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2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-L - Oneida County Sports Facility Authority Act › 2052-Q - Environmental Applications, Proceedings, Approvals and Permits.

§  2052-q.  Environmental  applications,  proceedings,  approvals  and
  permits.  1.  Any  application  in  relation  to  the  purposes  of   or
  contemplated   by   this  title  heretofore  filed,  or  any  proceeding
  heretofore commenced, or any determination or decision  heretofore  made
  by  the  county  or any municipality and sent to or filed with the state
  department of environmental conservation or any other  state  agency  or
  instrumentality  or  with  the  United  States  environmental protection
  agency or any other federal agency or instrumentality shall inure to and
  for the benefit of the authority to the same  extent  and  in  the  same
  manner  as  if  the  authority  had  been a party to such application or
  proceeding from its inception, and the authority shall be deemed a party
  thereto, to the extent not prohibited by any federal law.  Any  license,
  approval,  permit  or decision heretofore or hereafter issued or granted
  pursuant to or as a result of any such application or  proceeding  shall
  inure  to  the benefit of and be binding upon the authority and shall be
  assigned and transferred by the county or any such municipality  to  the
  authority,  unless such assignment and transfer is prohibited by federal
  law.
2. All such applications, proceedings,  licenses,  approvals,  permits
  and  decisions  shall  further  inure  to  and for the benefit of and be
  binding upon any person leasing, acquiring,  constructing,  maintaining,
  using  or  occupying  any  project  financed  in whole or in part by the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-L - Oneida County Sports Facility Authority Act › 2052-R - Separability.

§  2052-r.  Separability.  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 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-L - Oneida County Sports Facility Authority Act › 2052-S - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§  2052-s.  Effect  of  inconsistent  provisions.  In  so  far  as the
  provisions of this title are inconsistent with  the  provisions  of  any
  other  act,  general or special, or of any charter, local law, ordinance
  or resolution of the county, or other municipality,  the  provisions  of
  this title shall be controlling. 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 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-D - Transfer of Property to Authority; Acquisition of Property by County for Authority.

§  2053-d.  Transfer of property to authority; acquisition of property
  by county for authority. 1. The county or  any  other  municipality  may
  give,  grant,  sell,  convey,  loan,  license the use of or lease to the
  authority any property or facility which is useful to the  authority  in
  order  to  carry  out  its  powers and duties under this title. Any such
  transfer of property shall be upon such terms and conditions, subject to
  the rights of the holders of any bonds, subject  to  the  provisions  of
  section  two  thousand fifty-three-f of this title, as the authority and
  the county or other municipality may agree.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law,  general,  special
  or  local,  real  property  acquired  by  the  authority, subject to the
  provisions of section two thousand fifty-three-f of this title,  or  the
  county  from  the  state  may  be  used for any corporate purpose of the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-F - Certain County Rights.

§  2053-f.  Certain county rights. The authority shall not (1) acquire
  or lease any interest in real property, or  (2)  accept  or  permit  the
  acceptance  at  facilities owned or under contract with the authority of
  solid  waste  originating  outside  the  county,  unless  (i)  at  least
  forty-five days prior notice of the acquisition or lease of any interest
  in  real property by the authority or any such acceptance of solid waste
  originating outside the county shall  have  been  given  to  the  county
  legislature,  and  (ii)  no  objection,  by  resolution  of  the  county
  legislature, shall have been made and delivered  to  the  agency  within
  such forty-five days.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-H - Governmental Capacity of the Authority and Municipalities.

§  2053-h.  Governmental capacity of the authority and municipalities.
  The county, other municipalities within the county and the authority  in
  carrying  out the respective powers and duties under this title shall be
  deemed to be  acting  in  a  governmental  capacity.  The  construction,
  operation and maintenance of any project financed in whole or in part by
  the  authority  shall  be  deemed  to be the performance of an essential
  governmental function  by  the  authority  acting  in  its  governmental
  capacity,  whether  such  project  shall  be  owned  or  operated by the
  authority or by any person or other public corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-I - Transfer of Officers and Employees.

