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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-Q - Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

* §  1020-q.  Payments  in  lieu of taxes. 1. Each year after property
  theretofore owned by LILCO is acquired by the  authority  by  any  means
  authorized  by this title and, as a consequence, is removed from the tax
  rolls,  the  authority  shall  make  payments  in  lieu  of   taxes   to
  municipalities  and  school districts equal to the taxes and assessments
  which  would  have  been  received  from  year  to  year  by  each  such
  jurisdiction  if  such  acquisition had not occurred, provided, however,
  that for the calendar year  starting  on  January  first,  two  thousand
  fifteen, and for each calendar year thereafter, such payments in lieu of
  taxes  shall  not  exceed  the  in  lieu  of  tax  payments made to such
  municipalities and school districts in the immediately preceding year by
  more than two percent.
2. The authority shall also make payments in lieu of taxes  for  those
  taxes  which would otherwise be imposed pursuant to sections one hundred
  eighty-six-a and one hundred eighty-six-c of the tax law, and to  former
  section  one  hundred eighty-six-b of the tax law as such section was in
  effect on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine,  and  any
  taxes imposed by a city pursuant to the authorization granted by section
  twenty-b of the general city law.
3.  No  municipality  or  governmental subdivision, including a school
  district or special district, shall be liable to the  authority  or  any
  other  entity for a refund of property taxes originally assessed against
  the Shoreham plant. Any judicial determination that the  Shoreham  plant
  assessment  was excessive, unequal or unlawful for any of the years from
  nineteen hundred seventy-six to the effective date of this  title  shall
  not  result  in  a refund by any taxing jurisdiction of taxes previously
  paid by LILCO pursuant to such Shoreham plant assessment. The  authority
  shall   discontinue   and   abandon  all  proceedings,  brought  by  its
  predecessor in interest, which seek the repayment of all or part of  the
  taxes assessed against the Shoreham plant.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-q's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-R - Repayment of State Appropriations.

* § 1020-r. Repayment of state appropriations. All appropriations made
  by  the state to the authority shall be treated as advances by the state
  to the authority, and shall be repaid to it without interest either  out
  of  the  proceeds  of  bonds  issued  by  the  authority pursuant to the
  provisions of this title, or by the  delivery  of  non-interest  bearing
  bonds  of  the  authority  to  the  state  for  all  or any part of such
  advances, or out of excess revenues of the authority, at such times  and
  on  such  conditions  as  the state and the authority mutually may agree
  upon.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-r's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-T - Authority Not to Construct or Operate a Nuclear Powered Facility in the Service Area.

* §  1020-t.  Authority  not to construct or operate a nuclear powered
  facility in the service area. In no event shall the authority  construct
  or operate a nuclear powered facility in the service area.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-t's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-U - Employees of the Authority Not Subject to the Public Employees' Fair Employment Act.

* §  1020-u.  Employees  of  the  authority  not subject to the public
  employees' fair employment act. All employees of the authority shall  be
  exempt  from the provisions of the public employees' fair employment act
  as set forth in article fourteen of the civil service law.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-u's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-W - Audit and Annual Reports.

* §  1020-w.  Audit  and annual reports. The accounts of the authority
  shall be subject to the supervision of  the  state  comptroller  and  an
  annual  audit  shall be performed by an independent certified accountant
  selected by the authority, upon recommendation of its finance and  audit
  committee.  The  authority  shall  submit  annually to the governor, the
  state comptroller, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of
  the assembly and the county  executives  and  governing  bodies  of  the
  counties  of  Suffolk  and  Nassau,  a  detailed  report pursuant to the
  provisions of section two thousand eight hundred of this chapter,  which
  report shall be verified by the chairman of the authority. The authority
  shall  comply with the provisions of sections two thousand eight hundred
  one, two thousand eight hundred two and two thousand eight hundred three
  of this chapter.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-w's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-Y - Court Proceedings; Preferences; Venue.

