2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-H - Co-Operation and Assistance of Other Agencies.

§ 1299-h. Co-operation 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
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
which  is  engaged  in  highway 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   the
transportation district 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
in  this  transportation district 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 is also 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.
3. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law,  every  municipality
in  the  transportation  district  may,  by  ordinance,  local  law,  or
resolution of its governing body,  make  covenants  with  the  authority
which  shall  inure  to the benefit of the holders of any bonds or notes
issued by the authority under this title and which shall be  a  part  of
the contract with the holders of such bonds or notes, as to
(a).  The authorizing of the construction of any facilities which will
be competitive with any facilities owned or operated by the authority or
within a reasonable sphere of operation or extension of such  facilities
by the authority;
(b).  Discontinuing  of  any  facilities  owned  or  operated  by  the
municipality or any department or agency thereof;
(c). Limitations on the licensing of  private  facilities  within  the
territorial  limits  of  the  municipality  which  may  compete with the
facilities owned or operated by the authority  or  within  a  reasonable
sphere of operation or extension by the authority; and
(d).  Transferring  to  the  authority  any powers or functions of the
municipality or any department or agency thereof, or the control of  any
property thereof.
4.  The  commissioner  of  general  services  shall have power, in his
discretion, from time to time to transfer and convey to  the  authority,
or   to  a  subsidiary  corporation  of  the  authority,  and  for  such

consideration as may be determined by him  to  be  paid  to  the  state,
unappropriated  state  lands  and  lands under water which the authority
shall certify to be necessary or desirable for the corporate purposes of
the authority.