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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 35 - Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation › 2799-OOOO - Not-for-Profit Grant Distribution.

§  2799-oooo. Not-for-profit grant distribution. 1. The corporation is
  authorized to provide financial assistance in  the  form  of  grants  to
  not-for-profit  corporations that provide direct services or benefits to
  the residents of Roosevelt Island, the totality of such  grants  not  to
  exceed  three  per  centum  per  annum  of  the  operating budget of the
  corporation, and upon the approval of a majority of the entire board  of
  the corporation.
2.  Annually,  within  ninety days after the end of the fiscal year of
  the corporation, the corporation shall post a report on its website that
  shall list and identify each grant recipient in such  fiscal  year,  the
  amount  provided  to  each  recipient,  and a general description of the
  public benefit of each grant.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 35 - Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation › 2799-PPPP - Severability of Provisions.

§  2799-pppp.  Severability  of  provisions. If any section, clause or
  provision of this title or the application  thereof  shall  be  adjudged
  invalid, such judgment shall not affect or invalidate any other section,
  clause or provision of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 35 - Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation › 2799-QQQQ - Transfer of Funds.

§  2799-qqqq.  Transfer of funds. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of
  any general or special law, the director of the budget is authorized  to
  transfer  to the corporation from funds appropriated to the division for
  the fiscal year beginning April first, nineteen hundred eighty-four, the
  amount he or she determines necessary to carry  out  the  provisions  of
  this title, including providing for Roosevelt Island operations, capital
  improvement program and any other appropriate management expenses.
2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general or special law, no
  part  of  such  appropriations  shall  be  available  for  the  purposes
  designated  until  a  certificate of approval of availability shall have
  been issued by the director of the budget and a copy of such certificate
  is filed with the state comptroller, the chair  of  the  senate  finance
  committee  and  the chair of the assembly ways and means committee. Such
  certificate may be amended from time to time, subject to the approval of
  the director of the budget, and a copy of each such amendment  shall  be
  filed  with  the  state  comptroller,  the  chair  of the senate finance
  committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 1 - Reports by Public Authorities › 2801 - Budget Reports by Authorities.

§  2801.  Budget  reports  by authorities. 1. State authorities. Every
  state authority or  commission  heretofore  or  hereafter  continued  or
  created by this chapter or any other chapter of the laws of the state of
  New  York  shall  submit to the governor, the chair and ranking minority
  member of the senate finance committee, the chair and  ranking  minority
  member  of  the  assembly  ways  and means committee and the authorities
  budget office, for their information, annually not more than one hundred
  twenty days and not less than ninety days before the commencement of its
  fiscal year, in the form submitted to its members  or  trustees,  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.
2. Local authorities. For the local authority fiscal year ending on or
  after December thirty-first, two thousand seven and annually thereafter,
  every local authority heretofore or hereafter continued  or  created  by
  this  chapter  or any other chapter of the laws of the state of New York
  shall submit to the chief executive officer, the chief  fiscal  officer,
  the  chairperson  of  the  legislative  body  of the local government or
  governments and the authorities budget  office  for  their  information,
  annually  not  more than ninety days and not less than sixty days before
  the commencement of its fiscal  year,  in  the  form  submitted  to  its
  members  or  trustees,  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.
3. If any state  or  local  authority  has  provided  the  information
  required  by  this  section  as  part  of  the annual report required by
  section twenty-eight hundred of this title, such  authority  may  comply
  with  the  provisions  of  this section by reference to such information
  with any necessary updates.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 1 - Reports by Public Authorities › 2803 - Examination of the Books and Accounts of Public Authorities by the State Comptroller.

§ 2803. Examination of the books and accounts of public authorities by
the  state  comptroller.  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, the state comptroller shall, from time to  time  but  not  less
than  once  in every five years, examine the books and accounts of every
authority or commission heretofore or hereafter continued or created  by
this  chapter, including its receipts, disbursements, contracts, leases,
sinking funds,  investments  and  any  other  matters  relating  to  its
financial   standing.   In  lieu  of  such  an  examination,  the  state
comptroller is hereby authorized to accept from every such authority  or
commission an external examination of its books and accounts made at the
request of such authority or commission.
2.  (a)  The  state  comptroller may, pursuant to subdivisions two and
three of section eight-c of the state finance law, in his  or  her  sole
discretion,  apply  to  state authorities the electronic data analytical
enterprise fraud prevention and detection system as provided for in such
section eight-c of the state finance law. Public authorities shall fully
support and cooperate with the state comptroller by providing the  state
comptroller  with access to data of the authority requested by the state
comptroller, in accordance with state and federal  law,  to  allow  such
data   to  be  integrated  into  such  analytic  efforts  as  the  state
comptroller may deem necessary.
(b) For purposes of this subdivision, the term "state authority" shall
have the same meaning as in subdivision  one  of  section  two  of  this
chapter,  provided  that  for  purposes  of  this  subdivision, the term
"public benefit corporation" as used in such subdivision one of  section
two  of  this chapter shall have the same meaning as in subdivision four
of section sixty-six of the general construction law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 1 - Reports by Public Authorities › 2805 - Reports and Publications by Authorities.

