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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 4 - Thousand Islands Bridge Authority › 592 - Reports of the Authority.

§ 592. Reports of the authority. In addition to any report required to
  be  made  to  the  state pursuant to any provision of law, the authority
  shall furnish to the chairman of the board of supervisors, the clerk  of
  such  board, the county attorney, the county treasurer, and the chairman
  and members of the planning  committee  of  such  board,  the  following
  reports:
1.  Within  ninety  days  after the end of its fiscal year, its annual
  report, which shall be a complete and detailed report setting forth; (a)
  its operations and accomplishments; (b) its receipts and  disbursements,
  or revenues and expenses, during such fiscal year in accordance with the
  categories  or  classifications established by the authority for its own
  operating and capital outlay purposes; (c) its assets and liabilities at
  the  end  of  its  fiscal  year  including  the   status   of   reserve,
  depreciation,  special  or  other  funds  and including the receipts and
  payments of these funds; and (d) a  schedule  of  its  bonds  and  notes
  outstanding  at the end of its fiscal year, together with a statement of
  the amounts redeemed and incurred during such fiscal year;
2. Within thirty  days  after  the  end  of  each  calendar  month,  a
  condensed monthly financial statement;
3.  Not  less  than  sixty  days before the commencement of its fiscal
  year, in the form  submitted  to  its  members,  budget  information  on
  operations and capital construction setting forth the estimated receipts
  and  expenditures  for the next fiscal year and the current fiscal year,
  and the actual receipts and expenditures for the last  completed  fiscal
  year;
4.  Within  thirty days after receipt thereof by the authority, a copy
  of the final report of every  external  examination  of  the  books  and
  accounts of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 652 - Definitions.

§  652.  Definitions.  As  used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context,
1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation created by  section
  six hundred fifty-three of this chapter;
2. The term "county" shall mean the county of Nassau;
3. The term "bonds" shall mean the bonds authorized in this title;
4. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority;
5.  The term "real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises,
  and interests in land, including lands under water and riparian  rights,
  and any and all things and rights usually included within the said term,
  and  includes  not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser
  interests, 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;
6. The  term  "Reynolds  channel"  shall  mean  the  waterway  on  the
  northerly side of the island of Long Beach, extending easterly from East
  Rockaway inlet and includes said inlet;
6-a.  The term "Bannister creek" shall mean the waterway known by that
  name in the county of Nassau connected with Reynolds channel.
7. The term "Atlantic Beach bridge" shall  mean  the  existing  bridge
  known by that name crossing Reynolds channel;
8.  The  term  "project"  shall mean Atlantic Beach bridge and any new
  bridge constructed by the authority across Reynolds channel,  or  either
  of  said  bridges, and any park, playground, beach or other recreational
  facility created or acquired by the authority, including any land within
  the county of Nassau which has been acquired by the authority  for  such
  purposes,  together  with such structures, appurtenances, facilities and
  approaches as may be necessary or convenient in connection therewith;
9. The term  "approaches"  shall  mean  all  structures  necessary  or
  convenient  to  give access to the bridge from connecting streets, roads
  and parkways;
10. The term "connections" shall mean all roads, streets, parkways  or
  avenues connecting with the approaches.
11.  The terms "note" or "notes" shall mean bond anticipation notes as
  authorized in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 653 - Nassau County Bridge Authority.