§  2053-i. Transfer of officers and employees. Any officer or employee
  of the  county  under  civil  service  or  otherwise,  selected  by  the
  authority, may, with the consent of the county executive, be transferred
  to   the   authority  and  shall  be  eligible  for  such  transfer  and
  appointment, without examination, to applicable offices,  positions  and
  employment  under  the authority. The salary or compensation of any such
  officer  or  employee,  after  such  transfer,  shall  be  paid  by  the
  authority.  Any  such  officers  or  employees  so  transferred  to  the
  authority pursuant to this section, who are members of or benefit  under
  any  existing  pension  or  retirement fund or system, shall continue to
  have all rights, privileges, obligations and status with respect to such
  fund or system as are now prescribed by law, but during  the  period  of
  their  employment  by  the authority, all contributions to such funds or
  system to be paid by  the  employer  on  account  of  such  officers  or
  employees shall be paid by the authority. All such officers or employees
  so  transferred  to  the  authority who have been appointed to positions
  under the rules and classifications of  the  personnel  officer  of  the
  county shall have the same status with respect thereto after transfer to
  the authority as they had under their original appointment.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-L - State, County and Municipalities Not Liable on Bonds.

§  2053-l.  State,  county  and  municipalities  not  liable on bonds.
  Neither  the  state,  county  nor  any  other  municipality  or   public
  corporation shall be liable on the bonds of the authority and such bonds
  shall  not  be  a debt of the state, county or any other municipality or
  public corporation, and such bonds shall contain, on the face thereof, a
  statement to such effect.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-M - Moneys of the Authority.

§  2053-m.  Moneys  of the authority. All moneys of the authority from
  whatever source derived shall be paid to the treasurer of the  authority
  and  shall be deposited forthwith in interest bearing accounts in a bank
  or banks in the state designated by the governing body.  The  moneys  in
  such  accounts  shall  be  paid  out  on  check  of  the treasurer, upon
  requisition by the governing body or of such other person or persons  as
  the governing body may authorize to make such requisitions. All deposits
  of such moneys shall be secured by obligations of the United States, the
  state  or  the county 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.   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, 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
  ways  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.  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, as amended from time to time. Subject to the provisions of
  any contract with bondholders and with the approval of the  comptroller,
  the authority shall prescribe a system of accounts.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-N - Bonds and Notes as Legal Investment.

§  2053-n.  Bonds  and  notes  as  legal  investment. 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  notes,  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 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 notes or other obligations of this state is now or hereafter
  may be authorized.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-O - Agreement With the State.

§  2053-o.  Agreement  with the state. The state does hereby pledge to
  and agree with the holders of any bonds or notes issued by the authority
  pursuant to this title that the state will not alter or limit the rights
  hereby  vested  in  the  authority  to  purchase,  construct,  maintain,
  operate,   repair,  improve,  increase,  enlarge,  extend,  reconstruct,
  renovate, rehabilitate or dispose of any project, or any part  or  parts
  thereof,  for  which  bonds  of the authority shall have been issued, to
  establish and collect rates, rents, fees and other charges  referred  to
  in this title to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with or for the
  benefit  of the holders of bonds or notes or with any public corporation
  or person with reference to such project or part thereof, or in any  way
  to  impair  the  rights  and  remedies of bondholders until the bonds or
  notes, together with the interest thereon,  including  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,  provided, however, that this section shall not be
  construed to limit in any manner the ability  of  the  state  to  alter,
  amend  or  enforce  laws or regulations to protect public health and the
  environment. 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 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-P - Exemption From Taxes, Assessments and Certain Fees.

§ 2053-p. Exemption from taxes, assessments and certain fees. 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  county  and  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 property owned by it  or  under  its  jurisdiction,
  control  or  supervision or upon its activities or any filing, recording
  or transfer fees or taxes in relation to instruments filed, recorded  or
  transferred by it or on its behalf. The construction, use, occupation or
  possession  of  any  property  owned  by  the  authority  or the county,
  including improvements thereon, by  any  person  or  public  corporation
  under  a  lease,  lease  and  sublease  or any other agreement shall not
  operate to abrogate or limit the  foregoing  exemption,  notwithstanding
  that  the  lessee,  user,  occupant  or person in possession shall claim
  ownership for federal income tax purposes. Mortgages made  or  financed,
  directly  or  indirectly,  by  the  authority  shall  be exempt from the
  mortgage recording taxes imposed by article eleven of the tax  law.  The
  authority shall be deemed a public authority for the purposes of section
  four hundred twelve of the real property tax law.
2.  Any  bonds  issued pursuant to this title together with the income
  therefrom as well as the property of the authority shall be exempt  from
  taxes,  except  for  transfer and estate taxes. The revenues, moneys and
  all other property and all transactions and 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.
  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 any payment for the
  bonds, that the bonds of the authority issued pursuant to this title and
  the income therefrom  and  all  revenues,  moneys,  and  other  property
  pledged  to  secure the payment of such bonds shall at all times be free
  from taxation except for transfer and estate taxes.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-S - Interest in Contracts Prohibited.