§  1020-y.  Court proceedings; preferences; venue. 1. Any action, suit
  or proceeding to which the  authority  may  be  a  party  in  which  any
  question  arises  as  to  the validity of this title or the valuation of
  stock or assets acquired by the authority by the exercise of  the  power
  of  eminent domain shall be preferred over all other civil causes in all
  courts of the state, except election matters, and  shall  be  heard  and
  determined  in  preference  to all other civil business pending therein,
  except election matters, irrespective of position on the  calendar.  The
  same  preference  shall  be  granted  upon application of counsel to the
  authority in any action or proceeding questioning the validity  of  this
  title  or  the valuation of stock or assets acquired by the authority by
  the exercise of the power of eminent domain in which such counsel may be
  allowed to intervene. The venue of any action or proceeding  questioning
  the  validity  of  this  title  shall be laid in the county in which the
  principal office of the authority is located.
2. In the event any party shall appeal an award  of  compensation  for
  the  taking by the authority of stock or assets, such party shall post a
  bond in such amount, if any, as the supreme court shall deem appropriate
  to adequately protect the interests of the other  party  under  all  the
  circumstances.
3.  Except  in  an  action  for  wrongful death, an action against the
  authority founded on tort shall not be commenced more than one year  and
  ninety  days  after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued, nor
  unless a notice of claim shall have been served on the authority  within
  the  time  limited  by,  and  in compliance with all the requirements of
  section fifty-e of the general municipal  law.  An  action  against  the
  authority  for  wrongful death shall be commenced in accordance with the
  notice of claim and  time  limitation  provisions  of  title  eleven  of
  article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-Z - Corporate Existence.

§  1020-z.  Corporate  existence.  The  authority  and  its  corporate
  existence shall continue until terminated  by  law,  provided,  however,
  that  no  such law shall take effect so long as the authority shall have
  bonds, notes or other obligations outstanding, unless adequate provision
  has been made for the payment thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-AA - Conflicts of Interest.

§  1020-aa.  Conflicts  of  interest.  1.  If  any  member, officer or
  employee of the authority shall  have  an  interest,  either  direct  or
  indirect,  in  any  contract  to  which the authority is, or is to be, a
  party, such interest shall be disclosed to the authority in writing  and
  shall  be set forth in the minutes of the authority. The member, officer
  or employee having such interest shall not participate in any action  by
  the authority with respect to such contract.
2.  No  member,  officer  or  employee shall be deemed to have such an
  interest solely by reason of the ownership of two percent or less of the
  securities of a corporation which is, or is to be, a party to a contract
  with the authority, including without limitation the holding company  of
  any  banking institution in which the funds of the authority are, or are
  to be, deposited or which is, or is to be, acting as trustee  or  paying
  agent  under  any  bond  or  note resolution, trust indenture or similar
  instrument to which the authority is a party.
3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to  limit  the
  right  of any member, officer or employee of the authority to acquire an
  interest in bonds or notes of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-BB - Exculpation.

§ 1020-bb. Exculpation. 1. The trustees and officers of the authority,
  while  acting  within  the  scope  of  their  authority  as  trustees or
  officers, shall not be  subject  to  any  personal  or  civil  liability
  resulting  from  the  exercise,  carrying  out or advocacy of any of the
  authority's purposes or powers, unless the conduct of  the  trustees  or
  officers  is  finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to
  constitute intentional wrongdoing.
2. The provisions of section seventeen  of  the  public  officers  law
  shall  apply  to  trustees  and officers of the authority, in connection
  with any and all claims, demands, suits, actions  or  proceedings  which
  may  be  made  or  brought  against  any  of  them  arising  out  of any
  determinations  made  or  actions  taken  or  omitted  to  be  taken  in
  compliance  with  any obligations under or pursuant to the terms of this
  title.
3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to  the  contrary,  the
  provisions of section eighteen of the public officers law shall apply to
  the  employees  of the authority, in connection with any and all claims,
  demands, suits, actions or proceedings which may be brought against  any
  of  them  arising  out  of  any  determinations made or actions taken or
  omitted to be taken in compliance with any obligations under or pursuant
  to the terms of this title. Whenever the provisions of section seventeen
  of the public officers law do not apply to the trustees and officers  of
  the authority, the provisions of section eighteen of the public officers
  law shall apply to such trustees and officers.
4.  Any costs incurred by the state in accordance with subdivision two
  of this section shall be  treated  as  advances  by  the  state  to  the
  authority,  and shall be repaid to it without interest either out of the
  proceeds of bonds issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions  of
  this  title,  or  by  the  delivery of non-interest bearing bonds of the
  authority to the state for all or any part of such advances, or  out  of
  excess  revenues  of the authority, at such times and on such conditions
  as the state and the authority mutually may agree  upon.  Any  agreement
  entered  into  by  the  state and the authority for the repayment of any
  costs incurred pursuant to subdivision two of  this  section,  shall  be
  subject to the approval of the public authorities control board.
5.  As  used  in  this  section,  the  terms  "trustee", "officer" and
  "employee" shall include a former trustee, officer or employee  and  his
  or her estate or judicially appointed personal representative.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-CC - Authority Subject to Certain Provisions Contained in the State Finance Law, the Public Service Law, the Social Services Law and the General Municipal Law.