§  653. Nassau county bridge authority. A board to be known as "Nassau
  county bridge authority" is hereby created. Such board shall be  a  body
  corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation, and its
  existence  shall  commence upon the appointment of the members as herein
  provided. It shall consist of a chairman  and  four  other  members  who
  shall  be  appointed  by  the  county  executive  of the county with the
  approval of the county legislature. The original appointments  shall  be
  made  in  such  manner  that  the term of one member shall expire on the
  December thirty-first next after the appointment of the  board  and  one
  member  on the second December thirty-first after the appointment of the
  board and one member  on  the  third  December  thirty-first  after  the
  appointment  of  the  board.  Their  successors  shall  be appointed one
  annually for terms of five years each from  the  first  day  of  January
  following  the  end  of  the term of his or her predecessor. Each member
  shall continue to serve until the appointment and qualification  of  his
  or  her  successor.  Vacancies in such board occurring otherwise than by
  the expiration of term shall be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term.  The
  members of the board shall choose from their number a vice-chairman. The
  county  executive  may  remove any member of the board for inefficiency,
  neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him or her a copy of the
  charges against him or her and an opportunity of being heard in  person,
  or  by  counsel,  in  his  or  her  defense upon not less than ten days'
  notice. The members of the board shall be entitled to such compensation,
  if any, for their services as shall be fixed by ordinance of the  county
  legislature  and shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual and
  necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
  The powers of the authority shall  be  vested  in  and  exercised  by  a
  majority  of  the  members  of  the board then in office. 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. Such board and
  its corporate existence shall continue until March  first  of  the  year
  nineteen  hundred  eighty-five, and thereafter until all its liabilities
  have been met and its notes and bonds have been paid  in  full  or  such
  liabilities  or notes and bonds have otherwise been discharged. Upon its
  ceasing to exist, all its  rights  and  properties  shall  pass  to  the
  county.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 655 - Civil Service Status of Officers and Employees.

§  655.  Civil  service status of officers and employees. Officers and
  employees of any board, commission or department of the  county  may  be
  transferred  to  the  authority 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
  authority. Officers and employees of  the  county  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  county under the rules of the county civil service commission shall
  have the  same  status  with  respect  thereto  after  transfer  to  the
  authority as they had under their original appointments. The appointment
  and  promotion  of  all  employees  of  the  authority  shall be made in
  accordance with the provisions of the civil service law and the rules of
  the county civil service commission.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 656 - Acquisition of Land by the County for the Authority.

§ 656. Acquisition of land by the county for the authority. The county
  shall  have power to acquire by purchase or by condemnation title in its
  name to any real property which may be  needed  or  convenient  for  the
  project or in connection therewith, including real property of municipal
  corporations, public utility corporations and railroad corporations. Any
  municipal  corporation may convey, with or without consideration, to the
  county any right,  title  or  interest  in  real  property  without  any
  election  or vote of the electors, taxpayers or freeholders. Payment for
  real property so acquired by the county may be made  by  the  authority.
  The  power  to  acquire  real  property hereby granted shall include the
  power to acquire the Atlantic beach bridge and  any  or  all  rights  or
  franchises  connected  with the operation of said bridge which it may be
  necessary or convenient for the authority to acquire. The  power  hereby
  conferred  upon  the county shall not limit or restrict the power of the
  authority itself to acquire real property in the name of the county.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 657 - Grant of Use of Land by the County to the Authority and Agreements Between Them.

§  657.  Grant  of  use  of  land  by  the county to the authority and
  agreements between them.  1. The county shall have power  and  authority
  by  resolution  of  the  county  legislature  to grant to the authority,
  without consideration, the use of any real property of the county needed
  or convenient for the project or in connection therewith.
2. In connection with any new bridge, park, playground, beach or other
  recreational facility to be constructed by the authority, the  authority
  and the county may enter into an agreement determining the real property
  necessary  for  such  bridge  or  project  and  for  the  approaches and
  connections thereto, and agreeing on the parts of such real property  of
  which  the  authority shall have the use; determining what real property
  shall be acquired in the name of the county for the  bridge  or  project
  and  its  approaches  and  connections, and what portion of the cost and
  expense of acquiring such real property shall be paid by  the  authority
  and  the  county  respectively;  determining  the  extent  of  the park,
  playground  or  other  recreational  facility  and  the  approaches  and
  connections,  and agreeing on what parts thereof shall be constructed by
  the authority as part of the project and what  parts  thereof  shall  be
  constructed  by  the  county as part of the connections, and agreeing on
  the portion of the cost of  such  construction  to  be  borne  by  them,
  respectively;  agreeing  on what parts of said park, playground or other
  recreational  facility  and  approaches  and  connections  shall,  after
  construction,  be  maintained by and at the cost of the authority and of
  the county, respectively; and determining and agreeing  upon  any  other
  like  or  different matters relating to the respective rights and duties
  of the county and the authority in respect to the project. The authority
  may pledge any such agreement to secure notes and bonds  and  thereafter
  such  agreement  shall not be modified except as may be permitted by the
  agreement with the bondholders and noteholders.
3. Real property may be acquired, construction of park, playground  or
  other  recreational  facilities  and  approaches  and connections may be
  done, the payment of the cost of such acquisition or construction may be
  made, or such park, playground  or  other  recreational  facilities  and
  approaches and connections may be maintained, either by the state of New
  York or by the county, as may be agreed between them, and any agreements
  with  the  authority  made by the county in respect of such acquisition,
  construction, payment or maintenance may be carried  out  and  performed
  either by the county or the state as may be agreed between them.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 658 - Consent and Transfer by the State.

