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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1179 - Transfer to Authority of City Sewer System.

§ 1179. Transfer to authority of city sewer system. Upon the filing by
  the  authority  with the common council of the city and the secretary of
  state of the state of  New  York,  of  its  certificate  signed  by  its
  chairman  or  vice-chairman stating that the project has been completed,
  thereupon, and by virtue of  this  title,  the  existing  sewer  system,
  together  with  all contracts, books, maps, plans, papers and records of
  whatever description pertaining to subjects or matters relating  to  the
  design, construction, operation and affairs of the existing sewer system
  shall be assigned, transferred and dedicated to the use of and be in the
  possession of and under the jurisdiction, control and supervision of the
  authority  and the authority is empowered to take possession thereof for
  its uses and purposes. The  authority  shall  thereafter  have  complete
  jurisdiction,  control, possession and supervision of the existing sewer
  system and of all the facilities in the city for the disposal of  sewage
  and  storm water, and shall continue to exercise such power for a period
  of five years and so long thereafter as any of the bonds and liabilities
  of the authority shall remain unpaid or shall not  have  otherwise  been
  discharged. When all of the bonds and liabilities of the authority shall
  have  been  paid in full or shall have otherwise been discharged and the
  authority shall have ceased to exist, the powers, jurisdiction and  duty
  of the board shall cease and the property and assets acquired or held by
  it  shall  thereafter  become  the  property  of, and shall be under the
  jurisdiction, control, possession and supervision of, the city.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1180-A - Shutting Off Water Supply for Unpaid Sewer Rents.

§  1180-a.  Shutting  off  water  supply  for unpaid sewer rents. Upon
  certification by the authority to the director of water of the  city  of
  Buffalo  that  sewer  rents, based upon the consumption of water charged
  against real property which is connected  with  the  facilities  of  the
  authority, remain unpaid for a period of more than one year from the due
  date  thereof and that notice and demand has been given by the authority
  to the owner or occupant of said premises, by  registered  or  certified
  mail,  addressed  to  said  premises  and to the address of the owner as
  shown on the records of the board of assessors of the city  of  Buffalo,
  to  pay  the  same  within ten days from the date of the mailing of said
  notice and that such rents still remain unpaid, the  director  of  water
  shall  shut  off  the  supply  of water to said premises until the sewer
  rents are paid, together with a charge of  five  dollars  for  restoring
  water service to said premises.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1183 - Obligations of Public Utilities.

§  1183.  Obligations  of  public utilities. Wherever railroad tracks,
  street railroad tracks, gas pipes,  telephone  wires,  telegraph  wires,
  electric  light  or  power  wires,  or  conduits for carrying telephone,
  telegraph or electric wires, or other structures of any  public  service
  corporation,  extend in, along or across any part of the work authorized
  by this title, it shall be and become the duty of the corporation owning
  or using such tracks, pipes, wires or conduits, or other structures,  to
  make  such  changes  in the same, at its own expense, as may be required
  during the construction of the improvement provided for in  this  title,
  and  to construct or rebuild and maintain at its own expense its tracks,
  pipes, wires or conduits and structures over or along the work  by  this
  title  authorized  and  constructed or in the process of construction in
  pursuance thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1184 - Property to Be Restored.

§ 1184. Property to be restored. The authority may enter upon streets,
  highways,  bridges  or public places for the purpose of constructing the
  project or any part thereof, or any addition, betterment or extension to
  the facilities of the authority. Whenever the authority has entered upon
  and damaged any street,  highway,  bridge  or  other  public  place  the
  authority shall restore the same to its former condition.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1186 - Moneys of the Authority.

