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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1285-F - Program for Ultimate Disposal of Hazardous Wastes.

§  1285-f.  Program  for ultimate disposal of hazardous wastes. 1. The
corporation shall  immediately  begin  preparation  of  a  comprehensive
program  for  the  ultimate  disposal  of  hazardous  wastes which shall
include, but not be limited to, technology,  siting  and  marketing  and
financing  of  such  a program through the use of revenue bonds or other
means. Such program shall be  in  addition  to  the  study  mandated  by
section twelve hundred eighty-five-d of this article.
2. The corporation shall provide to the governor and the legislature a
marketing  and  feasibility  study  no  later than March first, nineteen
hundred eighty. Such study shall include findings and recommendations as
to available technology, the desirability of regional disposal sites and
the feasibility of generating sufficient revenue to amortize bonds which
may be issued in connection with the program. To the  extent  necessary,
the study shall be prepared in consultation with experts in the field of
public finance.
3.  A hazardous waste disposal advisory committee shall be established
to advise the corporation on a comprehensive program  for  the  ultimate
disposal of hazardous waste. Such advice shall be rendered in connection
with the study required by subdivision one of this section.
(a)  The  committee  shall  consist  of  the  commissioners,  or their
designees, of the departments  of  health,  environmental  conservation,
commerce,  the  director of the division of the budget, or his designee,
and a maximum of five  individuals  with  recognized  expertise  in  the
fields  of  hazardous waste management and technology or public finance.
These five individuals shall be appointed by the governor, one  of  whom
the governor shall designate as chairman.
(b)  Each  member  of  the hazardous waste disposal advisory committee
shall not receive a salary or other compensation, but shall be  entitled
to  reimbursement  for  actual  and  necessary  expenses incurred in the
performance of his or her committee duties.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1285-H - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Remedial Programs.

§  1285-h.  Inactive  hazardous waste disposal site remedial programs.
  1. The corporation and any owner of an inactive hazardous waste disposal
  site, or any state agency or any person or  municipality  identified  by
  the   commissioner  of  the  department  of  environmental  conservation
  pursuant to section 27-1313 of the  environmental  conservation  law  as
  responsible  for developing and implementing an inactive hazardous waste
  disposal site remedial  program  pursuant  to  section  27-1313  of  the
  environmental conservation law or section thirteen hundred eighty-nine-b
  of  the  public health law may enter into a contract for the development
  and/or implementation of such a program upon such terms  and  conditions
  as the corporation shall determine to be reasonable. Such contract shall
  include  payment  to  the  corporation  pursuant  to  the  contract. The
  corporation may subcontract for the  development  or  implementation  of
  such a program.
2. When requested by the owner of an inactive hazardous waste disposal
  site, or by any state agency or by any person or municipality identified
  by  the  commissioner  of  the  department of environmental conservation
  pursuant to section 27-1313 of the  environmental  conservation  law  as
  responsible  for  the  disposal  of  hazardous  waste  at such site, the
  corporation may advise such owner, state agency, person or  municipality
  on matters relating to the development and implementation of an inactive
  hazardous waste remedial program and pursuant to a contract with such an
  owner,  state  agency,  person  or  municipality  may  render  technical
  assistance and may undertake research, planning and testing with respect
  to any such program. The corporation may make a reasonable charge to any
  such owner, state agency, person or municipality for the performance  of
  any of the functions authorized by this subdivision.
3.  The  corporation  shall  have  the  authority to contract with the
  department of environmental conservation to perform  necessary  work  in
  connection with inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial programs
  pursuant  to section 27-1313 of the environmental conservation law. Such
  contract shall include  payment  to  the  corporation  pursuant  to  the
  contract.  The  corporation  may  subcontract  for  the  development  or
  implementation of such a program.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1285-N - Issuance and Sale of Recipient Bonds and Notes.