§  658.  Consent and transfer by the state. The state of New York does
  hereby agree to the use by the authority of any lands under  the  waters
  of  Reynolds  channel  or of Bannister creek necessary or convenient for
  the project or in connection therewith.  The  state  of  New  York  does
  hereby  release and transfer to the county any and all interest which it
  now has or may hereafter have in and to the Atlantic Beach bridge.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 659 - Construction Contracts.

§  659.  Construction contracts. The authority shall let contracts for
  construction in the same manner, so far as practicable, as  is  provided
  by  law  for  contracts  of  the county, except that where the estimated
  expense of a contract does not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars,
  such contract may be entered into without  public  letting.  Nothing  in
  this  section  shall be construed to limit the power of the authority to
  do any construction directly by the officers, agents  and  employees  of
  the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 660 - Moneys of the Authority.

§  660.  Moneys of the authority. All moneys of the authority shall be
  paid to the treasurer of the county as agent of the authority, who shall
  not commingle such moneys with any other moneys. Such  moneys  shall  be
  deposited  in  a  separate  bank account or accounts. The moneys in such
  accounts shall be paid out by  said  treasurer  on  requisition  of  the
  chairman  of  the  authority  or  of such other person or persons as the
  authority may authorize to make such requisitions. All deposits of  such
  moneys  shall, if required by the treasurer or the authority, be secured
  by obligations of the United States or of the state of  New  York  of  a
  market  value  equal  at all times to the amount of the deposit, and all
  banks and trust companies are authorized to give such security for  such
  deposits.  The  comptroller  of the county is hereby authorized to audit
  the  accounts  of  the  authority.  The  authority  shall  have   power,
  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this section, to contract with the
  holders of any of its notes and bonds as  to  the  custody,  collection,
  securing,  investment  and payment of any moneys of the authority or any
  moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of notes and bonds  or
  in any way to secure notes and bonds, and to carry out any such contract
  notwithstanding that such contract may be inconsistent with the previous
  provisions  of  this  section. Moneys held in trust or otherwise for the
  payment of notes and bonds or in any way to secure notes and  bonds  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.
The  accounts  of the authority shall be subject to the supervision of
  the state comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 661-A - Notes of the Authority.

§ 661-a. Notes of the authority. The authority shall have power and is
  hereby  authorized  to  issue  negotiable  bond  anticipation  notes  in
  conformity with applicable provisions of the uniform commercial code and
  may renew the same from time to time but the  maximum  maturity  of  any
  such  note, including renewals thereof, shall not exceed five years from
  the date of issue of such original note. Such notes shall be  paid  from
  any moneys of the authority available therefor and not otherwise pledged
  or  from  the  proceeds  of  sale  of  the  bonds  of  the  authority in
  anticipation of which they were issued. The notes shall be issued in the
  same  manner  as  the  bonds  and  such  notes  and  the  resolution  or
  resolutions authorizing the same may contain any provisions, conditions,
  or limitations which the bonds or a bond resolution of the authority may
  contain.  Such  notes  may be sold at public or private sale at not less
  than par and shall bear such rate or rates  of  interest  as  the  board
  shall determine.
Such notes shall be as fully negotiable as the bonds of the authority.
  In  the  case  of  default  on  its  notes,  or  violation of any of the
  obligations of the authority to the noteholders, the  noteholders  shall
  have all the remedies provided herein for bondholders.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 662 - Agreements of the State.