§  1186.  Moneys  of  the authority. All moneys of the authority, from
  whatever source derived, shall be paid to the treasurer as agent of  the
  authority,  who  shall  not commingle such moneys with any other moneys.
  Such moneys shall be deposited by the treasurer in one or more banks  or
  trust  companies  in a special account or accounts, and if the treasurer
  or the authority shall so require, each of such special  accounts  shall
  be  continuously secured by a pledge of direct obligations of the United
  States of America or of the state of New York having an aggregate market
  value, exclusive of accrued interest, at all times at least equal to the
  balance on deposit in such account.   Such securities  shall  either  be
  deposited  with  the  treasurer  or  be  held  by  a  trustee  or  agent
  satisfactory to the authority. In  lieu  of  any  such  pledge  of  such
  securities,  such  funds  may be secured by a surety bond or bonds which
  shall  be  in  form,  sufficiency  and  substance  satisfactory  to  the
  authority.  All  banks  and  trust companies are authorized to give such
  security for such deposits. The moneys in such accounts  shall  be  paid
  out on the warrant or check of the comptroller as agent of the authority
  on requisition of the chairman of the authority, or of such other person
  or  persons  as  the  authority may authorize to make such requisitions,
  after audit by  the  comptroller.    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 finances, operation
  and affairs.
The authority shall have power, notwithstanding the provisions of this
  section, to contract with the holders of any of  its  bonds  as  to  the
  custody,  collection,  security, investment and payment of any moneys of
  the authority, or any moneys held in trust or otherwise for the  payment
  of  bonds  or  in  any  way  to  secure bonds, and to carry out any such
  contract notwithstanding that such contract may be inconsistent with the
  provisions of this section. Moneys held in trust or  otherwise  for  the
  payment  of  bonds  or  in  any way to secure 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1188 - Agreement of the State.

§  1188.  Agreement of the state. The state of New York does pledge to
  and agree with the holders of the bonds that the state will not limit or
  alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to establish and collect
  such rates, rentals and other 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  of  the  bonds, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of
  bondholders until the bonds, 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
  the bondholders, are fully met and discharged. From and after the filing
  with the common council of the city and with the secretary of  state  of
  the  state of New York of a certificate of completion of the project, as
  provided in section fourteen hundred four of this chapter, and  so  long
  as  the authority exists, the city shall not be authorized to construct,
  operate  or  maintain  any  sewerage  system  within  or   without   the
  territorial limits of the city, and no other corporation or agency shall
  be  authorized  to  construct,  operate  or maintain any sewerage system
  within the city, but all such power shall be vested in the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1189 - State and City Not Liable on Bonds.

§  1189.  State  and  city  not  liable  on bonds. The bonds and other
  obligations of the authority shall not be a debt of  the  state  of  New
  York  or  the  city,  and neither the state nor the city shall 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 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1190 - Bonds Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§  1190. 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, all savings banks and savings  institutions,
  including  savings  and  loan  associations,  administrators, guardians,
  executors, trustees and other fiduciaries in the state may properly  and
  legally invest funds in their control.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1191 - Exemptions From Taxation.

§  1191.  Exemptions from taxation. 1. It is hereby found and declared
  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  state
  of  New  York, for the improvement of their health and welfare, 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 be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon
  any of the property acquired by it or under its  jurisdiction,  control,
  possession  or  supervision  or upon its activities in the operation and
  maintenance of its facilities.
2. The bonds together with the income therefrom shall, at  all  times,
  be exempt from taxation, except for transfer and estate taxes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1193 - Obligations of Contracts Not Impaired.

§  1193.  Obligations  of  contracts  not impaired. From and after the
  filing with the common council of the city and the secretary of state of
  the state of New York of the certificate of completion of  the  project,
  as  provided  in  section  fourteen  hundred  four  of this chapter, all
  contracts of the city in respect of the existing  sewer  system  or  any
  part thereof shall be binding upon the authority with the same force and
  effect  as  though  such  contracts  had  been  expressly assumed by the
  authority and such contracts shall inure to the benefit of the authority
  with the same force  and  effect  as  though  such  contracts  had  been
  expressly  assigned  to the authority. Moneys to provide for the payment
  of notes, bonds or other obligations issued by the city in  relation  to
  the  existing  sewer  system  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be raised,
  collected and paid by the city as though this law had not been  enacted,
  and the authority shall not be liable thereon.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1193-A - Actions Against the Authority.