§  2053-s. Interest in contracts prohibited. It shall be a misdemeanor
  for any member of the governing body or any officer, agent,  servant  or
  employee  of  the  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 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-T - Audit and Annual Report.

§  2053-t.  Audit and annual report. In conformity with the provisions
  of section five of article ten of the constitution, the accounts of  the
  authority  shall  be subject to the supervision of the state comptroller
  and an annual audit shall  be  performed  by  an  independent  certified
  accountant.  The  authority  shall  annually  submit to the governor and
  state comptroller  and  to  the  state  legislature  a  detailed  report
  pursuant to the provisions of section two thousand eight hundred of this
  chapter,  and  a  copy  of  such  report  shall be filed with the county
  executive and the chairman of  the  county  legislature.  The  authority
  shall  comply with the provisions of sections two thousand eight hundred
  one, two thousand eight hundred two and two thousand eight hundred three
  of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-U - Limited Liability.

§  2053-u.  Limited  liability.  Neither  the members of the governing
  body, nor any municipality, officer or employee acting  on  its  behalf,
  while  acting  within  the scope of their authority, shall be subject to
  any personal liability resulting from the construction,  maintenance  or
  operation of any of the properties of the authority or from carrying out
  any of the powers expressly given in this title; provided, however, that
  this section shall not be held to apply to any independent contractor.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-W - Solid Waste Reserve Fund.

§  2053-w.  Solid  waste  reserve  fund.  The  county  legislature may
  establish a special fund, to be known as the solid waste reserve fund of
  the county. There shall be credited to such  reserve  fund  all  amounts
  paid  to the county and specifically designated by the payor for deposit
  in such reserve fund,  together  with  such  county  moneys  as  may  be
  appropriated  thereto from time to time. Moneys in such reserve fund may
  be appropriated only for the purpose of  paying  amounts  due  from  the
  county  under  the  terms  of any contract entered into pursuant to this
  title, for which an insufficient or  no  provision  has  otherwise  been
  made,  except  that  upon  the  adoption  of  a resolution by at least a
  two-thirds vote of the voting strength of the county legislature, all or
  any portion of the moneys in such reserve fund may be transferred to any
  other reserve fund established by the county  pursuant  to  the  general
  municipal  law.  To  the  extent not inconsistent with the provisions of
  this section, the management of such reserve fund and the investment  of
  moneys  therein  shall  be subject to the provisions of section six-h of
  the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-X - Environmental Applications, Proceedings, Approvals and Permits.

§  2053-x.  Environmental  applications,  proceedings,  approvals  and
  permits.  1.  Any  application  in  relation  to  the  purposes  of   or
  contemplated  by  this  title,  or  any proceeding commenced in relation
  thereto, by the  county  with  the  state  department  of  environmental
  conservation, the department of transportation or any other state agency
  or  instrumentality  shall inure to and for the benefit of the authority
  to the same extent and in the same manner as if the authority had been a
  party to such application or proceeding,  and  the  authority  shall  be
  deemed a party thereto, to the extent not prohibited by any federal law.
  Any  license, approval, permit or decision issued or granted pursuant to
  or as a result of any such application or proceeding shall inure to  the
  benefit  of  and be binding upon the authority and shall be assigned and
  transferred by the county to the authority unless  such  assignment  and
  transfer is prohibited by federal law.
2.  All  such  applications, proceedings, licenses, approvals, permits
  and decisions shall further inure to and be for the benefit  of  and  be
  binding  upon  any person leasing, acquiring, constructing, maintaining,
  using or occupying any facility financed in whole  or  in  part  by  the
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-Y - Separability.

§  2053-y.  Separability.  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 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority › 2053-Z - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§  2053-z.  Effect  of  inconsistent  provisions.  In  so  far  as the
  provisions of this title are inconsistent with  the  provisions  of  any
  other  act,  general  or  special, or of the county charter or any local
  law, ordinance or resolution of the county or  any  other  municipality,
  the  provisions of this title shall be controlling. 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 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2051 - Legislative Findings.