§  662.  Agreements of the state. 1. The state of New York does pledge
  to and agree with the holders of the notes and bonds that the state will
  not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to acquire,
  construct, maintain, reconstruct and operate the project,  to  establish
  and collect charges and tolls and to fulfill the terms of any agreements
  made  with  the holders of the notes and bonds, or in any way impair the
  rights and remedies of the note and bondholders,  until  the  notes  and
  bonds,  together  with  interest  thereon,  with  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 note and bondholders,
  are fully met and discharged.
2. The state of New York does covenant and agree with the  holders  of
  the  notes  and bonds that no tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway, street,
  road, highway or other connection for vehicular traffic  which  will  be
  competitive with the project will be constructed or maintained until the
  notes  and bonds, together with interest thereon, 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 note and bondholders are
  fully  met  and  discharged;  provided  that  a tunnel, bridge, parkway,
  causeway, street,  road,  highway  or  other  connection  for  vehicular
  traffic  shall  be considered as competitive with the project only if it
  shall form a connection for vehicular  traffic  over,  under  or  across
  Reynolds channel west of seventy-three degrees and forty minutes of west
  longitude.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 663 - State and County Not Liable on Notes and Bonds.

§  663.  State and county not liable on notes and bonds. The notes and
  bonds and other obligations of the authority shall not be a debt of  the
  state of New York or of the county, and neither the state nor the county
  shall  be  liable  thereon,  nor  shall they be payable out of any funds
  other than those of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 664 - Notes and Bonds Legal Investments for Public Officers and Fiduciaries.

§  664.  Notes  and  bonds  legal  investments for public officers and
  fiduciaries. The notes and bonds are hereby made securities in which all
  public officers and bodies of this  state  and  all  municipalities  and
  municipal  subdivisions,  all  insurance  companies and associations and
  other persons carrying on an insurance  business,  all  banks,  bankers,
  trust  companies,  savings  banks  and  saving  associations,  including
  savings  and  loan  associations,  building   and   loan   associations,
  investment  companies  and other persons carrying on a banking business,
  all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries
  and all other persons  whatsoever  who  are  now  or  may  hereafter  be
  authorized  to  invest  in  notes  and bonds or other obligations of the
  state, may properly and legally invest funds including capital in  their
  control  or  belonging to them. The notes and bonds are also hereby made
  securities which may be deposited with and  shall  be  received  by  all
  public  officers  and  bodies  of  this state and all municipalities and
  municipal subdivisions for any purpose for which the  deposit  of  notes
  and  bonds or other obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be
  authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 665 - Tax Contract by the State.

§  665.  Tax contract by the state. It is hereby found, determined and
  declared that the authority  and  the  carrying  out  of  its  corporate
  purposes  is  in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state
  of  New  York,  for  the  improvement  of  their  health,  welfare   and
  prosperity,  and  for the promotion of their traffic and recreation, and
  that said purposes are public purposes and the project is  an  essential
  part  of  the  public  highway,  park  and  recreational  system and the
  authority will be performing an essential governmental function  in  the
  exercise  of  the  powers  conferred by this title, and the state of New
  York covenants with the purchasers and with all subsequent  holders  and
  transferees  of notes and bonds issued by the authority pursuant to this
  title, in consideration of the acceptance of and payment for  the  notes
  and  bonds  that the notes and bonds of the authority issued pursuant to
  this title and the income therefrom, and all moneys,  funds,  tolls  and
  other  revenues  pledged  to pay or secure the payment of such notes and
  bonds, shall at all times be free from taxation except for estate  taxes
  and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 666-A - Limitation of Liability.

§   666-a.  Limitation  of  liability.  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  the  erection,  construction,  reconstruction,
  maintenance or operation of the properties or any of the improvements or
  from carrying out any of the powers expressly given in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 666-B - Actions Against the Authority.

