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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 361-D - Agreement With the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

§  361-d.  Agreement with the office of parks, recreation and historic
  preservation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and consistent
  with agreements with bondholders  and  noteholders,  the  authority  may
  enter into agreements and contracts with the office of parks, recreation
  and  historic  preservation  permitting  the  use  of an electronic toll
  collection system used  by  the  authority  or  components  thereof  for
  payment of any entrance fee or parking fee at any historic site, park or
  recreational  facility  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,
  policies and  such  other  conditions  as  may  be  established  by  the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 362 - Assistance by State Officers, Departments, Boards, Divisions and Commissions.

§  362.  Assistance  by state officers, departments, boards, divisions
  and commissions. At the request of the authority, engineering and  legal
  services  for such authority shall be performed by forces or officers of
  the department of transportation and the department of law respectively,
  and  all  other  state  officers,  departments,  boards,  divisions  and
  commissions  shall render services within their respective functions. At
  the request of the authority, services in connection with the collection
  of any charges or fees for the use of the thruway or  any  part  thereof
  may be performed by the department of motor vehicles.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 363 - Annual Report.

§  363.  Annual report. The authority shall submit to the governor, to
  the legislature, to the comptroller and to the director of the budget on
  or before the first day of February  of  each  year  a  detailed  report
  setting   forth  its  operations  and  fiscal  transactions  during  the
  preceding calendar year with a statement of its financial  condition  as
  of the end of such year and a statement of all receipts and expenditures
  during  such  year.  Such  report  shall  include  detailed  information
  relating to additional expenditures  incurred  by  the  authority  as  a
  result  of  the  amendments  made  to  subdivision four of section three
  hundred fifty-nine of this chapter pursuant to the chapter of  the  laws
  of nineteen hundred ninety-two which enacted this sentence.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 364 - Deposit and Investment of Moneys of the Authority.

§  364.  Deposit and investment of moneys of the authority. All moneys
  of the authority from whatever source  derived  shall  be  paid  to  the
  comptroller  as  agent  of  the  authority, who shall not commingle such
  moneys with any other moneys.  Such  moneys  shall  be  deposited  in  a
  separate  bank account or accounts. The moneys in such accounts shall be
  paid out on check of the comptroller on requisition of the  chairman  of
  the  authority or of such other person as the authority may authorize to
  make such requisition. All deposits of such moneys shall, if required by
  the comptroller or the authority,  be  secured  by  obligations  of  the
  United States or of the state of New York of a market value equal at all
  times to the amount of the deposit and all banks and trust companies are
  authorized  to give such security for such deposits. The comptroller and
  his  legally  authorized  representatives  are  hereby  authorized   and
  empowered  from  time  to  time to examine the accounts and books of the
  authority, including its  receipts,  disbursements,  contracts,  leases,
  sinking  funds,  investments  and  any  other  matters  relating  to its
  financial standing.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section,  the  authority  shall
  have power, subject to the approval of the comptroller, to contract with
  the  holders of any of its notes or bonds as to the custody, collection,
  securing, investment and payment of any moneys of the authority, or  any
  moneys  held  in trust or otherwise for the payment of notes or bonds or
  in any way to secure notes or bonds, and to carry out any such contract.
  Moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of notes or  bonds  or
  in  any  way to secure notes or bonds and deposits of such moneys may be
  secured in the same manner as moneys of the authority, and all banks and
  trust companies are authorized to give such security for such deposits.
Moneys of the authority not required for immediate  use  may,  in  the
  discretion   of  the  authority,  be  invested  by  the  comptroller  in
  obligations in which the comptroller  may  invest  pursuant  to  section
  ninety-eight-a of the state finance law.
Subject  to  agreements  with  noteholders  and  bondholders  and  the
  approval of the comptroller, the authority shall prescribe a  system  of
  accounts.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 366 - Guaranty by the State.