§ 1193-a. Actions against the authority. 1. In every action or special
  proceeding  against  the authority founded upon tort for damages to real
  or personal property, or for the destruction thereof,  or  for  personal
  injuries or death, a notice of claim shall be required to be served upon
  a  member  of  the  authority,  its  general  manager  or secretary as a
  condition  precedent  to  the  commencement  of  an  action  or  special
  proceeding  against  the authority or any officer, appointee or employee
  thereof, and the provisions of section fifty-e of the general  municipal
  law shall govern the giving of such notice.
2.  Wherever  a  notice  of  claim  is  filed  against  the  authority
  examination of said claimant may be had by the authority  in  accordance
  with the provisions of section fifty-h of the general municipal law.
3.  The  authority shall be liable for, and shall assume the liability
  to the extent that it shall save harmless any duly appointed officer  or
  employee  of  the  authority  for  the  negligence  of  such  officer or
  employee,  in  the  operation  of  a  vehicle  or  other   facility   of
  transportation under the jurisdiction and control of the authority, upon
  the  public  streets,  highways  or  railroads  within  the city, in the
  discharge of a duty imposed upon such officer or employee at the time of
  the accident, injury or damages  complained  of,  while  acting  in  the
  performance of his duties and within the scope of his employment.
4.  Except  in  an  action  for  wrongful  death, no action or special
  proceeding against the authority founded  on  tort  shall  be  commenced
  later  than one year and ninety days after the happening of the event or
  events upon which the claim is based; nor unless it shall appear by  and
  as an allegation in the complaint that at least thirty days have elapsed
  since the service of such notice of claim as required by subdivision one
  of  this section and that the authority has neglected or refused to make
  an adjustment or payment of the claim for thirty days after the  service
  of such notice. 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.
5. The rate of interest to  be  paid  by  the  authority,  or  by  its
  officers  or employees whose liability has been assumed by the authority
  pursuant to subdivision three of this  section,  upon  any  judgment  or
  accrued  claim  against the authority or such officer or employee, shall
  be the rate of interest provided for in section three-a of  the  general
  municipal law.
6.  The  venue  of  any  action or proceeding against the authority of
  whatever nature shall be laid in the county of Erie.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1194 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional.

§ 1194. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional. If any clause,
  sentence,  paragraph,  or  part  of  this  title shall for any reason be
  adjudged by any court of competent  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid,  such
  judgment  shall  not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this
  title, but shall be confined in its operation to the  clause,  sentence,
  paragraph, or part thereof 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 8 - Buffalo Sewer Authority › 1195 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

§  1195. 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, or any local law, the provisions of  this
  title shall be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-A - Policy and Purposes.

§  1196-a. Policy and purposes. It is hereby declared to be the policy
  of this state to enable  local  governments  to  provide  expeditiously,
  efficiently  and  effectively,  safe  and adequate supplies of water and
  sewerage service for domestic and industrial  use,  both  of  which  are
  essential to the public health and to the social and economic well-being
  of the people and communities of this state.
It is further declared that cooperation among local governments in the
  provision  of  both  water  supplies  and sewerage service may result in
  economic and service benefits and should therefore be facilitated. It is
  further declared that the  provision  of  water  supplies  and  sewerage
  service  may  be  independently  supported by charges therefor, and that
  revenue financing of  the  capital  costs  of  improvements  to  systems
  therefor should also be facilitated.
It  is  further declared that the availability to local governments of
  locally organized public benefit  corporations  for  the  provision  and
  improvement  of  water  supply  and  sewerage  systems  would facilitate
  inter-local cooperation and revenue financing  while  maintaining  local
  responsibility  and  control  and  thereby promote the public health and
  welfare.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-E - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  1196-e.  Transfer  of officers and employees. Any public officer or
  employee under civil service, selected by an  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 applicable civil service commission
  shall have the same status with respect thereto after  transfer  to  the
  authority as they had under their original appointments. The appointment
  and  promotion  of  all  employees  of  an  authority  shall  be made in
  accordance with the provisions of the civil service law and  such  rules
  as the applicable civil service commission may adopt and make applicable
  to such authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-G - Remedies of Bondholders.