§ 666-b. Actions against the authority. 1. In every action against the
  authority for damages, for injuries to real or personal property, or for
  the  destruction  thereof, or for personal injuries, the complaint shall
  contain an allegation that at least thirty days have elapsed  since  the
  demand, claim or claims upon which such action is founded were presented
  to  a  member  of  the  authority,  or to its secretary, or to its chief
  executive officer and that the authority has  neglected  or  refused  to
  make  an  adjustment  or  payment  thereof  for  thirty  days after such
  presentment.
2. An action against the authority for damages for injuries to real or
  personal property, or for  the  destruction  thereof,  or  for  personal
  injuries,  alleged  to  have  been sustained shall not be commenced more
  than one year and ninety days after the cause of action  therefor  shall
  have accrued, nor unless a notice of claim shall have been served on the
  authority  within  the time limit established by, and in compliance with
  all requirements of section fifty-e of the general municipal law.
3. 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 667 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional.

§  667.  Title  not  affected  if  in  part unconstitutional.   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 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 7 - Nassau County Bridge Authority › 668 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

§  668. 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, the provisions of  this  title  shall  be
  controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 701 - Definitions.

§  701.  Definitions.   As used in this title, the following words and
  terms shall have the following meanings, unless some  other  meaning  is
  plainly intended.
1.  The word "authority" shall mean the corporation created by section
  seven hundred two of this chapter.
2. The word "board" shall mean the members of the authority.
3. The word "bridge" shall include  approaches  and  all  construction
  necessary  to  give  access  to  the  bridge from connecting roads, toll
  houses, toll booths and such facilities  as  may  be  necessary  to  the
  collection  of tolls, buildings and structures necessary for the housing
  of customs and  immigration  officials  and  such  other  buildings  and
  appurtenances   necessary   to   the  operation  of  the  bridge  as  an
  international toll bridge.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 702 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority.

§ 702. Ogdensburg bridge authority. A board to be known as "Ogdensburg
  bridge  authority"  is  hereby  created.  Such  board  shall  be  a body
  corporate and politic constituting  a  public  benefit  corporation.  It
  shall  consist  of seven members who shall be appointed by the governor.
  The terms of office of  the  members  shall  be  five  years  except  as
  hereinafter  provided.  Of  the  two  members  first appointed to fill a
  vacancy created by reason of the  increase  in  the  membership  of  the
  authority  to seven in number one shall be appointed for an initial term
  of three years and one for an initial term of four years.  Each  of  the
  above  terms  provided for shall commence on the first day of January in
  the year in which the vacancy occurs.  Each  member  shall  hold  office
  until the appointment and qualification of his successor. An appointment
  to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term. The board shall elect
  annually a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary and a treasurer of the
  board.  The  members  of the board shall not be entitled to compensation
  for their services but  shall  be  entitled  to  reimbursement  for  all
  expenses  necessarily  incurred  in the performance of their duties. The
  powers of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by  a  majority
  of  the  members  of the board then in office. The board may delegate to
  one or more of its members or to its officers, agents or employees  such
  powers  and duties as it may deem proper. When all its liabilities shall
  have been met and its bonds shall have been paid in full, all its rights
  and properties, so far as the same are located in the United  States  of
  America,  including the right to charge tolls, shall be conveyed without
  cost or expense to the state  of  New  York,  and  all  its  rights  and
  properties  so  far  as  the same are located in the Dominion of Canada,
  including the right to charge tolls, shall be conveyed without  cost  or
  expense  to  the  province  of  Ontario  or  otherwise  disposed  of  in
  accordance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada.  The  authority  and
  its  corporate  existence shall continue until all its liabilities shall
  have been met and its bonds paid in full and until all  its  rights  and
  properties shall have been conveyed as hereinabove provided.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 703-A - Financing Ferries.