§  2805.  Reports  and publications by authorities. Every authority or
  commission heretofore  or  hereafter  continued  or  created  shall,  in
  accordance  with  the  provisions of section one hundred sixty-four-a of
  the executive law and  the  regulations  promulgated  pursuant  thereto,
  provide for cost savings in the printing and distribution of its reports
  and other authority publications.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 1 - Reports by Public Authorities › 2806 - Personnel Reports by State and Local Authorities and Public Benefit Corporations.

§  2806.  Personnel  reports by state and local authorities and public
  benefit corporations. 1. Every state  and  local  authority  and  public
  benefit corporation shall submit to the comptroller, the director of the
  budget,  the  chairpersons  of the legislative fiscal committees and the
  authorities budget office, for their information, annually, on or before
  the  fifteenth  day  of  January  of  each  calendar   year,   personnel
  information  setting  forth  personal  service  schedules by subsidiary,
  division and unit which indicate position, grade, salary and  title  for
  each employee and in summary form.
2.  If  any  state  or  local  authority  has provided the information
  required by this section in the annual  report  required  under  section
  twenty-eight  hundred  of this title, such authority may comply with the
  provisions of this section by references to such  information  with  any
  necessary updates.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 1 - Reports by Public Authorities › 2807 - Reporting for Searchable State Subsidy and Aggregate Economic Development Benefits Database.

§  2807. Reporting for searchable state subsidy and aggregate economic
  development benefits database. Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of
  law  to  the  contrary,  every state authority shall submit to the urban
  development corporation, and update quarterly, in the  form  and  manner
  prescribed  by  the  urban development corporation, any and all data and
  information as necessary for developing, updating, and  maintaining  the
  database  established  in  section fifty-eight of section one of chapter
  one hundred seventy-four of the laws of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-eight,
  constituting  the  New  York  state  urban  development corporation act,
  regarding economic development benefits, as such term is defined in such
  section, awarded by such state authority. A state authority may  request
  and  shall  receive  any  data  from  an  individual,  business, limited
  liability corporation or any other  entity  that  has  applied  for  and
  received  approval  for,  or  is  the  beneficiary of, any such economic
  development benefits, as is necessary and required to comply  with  this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 2 - Boards of Public Authorities › 2824-A - Mission Statement and Measurement Report.

§  2824-a.  Mission  statement  and  measurement  report.  Each  state
  authority shall submit to the authorities budget  office  on  or  before
  March  thirty-first,  two  thousand  ten, and each local authority shall
  submit to the authorities budget office on or before March thirty-first,
  two thousand eleven, a proposed authority mission statement and proposed
  measurements which the authorities  budget  office  shall  post  on  its
  website.   The   proposed   authority  mission  statement  and  proposed
  measurements shall  have  the  following  components:  a  brief  mission
  statement   expressing  the  purpose  and  goals  of  the  authority,  a
  description of the stakeholders of the authority  and  their  reasonable
  expectations  from  the  authority,  and a list of measurements by which
  performance of the authority and the achievement of  its  goals  may  be
  evaluated.  Each  authority  shall  reexamine  its mission statement and
  measurements on an annual basis, and publish a self-evaluation based  on
  the  stated  measurements;  provided, however, such reexamination may be
  waived pursuant to a determination by the director  of  the  authorities
  budget  office  that  such  undertaking is unnecessary for an individual
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 2 - Boards of Public Authorities › 2825 - Membership on Authorities and Commissions; Independence; and Financial Disclosure.