§   1285-n.   Issuance   and   sale  of  recipient  bonds  and  notes.
  Notwithstanding subdivision two of section one thousand eighty  of  this
  article,  or  any  by-law, rule or regulation requiring the recipient to
  issue bonds or notes at a public or competitive sale, any recipient of a
  financing from  the  corporation  pursuant  to  section  twelve  hundred
  eighty-five-j,   twelve   hundred   eighty-five-m   or   twelve  hundred
  eighty-five-o of this title may validly issue its notes or bonds to  the
  corporation, as evidence of its obligation to repay such financing.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1287 - Construction Contracts.

§  1287.  Construction contracts. 1. Construction contracts other than
  for resource recovery facilities let by  the  corporation  shall  be  in
  conformity  with  the  applicable  provisions  of  section  one  hundred
  thirty-five of the  state  finance  law,  but  the  corporation  in  its
  discretion may assign such contracts for supervision and coordination to
  the  successful  bidder  for  any  subdivision  of  work  for  which the
  corporation receives bids. Contracts for  resource  recovery  facilities
  may  be  awarded  by  the  corporation  in  the  same  manner  as  by  a
  municipality pursuant to section one hundred  twenty-w  of  the  general
  municipal law.
2.  Except  in  the case of contracts for resource recovery facilities
  awarded consistent with subdivision one of this section, the corporation
  shall not award any construction contract involving  an  expenditure  of
  more  than  ten  thousand dollars except to the lowest bidder who in its
  opinion is qualified to perform the work required and is responsible and
  reliable. The lowest bid shall be deemed to be that  which  specifically
  states the lowest gross sum for which the entire work will be performed,
  including  all  items  in  the  bid  proposal.  The  lowest bid shall be
  determined by the corporation on the basis of the gross  sum  for  which
  the  entire  work will be performed, arrived at by a correct computation
  of all items specified in the bid therefor at the unit prices  contained
  in  the  bid.  The  corporation  may, however, reject any or all bids or
  waive any informality in a bid if it believes that the  public  interest
  will  be  promoted thereby. The corporation may reject any bid if in its
  judgment the business  and  technical  organization,  plant,  resources,
  financial  standing  or experience of the bidder, compared with the work
  to be performed, justifies such rejection.
3. Any construction contract awarded by the corporation shall  contain
  such  other  terms and conditions, and such provisions for penalties, as
  the corporation may deem desirable.
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law  to  the  contrary,
  all   contracts   for   public  work  awarded  by  the  New  York  state
  environmental facilities corporation pursuant to this section  shall  be
  in  accordance  with  section  one  hundred  thirty-nine-f  of the state
  finance law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1288 - Co-Operation and Assistance of Other Agencies.

§  1288.  Co-operation  and  assistance  of other agencies.   To avoid
  duplication of effort and in the interests of economy,  the  corporation
  may  make  use  of  existing  studies,  surveys,  plans,  data and other
  materials in the possession of any state agency or any  municipality  or
  political  subdivision  of the state. Each such agency, municipality and
  subdivision is hereby authorized to  make  the  same  available  to  the
  corporation  and  otherwise  to  assist  it  in  the  performance of its
  functions. The officers and personnel of such  agencies,  municipalities
  and  subdivisions,  and  of any other government or agency whatever, may
  serve at the request of the corporation upon such advisory committees as
  the  corporation  shall  determine  to  create  and  such  officers  and
  personnel may serve upon such committees without forfeiture of office or
  employment  and  with no loss or diminution in the compensation, status,
  rights and privileges which they otherwise enjoy.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1289 - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  1289. Transfer of officers and employees. Officers and employees of
  state departments and agencies may be transferred to the corporation and
  officers and employees of the corporation may be  transferred  to  state
  departments  and  agencies  without  examination and without loss of any
  civil service status or rights. No such transfer may, however,  be  made
  except with the approval of the head of the state department or division
  involved,  the director of the budget and the chief executive officer of
  the corporation, and in compliance with the rules and regulations of the
  civil service commission of the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1290-A - Insurance and Guarantees.