§  703-a. Financing ferries. 1. In addition to other powers granted to
  the authority under the provisions of this  title  the  authority  shall
  have  power  to issue its negotiable notes in conformity with applicable
  provisions of the uniform commercial code  in  such  amount  as  may  be
  necessary  to  pay  the  cost  of  the ferries purchased by it under the
  provisions of this title, the costs of any improvements thereof and such
  expenses as may be deemed necessary or incident to such financing.
2. The issuance of  such  notes,  the  maturities  and  other  details
  thereof,  the  rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties and
  obligations of the authority in respect of the same, shall  be  governed
  by  the  provisions of this title which relate to bonds in so far as the
  same may be applicable.
3. Neither the authority nor the state of  New  York  or  any  agency,
  department   or   instrumentality   thereof   shall   proceed  with  the
  construction of any bridge across the Saint Lawrence river  at  or  near
  the  city  of  Ogdensburg,  in  the  county of Saint Lawrence, New York,
  unless all such notes shall have theretofore  been  paid  and  cancelled
  either  from  the  proceeds of bonds issued under the provisions of this
  title or from any other moneys which may be available for such  purpose.
  In case the authority shall issue its bonds under the provisions of this
  title,  the  amount  required for making such payment shall be deemed to
  constitute the purchase price of the ferries.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 703-B - Tolls, Rules and Regulations.

§ 703-b. Tolls, rules and regulations.  The authority shall have power
  to make rules and regulations for the preservation and use of the bridge
  and  for  the  payment  and collection of tolls, fees, fares and special
  charges. Until such time as the state of New York is fully reimbursed by
  the authority for the total amount of money advanced by the state to the
  authority, no rule, regulation, schedule or rate of tolls, fees,  fares,
  special  charges or rentals shall become effective or controlling unless
  approved by the director of the budget of the state of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 705 - Moneys of the Authority.

§  705.  Moneys  of  the  authority.  1.  All  moneys  received by the
  authority from the bridge and all other moneys received from  any  other
  source whatsoever pertaining to the operations of the authority shall be
  paid to the state comptroller as agent of the authority and deposited in
  a  separate  bank  account  or  accounts  to be known as the "Ogdensburg
  bridge fund. " The moneys in such fund shall be available subject to the
  approval of the director of the budget of the  state  of  New  York  for
  payment  of  any  and all costs and expenditures as may be necessary for
  the corporate purposes of the authority. The moneys  of  the  Ogdensburg
  bridge  fund  when  made  available  shall be paid from such fund on the
  audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved solely by  the
  chairman of the authority or his properly designated officer.
2.  All  moneys  in  such fund in excess of the sum of two hundred and
  fifty thousand dollars shall on the first day of each month be  paid  by
  the authority to the state comptroller provided, however, that effective
  June  thirty, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, the director of the budget
  and the authority shall establish within the  provisions  of  a  written
  agreement  between  the  authority  and  the  director providing for the
  repayment to the state by the authority of state  advances  the  maximum
  amount of moneys which the authority may retain in the Ogdensburg bridge
  fund. The comptroller is hereby authorized to receive from the authority
  such  amounts  as  shall  be  paid  to  the  comptroller pursuant to the
  provisions of this section and to credit all such amounts to the capital
  construction fund. Upon certification by the state comptroller that  all
  moneys  due  the  state have been paid in full, the remaining balance of
  such fund shall be available to such authority and may be used  by  such
  authority for any corporate purpose. The accounts of the authority shall
  be   subject   to  examination  by  the  state  comptroller.  The  state
  comptroller is hereby authorized and empowered to examine  the  accounts
  and  books  of  the  authority  at  such  periods of time as he may deem
  necessary, including its receipts, disbursements, contracts, leases  and
  any other matters relating to its financial standing.
3.  Nothing  in this section shall prevent the authority and the state
  from entering into an agreement for the  establishment  of  a  revolving
  fund  to  be  used  to  pay  part of or all of the authority's operating
  expenses. This revolving fund shall  be  initially  funded  with  moneys
  advanced  from  the Ogdensburg bridge fund and shall be replenished from
  time to time  from  such  funds  upon  the  audit  and  warrant  of  the
  comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 708 - State and County of Saint Lawrence Not Liable on Bonds.