§  1196-g. Remedies of bondholders. 1. In the event that the authority
shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of
the bonds after the same shall become due, whether at maturity  or  upon
call  for  redemption,  and  such default shall continue for a period of
thirty days, or in the event that the authority shall fail or refuse  to
comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  title,  or shall default in any
agreement made with the holders of any issue of the bonds,  the  holders
of  twenty-five per centum in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of
such issue then outstanding, by instrument or instruments filed  in  the
office  of the clerk of the applicable county and proved or acknowledged
in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint  a  trustee  to
represent the holders of such bonds for the purposes herein provided.
2.  Such  trustee  may,  and  upon  written  request of the holders of
twenty-five per centum in principal amount  of  such  bonds  outstanding
shall, in his, her or its own name:
(a)  by action or proceeding in accordance with the civil practice law
and rules, enforce  all  rights  of  the  bondholders  and  require  the
authority  to  carry  out  any other agreements with the holders of such
bonds and to perform its duties under this title;
(b) bring an action or proceeding upon such bonds;
(c) by action or proceeding, require the authority to account as if it
were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such bonds;
(d) by action or proceeding, enjoin any acts or things  which  may  be
unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of such bonds; and
(e)  declare all such bonds due and payable, and if all defaults shall
be made good, then with the consent of the holders  of  twenty-five  per
centum  of  the  principal  amount of such bonds then outstanding, annul
such declaration and its consequences.
3. Such trustee shall in addition to the foregoing  have  and  possess
all  of  the  powers  necessary  or  appropriate for the exercise of any
functions specifically set forth  herein  or  incident  to  the  general
representation of bondholders in the enforcement and protection of their
rights.
4.  The  supreme  court  shall  have  jurisdiction  of  any  action or
proceeding by the trustee on behalf of such bondholders.
5. Before declaring the  principal  of  bonds  due  and  payable,  the
trustee shall first give thirty days' notice in writing to an authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-H - State and Municipalities Not Liable on Authority Bonds.

§  1196-h.  State  and  municipalities  not liable on authority bonds.
  Neither the state nor any municipality shall be liable on the  bonds  of
  an  authority  and such bonds shall not be a debt of the state or of any
  municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-I - Moneys of an Authority.

§  1196-i.  Moneys  of  an  authority. All moneys of an authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of  an  authority
  and  shall  be  deposited  forthwith  in  a  bank  or banks in the state
  designated by the authority. The moneys in such accounts shall  be  paid
  out  on  checks of the treasurer upon requisition by the chairman of the
  authority or of such other officer or  officers  as  the  authority  may
  authorize  to  make such requisitions. All deposits of such moneys shall
  be secured by obligations of or guaranteed by the United  States  or  of
  the  state of a market value equal at all times to the amount on deposit
  and all banks and trust companies are authorized to give  such  security
  for  such  deposits.  An authority shall have power, notwithstanding the
  provisions of this section, to contract with the holders of any bonds as
  to the custody, collection, security,  investment  and  payment  of  any
  moneys of the authority or any moneys held in trust or otherwise for the
  payment  of bonds or in any way to secure bonds. Moneys held in trust or
  otherwise for the payment of bonds or in any way  to  secure  bonds  and
  deposits  of  such moneys may be secured in the same manner as moneys of
  an authority and all banks and trust companies are  authorized  to  give
  such security for such deposits.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-J - Bonds Legal Investment for Fiduciaries.

§  1196-j.  Bonds  legal  investment  for fiduciaries. The bonds of an
  authority are hereby made securities in which all public  officials  and
  bodies  of the state and all municipalities, 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, 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  for any purposes for which the deposit of bonds or other
  obligations of this state is now or hereafter may be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-K - Agreement With the State.