§  366.  Guaranty  by  the  state.  1. To the extent authorized by the
  constitution at the time of the issuance of notes or bonds, the punctual
  payment of the notes and bonds shall be, and the same hereby  is,  fully
  and  unconditionally  guaranteed  by the state, both as to principal and
  interest, according to their terms; and such guaranty shall be expressed
  upon the face thereof by the signature or  facsimile  signature  of  the
  comptroller  or  a  deputy  comptroller. In the event that the authority
  shall fail to pay when due, the principal of, or interest on, the  notes
  or  bonds,  the  comptroller shall pay the holder thereof, and thereupon
  the state shall be subrogated  to  the  rights  of  the  noteholders  or
  bondholders so paid.
2. The authority shall have power to issue notes and bonds without the
  guaranty of the state and may issue such notes or bonds before and after
  the issuance of notes or bonds so guaranteed.
3. When guaranteed notes or guaranteed bonds are outstanding, notes or
  bonds  secured  by a pledge of receipts or revenues having priority over
  such outstanding guaranteed notes  or  guaranteed  bonds  shall  not  be
  issued,  except  with  the  consent  of  the comptroller, and unless the
  authority  shall  by  resolution  first   find   and   determine   that,
  notwithstanding  such  pledge, the authority will have adequate means to
  meet its obligations to the holders of such outstanding guaranteed notes
  or bonds.
4. When notes or bonds are outstanding secured by a pledge of receipts
  or revenues, guaranteed notes or bonds either unsecured, or secured by a
  pledge of receipts or revenues subordinate to the pledge  securing  such
  outstanding  notes  or  bonds,  shall not be issued unless the authority
  shall first find and determine by resolution  that  notwithstanding  the
  pledge securing such outstanding notes or bonds, the authority will have
  adequate  means to meet its obligations on the guaranteed notes or bonds
  about to be issued.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 367 - State's Right to Require Redemption of Bonds.

§  367.  State's right 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 fifteen years after the date of the
  bonds of such issue at one hundred four 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  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  authority.  Such
  authority  bonds  shall  remain  subject  to  redemption pursuant to any
  contract with the holders of such bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 369 - Liability of State.

§ 369. Liability of state. The state shall be liable on notes or bonds
  guaranteed  hereunder  but  shall  not  be  liable on notes or bonds not
  guaranteed by the state which shall not be a debt of the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 370 - Notes and Bonds Legal Investments for Public Officers and Fiduciaries.

§  370.  Notes  and  bonds  legal  investments for public officers and
  fiduciaries. The notes and bonds are hereby made securities in which all
  public officers and bodies of this  state  and  all  municipalities  and
  municipal  subdivisions,  all  insurance  companies and associations and
  other persons carrying on an insurance  business,  all  banks,  bankers,
  trust  companies,  savings  banks  and  saving  associations,  including
  savings  and  loan  associations,  building   and   loan   associations,
  investment  companies  and other persons carrying on a banking business,
  all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries
  and all other persons  whatsoever  who  are  now  or  may  hereafter  be
  authorized  to  invest  in  bonds or other obligations of the state, may
  properly and legally invest funds including capital in their control  or
  belonging  to  them. The notes and bonds are also hereby made securities
  which may be deposited with and 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 372 - Tax Covenant.

§  372. Tax covenant. The state covenants with the purchasers and with
  all subsequent holders and transferees of notes and bonds issued by  the
  authority,  in  consideration  of  the acceptance of and payment for the
  notes and bonds, that the  notes  and  bonds  of  the  authority  issued
  pursuant  to  this  title  and  the  income  therefrom and all its fees,
  charges, rents, gifts,  grants,  revenues,  receipts  and  other  moneys
  received or to be received, pledged to pay or secure the payment of such
  notes  or  bonds  shall  at  all  times be free from taxation except for
  estate or gift taxes and taxes on transfers.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 373 - Agreement of the State.