§  1020-cc.  Authority  subject to certain provisions contained in the
  state finance law, the public service law, the social services  law  and
  the  general  municipal  law. 1. All contracts of the authority shall be
  subject to the provisions of the state finance law relating to contracts
  made by  the  state.  The  authority  shall  also  establish  rules  and
  regulations  with  respect to providing to its residential gas, electric
  and steam utility customers those rights  and  protections  provided  in
  article  two and sections one hundred seventeen and one hundred eighteen
  of the public service law and section one hundred  thirty-one-s  of  the
  social services law. The authority shall conform to any safety standards
  regarding   manual  lockable  disconnect  switches  for  solar  electric
  generating  equipment  established  by  the  public  service  commission
  pursuant  to  subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision five and
  subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  five-a  of  section
  sixty-six-j of the public service law. The authority shall let contracts
  for  construction  or  purchase  of  supplies,  materials,  or equipment
  pursuant to section one hundred three and paragraph (e)  of  subdivision
  four of section one hundred twenty-w of the general municipal law.
2.  The  authority  and  service  provider  shall provide to the state
  comptroller on March thirty-first and September thirtieth of each year a
  report documenting each contract in excess of two hundred fifty thousand
  dollars per year  entered  into  with  a  third  party  and  related  to
  management  and  operation  services  associated  with  the  authority's
  electric transmission and distribution system, including the name of the
  third party, the contract term and a description of services or goods to
  be procured, and post  such  report  on  each  of  their  websites.  All
  contracts  entered  into  between the service provider and third parties
  are not subject to the requirements of subdivision one of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-DD - Authority Not to Seek nor Any Subsidiary of the Authority, to Apply for or Accept Preference Hydroelectricity.

§  1020-dd. Authority not to seek nor any subsidiary of the authority,
  to apply for or accept preference hydroelectricity.  The  authority  nor
  any  subsidiary  of the authority, shall not seek, apply for, nor accept
  hydroelectricity produced by the power authority of  the  state  of  New
  York  and marketed subject to the federal preference clause contained in
  the  Niagara  Redevelopment  Act  at  16  USC  Section   836(b)(1)   and
  distributed  by  the Power Authority of the State of New York subject to
  section ten hundred five  of  this  chapter.  Nothing  herein  shall  be
  construed  to  prohibit the authority from entering into agreements with
  public bodies within its  service  territory  for  the  wheeling  and/or
  distribution of such hydroelectricity.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-EE - Nine Mile Point Ii; Disposition of Interest.

§  1020-ee. Nine Mile Point II; disposition of interest. The authority
  shall make every effort to convey its interest in the Nine Mile Point II
  nuclear generating facility through the sale of  its  interest  in  such
  facility  to  the  power authority of the state of New York or to one or
  more of the co-tenants of such plant, provided,  however,  that  in  any
  acquisition  of such interest by the power authority of the state of New
  York or by one or more of the co-tenants, the authority shall  agree  to
  remain responsible for the purchase of such share of the power generated
  by  such facility as it is required to purchase under agreements entered
  into by LILCO and obligating the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-FF - Rates Charged to Veterans' Organizations.