§  1196-k.  Agreement  with the state. The state does hereby pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by an authority  pursuant
  to  this  title that the state will not alter or limit the rights hereby
  vested in the authority to fulfill the terms of any agreement made  with
  or  for  the  benefit  of the holders of bonds, or in any way impair the
  rights and remedies of bondholders, until the bonds, together  with  the
  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  such  holders,  are fully met and discharged. An
  authority is authorized to include this  pledge  and  agreement  of  the
  state in any agreement with bondholders.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-L - Exemption From Taxes, Assessments and Certain Fees; Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

§ 1196-l. Exemption from taxes, assessments and certain fees; payments
  in  lieu  of  taxes.  1. It is hereby determined that the creation of an
  authority and the carrying out of  its  corporate  purposes  is  in  all
  respects  for  the  benefit  of  the people of the state and is a public
  purpose, and an 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 real property owned by it or any filing,
  recording or transfer fees or taxes in relation  to  instruments  filed,
  recorded  or transferred by it or on its behalf; provided, however, that
  any real property owned or  acquired  by  the  authority  outside  of  a
  sponsoring  municipality  shall  be  exempt from real property taxes, ad
  valorem levies or special assessments only pursuant to and to the extent
  provided by an agreement with the governing body of the municipality  in
  which such real property is located.
2.  An  authority  may  pay,  or  may  enter  into agreements with any
  municipality to pay, a sum or sums, annually or otherwise or to  provide
  other  considerations to such municipality with respect to real property
  owned by the authority located within such municipality and constituting
  a part of a water or sewerage system.
3. Any bonds issued pursuant to this title together  with  the  income
  therefrom  shall  be exempt from taxation except for transfer and estate
  taxes. The revenues, moneys and all other property and activities of  an
  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. Notwithstanding  the  foregoing  provision  of  this
  subdivision, any real property owned or acquired by an authority outside
  a  sponsoring  municipality  shall be subject to subdivision one of this
  section. The state hereby covenants with the  purchasers  and  with  all
  subsequent  holders  and  transferees  of  bonds  issued by an 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 free from such taxation,
  as aforestated herein, and that all revenues, moneys, and other property
  pledged to secure the payment of such bonds shall at all times  be  free
  from such taxes, as aforestated herein.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-M - Actions Against an Authority.

§  1196-m.  Actions  against  an authority. 1. Except in an action for
  wrongful  death,  no  action  or  proceeding  shall  be  prosecuted   or
  maintained against an authority for personal injury or damage to real or
  personal  property  alleged  to  have  been  sustained  by reason of the
  negligence or wrongful act of the  authority  or  any  member,  officer,
  agent  or employee thereof, unless (a) a notice of claim shall have been
  made and served upon the authority within  the  time  limit  by  and  in
  compliance  with  section  fifty-e  of the general municipal law, (b) it
  shall appear by and as an allegation in the complaint or  moving  papers
  that  at least thirty days have elapsed since the service of such notice
  and that adjustment or payment thereof has been  neglected  or  refused,
  and  (c)  the  action  or  proceeding shall be commenced within one year
  after the happening of the event upon  which  the  claim  is  based.  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.
2.  Wherever  a  notice of claim is served upon an authority, it shall
  have the right to demand an examination of the claimant relative to  the
  occurrence  and  extent  of  the  injuries or damages for which claim is
  made, in accordance with  the  provisions  of  section  fifty-h  of  the
  general municipal law.
3.  An  authority  may require any person presenting for settlement an
  account or claim for any cause whatever  against  the  authority  to  be
  sworn  before  a  member,  counsel,  or an attorney, officer or employee
  thereof designated for such purpose, concerning such  account  or  claim
  and  when  so  sworn,  to answer orally as to any facts relative to such
  account or claim. An authority shall have power to settle or adjust  all
  claims in favor of or against the authority.
4.  The  rate of interest to be paid by an authority upon any judgment
  for which it is liable, other than a judgment against the  authority  on
  bonds,  shall  not exceed six per centum per annum. Interest on payments
  of principal or interest on any bonds in default  shall  accrue  at  the
  rate  borne  by  such  bonds  from  the  due  date thereof until paid or
  otherwise satisfied.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-N - Interest in Contracts Prohibited.