§  373.  Agreement of the state. 1. The state does pledge to and agree
  with the holders of notes, bonds, or other obligations of the  authority
  not  guaranteed  by the state that the state will not limit or alter the
  rights hereby vested in the authority  to  establish  and  collect  such
  fees,  rentals  and charges as may be convenient or necessary to produce
  sufficient revenue to meet the expense of maintenance and operation  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, bonds, and other obligations, together with the interest thereon,
  with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs  and
  expenses in connection with any action or proceedings by or on behalf of
  such holders, are fully met and discharged.
2. The state does pledge to and agree with the holders of any notes or
  bonds of the authority, not guaranteed by the state, secured by a pledge
  of  the  tolls  or  other  revenues  or any part thereof from any bridge
  constructed by the authority across  the  Hudson  river  south  of  Bear
  mountain  bridge  or  from  any  part of the thruway which includes such
  bridge, that no bridge or tunnel constituting a connection for vehicular
  traffic over, under or across  the  Hudson  river  between  the  present
  location  of  the Bear mountain bridge and the boundary line between the
  state of New York and the state of New Jersey at the west  side  of  the
  Hudson   river  will  be  constructed  or  maintained  so  long  as  the
  obligations of such bonds for principal and interest shall not have been
  paid or otherwise discharged.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 374 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional.

§  374.  Title  not  affected  if  in  part unconstitutional.   If any
  section, clause or provision of this title shall be unconstitutional  or
  be  ineffective  in  whole  or  in  part,  to  the extent that it is not
  unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall be valid and effective and  no
  other  section,  clause  or provision shall on account thereof be deemed
  invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 375 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

§  375. Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded. In so far as
  the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions of any
  other act, general or special, the provisions of  this  title  shall  be
  controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 377 - Provision for Servicing State Vehicles With Petroleum, Etc.

§ 377. Provision for servicing state vehicles with petroleum, etc. The
  authority  shall  have  the  power  to  provide  and  shall  provide  to
  state-owned or leased  motor  vehicles,  gasoline  and  other  petroleum
  by-products  that  are  presently  provided or will be provided to motor
  vehicles owned, leased or operated by  the  authority.  The  charge  for
  providing  such goods and services shall be equal to the cost to provide
  such to vehicles owned, leased or used by the authority  except  that  a
  fee  may also be charged to cover the necessary operating costs incurred
  as a result of providing such  goods  and  services.  Payment  shall  be
  accomplished by charging such cost-back against the centralized services
  fund established by state finance law section ninety-seven-g.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 378 - Specially Priced Commuter Tickets.

§  378.  Specially  priced  commuter  tickets.  In  the event that the
  authority offers specially priced commuter tickets for use on its  Grand
  Island  bridges,  such  tickets  shall be made available for any vehicle
  regularly operated by a resident of Grand Island, whether  such  vehicle
  is owned by, leased to or loaned by an employer to such resident.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 378-A - Emergency Service Permits.

§  378-a.  Emergency  service  permits.  1.  The  authority  is hereby
  authorized  and  directed  to  issue  refunds  for  tolls  incurred   by
  ambulances  or  fire  vehicles engaged in an emergency operation, or, at
  the option of the authority, to issue emergency services permits for use
  by ambulances and fire vehicles which shall provide  for  travel  at  no
  charge between interchanges and barriers while such vehicles are engaged
  in  an  emergency  operation.  For  purposes  of  this section, the term
  "ambulance" shall have the same meaning  as  such  term  is  defined  by
  section  one  hundred-b  of  the vehicle and traffic law, the term "fire
  vehicle" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined by  section
  one  hundred  fifteen-a  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, and the term
  "emergency operation" shall have  the  same  meaning  as  such  term  is
  defined  by  section  one  hundred fourteen-b of the vehicle and traffic
  law. In any rules and regulations promulgated for the implementation  of
  this  section,  the authority may establish the type of documentation or
  other proof satisfactory to the authority  that  an  ambulance  or  fire
  vehicle  was  engaged  in  an emergency operation at the time a toll was
  incurred.
2. If, upon the completion of an audit conducted by a certified public
  accountant selected by the authority, the authority can demonstrate that
  the issuance of refunds or permits as authorized in subdivision  one  of
  this  section causes a significant loss of revenue to the authority, the
  authority is authorized, pursuant to a resolution of the board, to offer
  such refunds or permits at  a  discount  of  the  cash  cost  per  mile;
  provided,  however,  that, prior to such board resolution, the authority
  shall hold at least two public hearings, at a time  and  location  which
  will,  to  the  extent  practicable,  maximize  the participation of the
  general public.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 387 - Fees for Searches and Copies of Accident and Accident Reconstruction Reports.