§  2825.  Membership on authorities and commissions; independence; and
financial disclosure. Notwithstanding the  provisions  of  any  general,
special  or  local  law,  municipal  charter  or ordinance: 1. No public
officer or employee shall be ineligible for appointment as a trustee  or
member  of  the governing body of a state or local authority, as defined
in section two of this chapter, and any public officer or  employee  may
accept  such  appointment  and  serve  as such trustee or member without
forfeiture of any other public office or position of  public  employment
by reason thereof.
2.    Except  for  members who serve as members by virtue of holding a
civil office of the state, the majority of the remaining members of  the
governing  body  of  every state or local authority shall be independent
members;  provided,  however,  that  this  provision  shall   apply   to
appointments  made  on  or  after  the  effective  date of chapter seven
hundred sixty-six of the laws of two  thousand  five  which  added  this
subdivision.  The  official or officials having the authority to appoint
or remove such remaining members shall  take  such  actions  as  may  be
necessary  to  satisfy  this requirement and further, shall consider the
prospective diversity of the members of a state  authority  when  making
their  determinations  to  appoint  any member. For the purposes of this
section, an independent member is one who:
(a) is not, and in the past two years has not been,  employed  by  the
public authority or an affiliate in an executive capacity;
(b)  is  not,  and  in the past two years has not been, employed by an
entity that received remuneration valued at more than  fifteen  thousand
dollars  for  goods  and  services  provided  to the public authority or
received any other form of financial  assistance  valued  at  more  than
fifteen thousand dollars from the public authority;
(c)  is  not  a  relative  of  an  executive officer or employee in an
executive position of the public authority or an affiliate; and
(d) is not, and in the  past  two  years  has  not  been,  a  lobbyist
registered  under a state or local law and paid by a client to influence
the management decisions, contract awards, rate  determinations  or  any
other similar actions of the public authority or an affiliate.
3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of any general, special or
local law,  municipal  charter  or  ordinance  to  the  contrary,  board
members,  officers, and employees of a state authority shall file annual
financial disclosure statements as required by  section  seventy-three-a
of  the public officers law. Board members, officers, and employees of a
local public authority shall file annual financial disclosure statements
with the county board of ethics for the county in which the local public
authority has its primary office pursuant to  article  eighteen  of  the
general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 2 - Boards of Public Authorities › 2826 - Quorums and Majorities.

§  2826.  Quorums and majorities.  Notwithstanding any other provision
  of this chapter  and  notwithstanding  any  provision  of  any  general,
  special  or  local  law,  whenever  the whole number of the board of any
  authority or commission heretofore or hereafter continued or created  by
  this chapter is three or more persons, a majority of the whole number of
  the  members  of  such  board, at a meeting duly held at a time fixed by
  law, or by any by-law duly  adopted  by  such  board,  or  at  any  duly
  adjourned  meeting  of  such  meeting  or  at any meeting duly held upon
  reasonable notice to all of the members of such board, shall  constitute
  a  quorum and not less than a majority of the whole number of such board
  may perform and exercise the powers  authorized  and  provided  in  this
  chapter.  For the purpose of this section the words "whole number" shall
  be construed to mean the total number which such board would  have  were
  there  no  vacancies  and  were  none  of  the  members  of  such  board
  disqualified from acting.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 2 - Boards of Public Authorities › 2827 - Removal of Authority Members.

§  2827. Removal of authority members. Except as otherwise provided in
  this chapter, every member of every authority or  commission  heretofore
  or  hereafter  continued  or  created by this chapter, except ex-officio
  members, that is, members whose membership results by  virtue  of  their
  incumbency  of a public office, shall be removable by the public officer
  or public body which is  empowered  by  this  chapter  to  appoint  such
  authority  or  commission  member, for inefficiency, breach of fiduciary
  duty, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, provided,  however,  that
  such  member  shall  be  given  a copy of the charges against him and an
  opportunity of being heard in person, or  by  counsel,  in  his  or  her
  defense upon not less than ten days' notice.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 2 - Boards of Public Authorities › 2828 - Termination of Public Authorities.

§   2828.  Termination  of  public  authorities.  Every  authority  or
  commission hereafter created by this chapter shall terminate at the  end
  of five years from the date of its creation if at the end of such period
  it   has   outstanding  no  liabilities;  provided,  however,  that  any
  appropriation made to such authority or commission by the state  of  New
  York  or  by  any  political  subdivision  thereof shall not be deemed a
  liability for the purposes of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 2 - Boards of Public Authorities › 2829 - State and Local Authorities Subject to the Open Meetings and Freedom of Information Laws.

