2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 3 - Jones Beach State Parkway Authority › 153 - Powers of the Authority.

* § 153. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate
  purposes;
4. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs;
5. With the consent of the commission to use the agents, employees and
  facilities of the commission and to authorize the making of improvements
  by  the  commission  when  funds are available therefor and funds of the
  authority are insufficient for such purposes;
6.  To  appoint  officers,  agents  and  employees   and   fix   their
  compensation;  subject,  however, to the provisions of the civil service
  law, which shall apply to the authority as a municipal corporation other
  than a city;
7. To make contracts, and to  execute  all  instruments  necessary  or
  convenient;
8. By contract, or contracts, or by its own employees, but as a single
  enterprise,  to  construct the Meadowbrook parkway, the Loop parkway and
  to reconstruct the Wantagh parkway on lands acquired or to  be  acquired
  by  the  state  of New York, together with incidental roads, structures,
  facilities and bridges, subject to such consents and approval of federal
  authorities in any case as may be necessary;
9. To maintain, reconstruct, and operate the Jones Beach parkway;
10. To charge tolls for the use of Jones Beach parkway subject to  and
  in  accordance  with  such agreements with bondholders as may be made as
  hereinafter provided; provided, however, that no tolls may be charged on
  Wantagh parkway until after the first day of January,  nineteen  hundred
  thirty-five;
11. To construct and maintain over, under, along or across Jones Beach
  parkway,  telephone,  telegraph or electric wires and cables, gas mains,
  water mains,  and  other  mechanical  equipment  not  inconsistent  with
  parkway  purposes,  to  contract  for such construction and to lease the
  right to construct and/or use the  same  on  such  terms  and  for  such
  consideration  as  it  shall determine, provided, however, that no lease
  shall be made for a period of more than ten years from the date when  it
  is made;
12.   To  construct  and  maintain  facilities  for  the  public,  not
  inconsistent with the use of  Jones  Beach  parkway  as  a  parkway,  to
  contract  for  such  construction,  and  to lease the right to construct
  and/or use such facilities on such terms and for such considerations  as
  it shall determine, provided, however, that no lease shall be made for a
  period of more than ten years from the date when it is made;
13.  To  issue  negotiable  bonds and to provide for the rights of the
  holders thereof;
14. To enter on any lands, waters and  premises  for  the  purpose  of
  making surveys, soundings and examinations;
15.  To  do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers
  expressly given in this title.
* NB (Authority abolished June 30, 1978)