of
  this article. It shall have the  powers  and  duties  now  or  hereafter
  conferred by title ten-B of this article upon a water board. It shall be
  organized  in a manner prescribed by and be subject to the provisions of
  title ten-B of this article. The water board, its members, officers  and
  employees  and  its  operations  and activities shall in all respects be
  governed by the provisions of title ten-B of this article.