§  1196-n. Interest in contracts prohibited. It shall be a misdemeanor
  for any member  or  any  officer,  agent,  servant  or  employee  of  an
  authority 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-P - Construction and Purchase Contracts.

§  1196-p. Construction and purchase contracts. An authority shall let
  contracts for  construction  or  purchase  of  supplies,  materials,  or
  equipment pursuant to section one hundred three of the general municipal
  law. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the power of an
  authority  to  do  any construction directly by the officers, agents and
  employees of the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-Q - Separability Clause.

§  1196-q. Separability clause. If any section, clause or provision in
  this title shall be held by a competent court to be unconstitutional  or
  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 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act › 1196-R - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§ 1196-r. Effect of inconsistent provisions. Insofar as the provisions
  of  this  title  are  inconsistent with the provisions of any other law,
  general, special or local or of any charter or any  local  ordinance  or
  resolution  of  any  municipality, the provisions of this title shall be
  controlling, provided that nothing contained in this  section  shall  be
  held  to  supplement  or  otherwise  expand  the powers or duties of the
  authority otherwise set forth in this title. Nothing contained  in  this
  title  shall  be  held  to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the
  department of environmental conservation or the department of health.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-C - Water Authority of Great Neck North District.

§  1197-c.  Water  authority  of  Great  Neck north district. There is
  hereby created a district to be known as the "water authority  of  Great
  Neck north district" which shall embrace that portion of the area which,
  as  of the date of the adoption of this act, is within union free school
  district number seven, Great Neck, town of North  Hempstead,  county  of
  Nassau,  lying  northerly  of  the north line of the Manhasset-Lakeville
  water district.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-F - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  1197-f.  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, department or municipality 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 and 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 shall have the same status with respect thereto after
  transfer to the authority as they had under their original appointments.
  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 may adopt and make  applicable  to
  the authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-H - Remedies of Bondholders.

§  1197-h. Remedies of bondholders. 1. In the event that the authority
shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of
the bonds after the same shall become due, whether at maturity  or  upon
call  for  redemption,  and  such default shall continue for a period of
thirty days, or in the event that the authority shall fail or refuse  to
comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  title,  or shall default in any
agreement made with the holders of any issue of the bonds,  the  holders
of  twenty-five per centum in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of
such issue then outstanding, by instrument or instruments filed  in  the
office  of the clerk of the applicable county and proved or acknowledged
in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint  a  trustee  to
represent the holders of such bonds for the purposes herein provided.
2.  Such  trustee  may,  and  upon  written  request of the holders of
twenty-five per centum in principal amount  of  such  bonds  outstanding
shall, in his or her own name:
(a)  by action or proceeding in accordance with the civil practice law
and rules, enforce  all  rights  of  the  bondholders  and  require  the
authority  to  carry  out  any other agreements with the holders of such
bonds and to perform its duties under this title;
(b) bring an action or proceeding upon such bonds;
(c) by action or proceeding, require the authority to account as if it
were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such bonds;
(d) by action or proceeding, enjoin any acts or things  which  may  be
unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of such bonds; and
(e)  declare all such bonds due and payable, and if all defaults shall
be made good, then with the consent of the holders  of  twenty-five  per
centum  of  the  principal  amount of such bonds then outstanding, annul
such declaration and its consequences.
3. Such trustee shall in addition to the foregoing  have  and  possess
all  of  the  powers  necessary  or  appropriate for the exercise of any
functions specifically set forth herein or  incidental  to  the  general
representation of bondholders in the enforcement and protection of their
rights.
4.  The  state  supreme court shall have jurisdiction of any action or
proceeding by the trustee on behalf of such bondholders.
5. Before declaring the  principal  of  bonds  due  and  payable,  the
trustee  shall  first  give  thirty  days'  notice  in  writing  to  the
authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-I - State and Municipalities Not Liable on Authority Bonds.