§  1290-a.  Insurance  and guarantees. The corporation may obtain from
  any department or agency of the United States of America  any  available
  insurance  or  guaranty  for  the  payment  or  repayment of interest or
  principal, or both, or any part thereof, on any bonds or notes issued by
  the corporation, but notwithstanding any other provisions of this  title
  may  not  enter  into any agreement or contract with respect to any such
  insurance or guaranty to the extent that it would in any way  impair  or
  interfere with the ability of the corporation to perform and fulfill the
  terms  of  any  agreement made with the holders of the bonds or notes of
  the corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1292 - Agreement of the State.

§  1292.  Agreement  of the state. The state does hereby pledge to and
  agree with the holders of any notes or bonds issued  under  this  title,
  that  the  state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the
  corporation to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders
  thereof, or in any way impair the rights and remedies  of  such  holders
  until  such  notes  or  bonds,  together with the interest thereon, with
  interest on any unpaid installments  of  interest,  and  all  costs  and
  expenses  for  which  the  corporation  is liable in connection with any
  action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met  and
  discharged.  The  corporation  is  authorized to include this pledge and
  agreement of the state in any agreement with the holders of  such  notes
  or bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1293 - Right of State to Require Redemption of Bonds.

§ 1293. Right of state to require redemption of bonds. Notwithstanding
  and  in addition to any provisions for the redemption of bonds which may
  be contained in any contract with the holders of the  bonds,  the  state
  may,  upon furnishing sufficient funds therefor, require the corporation
  to redeem, prior to maturity, as a whole, any  issue  of  bonds  on  any
  interest  payment  date not less than twenty years after the date of the
  bonds of such issue at one hundred five per centum of their  face  value
  and  accrued  interest  or  at  such  lower  redemption  price as may be
  provided in the bonds in case of the redemption thereof as  a  whole  on
  the  redemption date. Notice of such redemption shall be published in at
  least two newspapers publishing  and  circulating  respectively  in  the
  cities  of  Albany and New York at least twice, the first publication to
  be at least thirty days before the date of redemption. The provisions of
  this section relating to the state's  right  to  require  redemption  of
  bonds  shall  not  apply  to state-supported debt, as defined by section
  sixty-seven-a of the state finance law, issued by the corporation.  Such
  corporation  bonds  shall  remain  subject to redemption pursuant to any
  contract with the holders of such bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1295 - Notes and Bonds as Legal Investment.

§  1295.  Notes  and bonds as legal investment. The notes and bonds of
  the corporation are hereby made securities in which all public  officers
  and   bodies   of   the  state  and  all  municipalities  and  political
  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 who may hereafter be authorized to
  invest in bonds or other obligations of  the  state,  may  properly  and
  legally  invest funds including capital in their control or belonging to
  them. Notwithstanding any other provisions of  law,  the  bonds  of  the
  corporation  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 political subdivisions for any purpose for
  which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is  now  or
  may hereafter be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1297 - Actions Against the Corporation.

§  1297.  Actions  against  the  corporation. 1. As a condition to the
  consent of the state to such suits against  the  corporation,  in  every
  action  against  the  corporation  for  damages, for injuries to real or
  personal property or  for  the  destruction  thereof,  or  for  personal
  injuries  or  death,  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
  corporation or other officer designated for such purpose  and  that  the
  corporation  has  neglected  or refused to make an adjustment or payment
  thereof.
2. An action against the corporation founded on tort, except an action
  for wrongful death, shall not be commenced more than one year and ninety
  days after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued, nor unless a
  notice of claim shall have been served on  the  corporation  within  the
  time  limited  by and in compliance with all the requirements of section
  fifty-e of the general municipal law. An action against the  corporation
  for  wrongful  death shall be commenced in accordance with the notice of
  claim and time limitation provisions of title eleven of article nine  of
  this chapter.
3.  The  corporation may require any person, presenting for settlement
  on account or claim for any cause whatever against the  corporation,  to
  be  sworn before a director, counsel or an attorney, officer or employee
  of the corporation designated for such purpose, concerning such  account
  or  claim and when so sworn to answer orally as to any facts relative to
  such account or claim. The corporation shall have  power  to  settle  or
  adjust all claims in favor of or against the corporation.
4.  The  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  by the corporation upon any
  judgment for which it is liable shall not exceed  four  per  centum  per
  annum.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 12 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation › 1298 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