§  1020-ff. Rates charged to veterans' organizations. 1. The authority
  shall charge a rate for electric service,  regardless  of  the  type  of
  service offered, to any post or hall owned or leased by a not-for-profit
  veterans'  organization  that  is  no  greater  than the rate charged to
  domestic  customers  receiving  single-phase  service  within  the  same
  village, town or municipality.
2.  The  authority  shall  not  recover  revenues foregone pursuant to
  subdivision one of this section from customers of the authority. To  the
  extent that a lack of recovery of such foregone revenues may prevent the
  authority  from  meeting  its  bond coverage requirements, the authority
  shall reduce its non-personnel operating expenses by an amount equal  to
  its foregone revenue.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-GG - Energy Plan.

§ 1020-gg. Energy plan. The authority shall complete a biennial energy
  plan in accordance with the provisions of article six of the energy law.
  In  addition  to  any requirements of article six of the energy law, the
  authority shall provide copies  of  its  biennial  energy  plan  to  the
  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the senate, the speaker of the
  assembly, the chair of the assembly committee on energy and the chair of
  the senate committee on  energy  and  telecommunications.  Further,  the
  authority  shall  cooperate and participate in the state energy planning
  procedures as enumerated in article six of the energy law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-HH - Green Jobs-Green New York On-Bill Recovery.

§ 1020-hh. Green jobs-green New York on-bill recovery. 1. Within three
  hundred  days of the effective date of this section, the authority shall
  establish a program to provide for the billing and collection of on-bill
  recovery charges for payment of obligations  of  its  customers  to  the
  green  jobs-green  New  York revolving loan fund established pursuant to
  title nine-A of article  eight  of  the  public  authorities  law.  Such
  program  shall be consistent with the standards set forth in subdivision
  three of section forty-two and section sixty-six-m of the public service
  law. To the maximum extent practicable, funding available from  the  New
  York  state  energy research and development authority shall be utilized
  to  defray  any  costs  associated  with  electronic  data   interchange
  improvements or other costs of initiating and implementing this program.
  Billing  and  collection  services  under such tariffs shall commence as
  soon as practicable after establishment of the program.
2. The authority may suspend its  offering  of  the  on-bill  recovery
  charge  provided  that  the  authority  makes  a finding that there is a
  significant increase in arrears or utility service  disconnections  that
  the  authority  determines  is  directly  related  to  such charge, or a
  finding of other good cause.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-JJ - Energy Storage Deployment Policy.

§  1020-jj.  Energy  storage  deployment  policy.  The authority shall
  encourage the installation of qualified energy storage  systems  in  its
  service   territory   through   implementation  of  the  energy  storage
  deployment policy as set forth and defined in  section  seventy-four  of
  the public service law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-LL - Pilot Thermal Energy Network Projects.

§  1020-ll. Pilot thermal energy network projects. Within three months
  of the effective date of this section, the  authority  and  its  service
  provider  shall submit for review to the department of public service at
  least one and as many as five  proposed  pilot  thermal  energy  network
  projects  as  defined  in  subdivision twenty-nine of section two of the
  public service law. Within six months of  the  effective  date  of  this
  section,  and  upon  recommendation by the department of public service,
  the authority shall determine whether it is in the  public  interest  to
  approve  or  modify such pilot thermal energy network projects and shall
  direct the service provider to implement such proposed or modified pilot
  thermal energy network projects. The authority  shall  promulgate  rules
  and  regulations consistent with the standards set forth in subdivisions
  two and three of section sixty-six-t of the public service law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-MM - Prioritization of Emergency Services.

§  1020-mm.  Prioritization  of  emergency  services.  1. If, during a
  widespread prolonged  outage  that  affects  at  least  twenty  thousand
  customers  in  the  service  territory of the authority, and the service
  provider  is  not  able  to  restore  electric  power  services   within
  twenty-four  hours  to  any affected police department, fire department,
  ambulance service  or  advanced  life  support  first  response  service
  facility  that is prewired with an appropriate transfer switch for using
  an alternate generated power source, such service provider shall  notify
  the village, town or city in which such facility is located.
2. Towns, cities, and villages shall provide to counties, and counties
  shall  to  the  extent practicable, provide the service provider and the
  division of homeland security and emergency services with a list of such
  police departments, fire departments, ambulance  services  and  advanced
  life  support first response services located within such municipality's
  territorial boundaries within one year of the  effective  date  of  this
  section, and periodically thereafter as necessary to update such list.
3.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  "alternate generated power
  source" shall mean electric generating equipment that is of the capacity
  that is capable of providing adequate electricity to  operate  all  life
  safety  systems  and  the  basic operations of a police department, fire
  department, ambulance service or advanced life  support  first  response
  service.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-YY - Severability.