§  387.  Fees  for  searches  and  copies  of  accident  and  accident
  reconstruction reports. Notwithstanding any other law to  the  contrary,
  the  fees  for  searching  the  records of the authority for an accident
  report, for furnishing a copy of an accident report, and for  furnishing
  a  copy  of  an accident reconstruction report shall not exceed the fees
  charged by the division of state police pursuant to section  sixty-six-a
  of  the  public  officers law and/or by the department of motor vehicles
  pursuant to section two hundred two of  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,
  provided,  however,  that no fee shall be charged to any public officer,
  board or body, or volunteer fire company,  for  searches  or  copies  of
  accident reports to be used for a public purpose.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 388 - Limitation on Powers of the Authority.

§ 388. Limitation on powers of the authority. A department, authority,
  division or agency of the state shall not offer or permit any officer or
  employee of such department, authority, division or agency to use a pass
  to  access  and/or  use  the thruway without the officer's or employee's
  personal payment of tolls except when the use of such a pass and/or  use
  of  the  thruway  without personal payment of tolls occurs in the normal
  course of the employment or duties of such  officer  or  employee.  This
  section  shall  not  diminish  the  rights of any employee pursuant to a
  collective bargaining agreement.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 2 - Park, Parkway and Highway Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Thruway Authority › 389 - Information Concerning Services for Human Trafficking Victims in Facilities at Service Areas.

§  389.  Information concerning services for human trafficking victims
in facilities at service areas. 1. In addition to providing  information
concerning   services  for  human  trafficking  victims,  including  the
national human  trafficking  hotline  telephone  number  on  its  closed
circuit  television  systems, any service area maintained or operated by
the authority shall make available in plain view and  in  a  conspicuous
place  and  manner  in  the public restrooms and in any lactation rooms,
informational cards and/or signs developed by:
(a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in  consultation
with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
(b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2.  All  informational  cards and signs shall only contain information
concerning services for human trafficking victims and shall  prominently
include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
3.  For  purposes  of  this  section,  "lactation  room"  shall mean a
hygienic place, other than a restroom, that: (a) is shielded from  view;
(b)  is  free  from  intrusion; (c) contains a chair, a working surface,
and,  if  the  building  is  otherwise  supplied  with  electricity,  an
electrical  outlet;  and  (d)  is  intended  to  be used for the primary
purpose of breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 526 - Definitions.

§  526.  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 New York State Bridge Authority
  created by section five hundred twenty-seven of this chapter;
2.  The  term  "commissioner"   shall   mean   the   commissioner   of
  transportation in the department of transportation;
3.   The   term  "department"  shall  mean  the  state  department  of
  transportation;
4. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority;
5. The term "Franklin Delano Roosevelt  Mid-Hudson  bridge"  shall  be
  deemed  to  mean the bridge constructed pursuant to chapter nine hundred
  of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-three, as amended;
6. The term "Rip Van Winkle bridge" shall be deemed to mean the bridge
  constructed across the Hudson river north of the village of Catskill and
  south of the city of Hudson;
7. The term "Bear Mountain bridge" shall be deemed to mean the  bridge
  constructed  by  the Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge Company, pursuant
  to chapter three hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred
  twenty-two.
7-a. The term "Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon bridge" shall  be  deemed
  to  mean  both  spans  of the bridge constructed across the Hudson river
  between a location in the  vicinity  of  the  city  of  Newburgh  and  a
  location in the vicinity of the city of Beacon;
7-b. The term "walkway over the Hudson bridge" shall be deemed to mean
  the  Poughkeepsie-Highland  railroad bridge which was constructed across
  the Hudson river north  of  the  Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt  Mid-Hudson
  bridge.
8.  The  term "Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge" shall be deemed to mean the
  bridge constructed across the Hudson river within five miles of the city
  of Kingston;
9. The term "bridges" shall be deemed to mean collectively  Mid-Hudson
  bridge, Rip Van Winkle bridge, Bear Mountain bridge, Kingston-Rhinecliff
  bridge,  both spans of the Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon bridge, walkway
  over the Hudson bridge, and incidental roads, approaches, structures and
  facilities;
10. The  terms  "bonds"  and  "notes"  shall  mean  bonds  and  notes,
  respectively, issued by the authority pursuant to this title;
11. The term "comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 526-A - Ceremonial Designation.