§  2829.  State and local authorities subject to the open meetings and
  freedom of information laws. All state and local  authorities,  as  such
  terms  are  defined  in  section  two  of  this  chapter, as well as all
  subsidiaries of such state and local  authorities,  as  such  terms  are
  defined  in  section  two  of  this  chapter,  shall  be  subject to the
  provisions of articles six and seven of the public officers law relating
  to the freedom of information and open meetings laws  respectively.  All
  state  and  local authorities, as well as all subsidiaries of such state
  and local authorities, shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open
  meetings and public hearings on their website in real-time,  post  video
  recordings  of  all  open  meetings and public hearings on their website
  within five business days of the meeting or hearing  and  maintain  such
  recordings for a period of not less than five years.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3 - Employees of Public Authorities › 2850 - Transfer of Authority Officers and Employees.

§  2850.  Transfer of authority officers and employees. Subject to the
  civil service law and rules, transfer may be allowed  between  positions
  in  any  authority  or  commission  heretofore or hereafter continued or
  created by this chapter, which is subject to  the  jurisdiction  of  the
  state  or  a  municipal  civil  service commission, and positions in the
  service of the state or a civil division thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3 - Employees of Public Authorities › 2850-A - Emergency Service Volunteers; Paid Leave.

§  2850-a.  Emergency  service volunteers; paid leave. Notwithstanding
  any other provisions  of  law  to  the  contrary,  public  officers  and
  employees  of  public  authorities who are certified by the American Red
  Cross as disaster volunteers shall be granted leave from work  with  pay
  to  participate  in  specialized disaster relief operations upon written
  request for such services  by  the  American  Red  Cross  and  upon  the
  approval  of  the  chief executive of the public authority for which the
  public officer or employee serves. The public officer or employee  shall
  be  compensated at his or her regular rate of pay for those regular work
  hours during which the public officer or employee is  absent  from  work
  while   participating   in   authorized   specialized   disaster  relief
  operations. Such leave shall be  provided  without  loss  of  seniority,
  compensation,  sick leave, vacation leave or other overtime compensation
  to which the volunteer is otherwise entitled and shall not exceed twenty
  days in any calendar year.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3 - Employees of Public Authorities › 2851 - Age Not to Be Bar to Employment by Public Authorities.

§  2851.  Age  not  to  be bar to employment by public authorities. No
  public  authority  shall  hereafter  prohibit,  prevent,  disqualify  or
  discriminate  against  any  person  applying  for  employment  by,  such
  authority, who is physically and mentally qualified, or from  competing,
  participating  or registering for a position, or be penalized in a final
  rating for any position, by reason of his or her age. Any existing rule,
  regulation, penalty or requirement resolution preventing the  hiring  of
  persons  because  of  age  shall  be  void,  except  that nothing herein
  contained, shall prevent any public authority from  adopting  reasonable
  minimum  or  maximum  age  requirements  for  positions  such  as police
  officer,  firefighter,  guard   or   other   positions   which   require
  extraordinary physical effort except where age limits for such positions
  are already prescribed by law.
Notwithstanding  any  provisions  to  the  contrary,  no person who is
  physically or mentally qualified may be  disqualified  from,  competing,
  participating  or  registering  for  a  promotional  examination  or  be
  penalized in a final rating or barred from promotion after having passed
  such promotion examination by reason of his or her age,  by  any  public
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3 - Employees of Public Authorities › 2852 - Senate Confirmation of Certain Chief Executive Officers.

§ 2852. Senate confirmation of certain chief executive officers. Where
  the   appointment   of   any  chief  executive  officer  is  subject  to
  confirmation by the senate  pursuant  to  subdivision  five  of  section
  sixteen  hundred  seventy-eight  of  this  chapter,  subdivision  six of
  section three hundred fifty-four of this chapter, section  one  thousand
  four  of  this  chapter,  or  subdivision  (c)  of  section one thousand
  twenty-f of this chapter the senate  shall  vote  to  confirm  any  such
  appointment  within  sixty  days  of its submission to the senate during
  session, or if such submission  is  made  when  the  senate  is  not  in
  session,  within  seven days of the convening for session. If the senate
  fails to vote to confirm any such appointment within the time prescribed
  in this section, such appointment shall be deemed confirmed without  any
  further action by the senate.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3 - Employees of Public Authorities › 2853 - Confidentiality Agreements.