§  1020-yy.  Severability. The provisions of this title are severable,
  and if any part or provision hereof, or the application thereof  to  any
  person  or  circumstance,  shall  be  adjudged by any court of competent
  jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable,  such  judgment  shall  not
  affect,  impair  or  invalidate  the  remainder  of  this  title  or the
  application of such provision to any other person or  circumstance,  but
  shall  be  confined  in  its  operation  to  the  provision,  person  or
  circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment
  shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority › 1020-ZZ - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Laws Superseded.

§  1020-zz.  Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded. Insofar
  as the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions  of
  any other law or any part thereof, the provisions of this title shall be
  controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-A*2 - Definitions.

* §  1020-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless
  a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation created by  section
  one thousand twenty-c of this title.
2.  The  term  "bonds"  shall  mean bonds, notes or other evidences of
  indebtedness issued by the authority pursuant to this title.
3. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state.
4. The term "civil service commission" shall mean  the  civil  service
  commission of the county of Albany.
5.  The  term  "district"  shall  mean the Green Island power district
  created by section one thousand twenty-b of this title.
6. The term "board of trustees" shall mean the board  of  trustees  of
  the village of Green Island.
7.  The  term  "mayor"  shall  mean  the mayor of the village of Green
  Island.
8. The term "properties" shall mean the power distribution  system  or
  systems  of  the  authority,  whether  situated  within  or  without the
  territorial  limits  of  the  district,  including  the  plants,  works,
  structures, poles, lines, conduits, mains, systems, instrumentalities or
  part thereof and appurtenances thereto, lands, easements, rights in land
  and   water   rights,   rights-of-way,   contract   rights,  franchises,
  transmission  facilities  and  distribution  facilities,  or  any  other
  property  incidental to and included in such system or part thereof, and
  any improvements, extensions or betterments.
9. The term  "municipalities"  shall  mean  any  county,  city,  town,
  village,  school  district,  and  any other political subdivision of the
  state.
10. The term "revenues" shall mean all rates,  rents,  fees,  charges,
  payments and other income and receipts derived from the operation of the
  properties  of  the  authority including, but not limited to, investment
  proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation,  and  sales  or  other
  disposition  of  assets,  together  with all federal, state or municipal
  aid.
11. The term "state" shall mean the state of New York.
12. The term "village" shall mean the village of Green Island.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-a's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-B*2 - Green Island Power District.

* §  1020-b.  Green Island power district. There is hereby defined and
  established an area to be known as the "Green  Island  power  district,"
  which  shall  embrace  all  the  territory located within the village of
  Green Island, Albany county.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-b's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-E*2 - Power to Furnish Service Within District.

* §  1020-e.  Power  to furnish service within district. The authority
  shall have power to construct or acquire, and to equip, own and operate,
  within or without the territorial limits of the district, any properties
  and any and all other real and personal property, used,  connected  with
  or  appertaining  to the furnishing and transmission of electric current
  for light, heat and power, for the purpose of furnishing such service to
  the district and to any corporate or natural persons  in  such  district
  and also, for such purpose, to purchase electrical energy from the power
  authority  of  the  state of New York, or from any state agency, or from
  any municipality, or from any private or public corporation.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-e's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-F*2 - Sale of Surplus.

* §  1020-f. Sale of surplus. Whenever any electrical energy which the
  authority may acquire creates a surplus over the amount of  light,  heat
  and  power,  in  any  of such services, required by the residents of the
  district to which such service is contracted,  the  authority  may  sell
  such  surplus  in territory outside the district to persons or public or
  private corporations. In acquiring any facility or property  which  also
  serves   any   municipality  or  territory  outside  the  district,  the
  authority, if it deems it advantageous and economical  so  to  do,  may,
  with  the  consent of the board of trustees, serve any such municipality
  or territory or sell heat, power or electrical energy to persons, public
  or private corporations in such territory or to such municipality.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-f's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-J*2 - State and Village Not Liable on Bonds and Notes.