§ 1298. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective.
  If any provision of any section of this title or the application thereof
  to  any  person  or circumstance shall be adjudged invalid by a court of
  competent jurisdiction, such order or judgment shall be confined in  its
  operation  to  the  controversy  in which it was rendered, and shall not
  affect or invalidate the remainder of any provision of  any  section  of
  this title or the application of any part thereof to any other person or
  circumstance  and  to  this  end  the provisions of each section of this
  title are hereby declared to be severable.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-B - Niagara Frontier Transportation District.

§  1299-b.  Niagara  Frontier transportation district. There is hereby
  created and established a transportation district to  be  known  as  the
  Niagara   Frontier  transportation  district  which  shall  embrace  the
  counties of Erie and Niagara.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-D - Purposes of the Authority.

§  1299-d. Purposes of the authority. 1. The purposes of the authority
  shall  be  the  continuance,  further  development  and  improvement  of
  transportation  and  other  services  related thereto within the Niagara
  Frontier transportation district, including  but  not  limited  to  such
  transportation  by railroad, omnibus, marine and air, in accordance with
  the provisions of this title. It shall be the  further  purpose  of  the
  authority  to develop and implement a unified mass transportation policy
  for such district.
2. It is hereby found and declared  that  such  purposes  are  in  all
  respects  for the benefit of the people of the state of New York and the
  authority shall be regarded  as  performing  an  essential  governmental
  function  in  carrying  out  its  purposes  and in exercising the powers
  granted by this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-G - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property.

§ 1299-g. Acquisition and disposition of real property. 1. In addition
  to  the  powers provided in section twelve hundred ninety-nine-f of this
  title to acquire transportation facilities, equipment and real property,
  the authority may acquire, by condemnation pursuant to the  condemnation
  law, any real property it may deem necessary, convenient or desirable to
  effectuate  the  purpose  of this title, provided however, that any such
  condemnation proceedings shall be brought only in the supreme court  and
  the  compensation  to be paid shall be ascertained and determined by the
  court without a jury. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions  of  this
  subdivision  one,  no  real property may be acquired by the authority by
  condemnation for purposes other than a  transportation  facility  unless
  the  governing  body  of  the  city,  village or town in which such real
  property is located shall first consent to such condemnation.
2.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to  prevent  the
  authority  from  bringing  any proceedings to remove a cloud on title or
  such other proceedings as it may, in its  discretion,  deem  proper  and
  necessary  or  from  acquiring  any  such  property  by  negotiation  or
  purchase.
3. Where a person entitled to an award in the proceedings  to  condemn
  any  real  property  for  any  of  the purposes of this title remains in
  possession of such property after the time of the vesting  of  title  in
  the  condemnor,  the  reasonable  value of his use and occupancy of such
  property subsequent to such time as fixed by agreement or by  the  court
  in such proceedings or by any court of competent jurisdiction shall be a
  lien  against such award subject only to the liens of record at the time
  of vesting of title in the condemnor.
4. Title to all property acquired under this act  shall  vest  in  the
  authority.
5.  The  authority  may,  whenever  it  determines  that  it is in the
  interest of the authority, dispose of  any  real  property  or  property
  other  than  real  property,  which  it  determines  is  not  necessary,
  convenient or desirable for its purposes. Provided,  however,  that  the
  authority shall provide the county, city, town, and village in which the
  real  property is situated with sixty days notice prior to offering such
  property for disposition or sale.
6. The authority may, whenever it shall determine that it  is  in  the
  interest  of  the  authority,  rent,  lease  or grant easements or other
  rights in, any land or property of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-GG - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property by Department of Transportation.