§  2853.  Confidentiality agreements. 1. Definitions. For the purposes
of this section:
a. "confidentiality agreement" shall mean an  agreement  entered  into
between  a state authority or a local authority with a former or current
employee, officer or member of the governing  board  of  such  authority
that  prevents  disclosure  of any records or information, as defined in
subdivision four of section  eighty-six  of  the  public  officers  law,
during or after their employment or service.
b.  "local  authority"  shall  mean  a  local  authority as defined in
section two of this chapter.
c. "state authority" shall  mean  a  state  authority  as  defined  in
section two of this chapter.
2.   No  state  authority  or  local  authority  shall  enter  into  a
confidentiality agreement, unless:
a. it  covers  only  records  or  information  that  are  exempt  from
disclosure pursuant to subdivisions two and four of section eighty-seven
of  the  public  officers  law  and  any rules promulgated and published
thereto; or
b. the agreement  covers  both  records  or  information  exempt  from
disclosure,  and  those subject to disclosure under section eighty-seven
of the public officers law, but only if:
(i) the agreement does not  prohibit  any  disclosure  of  records  or
information  related  to  compensation or benefits given to an employee,
officer or member of the  governing  board  or  of  illegal  conduct  or
wrongdoing by the authority;
(ii) the authority is unable to specifically determine at the time the
confidentiality  agreement  is entered into which records or information
are exempt from disclosure in accordance with subdivision two of section
eighty-seven of the public officers law;
(iii) the authority establishes a process by which a current or former
employee, officer or member  of  the  governing  board  covered  by  the
confidentiality  agreement  may obtain a ruling from the authority as to
whether he or she may disclose any records  or  information  covered  by
such  agreement  in  accordance  with  the  procedures established under
subdivision four of section eighty-nine  of  the  public  officers  law,
including  any  right  to challenge the authority's decision provided by
that section; and
(iv) the authority notifies the current or former employee, officer or
member of the governing board in the agreement of his or  her  right  to
seek such a ruling.
3.  Nothing  in  this  section shall require disclosure of information
otherwise protected from disclosure by law.
4. Any provision in any contract or other agreement  entered  into  in
violation of this section shall have no force and effect.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3 - Employees of Public Authorities › 2854 - Severance Packages.

§ 2854. Severance packages. 1. For the purposes of this section:
(a)  "at-will employee" shall mean an employee of any entity organized
under this chapter.  Any  employee  that  is  covered  by  a  collective
bargaining  agreement  or  union  contract  shall  not  be considered an
at-will employee for the purpose of this section.
(b) "severance pay for an at-will employee" shall include benefits  or
compensation with a quantifiable monetary value that are provided for an
at-will  employee  upon  termination  of  employment  and  shall  not be
considered part of the at-will employee's  annual  wages  and  benefits.
"Severance  pay  for an at-will employee" shall not include payments for
accumulated vacation, accumulated sick leave, and accumulated sick leave
liquidated to cover the cost of group  term  insurance  or  payments  of
periodic   contributions  by  an  employer  toward  premiums  for  group
insurance policies.
2. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the  contrary,
severance  pay provided for an at-will employee leaving employment shall
not exceed an amount equivalent to their prior three months' salary.
3. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the  contrary,
the  severance  pay  for  an  at-will  employee  shall  be excluded from
retirement deductions and from any calculations of retirement benefits.
4. If a retired or terminated at-will  employee  dies  before  all  of
their  severance pay has been disbursed, the balance due must be paid to
a named beneficiary or, lacking one, to the decedent's estate.
5. No collective bargaining  agreement  or  union  contract  shall  be
altered by the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3-A - Business Practices of Public Authorities › 2855 - Electronic Method of Payment; Periodic Charges.

§    2855.   Electronic   method   of   payment;   periodic   charges.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of  any  law  to  the  contrary,  if  any
  authority shall offer any electronic method of payment for tolls, fares,
  fees,  rentals,  or other charges, including but not limited to a system
  called  E-ZPass,  such  authority  shall   not   impose   any   periodic
  administrative   or  other  charge  for  the  privilege  of  using  such
  electronic method of payment for such charges. Nothing in  this  section
  shall  be construed to prohibit any authority from making any charge for
  extra services requested by  a  holder  of  such  electronic  method  of
  payment, any charge for lost or damaged equipment, or for defaults, such
  as  charges  for  dishonored  checks.  The authority shall not enter any
  agreement  with  bondholders  that  would  require  the  imposition   of
  administrative  or other periodic charges relating to electronic methods
  of payment prohibited by this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3-A - Business Practices of Public Authorities › 2856 - Consideration of Public Authority Debt.