* § 1020-j. State and village not liable on bonds and notes. The bonds
  and  other obligations of the authority shall not be a debt of the state
  or of the village and, subject to section one thousand twenty-o of  this
  title,  the  board  shall  have no power to make them payable out of any
  funds except those of the authority.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-j's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-K*2 - Agreements of the State.

* §  1020-k.  Agreements  of  the  state. The state does pledge to and
  agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the authority pursuant  to
  this  title  that  the  state  will not limit or alter the rights hereby
  vested in the authority to establish and collect the revenues and  other
  charges  referred  to  in  this  title  and  to fulfill the terms of any
  agreements made with or for the benefit of the holders of the bonds,  or
  in  any way impair the rights and remedies of the bondholders, until the
  bonds, together with interest  thereon,  with  interest  on  any  unpaid
  installments  of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with
  any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the bondholders,  are  fully
  met and discharged.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-k's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-L*2 - Bonds Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

* §  1020-l.  Bonds  legal  investments for fiduciaries. The bonds are
  hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies  of  this
  state  and  all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance
  companies and associations and other persons carrying  on  an  insurance
  business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings
  associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan
  associations,  investment  companies  and  other  persons  carrying on a
  banking business, and administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and
  other fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever, who are now  or  may
  hereafter  be  authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the
  state, may properly and legally invest funds including capital in  their
  control  or belonging to them. The bonds are also hereby made securities
  which may be deposited with and may be received by all  public  officers
  and   bodies   of  this  state  and  all  municipalities  and  municipal
  subdivisions for any purpose for which the deposit  of  bonds  or  other
  obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-l's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-M*2 - Exemption From Taxes.

* §  1020-m. Exemption from taxes. 1. It is hereby determined that the
  creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes
  is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the village and  its
  environs,  and  is a public purpose, and the authority shall be regarded
  as performing a governmental function in  the  exercise  of  the  powers
  conferred  upon  it  by  this title and shall not be required to pay any
  taxes, special ad valorem levies or special assessments upon any of  the
  properties  acquired  by  it  or  under  its  jurisdiction or control or
  supervision or upon its activities or any filing, recording or  transfer
  fees  or taxes in relation to instruments filed, recorded or transferred
  by it or on its behalf.
2. Any bonds issued pursuant to this title, together with  the  income
  therefrom,  shall be exempt from taxation except for estate and transfer
  taxes. The revenues, moneys and all other properties  of  the  authority
  shall be exempt from all taxes and governmental fees or charges, whether
  imposed  by  the state or any municipality, including without limitation
  real estate taxes, franchise taxes, sales taxes or other excise taxes.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-m's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-N*2 - Tax Contract by the State.

* §  1020-n.  Tax  contract by the state. The state covenants with the
  purchasers and with all subsequent holders and transferees of  bonds  or
  notes  issued  by the authority pursuant to this title, in consideration
  of the acceptance of and payment for the bonds that  the  bonds  of  the
  authority  issued  pursuant to this title and the income therefrom shall
  be exempt from such taxation,  as  aforestated  in  subdivision  two  of
  section  one  thousand  twenty-m  of  this article, and that all moneys,
  funds and revenues pledged to pay or secure the payment  of  such  bonds
  shall  at  all  times  be free from such taxation as aforestated in such
  subdivision.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-n's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-O*2 - Payments by Municipalities.

* §  1020-o.  Payments by municipalities. The board of trustees of the
  village and the governing body of any municipality in which  surplus  of
  the  authority is sold pursuant to section one thousand twenty-f of this
  title are authorized to make payments to the authority for its  support.
  It  is hereby determined that such payments are for a public purpose for
  the benefit of the people of such village and such municipalities.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-o's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-P*2 - Duty of Authority to Maintain and Operate.