§ 526-a. Ceremonial designation. All that portion of touring route 199
  connecting Ulster and Dutchess counties which is identified and known as
  the  Kingston-Rhinecliff  bridge  shall  be  designated and known as the
  "George Clinton Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge".
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 526-B - Ceremonial Designation of the Bear Mountain Bridge.

§  526-b.  Ceremonial  designation of the Bear Mountain bridge. 1. The
  Bear Mountain bridge, as defined in subdivision seven  of  section  five
  hundred  twenty-six  of this title, shall be designated and known as the
  "Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge".
2. The chairman of the New York State Bridge Authority  shall  provide
  for  the  installation  and maintenance of adequate signing of the state
  highway system  as  designated  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this
  section.   However,  to  avoid  confusion  and  to  limit  any  possible
  disruption  of  commerce,  the  designation  called  for   pursuant   to
  subdivision  one  of  this section shall be one of ceremonial nature and
  the official name of such bridge shall not be changed  as  a  result  of
  this act.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 529 - Acquisition of Land; Dedication by Counties, Towns or Villages.

§ 529. Acquisition of land; dedication by counties, towns or villages.
  1. Whenever the authority shall determine that any real estate or rights
  or  easements therein are required for any of the bridges or for highway
  connections, and the commissioner shall approve such determination,  the
  commissioner  shall  acquire  such  real  estate  or rights or easements
  therein in the name  of  the  state  by  dedication,  by  agreement,  by
  acquisition  pursuant  to  the  eminent  domain  procedure  law,  or  by
  appropriation, in the manner provided by section thirty of  the  highway
  law.
2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any  other law, the board of
  supervisors of any county, the town board of any  town,  the  common  or
  city  council  of  any city, or the trustees of any village, without any
  election or meeting of the taxpayers or voters or  other  authorization,
  is  hereby authorized to dedicate to the state for any of the bridges or
  for highway connections, any real property, easements or rights in  land
  owned by such county, town, city or village which the authority may deem
  necessary.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 530 - Construction Contracts.

§  530.  Construction  contracts.  The  authority  shall construct the
  bridges pursuant to a contract or contracts. Such contracts shall be let
  under the supervision of the commissioner and shall be  subject  to  his
  approval. Such contracts shall be let by the authority in the manner, so
  far as practicable, provided in section thirty-eight of the highway law,
  but  failure  to  comply  with  such  section  shall not invalidate such
  contracts. Requisitions for the payments to be  made  pursuant  to  such
  contracts  shall  be  approved  by the commissioner. The work under such
  contracts shall be subject  to  the  supervision  and  approval  of  the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 531 - Moneys of the Authority.