* §   1299-gg.   Acquisition  and  disposition  of  real  property  by
  department of  transportation.  If  funds  are  made  available  by  the
  authority  for  the  payment  of the cost and expense of the acquisition
  thereof, the department of transportation of the state of New York, when
  requested by the authority, may acquire such real property in  the  name
  of  the state as may be determined from time to time by the authority as
  being necessary, convenient or desirable to effectuate the  purposes  of
  this title, may remove the owner or occupant thereof where necessary and
  obtain  possession  and, when requested by the authority, may dispose of
  any real property so acquired, all according to the  procedure  provided
  in section thirty of the highway law. The authority shall have the right
  to  possess and use for its corporate purposes all such real property so
  acquired. Claims for the value of  the  property  appropriated  and  for
  legal  damages  caused  by  any such appropriation shall be adjusted and
  determined by such department with the approval of the authority  or  by
  the  court  of  claims as provided in section thirty of the highway law.
  When a claim has been filed with the court of claims, the claimant shall
  cause a copy of such claim to be  served  upon  the  authority  and  the
  authority  shall  have the right to be represented and heard before such
  court. All awards and judgments arising from such claims shall  be  paid
  out  of  moneys  of  the  authority.  No  real  property may be acquired
  pursuant to the provisions of this section for  purposes  other  than  a
  transportation  facility  unless the governing body of the city, village
  or town in which such real property is located shall  first  consent  to
  such acquisition.
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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-K - Agreement of the State.

§ 1299-k. Agreement  of  the  state. --The state does hereby pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any  notes  or  bonds  issued  under  this
  title,  that  the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested
  in the authority to acquire, establish, construct, effectuate,  operate,
  maintain,  renovate, improve, extend or repair any authority facilities,
  to establish, levy and collect fares, tolls, rentals, rates, charges and
  other fees, to receive and use for its corporate purposes, in  the  same
  manner  as  its own funds and revenues, all moneys directed by law to be
  paid to it by the Buffalo and Fort Erie public bridge authority, and  to
  fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders thereof, or in
  any  way impair the rights and remedies of such holders until such notes
  or bonds, together with the  interest  thereon,  with  interest  on  any
  unpaid  installments  of  interest, and all costs and expenses for which
  the authority is liable in connection with any action or  proceeding  by
  or  on  behalf  of  such  holders,  are  fully  met  and discharged. The
  authority is authorized to include this  pledge  and  agreement  of  the
  state in any agreement with the holders of such notes or bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-L - Right of State to Require Redemption of Bonds.

§   1299-l.   Right   of   state   to  require  redemption  of  bonds.
  Notwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption  of
  bonds  which  may  be  contained in any contract with the holders of the
  bonds, the state may, upon furnishing sufficient funds therefor, require
  the authority to redeem, prior to maturity, as a  whole,  any  issue  of
  bonds  on any interest payment date not less than twenty years after the
  date of the bonds of such issue at one hundred five per centum of  their
  face value and accrued interest or at such lower redemption price as may
  be provided in the bonds in case of the redemption thereof as a whole on
  the  redemption date. Notice of such redemption shall be published in at
  least two newspapers  published  and  circulating  respectively  in  the
  cities   of  Buffalo  and  Niagara  Falls  at  least  twice,  the  first
  publication to be at least thirty days before the date of redemption.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-N - Notes and Bonds as Legal Investment.

§  1299-n. Notes and bonds as legal investment. The notes and bonds of
  the authority are hereby made securities in which  all  public  officers
  and   bodies   of   the  state  and  all  municipalities  and  political
  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 who may hereafter be authorized to
  invest in bonds or other obligations of  the  state,  may  properly  and
  legally  invest funds including capital in their control or belonging to
  them. Notwithstanding any other provisions of  law,  the  bonds  of  the
  authority  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 political subdivisions for any purpose for
  which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is  now  or
  may hereafter be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-O - Exemption From Taxation.