§  1197-i.  State  and  municipalities  not liable on authority bonds.
  Neither the state nor any municipality shall be liable on the  bonds  of
  the  authority and such bonds shall not be a debt of the state or of any
  municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-J - Moneys of the Authority.

§  1197-j.  Moneys  of the authority. All moneys of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to  the  treasurer  and  shall  be
  deposited  forthwith  in one or more banks and/or trust companies in the
  state designated by the authority. The moneys in such accounts shall  be
  paid  out on checks of the treasurer upon requisition by the chairperson
  of the authority or of such other officer or officers as  the  authority
  may  authorize  to  make  such requisitions. All deposits of such moneys
  shall be secured by obligations of or guaranteed by the United States of
  America or of the state of a market value equal  at  all  times  to  the
  amount  on  deposit  and all banks and trust companies are authorized to
  give such security for such deposits. Any moneys of  the  authority  not
  required for immediate use or disbursement may, at the discretion of the
  authority,  be  invested  in those obligations specified pursuant to the
  provisions of section ninety-eight-a  of  the  state  finance  law.  The
  authority  shall  have  power,  notwithstanding  the  provisions of this
  section, to contract with the holders of any bonds as  to  the  custody,
  collection,  security,  investment  and  payment  of  any  moneys of the
  authority or any moneys held in trust or otherwise for  the  payment  of
  bonds  or  in any way to secure bonds. Moneys held in trust or otherwise
  for the payment of bonds or in any way to secure 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-K - Bonds Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.

§  1197-k.  Bonds  legal investments for fiduciaries. The bonds of the
  authority are hereby made securities in which all public  officials  and
  bodies  of the state and all municipalities, 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, 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  the  state  and  all
  municipalities  for any purposes for which the deposit of bonds or other
  obligations of the state is now or hereafter may be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-L - Agreement With the State.

§  1197-l.  Agreement  with the state. The state does hereby pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any bonds issued by the authority pursuant
  to this title that the state will not alter or limit the  rights  hereby
  vested  in the authority to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with
  or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or  in  any  way  impair  the
  rights  and  remedies  of  bondholders until the bonds together with the
  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 such holders,  are  fully  met  and  discharged.  The
  authority  is  authorized  to  include  this pledge and agreement of the
  state in any agreement with bondholders.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North › 1197-M - Exemption From Taxes, Assessments and Certain Fees; Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

§ 1197-m. Exemption from taxes, assessments and certain fees; payments
  in  lieu  of  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 state 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 real property owned by it
  or any filing, recording or  transfer  fees  or  taxes  in  relation  to
  instruments filed, recorded or transferred by it or on its behalf.
2.  The  authority  may  pay,  or  may  enter into agreements with any
  municipality to pay, a sum or sums annually or otherwise or  to  provide
  other  considerations to such municipality with respect to real property
  owned by the authority located within such municipality and constituting
  a part of its water system.
3. Any bonds issued pursuant to this title together  with  the  income
  therefrom  shall  be exempt from taxation except for transfer and estate
  taxes. The revenues, moneys and all other property and all activities 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.
4.  The  state  hereby  covenants  with  the  purchasers  and with all
  subsequent holders and transferees of  bonds  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 three of this section, and  that
  all  revenues,  moneys, and other property pledged to secure the payment
  of such bonds shall at all times be free from such taxes as  aforestated
  in such subdivision.
5.  Notwithstanding  the above, nothing herein shall prevent the state
  from assessing a tax or surcharge against the water customers  based  on
  their  water  consumption,  provided,  however,  that all such taxes and
  surcharges and the authority's obligation to collect and pay such  taxes
  and  surcharges  shall be subordinate to the rights of holders of all of
  the authority's bonds  and  notes  and  to  the  payment  of  principal,
  premiums if any, and interest thereon.