§  708.  State  and county of Saint Lawrence not liable on bonds.  The
  bonds and other obligations of the authority shall not be a debt of  the
  county  of  Saint Lawrence or of the state of New York, and neither such
  county nor the state shall be liable thereon, nor  shall  the  bonds  or
  other  obligations of the authority be payable from any funds other than
  those of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 709 - Bonds Legal Investments for Public Officers and Certain Others.

§ 709. Bonds legal investments for public officers and certain others.
  The  bonds  are  hereby made securities in which all public officers and
  bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal  subdivisions,
  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,   all   administrators,   guardians,
  executors,   trustees  and  other  fiduciaries  and  all  other  persons
  whatsoever who are now 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 710 - Exemption From Taxation.

§  710.  Exemption  from taxation. 1. It is hereby determined that the
  creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes
  is in all respects for the benefit of the people of  the  state  of  New
  York  and  it 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 and shall be required to pay no taxes or
  assessments  upon  any  of  the  properties  acquired by it or under its
  jurisdiction or control or supervision or upon its  activities  or  upon
  the income therefrom.
2. Any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this title, together with the
  income  therefrom,  as  well  as the property of the authority, shall be
  free from taxation, except for transfer and estate taxes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 711 - Agreements of the State.

§  711.  Agreements of the state. 1. The state of New York does pledge
  to and agree with the holders of bonds issued  pursuant  to  this  title
  that  the  state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the
  authority to construct, maintain, reconstruct and operate the bridge, to
  establish and collect charges and tolls and to fulfill the terms of  any
  agreements  made with the holders of the bonds, or in any way impair the
  rights and remedies of the bondholders, until the bonds,  together  with
  interest  thereon, with 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 bondholders, are fully met and discharged.
2.  The  state of New York does covenant and agree with the holders of
  bonds  issued  pursuant  to  this  title  that,  except  for  structures
  constructed  in  connection  with  the development of the Saint Lawrence
  seaway or of hydro-electric power, no tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway,
  road, highway or other connection for vehicular traffic except for ferry
  transportation  which  will  be  competitive  with  the  bridge   herein
  authorized  will  be constructed or maintained until the bonds, together
  with interest thereon, with  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  bondholders  are  fully  met  and
  discharged;  provided  that  a  tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway, road,
  highway or other connection for vehicular traffic shall be considered as
  competitive only if it shall form a  connection  for  vehicular  traffic
  between  the  state  of  New  York  and the province of Ontario, Canada,
  across the Saint Lawrence river within a distance of  twenty-five  miles
  from the bridge herein authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 712 - Rules and Regulations Relating to the Bridge.

§  712.  Rules  and regulations relating to the bridge. The use of the
  bridge herein authorized shall be subject to the rules  and  regulations
  of the authority; provided, however, that the authority is not empowered
  to  do  anything  which  will  impair the security of the bondholders or
  violate limitations contained in any agreement with bondholders.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 713 - Acquisition and Transfers of Land.

§  713.  Acquisition  and  transfers  of  land. 1. Title to any lands,
  easements or rights in land which may be acquired for the authority with
  the proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this title shall be  vested  in
  the authority.
2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any  other law, the board of
  supervisors of any county, the town board of any town, the  trustees  of
  any  village, or the common council of any city, without any election or
  meeting of the taxpayers or voters or  other  authorization,  is  hereby
  authorized  to convey to the authority any land, easement or interest in
  land,  including  a  public  highway,  which  the  authority  may   deem
  necessary.
3.  The  authority  shall  have the right to convey to any appropriate
  governmental body of the state of New York  any  approach  road  in  the
  state  of  New  York, and to any appropriate governmental body of Canada
  any approach road in the province of Ontario, whenever such  appropriate
  governmental  body  shall  undertake  to  maintain  the same as a public
  highway.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 714 - Members and Employees Not to Be Interested in Transactions.