§  531.  Moneys  of the authority. 1. All moneys of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the comptroller as agent of the
  authority, who shall not commingle such moneys with  any  other  moneys.
  Such  moneys  shall be deposited in a separate bank account or accounts.
  The moneys  in  such  accounts  shall  be  paid  out  on  check  of  the
  comptroller  on  requisition of the chairman of the authority or of such
  other person as the authority may authorize to  make  such  requisition.
  All deposits of such moneys shall, if required by the comptroller or the
  authority,  be  secured  by  obligations  of the United States or of the
  state of New York of a market value equal at all times to the amount  of
  the  deposit  and  all  banks and trust companies are authorized to give
  such security  for  such  deposits.  The  comptroller  and  his  legally
  authorized representatives are hereby authorized and empowered from time
  to time to examine the accounts and books of the authority including its
  receipts,  disbursements,  contracts, leases, sinking funds, investments
  and any other matters relating to its financial standing.
2. The authority shall have power notwithstanding  the  provisions  of
  this  section, to contract with the holders of any of its bonds or notes
  as to the custody, collection, securing, investment and payment  of  any
  moneys  of  the  authority, or any moneys held in trust or otherwise for
  the payment of bonds or notes or in any way to secure  bonds  or  notes,
  and  to  carry  out any such contract notwithstanding that such contract
  may be inconsistent with the previous provisions of this section. Moneys
  held in trust or otherwise for the payment of bonds or notes or  in  any
  way  to secure bonds or notes and deposits of such moneys may be secured
  in the same manner as moneys of the authority, and all banks  and  trust
  companies are authorized to give such security for such deposits.
3.  After  reserving  sufficient  moneys to provide for payment of the
  cost of improvement and repair of the existing  bridges,  the  authority
  shall  apply  the  remainder  of  its  funds  not otherwise obligated in
  reduction or extinguishment of any bonds of the authority outstanding at
  the time this act takes effect.
4. Except as otherwise  provided  by  this  act,  any  moneys  of  the
  authority  which  are  not  immediately  required  may  be  invested  in
  obligations of the categories specified in  subdivisions  one  to  five,
  both  inclusive,  of  section  ninety-eight  of  the  state  finance law
  maturing or redeemable at the option of the holder within two  years  of
  the date of such investments or in a certificate of deposit of a bank or
  trust company in this state.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 532-A - Notes of the Authority.

§  532-a.  Notes of the authority. The authority shall have power from
  time to time to issue its negotiable notes in conformity with applicable
  provisions of the uniform commercial code and from time to time to issue
  renewal notes, maturing not later than five years from their  respective
  dates  in  an  amount  which  together  with  bonds shall not exceed one
  hundred fifty-three million  two  hundred  fifty-five  thousand  dollars
  pursuant  to  subdivision one of section five hundred thirty-two of this
  chapter, excluding bonds issued to  fund  said  notes.  Subject  to  any
  agreements  with  bondholders  or  noteholders thereof the authority may
  pledge such moneys or revenues for the payment of the notes and  may  in
  addition secure the notes in the same manner and with the same effect as
  herein  provided for bonds. The notes shall be issued in the same manner
  as bonds. The authority shall have  power  to  make  contracts  for  the
  future  sale  from  time  to  time of the notes, by which the purchasers
  shall be committed to purchase the notes from time to time on terms  and
  conditions  stated in such contracts, and the authority shall have power
  to pay such consideration as it shall deem proper for such  commitments.
  In  case of default on its notes, or violation of any of the obligations
  of the authority to the noteholders, the noteholders shall have all  the
  remedies provided herein for bondholders.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 533 - Agreement of the State.

§  533.  Agreement  of the state. The state of New York does pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any bonds or notes that the state will not
  authorize the construction or  maintenance  of  any  additional  highway
  crossings  for vehicular traffic over, under or across the waters of the
  Hudson river in addition to the bridges authorized by this  title  which
  will  be  competitive  with  the bridges, nor will it limit or alter the
  rights hereby vested in the authority  to  establish  and  collect  such
  charges  and  tolls  as  may  be  convenient  or  necessary  to  produce
  sufficient revenue to meet the expense of maintenance and operation  and
  to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with the holders of the bonds
  or notes, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of bondholders or
  noteholders,  until the bonds and notes, together with interest thereon,
  with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs  and
  expenses  in  connection with any actions or proceedings by or on behalf
  of the bondholders or noteholders, are fully met and discharged. For the
  purposes of this section, any  such  crossing  shall  be  considered  as
  competitive  only  if  it  shall form a connection for vehicular traffic
  over, under or across the Hudson river south of a line drawn across  the
  Hudson river fifteen miles north of the Rip Van Winkle bridge, and north
  of the Bear Mountain bridge.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 534 - State Not Liable on Bonds.