§  2856.  Consideration  of public authority debt. On or before a date
  fixed by the authorities budget office, every authority not subject to a
  statutory limit on bonds, notes, or other debt obligations it may issue,
  shall submit to the authorities budget office a statement of  intent  to
  guide  the  authority's  issuance and overall amount of bonds, notes, or
  other debt obligations it may issue.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3-A - Business Practices of Public Authorities › 2857 - Actions by an Authority.

§  2857.  Actions  by  an authority. No state or local authority shall
  fire, discharge,  demote,  suspend,  threaten,  harass  or  discriminate
  against  an  employee because of the employee's role as a whistleblower,
  insofar as the actions taken by the employee are legal.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 3-A - Business Practices of Public Authorities › 2858 - Public Water and Sewer Authority Powers.

§  2858.  Public  water  and sewer authority powers. A public water or
  sewer authority, created pursuant to article five of this chapter, shall
  have the power to specify the manner in which exterior  manhole  covers,
  containing grease traps or interceptors shall be regulated and inspected
  to  prevent  unauthorized  access,  in  addition to the requirements set
  forth in the uniform fire  prevention  and  building  code  pursuant  to
  article eighteen of the executive law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2875 - Ground for Cancellation of Contract by Public Authority.

§  2875.  Ground  for  cancellation of contract by public authority. A
clause shall be inserted in all specifications  or  contracts  hereafter
made or awarded by any public authority or by any official of any public
authority created by the state or any political subdivision, for work or
services  performed  or  to be performed or goods sold or to be sold, to
provide that upon the refusal by a person, when called  before  a  grand
jury,  head  of  a state department, temporary state commission or other
state agency, the organized crime task force in the department  of  law,
head  of  a city department, or other city agency, which is empowered to
compel the attendance of witnesses  and  examine  them  under  oath,  to
testify  in  an investigation concerning any transaction or contract had
with the state, any political subdivision thereof, a public authority or
with any public department, agency or official of the state  or  of  any
political subdivision thereof or of a public authority, to sign a waiver
of  immunity  against  subsequent  criminal prosecution or to answer any
relevant question concerning such transaction or contract,
(a) such person, and any firm, partnership or corporation of which  he
is  a  member,  partner,  director or officer shall be disqualified from
thereafter selling to or submitting bids to or receiving awards from  or
entering  into  any  contracts  with  any  public  authority or official
thereof, for goods, work or services, for a period of five  years  after
such refusal, and to provide also that
(b)  any  and all contracts made with any public authority or official
thereof, since the effective date of this law, by such person and by any
firm, partnership or corporation of  which  he  is  a  member,  partner,
director  or  officer  may  be  cancelled  or  terminated  by the public
authority without incurring any penalty or damages on  account  of  such
cancellation  or  termination,  but  any  monies  owing  by  the  public
authority for goods delivered or work done prior to the cancellation  or
termination shall be paid.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2875-A - Definitions.

§  2875-a.  Definitions.  As used in this article, the following terms
  shall have the following meanings unless otherwise specified:
1. "Construction item"  means  any  such  item  or  material  used  in
  construction  and  which is procured directly by the public authority or
  office or any such item or material commonly used in construction  which
  is  procured by a person, other than a municipality, under contract with
  the public authority or office.
2. "Office" means the office of general services.
3. "Practicable" means capable of being  used  without  violating  the
  following  criteria:  performance,  availability  at a reasonable price,
  availability within a reasonable period of time  and  maintenance  of  a
  satisfactory level of competition.
4.  "Product"  means  any  material, supply, equipment or construction
  item or other item whether  real  or  personal  property  which  is  the
  subject  of any purchase, barter, or other exchange made to procure such
  product.
5.  "Secondary  materials"  means  any  material  recovered  from   or
  otherwise  destined  for the waste stream, including but not limited to,
  post-consumer material, industrial  scrap  material,  and  overstock  or
  obsolete  inventories from distributors, wholesalers and other companies
  as defined in rules and regulations promulgated by the  commissioner  of
  general  services  but  such  term  does not include those materials and
  byproducts generated  from,  and  commonly  reused  within  an  original
  manufacturing process.
6. "Specification" means any description of the physical or functional
  characteristics,  or  of  the nature of a material, supply, equipment or
  construction item. It may include a description of any  requirement  for
  inspecting,  testing  or  preparing  a  material,  supply,  equipment or
  construction item for delivery.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2875-B - Specifications.