*  §  2051.  Legislative  findings. It is hereby found, determined and
  declared that the construction and operation of a  sports  center  at  a
  suitable  location  within the county of Broome, to be determined by the
  local legislative body of  Broome  county,  which  sports  center  shall
  provide   adequate   facilities   for  such  amateur,  professional  and
  scholastic sports events as the authority shall deem advisable; for  the
  conduct  of  meetings,  exhibitions and other events of civic, community
  and general  public  interest  essential  to  the  health,  welfare  and
  prosperity  of the people of the county of Broome; that the erection and
  maintenance of a sports center is essential to maintain the  competitive
  position  of  the county of Broome in the field of sports and exhibition
  in relation to other counties within the state of  New  York  and  other
  municipalities  outside the state of New York; that the location of such
  a sports center within the county of Broome, to  be  determined  by  the
  local  legislative  body of such county and the creation and maintenance
  of  adequate  traffic,  parking,  transportation  and  other  facilities
  incidental  and useful in the operation of a sports center is part of an
  overall community rehabilitation and improvement project and are in  all
  respects  beneficial  to  the  people of the state of New York, and more
  particularly for the people of the county of Broome, for the improvement
  of their health, welfare, recreation and prosperity, for  the  promotion
  of   competitive  sports  for  youth  and  the  prevention  of  juvenile
  delinquency; and that such purposes are public purposes which cannot  be
  adequately  attained except by the exercise of the powers of government,
  and  that  the  authority  is  and  will  be  performing  an   essential
  governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by
  this title.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2052 - Definitions.

*  §  2052.  Definitions.  As used to refer to in this title, unless a
different meaning clearly appears in the context:
(a) The term "authority" shall mean a corporation created  by  section
four of this title;
(b) The term "county" shall mean the county of Broome;
(c) The term "bonds" shall mean the bonds authorized in this title;
(d) The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority;
(e)  The term "real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises
and interest in lands, and any and all things  usually  included  within
the  said term, and includes not only fees, simple or absolute, but also
any and all lesser interests, such as easements, rights  of  way,  uses,
leases,  licenses,  and  all  other  incorporeal  hereditaments in every
estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms of years,
and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and  also
claims for damage to real estate;
(f)  The term "project" shall mean the sports center and shall include
all  real  and  personal   property,   driveways,   roads,   approaches,
structures, parking lots, mechanical equipment and all appurtenances and
facilities  either  on,  above,  or  under  the ground which are used or
useable in connection with such Sports Center.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2053 - Broome County Sports Center Authority.

*  §  2053. Broome county sports center authority. A board to be known
  as "Broome county sports center authority" is hereby created. The  board
  shall  be  a  body  corporate  and politic constituting a public benefit
  corporation, and its existence shall commence upon  the  appointment  of
  the  members as herein provided. It shall consist of a chairman and four
  other members, all of whom shall be appointed by the  local  legislative
  body of Broome county. The appointment of a chairman shall be for a term
  of  six  years,  and  of  the  other four members, two for a term of two
  years, and two for a term of four years, respectively,  from  the  first
  day  of  September,  nineteen  hundred sixty-eight. At the expiration of
  such terms the terms of office of their successors shall be  six  years.
  Each   member   shall  continue  to  serve  until  the  appointment  and
  qualification of  his  successor.  Vacancies  in  such  board  occurring
  otherwise  than  by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired
  term. The members of the board shall choose from  their  number  a  vice
  chairman.  The  local  legislative  body of Broome county may remove any
  member of the board for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct  in
  office,  giving him a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity
  of being heard in person, or by counsel, in his defense  upon  not  less
  than  ten  days'  notice.  Members  of the board shall be entitled to no
  compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to  reimbursement
  for  their  actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of
  their official duties. The powers of the authority shall  be  vested  in
  and  exercised by a majority of the members of the board then in office.
  The board may delegate to one or more of its members or to its officers,
  agents and employees such powers and duties as it may deem  proper.  The
  board,  and its corporate existence, shall continue only for a period of
  nine years, and thereafter until all its liabilities have been  met  and
  its  bonds  have  been  paid  in  full or such liabilities or bonds have
  otherwise been discharged, except that no additional liabilities may  be
  incurred  after  the  termination  of  its corporate existence. Upon its
  ceasing to exist, all its rights and property shall pass to the County.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2054 - Purposes and Powers of the Authority.