§  534.  State not liable on bonds. The bonds and other obligations of
  the authority shall not be a debt of the state and the state  shall  not
  be liable thereon, nor shall they be payable out of any funds other than
  those of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 535 - Bonds and Notes Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§  535.  Bonds  and notes legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds
  and notes are hereby made securities in which all  public  officers  and
  bodies  of this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions,
  all insurance companies and associations and other persons  carrying  on
  an  insurance  business,  all  banks,  bankers, trust companies, savings
  banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations,
  building and loan associations, investment companies and  other  persons
  carrying   on   a   banking  business,  all  administrators,  guardians,
  executors,  trustees  and  other  fiduciaries  and  all  other   persons
  whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds
  or other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds
  including  capital  in their control or belonging to them. The bonds and
  notes are also hereby made securities which may be  deposited  with  and
  shall  be  received  by all public officers and bodies of this state and
  all municipalities and municipal subdivisions for any purpose for  which
  the  deposit  of  bonds or other obligations of this state is now or may
  hereafter be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 536 - Tax Contract by the State.

§  536  Tax contract by the state. (1) The state of New York covenants
with the purchasers and with all subsequent holders and  transferees  of
bonds  and  notes  issued  by  the  authority pursuant to this title, in
consideration of the making of any payment for the bonds or notes,  that
the  bonds  and notes of the authority issued pursuant to this title and
the income therefrom, and all moneys, funds,  tolls  and  other  revenue
pledged  to  pay or secure the payment of such bonds and notes, shall at
all times be free from taxation except for estate  taxes  and  taxes  on
transfers by or in contemplation of death.
(2)  Nothing  herein shall be construed to repeal or supersede any tax
exemptions heretofore or hereafter granted by general or other laws.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 538 - Tolls, Rules and Regulations.

§ 538. Tolls, rules and regulations. 1. The authority shall have power
to  make  rules  and  regulations  for  the  preservation and use of the
bridges and for the payment of tolls. Such rules and  regulations  shall
be subject to the approval of the commissioner. Violations of such rules
shall  constitute  an  offense punishable by a fine of not more than one
hundred  dollars;  provided,  however,  that  violators  of  such  rules
relating  to traffic or pedestrian use of a bridge or highway within the
jurisdiction of the authority, shall be apprehended  and  prosecuted  in
the  same  manner  as  provided  for the apprehension and prosecution of
violators of the vehicle and traffic law who commit  violations  thereof
upon  the  public  highways.  For the purpose of conferring jurisdiction
upon courts and judicial officers generally, violations of  those  rules
of  the  authority  which  are defined as offenses shall nevertheless be
deemed misdemeanors for  the  sole  purpose  of  making  applicable  all
procedural  provisions  of  law  relating  to misdemeanors. The rates of
tolls shall be determined by the authority subject to  the  approval  of
the commissioner, and to the provisions and limitations of any agreement
with  the  bondholders  or  noteholders.  Nothing  herein shall give the
commissioner any power or authority to require any act  or  thing  which
will  constitute  a  breach  of  any  agreement  with the bondholders or
noteholders.
2. The authority shall continue to maintain and collect tolls  on  the
bridges   and  shall,  subject  to  the  terms  of  any  agreement,  now
outstanding or hereafter made, with bondholders or note holders or  with
the  commissioner,  apply tolls and other revenues from the operation of
the bridges to the following charges in the order named:
(a) For payment of the  cost  of  maintenance  and  operation  of  the
bridges;
(b)  For payment of installments of principal and of interest maturing
upon bonds of the authority, if any;
(c) For payments from time to time in such amounts  as  the  authority
shall deem necessary to be contributed to a city pursuant to subdivision
ten-b of section five hundred twenty-eight of this chapter.
3.  None  of  the bridges constructed prior to January first, nineteen
hundred fifty-eight, shall be free from tolls until all of such  bridges
are  free  therefrom,  subject  to  such agreements with bondholders and
noteholders as may be made as hereinafter provided,  and  the  rates  of
tolls   on   the   Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt  Mid-Hudson  bridge,  the
Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge, the Bear Mountain bridge, the Rip Van Winkle
bridge, and the Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon bridge shall be uniform.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 539 - Powers of the Comptroller.