§  1299-o. Exemption from taxation. It is hereby found, determined and
  declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of  its
  purposes  is  in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state
  of New York and  for  the  improvement  of  their  health,  welfare  and
  prosperity  and  is  a  public  purpose,  and that the authority will be
  performing an essential governmental function in  the  exercise  of  the
  powers  conferred upon it by this title. Without limiting the generality
  of the following provisions of  this  section,  property  owned  by  the
  authority,  property leased by the authority and used for transportation
  purposes, and property used for transportation purposes by  or  for  the
  benefit  of  the  authority  exclusively pursuant to the provisions of a
  joint service arrangement or of a joint facilities agreement or trackage
  rights agreement shall all  be  exempt  from  taxation  and  special  ad
  valorem levies. The authority shall be required to pay no fees, taxes or
  assessments,  whether state or local, except special benefit assessments
  if said property is located in a special benefit district, including but
  not limited to fees, taxes or  assessments  on  real  estate,  franchise
  taxes,  sales  taxes or other excise taxes, upon any of its property, or
  upon the use thereof, or  upon  its  activities  in  the  operation  and
  maintenance  of  its  facilities or on any fares, tolls, rentals, rates,
  charges or  other  fees,  revenues  or  other  income  received  by  the
  authority  and the bonds of the authority and the income therefrom shall
  at all times be exempt from taxation, except for gift and  estate  taxes
  and  taxes  on  transfers.  This section shall constitute a covenant and
  agreement with the holders of all bonds issued  by  the  authority.  The
  terms  "taxation"  and  "special  ad  valorem  levy" shall have the same
  meanings as defined in section one hundred two of the real property  tax
  law  and  the term "transportation purposes" shall have the same meaning
  as used in titles two-a and two-b of article four of such law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-Q - Station Operation and Maintenance.

§   1299-q.   Station   operation   and  maintenance.  The  operation,
  maintenance and use of passenger stations shall be  public  purposes  of
  the  counties  of  Erie and Niagara. The total cost to the authority and
  each of its subsidiary corporations of operation, maintenance and use of
  each passenger station within the  district  serviced  by  one  or  more
  railroad  facilities of the authority or of such subsidiary corporation,
  including the buildings, appurtenances, platforms, lands and  approaches
  incidental  or adjacent thereto, shall be borne by the county within the
  district in which such station is located. On or before  June  first  of
  each  year, the authority shall determine and certify to the counties of
  Erie and Niagara the total cost to  the  authority  and  its  subsidiary
  corporations,  for  the  twelve-month  period ending the preceding March
  thirty-first, of operation, maintenance and use of each  such  passenger
  station  within  each  county,  respectively. On or before the following
  September first, of each  year,  each  such  county  shall  pay  to  the
  authority  such  cost so certified to it on or before the preceding June
  first. If for any such twelve-month period the authority determines that
  the total revenues of any railroad facility  will  be  such  as  not  to
  require  payment  for  the  full  amount  of  the  costs  of  operation,
  maintenance and use of the passenger stations served by  such  facility,
  the  authority  in  its discretion may reduce by a uniform percentage of
  established costs  the  amounts  required  of  each  county  so  served,
  provided  however, that the amount required of any such county shall not
  be reduced for any such twelve-month period below the total cost to  the
  authority  and  its  subsidiary corporations so certified of maintenance
  and use of such passenger stations so served in such county. Each county
  shall have power to finance such costs to it by the issuance  of  budget
  notes pursuant to section 29.00 of the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-R - Agreements Relating to Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