§  2875-b.  Specifications. Within twelve months of the effective date
  of this  section  all  public  authorities  or  commissions  created  or
  continued   by   this   chapter   shall  review  their  present  product
  specifications to  determine  whether  such  require  that  products  be
  manufactured from virgin materials or exclude products manufactured from
  secondary  materials  and  shall,  on  or  before  April first, nineteen
  hundred ninety revise and adopt their product specifications as  may  be
  necessary to ensure that:
a.  Where such specifications exclude the use of products manufactured
  from secondary materials or require that products be  manufactured  from
  virgin  materials  only,  such exclusions or requirements be eliminated;
  provided however, that specifications need not be revised if the  public
  authority  or  commission  demonstrates  that for a particular end use a
  product  containing  secondary  materials  would  not   meet   necessary
  performance standards.
b.  Performance standards, specifications and a product's intended end
  use are related, and clearly identified when feasible.
c. Specifications are not overly stringent for a particular end use or
  performance standard.
d.  Specifications  incorporate  or  require  the  use  of   secondary
  materials  to  the  maximum  extent practicable without jeopardizing the
  performance or intended end use of the product; provided however,  where
  the  public  authority  or commission demonstrates that for a particular
  end  use  a  product  containing  secondary  materials  would  not  meet
  necessary   performance   standards,   such   specifications   need  not
  incorporate or require the use of secondary materials.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2877-A - The New York State Buy American Salt Act.

§ 2877-a. The New York state buy American salt act. 1. Use of American
materials.   (a)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  when
soliciting a contract for the purchase of rock salt or sodium  chloride,
any  public  authority  may  award  such contract to the responsible and
reliable bidder offering to supply rock salt or sodium chloride that  is
mined  or hand harvested in the United States, and which offer is within
ten percent of the lowest price or best value offer, rather than to  the
lowest responsible and reliable bidder.
(b)  If  it  has been determined by a court or federal or state agency
that any person intentionally:
(i) affixed a label bearing a "Made in America"  inscription,  or  any
inscription  with the same meaning, to any rock salt, or sodium chloride
product used in projects to which  this  section  applies,  sold  in  or
shipped to the United States that was not mined or hand harvested in the
United States; or
(ii)  represented  that  any  rock  salt,  or  sodium chloride product
procured in a contract to  which  this  section  applies  that  was  not
produced  in  the United States, was produced in the United States; then
that person shall be ineligible to receive any contract  or  subcontract
with  this  state  pursuant  to  the  debarment or suspension provisions
provided under section one hundred thirty-nine-a of  the  state  finance
law.
(c)  This  section  shall  be  applied in a manner consistent with the
state's  obligations  under  any  applicable  international   agreements
pertaining to government procurement.
2.  Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following words
shall have the following meanings unless specified otherwise:
(a) "Public authority" means a state, local or interstate authority as
those terms are defined in section two of this chapter;
(b) "Mined or hand harvested in the United States" means: extracted or
collected from land or ponds within the boundary of the  United  States,
from  the  initial separation from the earth through the addition of any
additives necessary for commercial sale;
(c) "United States" means the United States of  America  and  includes
all  territory,  continental  or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of
the United States.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2878-A - Purchasing of Products.

§  2878-a.  Purchasing of products. 1. All products purchased shall be
  recycled products, which meet contract specifications, unless  the  only
  available  product  does not contain recycled content, and provided that
  the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium  of  ten
  percent  above  the  cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled
  product or, if  at  least  fifty  percent  of  the  secondary  materials
  utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste
  stream  in  New  York  state,  the cost of the recycled product does not
  exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a  comparable
  product that is not a recycled product.  For the purpose of this section
  and  until  July  first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product"
  shall mean any  product  which  has  been  manufactured  from  secondary
  materials,  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of  section  two  hundred
  sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets secondary  material
  content  requirements  adopted  by  the office of general services under
  subdivision one of  section  one  hundred  seventy-seven  of  the  state
  finance  law  for products available to the public authority under state
  contract or, if no such contract for such product is  available  to  the
  public authority, any product which meets the secondary material content
  requirements  adopted by the public authority with respect to a specific
  commodity procurement by the public authority. On and after July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-six,  "recycled  product"  shall mean, for the
  purposes of this section, any product which has been  manufactured  from
  secondary  materials,  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of section two
  hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which  meets  the
  requirements  of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the environmental
  conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
2. Whenever  a  public  authority,  corporation  or  commission  shall
  purchase  or  cause the purchase of printing on recycled paper, it shall
  require the printed material to contain  the  official  state  recycling
  emblem established pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the
  environmental  conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated pursuant
  thereto  if  such  paper  has  been  approved  by  the   department   of
  environmental  conservation  as  satisfying  the  requirements  of  such
  statute and regulations, or, if such paper has  not  been  so  approved,
  require  the  printed  material  to  include  a  printed statement which
  indicates the percentages of  pre-consumer  and  post-consumer  recycled
  material content of such paper.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2878-B - Source Separation of Wastes.