§ 714. Members and employees not to be interested in transactions.  It
  shall  be  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by fine or imprisonment, for any
  members of the  board  or  any  clerk,  employee,  architect,  surveyor,
  engineer  or  superintendent appointed by the authority to be in any way
  or manner interested, directly or indirectly, in  furnishing  materials,
  supplies or labor for the erection of a project or in any contract which
  such authority is empowered by this chapter to make.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 715 - Repayment of State Appropriations.

§  715.  Repayment  of  state  appropriations. All appropriations made
  heretofore or hereafter by the state to the authority shall  be  treated
  as  advances  by  the  state to the authority, and shall be repaid to it
  without interest out of the  first  proceeds  of  bonds  issued  by  the
  authority  for the construction of the bridge. The comptroller is hereby
  authorized to receive from the authority amounts advanced by  the  state
  to  the  authority  and to deposit the same in the state treasury to the
  credit of the capital construction fund  so  that  the  state  shall  be
  reimbursed for the full amount of any and all such advances.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 716 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional.

§ 716. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional. If any section,
  clause   or  provision  of  this  title  shall  be  unconstitutional  or
  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 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 8 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority › 717 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

§  717. 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, the provisions of  this  title  shall  be
  controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 9 - Reconstitution and Continuation of Ogdensburg Bridge Authority as Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority › 725 - Ogdensburg Bridge Authority Reconstituted and Continued as Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority.

§  725.  Ogdensburg  bridge  authority  reconstituted and continued as
  Ogdensburg bridge and port authority. The Ogdensburg  bridge  authority,
  created  pursuant  to  the provisions of title eight of article three of
  this chapter, is hereby reconstituted the  Ogdensburg  bridge  and  port
  authority  and,  as  thus reconstituted is hereby continued with all the
  jurisdiction, functions,  powers  and  duties  possessed,  exercised  or
  performed  by  it  pursuant to such title, together with such additional
  jurisdiction, functions, powers  and  duties  as  may  be  conferred  or
  imposed by this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 9 - Reconstitution and Continuation of Ogdensburg Bridge Authority as Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority › 726 - Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority.

§ 726. Ogdensburg bridge and port authority. Notwithstanding any other
  provisions  of  this  chapter,  the  members  of  the  Ogdensburg bridge
  authority in office on the effective date of this title shall become and
  be the members of the board of  and  shall  thereafter  constitute,  the
  Ogdensburg  bridge  and  port  authority,  and shall hold office for the
  balance of the terms for which they were severally appointed.
All of the provisions of title eight of article three of this chapter,
  respecting the qualifications, appointment, terms, officers,  number  of
  members  and  removal  of  members  of  the Ogdensburg bridge authority,
  including the filling of  vacancies  occurring  for  any  reason,  shall
  hereafter be applicable to the members of the Ogdensburg bridge and port
  authority,  except  that all members shall hereafter be appointed by and
  with the advice and consent of the senate.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 9 - Reconstitution and Continuation of Ogdensburg Bridge Authority as Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority › 727 - Ogdensburg Port Authority Abolished; Transfer of Functions.

§  727.  Ogdensburg  port  authority abolished; transfer of functions.
  Except as hereinafter provided, the Ogdensburg port  authority,  created
  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  title  three  of  article six of this
  chapter, is hereby abolished, and all of  the  jurisdiction,  functions,
  powers  and  duties possessed, exercised or performed by such authority,
  of whatsoever nature or kind, are hereby transferred  and  assigned  to,
  and devolved upon, the Ogdensburg bridge and port authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 9 - Reconstitution and Continuation of Ogdensburg Bridge Authority as Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority › 728 - Transfer of Records and Property.

§  728.  Transfer  of  records  and  property.  Except  as hereinafter
  provided, all the contracts, books, maps, plans, papers, records, moneys
  and property, of whatsoever nature or kind, owned or possessed or  under
  the  jurisdiction  or  control of the Ogdensburg port authority, and all
  debts or obligations thereof, are hereby transferred  and  assigned  to,
  and  devolved  upon,  the  Ogdensburg bridge and port authority, and the
  same or evidences thereof shall be delivered to the  secretary  of  such
  authority who is hereby authorized to take possession thereof.