§ 1299-r. Agreements relating to payments in lieu of taxes. To the end
  that  municipal  corporations,  counties,  cities,  towns,  villages and
  school districts may not suffer undue loss of taxes or assessments:
If the authority owns or acquires property and all or any  portion  of
  such   property   is   subsequently  developed,  improved  or  used  for
  non-transportation purposes, it shall during such period of  disuse  for
  transportation  purposes  be  subject  to  assessment, at the prevailing
  method of determining assessments based upon the current assessed  value
  of  all  or  the  relevant  portion  of such property by the appropriate
  assessing unit and  the  authority  shall,  based  on  such  assessment,
  annually, in lieu of taxes, pay such amount to the municipal corporation
  and/or school district.
The  authority  may,  in  its discretion, enter into agreements to pay
  annual sums in lieu of taxes in respect of any real  property  which  is
  owned  by  the  authority  and  exempt from taxation pursuant to section
  twelve hundred  ninety-nine-o  of  this  article  to  the  participating
  municipal  corporation  or  school  district  in  which  the property is
  located, provided however, that the amount so paid  for  any  year  upon
  such  property  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  last paid as taxes on such
  property to such municipal corporation or school district prior  to  the
  time of its acquisition by the agency.
Vacant   properties,   properties   acquired   by  the  authority  for
  non-transportation  purposes  but  intended  to  be  used   for   future
  transportation  purposes  and  properties  acquired by the authority for
  transportation purposes and used as such, shall not be  subject  to  the
  payment  of  any  taxes  or any payments in lieu thereof except that the
  authority shall pay such property special  benefit  assessments  on  the
  property if it is located in an existing special benefit district.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-T - Contracts.

§  1299-t.  Contracts.  The  authority  shall  promulgate  regulations
  pursuant to the state administrative procedure act governing  the  award
  of  all  contracts for public work and all purchase contracts, including
  the procurement  of  supplies,  material  and  equipment;  personal  and
  professional  service  contracts;  emergency purchases; and advertising.
  Prior to promulgating such regulations, the authority shall  submit  the
  proposed  regulations  for  comment  to the chief executive officers and
  county legislatures of Erie county and  Niagara  county.  The  authority
  shall  also  establish  internal controls necessary to insure compliance
  with these regulations. The authority shall retain independent  auditors
  to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of such internal controls.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-A - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority › 1299-U - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

§   1299-u.   Title  not  affected  if  in  part  unconstitutional  or
  ineffective. If any provision of  any  section  of  this  title  or  the
  application  thereof  to  any  person  or circumstance shall be adjudged
  invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction,  such  order  or  judgment
  shall  be  confined  in its operation to the controversy in which it was
  rendered, and shall not  affect  or  invalidate  the  remainder  of  any
  provision  of  any  section of this title or the application of any part
  thereof to any  other  person  or  circumstance  and  to  this  end  the
  provisions  of  each  section  of  this  title are hereby declared to be
  severable.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-CC - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation District.

§  1299-cc.  Rochester-Genesee  regional transportation district.   1.
  There is hereby created and established a transportation district to  be
  known  as  the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation district.  This
  district shall embrace the county of Monroe and such  of  the  following
  counties  as  may  elect  to become members by action of their governing
  bodies:  all  counties  included  within  the  Lake  Ontario  region  as
  designated  by  the  New York state office of planning services, namely,
  Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne and Yates, and  any
  county contiguous to this region. The transportation district shall also
  include  all  lands  and water and all lands under water and all rivers,
  bays and harbors and Lake Ontario, within any of the  counties  of  said
  district.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-EE - Purposes of the Authority.

§ 1299-ee. Purposes of the authority. 1. The purposes of the authority
  shall  be  the  continuance,  further  development  and  improvement  of
  transportation  and  other   services   related   thereto   within   the
  Rochester-Genesee   regional   transportation   district,  by  railroad,
  omnibus, marine and air, in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this
  title.
2.  It  is  hereby  found  and  declared that such purposes are in all
  respects for the benefit of the people of the state of New York and  the
  authority  shall  be  regarded  as  performing an essential governmental
  function in carrying out its  purposes  and  in  exercising  the  powers
  granted by this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-JJ - Co-Operation and Assistance of Other Agencies.