§  2878-b.  Source  separation  of  wastes. 1. No later than September
  first, nineteen hundred eighty-nine each public  authority,  corporation
  or  commission  shall  devise and institute a program to source separate
  waste paper generated within its facilities.
Such program shall  include  marketing  arrangements  and  appropriate
  procedures   to   ensure   the   recovery   of   discarded  paper  in  a
  noncontaminated condition. This program  may  be  phased  in,  utilizing
  those  office  facilities  most  conducive  to  operation  of  a  source
  separation program, but  shall  be  fully  implemented  by  July  first,
  nineteen hundred ninety.
2.  No  later  than  July  first, nineteen hundred ninety, each public
  authority, corporation  or  commission  shall  devise  and  institute  a
  program  to  source  separate  all  other  waste  generated  within  its
  facilities that is not covered  by  this  section.  Such  program  shall
  include  marketing arrangements and appropriate procedures to ensure the
  recovery of waste for which the full avoided costs of proper collection,
  transportation and disposal of source separated materials are  equal  to
  or  greater than the cost of collection, transportation and sale of said
  material less the amount received from the sale of said  material.  This
  program  may  be  phased  in,  utilizing  those  office  facilities most
  conducive to operation of a source separation program but shall be fully
  implemented by July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one.
3. A public authority, corporation or commission occupying  facilities
  made  available or provided by the office of general services may comply
  with the provisions of  this  section  by  participating  in  a  program
  conducted  by  the  office  of general services pursuant to subdivisions
  four and five of section one hundred seventy-seven of the state  finance
  law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 9 - General Provisions › Title 4 - Contracts of Public Authorities › 2878-C - Certain Contracts Involving Personal Protective Equipment and Medical Supplies.

§  2878-c.  Certain  contracts involving personal protective equipment
and medical supplies. 1. Notwithstanding any other  provisions  of  law,
all  contracts  over fifty thousand dollars in value made and awarded by
any state authority for the purchase of personal protective equipment or
medical supplies shall require that the personal protective equipment or
medical supply items be produced or made in whole or substantial part in
the United States.
2. For purposes of this section:
(a) "personal  protective  equipment"  means  all  equipment  worn  to
minimize  exposure  to  medical  hazards,  including gloves, masks, face
shields, eye protection, respirators, medical hair and  shoe  coverings,
and disposable gowns and aprons.
(b)  "medical supplies" means materials necessary to respond to health
emergencies or pandemics, including and without limitation  ventilators,
medical test kits, and vaccines.
(c)  "United  States"  means  the  United  States, its territories, or
possessions.
3. The provisions of this section shall not apply if the head  of  the
state  authority purchasing the personal protective equipment or medical
supplies, in his or her sole discretion, determines that such provisions
would not be in  the  public  interest;  that  obtaining  such  personal
protective  equipment  or  medical  supplies  in the United States would
increase the cost of the contract by an unreasonable amount;  that  such
personal  protective equipment or medical supplies cannot be produced or
made in  the  United  States  in  sufficient  and  reasonably  available
quantities  and  of  satisfactory  quality  or  design to meet the state
authority's  requirements;  or  that  purchasing   personal   protective
equipment  or medical supplies manufactured outside of the United States
is necessary to avoid a delay in the delivery of critical services  that
could compromise the public welfare.
4.  Nothing  in  this  section  is intended to contravene any existing
treaties, laws, trade agreements, or regulations of the United States or
subsequent trade agreements entered into between any  foreign  countries
and the state or the United States.
5.  Subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  section, the department of
economic  development,  in  consultation  with  the  office  of  general
services  and  the  division  of  the  budget,  shall  be  authorized to
establish rules and regulations for the effective administration of this
section.