§  539. Powers of the comptroller. Whenever the state and the funds of
  which the comptroller is custodian or trustee, or any of them, shall  be
  the  owner  of  any  bonds  or notes of the authority the comptroller is
  hereby authorized as to any of such bonds or  notes:  (a)  by  agreement
  with  the  authority  to  modify the terms of such bonds or notes or the
  terms of any  contract  affecting  or  securing  such  bonds  or  notes,
  provided  that  no  such  agreement shall reduce the principal amount of
  such bonds or notes or in the opinion of the comptroller jeopardize  the
  payment  of  the  principal  thereof or the interest thereon at the rate
  thereafter payable thereon and provided that any agreement  relating  to
  toll rates shall be approved by the commissioner; (b) to sell such bonds
  or  notes to the authority at a price not less than the principal amount
  thereof and accrued interest; (c) to surrender such bonds  or  notes  to
  the authority in exchange for other bonds or notes of the authority in a
  principal  amount  not  less  than  the principal amount of the bonds or
  notes surrendered, with such cash adjustments  as  the  comptroller  may
  deem  proper; (d) to make such agreements and to do such acts and things
  as the comptroller shall deem necessary or convenient  to  exercise  the
  powers  hereby conferred; provided, however, that nothing done under the
  provisions of this section shall in any  manner  affect  the  rights  of
  other bondholders or noteholders.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 540 - Actions Against the Authority.

§  540.  Actions against the authority. 1. In every action against the
  authority for damages, for injuries to real or personal property, or for
  the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries, the  complaint  shall
  contain  an  allegation that at least thirty days have elapsed since the
  demand, claim or claims upon which such action is founded were presented
  to a member of the authority, or to  its  secretary,  or  to  its  chief
  executive  officer  and  that  the authority has neglected or refused to
  make an adjustment  or  payment  thereof  for  thirty  days  after  such
  presentment.
2.  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, nor unless a
  notice of claim shall have been filed within the time limit  established
  by and in compliance with section fifty-e of the general municipal law.
3.  An  action  against  the  authority  for  wrongful  death shall be
  commenced in accordance with the notice of  claim  and  time  limitation
  provisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 541 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

§  541. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective.
  If  any  section,  clause  or  provision  of   this   title   shall   be
  unconstitutional  or  be  ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent
  that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective it  shall  be  valid  and
  effective  and  no  other  section, clause or provision shall on account
  thereof be deemed invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 2 - New York State Bridge Authority › 542 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

§  542.  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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 3 - Triborough Bridge Authority › 551 - Definitions.

§  551.  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 Triborough  bridge  and  tunnel
  authority,  the  corporation  organized pursuant to section five hundred
  fifty-two of this chapter  as  consolidated  pursuant  to  section  five
  hundred fifty-two-a of this chapter;
2. The term "city" shall mean the city of New York;
3.  The term "bonds" shall mean bonds issued by the authority pursuant
  to this title or by authorities consolidated with the authority;
4. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority;
5. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the city;
6. The term "the project" shall mean any project or one or more or all
  of the projects described in subdivision nine of  section  five  hundred
  fifty-three or in section five hundred fifty-three-a of this chapter;
7.  The  term  "parkway" shall include elevated, surface or subsurface
  parkways and parking fields and other  facilities  connected  therewith,
  and  any  bridge,  viaduct,  embankment  or other structure that is part
  thereof or crosses the same;
8.  The  term  "highway"  shall  mean  any  road,  street,  avenue  or
  boulevard,  whether  elevated,  surface  or subsurface, and includes any
  parking fields and other facilities connected therewith and any  bridge,
  viaduct, embankment or other structure that is a part thereof or crosses
  the same.
9.  The  term  "metropolitan  transportation authority" shall mean the
  corporation created  by  section  twelve  hundred  sixty-three  of  this
  chapter.
10.  The  term  "New  York  city  transit  authority"  shall  mean the
  corporation created by section twelve hundred one of this chapter.