2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 10-C - New York Health Care Corporations › Title 6 - Erie County Medical Center Corporation › 3630 - General Powers of the Corporation.

§  3630.  General powers of the corporation. Except as limited by this
  title, the public  health  law,  the  mental  hygiene  law,  the  social
  services  law,  the  education law, the civil practice law and rules, or
  any other applicable law  or  regulation,  the  corporation  shall  have
  power:
1.  to  sue and be sued and to participate in actions and proceedings,
  whether judicial, administrative, or otherwise;
2. to have a seal and to alter such seal, and to use it by causing  it
  or  a  facsimile  thereof to be affixed, impressed, or reproduced in any
  other manner;
3. to borrow money and issue bonds for any of its  corporate  purposes
  or its projects, or to refund the same, and to provide for the rights of
  the holders thereof;
4.  to make and alter by-laws for its organization and management and,
  subject to agreements with its bondholders, to make and alter rules  and
  regulations  governing the exercise of its powers and the fulfillment of
  its purposes under this title;
5. to purchase, receive, take by  grant,  gift,  devise,  bequest,  or
  otherwise, lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use,
  and  otherwise  deal  in  and  with,  real  or personal property, or any
  interest therein, wherever situated;
6. to purchase, take, receive, subscribe for,  or  otherwise  acquire,
  own,  hold,  vote,  employ,  sell,  lend,  lease, exchange, transfer, or
  otherwise dispose of, mortgage, pledge, use, and otherwise deal  in  and
  with,  bonds  and  other  obligations,  shares,  or  other securities or
  interests issued by others, whether  engaged  in  similar  or  different
  business, governmental, or other activities;
7. to accept subventions from other persons or any unit of government;
8.  to  sell,  convey, lease, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose
  of, mortgage or pledge, or create a security interest in, all or any  of
  its  property,  or  any  interest  therein, wherever situated, upon such
  terms and conditions  and  in  such  manner  as  the  corporation  shall
  determine;
9.  to  acquire  by  condemnation  pursuant  to  the provisions of the
  eminent domain procedure  law  any  real  property  within  Erie  county
  required  by  the  corporation  to  carry out the powers granted by this
  title with the approval of both the  Erie  county  legislature  and  the
  county executive;
10.   to   make   capital   contributions   to   other  not-for-profit
  corporations;
11. to offer participation in the New York state and local  employees'
  retirement  system  for  all its officers and employees and to establish
  and  carry  out  other  retirement  plans  authorized  pursuant  to  the
  retirement  and  social security law, which may be offered to all of its
  officers and employees not participating in the New York state and local
  employees' retirement system, and  to  establish  and  carry  out  other
  incentive  and  benefit  plans, trusts, and provisions for any or all of
  its officers and employees, subject  to  the  applicable  provisions  of
  article fourteen of the civil service law;
12.  to be a promoter, partner, member, associate, or manager of other
  not-for-profit activities or business enterprises or  ventures,  or,  to
  the extent permitted in any other jurisdiction, to be an incorporator of
  other corporations of any type or kind;
13.  to make contracts, give guarantees, and incur liabilities, borrow
  money at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine,  issue
  notes,  bonds,  and other obligations, and secure any of its obligations
  by mortgage or pledge of all or any of  its  property  or  any  interest
  therein, wherever situated;
14. to issue bonds for any corporate purpose or project, to refund the
  same, and to provide for the rights of holders thereof;
15.  to  accept  gifts,  grants,  loans,  or contributions of funds or
  property or financial or other aid in any  form  from,  and  enter  into
  contracts or other transactions with, the federal government, the state,
  or  any  public  corporation  or  any  other source, and to use any such
  gifts,  grants,  loans,  or  contributions  for  any  of  its  corporate
  purposes;
16. to grant options to renew any lease with respect to any project or
  projects  and  to  grant options to buy any project at such price as the
  corporation may deem desirable;
17. to lend money, invest and reinvest its funds, and  take  and  hold
  real  and personal property as security for the payment of funds so lent
  or invested;
18. to designate the depositories of its money;
19. to establish its fiscal year;
20. to conduct the activities of the corporation,  have  offices,  and
  exercise  the powers granted by this title in any jurisdiction within or
  without the United States;
21. to appoint such officers, employees, and agents as the corporation
  may require for the performance of its duties and to fix  and  determine
  their   qualifications,   duties,   and  compensation,  subject  to  the
  provisions of the  civil  service  law  and  any  applicable  collective
  bargaining  agreement,  and  to  retain  or  employ  counsel,  auditors,
  engineers, and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise  for
  rendering professional, management, or technical services and advice;
22.  to  use  employees,  agents,  consultants,  and facilities of the
  county, paying the county its agreed proportion of the  compensation  or
  costs pursuant to an agreement with the county;
23.   to  make  and  adopt  plans,  surveys,  and  studies  necessary,
  convenient, or desirable to the effectuation of the purposes and  powers
  of the corporation and to prepare recommendations in regard thereto;
24.  except  as limited by state law or regulation, to fix and collect
  rates, rentals, fees, lease payments, and other charges for the services
  rendered by it or for the use of the facilities  owned,  controlled,  or
  administered by or in the exercise of the powers of the corporation;
25.  to  enter upon such lands, waters, or premises as in the judgment
  of the corporation may be necessary, convenient, or  desirable  for  the
  purpose  of  making  surveys,  soundings,  borings,  and examinations to
  accomplish any purpose authorized by this title, the  corporation  being
  liable for actual damage done;
26.  the corporation may covenant and consent that the interest on any
  of its bonds or notes issued pursuant to this title shall be includable,
  under the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as  amended  (the
  "code")  or  any  subsequent  corresponding  internal revenue law of the
  United States, in gross income of the holders of the bonds or  notes  to
  the  same  extent  and  in  the  same manner that the interest on bills,
  bonds, notes, or other obligations of the United States is includable in
  the gross income of the holders thereof  under  the  code  or  any  such
  subsequent law;
27.  to  make,  adopt,  amend,  enforce,  and  repeal  rules  for  its
  governance and internal management and personnel practices,  subject  to
  article fourteen of the civil service law, where applicable;
28.  to  insure  or  otherwise  to  provide  for  the insurance of the
  corporation's property or operations  and  also  contract  against  such
  other  risks  as  the  corporation  may  deem  advisable,  including the
  interest rate risk for obligations  it  issues  bearing  interest  at  a
  floating  or  otherwise  adjustable  rate which prevents the actual rate

  over the term of the debt from being ascertained  at  the  date  of  its
  incurrence,  and  including  the power to make any payments with respect
  thereto; and
29.  to  do  all things necessary, convenient, or desirable, including
  ancillary and incidental activities, to carry out its purposes  and  for
  the exercise of the powers granted in this title.