* § 1020-p. Duty of authority to maintain and operate. It shall be the
  duty  of  the  authority,  subject  to  any  limitation on the amount of
  revenues to be expended for such purpose, to maintain  and  operate  and
  where necessary to reconstruct its properties.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-p's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-Q*2 - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

* §  1020-q. Transfer of officers and employees. Any public officer or
  employee under civil service, selected by the authority  may,  with  the
  consent  of  the  commission, board or department by which he or she has
  been employed, be transferred to the authority and shall be eligible for
  such transfer and appointment without examination to comparable offices,
  positions and employment under the authority. The salary or compensation
  of any such officer or employee shall after such transfer be paid by the
  authority. But notwithstanding the provisions of this  title,  any  such
  officers  or  employees so transferred to the authority, pursuant to the
  provisions of this section, who are members of  or  beneficiaries  under
  any  existing  pension  or retirement system, shall continue to have all
  rights, privileges, obligations and status with respect  to  such  fund,
  system or systems as are now prescribed by law, but during the period of
  their  employment  by the authority, all contributions to any pension or
  retirement fund or system to be paid by the employer on account of  such
  officers  or  employees,  shall  be  paid by the authority; and all such
  officers and employees who have been appointed to  positions  under  the
  rules  and classifications of the civil service commission of the county
  of Albany shall have the same status with respect thereto after transfer
  to the authority as they had under their original  appointments.  It  is
  hereby declared that in the interest of efficiency and insofar as may be
  practicable,  all  employees engaged in the operation of any property or
  properties, except in an executive capacity, at the time  such  property
  or properties shall have been acquired by the authority, pursuant to the
  provisions  of  this title, shall become the employees of the authority.
  The appointment and promotion of all employees of the authority shall be
  made in accordance with the provisions of the civil service law and such
  rules as the civil service commission of the county of Albany may  adopt
  and make applicable to such authority.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-q's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-R*2 - Officers and Employees Not to Be Interested in Transactions.

* §   1020-r.   Officers   and  employees  not  to  be  interested  in
  transactions.  It shall be a misdemeanor for any of the members  of  the
  authority,  or any officer, agent, servant or employee thereof, employed
  or appointed by them to be in any way or manner interested  directly  or
  indirectly  in  the furnishing of work, materials, supplies or labor, or
  in any contract therefor which the authority is empowered by this  title
  to make.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-r's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-U*2 - Actions Against Authority.

* §  1020-u.  Actions against authority. 1. In any action founded upon
  tort a notice of claim shall be required as a condition precedent to the
  commencement of an action or special proceeding against the authority or
  any officer, appointee, agent or employee thereof, and the provisions of
  section fifty-e of the general municipal law shall govern the giving  of
  such  notice.  Except in an action for wrongful death, an action against
  the authority for damages for injuries to real or personal property,  or
  for  the  destruction thereof, or for personal injuries, alleged to have
  been sustained, shall not be commenced more than  one  year  and  ninety
  days after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued.
2.  Except  in  an  action  for  wrongful death, an action against the
  authority founded on tort shall not be commenced more than one year  and
  ninety  days  after  the cause of action therefor shall have accrued. An
  action against the authority for wrongful death shall  be  commenced  in
  accordance  with  the  notice of claim and time limitation provisions of
  title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-u's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-V*2 - Separability Clause.

* §  1020-v.  Separability clause. If any section, clause or provision
  of this title shall be held by a competent court to be  unconstitutional
  or ineffective in whole or in part, in its terms or in its operation, to
  the  extent  that  it is not unconstitutional or ineffective it shall be
  valid and effective and no other section, clause or provision  shall  on
  account thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-v's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-A* - Green Island Power Authority › 1020-W*2 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

* §  1020-w. Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded. Insofar
  as the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions  of
  any other act, general or special, the provisions of this title shall be
  controlling.
* NB There are 2 § 1020-w's
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-F - Conflicts of Interest.