§  1299-jj.  Co-operation  and  assistance  of  other agencies. In the
  interest of economy and to promote coordination  of  authority  projects
  with  state,  local, county and regional plans and also to carry out the
  objective of full participation of all agencies in the development of  a
  transportation system and facilities to meet the objectives of this act,
  the  authority  shall  request  and  use existing studies, master plans,
  surveys, data and other materials completed by or under  development  by
  any  state  agency  or  any municipality or political subdivision of the
  state.  The  authority  shall  consult  with  and  cooperate  with   the
  commissioner  of  transportation  and  with  planning authorities in the
  areas of its operations and shall utilize local or state planning.  When
  a project is contemplated by the authority, the authority shall submit a
  preliminary prospectus thereof to the commissioner of transportation for
  review  and comment and shall consider the report of the commissioner in
  formulating  detailed  plans  for  such  project.  When  a  project   is
  contemplated  by  the  authority  within  the jurisdiction of any county
  planning board or the Genesee-Finger Lakes Regional Planning Board,  the
  authority shall prepare a preliminary prospectus thereof, describing the
  purpose,  general location, and nature of the project contemplated, with
  such further data relative thereto that  the  authority  shall  consider
  pertinent. Within sixty days of receipt of such prospectus such planning
  board  or  boards  shall  prepare  a  report  thereon, commenting on its
  conformity or lack of conformity with any related official plan  of  the
  state  or region or any official planning agency within the region. Such
  report shall be considered by  the  authority  in  formulating  detailed
  plans  for  such  a  project. At the request of the authority, each such
  agency, municipality or subdivision which is engaged in highway or other
  transportation activities or in land use  or  development  planning,  or
  which   is  charged  with  the  duty  of  providing  or  regulating  any
  transportation  facility  or  any  other  public  facility,  is  further
  authorized to provide the authority with information regarding its plans
  and programs affecting the transportation district so that the authority
  may  have  available to it current information with respect thereto. The
  officers and personnel of such agencies, municipalities or subdivisions,
  and of any other government or agency whatever, may serve at the request
  of the authority upon such advisory committees as  the  authority  shall
  determine  to create and such officers and personnel may serve upon such
  committees without forfeiture of office or employment and with  no  loss
  or  diminution  in the compensation, status, rights and privileges which
  they otherwise enjoy.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-MM - Agreement of the State.

§ 1299-mm. Agreement of the state. The state does hereby pledge to and
  agree  with  the  holders of any notes or bonds issued under this title,
  that the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested  in  the
  authority  to  fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders
  thereof, or in any way impair the rights and remedies  of  such  holders
  until  such  notes  or  bonds,  together with the interest thereon, with
  interest on any unpaid installments  of  interest,  and  all  costs  and
  expenses for which the authority is liable in connection with any action
  or  proceeding  by  or  on  behalf  of  such  holders, are fully met and
  discharged. The authority is  authorized  to  include  this  pledge  and
  agreement  of  the state in any agreement with the holders of such notes
  or bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-NN - Right of State to Require Redemption of Bonds.

§   1299-nn.   Right   of   state  to  require  redemption  of  bonds.
  Notwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption  of
  bonds  which  may  be  contained in any contract with the holders of the
  bonds, the state may, upon furnishing sufficient funds therefor, require
  the authority to redeem, prior to maturity, as a  whole,  any  issue  of
  bonds  on any interest payment date not less than twenty years after the
  date of the bonds of such issue at one hundred five per centum of  their
  face value and accrued interest or at such lower redemption price as may
  be provided in the bonds in case of the redemption thereof as a whole on
  the  redemption date. Notice of such redemption shall be published in at
  least two newspapers published and circulating in the city of  Rochester
  at  least twice, the first publication to be at least thirty days before
  the date of redemption.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 11-B - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › 1299-PP - Notes and Bonds as Legal Investment.

§ 1299-pp. Notes and bonds as legal investment. The notes and bonds of
  the  authority  are  hereby made securities in which all public officers
  and  bodies  of  the  state  and  all   municipalities   and   political
  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 who may  hereafter  be  authorized  to
  invest  in  bonds  or  other  obligations of the state, may properly and
  legally invest funds including capital in their control or belonging  to
  them.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of law, the bonds of the
  authority 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 political subdivisions for  any  purpose  for
  which  the  deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is now or
  may hereafter be authorized.