§  1021-f.  Conflicts  of  interest.  Eligibility for appointment as a
  director, officer or employee of the authority shall be subject  to  the
  provisions  of section twenty-eight hundred twenty-five of this chapter.
  In addition to the requirements of such section:
1. If any director, officer or employee of the authority shall have an
  interest, either direct or  indirect,  in  any  contract  to  which  the
  authority  is  or  is to be a party, such interest shall be disclosed to
  the authority in writing and shall be set forth in the  minutes  of  the
  authority.  The director, officer or employee having such interest shall
  not participate in any action by the  authority  with  respect  to  such
  contract.
2.  No  director, officer or employee of the authority shall be deemed
  to have such an interest solely  by  reason  of  the  ownership  of  two
  percent  or less of the securities of a corporation which is or is to be
  a party to a contract with the authority, including  without  limitation
  the holding company of any banking institution in which the funds of the
  authority are, or are to be deposited, or which is or is to be acting as
  trustee  or  paying  agent  under  any  bond  or  note resolution, trust
  indenture or similar instrument to which the authority is a party.
3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to  limit  the
  right  of  any director, officer or employee of the authority to acquire
  an interest in the securities of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-G - Sale of Surplus Power.

§ 1021-g. Sale of surplus power. Whenever any electric power which the
  authority  may  acquire  creates  a  surplus over the amount of electric
  power required by the residents of the service area, the  authority  may
  sell  such  surplus in territory outside the service area to persons, or
  public or private corporations. In acquiring any  facility  or  property
  which  also  serves  any  municipality  or territory outside the service
  area, the authority, if it deems it advantageous and  economical  so  to
  do,  may, with the consent of the directors, serve any such municipality
  or territory or sell electric power to persons,  or  public  or  private
  corporations in such territory or to such municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-H - Audit and Annual Reports.

§  1021-h.  Audit and annual reports. 1. The accounts of the authority
  shall be subject to the supervision of the  comptroller  and  an  annual
  audit  shall  be performed by an independent certified public accountant
  selected  by  the  directors  and  shall  be  made  available   to   the
  municipalities served by the NCPA and to the public.
2. The authority shall submit a detailed annual report pursuant to and
  as specified in section twenty-eight hundred of this chapter, and a copy
  of such report shall be filed with the county executives of the counties
  of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and with the mayors and supervisors of the
  municipalities  within  the  service area and shall be made available to
  the municipalities served by the NCPA and to the public. Nothing in this
  section shall be deemed  to  exempt  the  authority  from  any  rule  or
  regulation, including public authorities law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-J - State and Municipalities Not Liable on Bonds or Notes or Other Obligations.

§  1021-j.  State  and  municipalities not liable on bonds or notes or
  other obligations. The securities of the authority shall not be  a  debt
  of  the  state  or  of  any  municipality, and neither the state nor any
  municipality shall be liable thereon. The authority shall not  have  the
  power to pledge or restrict the credit, the revenues or the taxing power
  of  the  state  or  of  any  municipality,  and  neither the credit, the
  revenues nor the taxing power of the state or of any municipality  shall
  be  or shall be deemed to be pledged to the payment of any securities of
  the authority. Each evidence of indebtedness of the authority, including
  the securities of the authority, shall  contain  a  clear  and  explicit
  statement  of  the  provisions  of this section. Nothing in this article
  shall be deemed to obligate the state or any municipality  to  make  any
  payments  or impose any taxes to satisfy the debt service obligations of
  the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-K - Agreement of the State.

§  1021-k. Agreement of the state. The state does hereby pledge to and
  agree with the holders of any bonds, notes or other  obligations  issued
  by  the  authority  under  this  title, that the state will not limit or
  alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to establish and collect
  the revenues and other charges referred to in this title and to  fulfill
  the  terms of any agreements made with or for the benefit of the holders
  of the securities, or in any way impair the rights and remedies  of  the
  bondholders  until  such  securities  are  fully met and discharged. The
  authority is authorized to include this  pledge  of  the  state  in  all
  agreements  by the authority with the holders of its securities. Nothing
  contained in this article shall be deemed to restrict any right  of  the
  state  or  municipality  to  amend,  modify,  repeal  or otherwise alter
  statutes imposing or  relating  to  taxes  or  fees,  or  appropriations
  relating thereto. The authority shall not include within any resolution,
  contract  or  agreement  with  holders  of  the  bonds,  notes  or other
  obligations issued under this article any provision which provides  that
  a  default  occurs  as  a  result  of  the  state  or  of a municipality
  exercising its right to amend, modify, or repeal or otherwise alter  any
  statute  imposing or relating to taxes, fees, or appropriations relating
  thereto.