*  §  2054.  Purposes and powers of the authority. The purposes of the
authority shall be  to  construct,  operate  and  maintain  the  project
consisting  of  the  Broome  county  sports  center  and  facilities  in
connection therewith. To carry out the purposes the authority shall have
power:
(a) To sue and be sued;
(b) To  acquire,  hold  and  dispose  of  personal  property  for  its
corporate purposes;
(c) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
(d)  To  make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs
and, subject to agreements with bondholders, for the regulation  of  the
project;
(e) With the consent of the local legislative body of Broome county to
use agents, employees and facilities of the county, including the county
attorney's  office,  paying  to  the  county  its  agreed portion of the
compensation or costs;
(f) To appoint officers, agents and employees; and to  describe  their
qualifications  and  fix  their  compensation;  subject, however, to the
provisions of the civil service law as hereinafter provided.
(g) To make contracts and  leases,  and  to  execute  all  instruments
necessary or convenient;
(h)  To  construct  such  buildings,  structures,  parking  and  other
facilities as may be necessary or convenient;
(i) To reconstruct, improve, maintain and operate the project;
(j) To collect rentals, fees and other charges  for  the  use  of  the
project   subject  to  and  in  accordance  with  such  agreements  with
bondholders as may be hereinafter provided;
(k) To contract for the services of  architects,  engineers,  lawyers,
financial and other professional advisers and to fix their compensation;
(l)  To  construct,  operate and maintain the project; to contract for
the construction, operation and maintenance of any part thereof, or  for
services to be performed in connection therewith; to rent parts thereof,
and  grant  concessions,  all  on  such  terms  and conditions as it may
determine; provided, however, that the  location  of  the  site  of  the
project  and the plans thereof shall be subject to the prior approval of
the local legislative body of Broome county.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2055 - Acquisition of Land for the Project.

*  §  2055.  Acquisition  of  land  for the project. The authority may
  acquire lands for the project. It shall have the power to sell, lease or
  otherwise dispose of said real property and shall retain  and  have  the
  power  to use the proceeds of sale, rentals or other moneys derived from
  the disposition thereof for its purposes.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,  the  county  may,  by  legal
  instrument authorized by a resolution, lease real property, owned by the
  county,  to the authority, with or without consideration, for so long as
  the authority's existence shall continue.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2056 - Civil Service Status of Employees.

*  §  2056.  Civil  service  status  of employees. The appointment and
  promotion of all employees of the authority shall be made in  accordance
  with the provisions of the civil service law and the rules of the Broome
  county civil service commission, and such employees shall be entitled to
  membership  in  the  county  pension and retirement system, and shall be
  entitled to the same rights and obligations thereunder as the  employees
  of the county.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2057 - Contracts.

*   §   2057.   Contracts.  The  authority  shall  let  contracts  for
  construction and materials in the manner provided by law  for  contracts
  of  the  county,  except  that where the estimated expense of a contract
  does not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars such contract  may  be
  entered  into  without  public letting provided, however, that where the
  board determines that it would be detrimental to the authority to comply
  with this section, it  may  enter  into  a  contract  without  complying
  herewith.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2058 - Moneys of the Authority.

*  §  2058. Moneys of the authority. All moneys of the authority shall
  be paid to the county treasurer as agent of  the  authority,  who  shall
  designate  depositories and who shall not commingle such moneys with any
  other moneys. The moneys shall be deposited in a separate  bank  account
  or  accounts. The moneys in such accounts shall be paid out on checks of
  the treasurer on requisition of the chairman of the authority or of such
  other person or persons as the authority may authorize upon proper audit
  of the county of Broome.
All deposits of such moneys shall, if required by  the  treasurer,  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
  the deposits.
The  Broome  county auditor and his legally authorized representatives
  are 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 records  and
  papers relating to its financial standing.
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, securing, 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
  previous  provisions  of this section. Moneys held in trust or otherwise
  for the payment of bonds and the 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.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2060 - Notes of the Authority.

*  § 2060. Notes of the authority. The authority shall have power from
  time to time to issue negotiable notes  in  conformity  with  applicable
  provisions of the uniform commercial code and from time to time to issue
  renewal notes, herein referred to as notes, maturing not later than five
  years  from  their  respective  dates  in an amount which, together with
  bonds then outstanding, shall not at any  one  time  exceed  the  amount
  stated in subdivision a. of section nineteen hundred eighty-four of this
  title  excluding  bonds  issued  to  fund  said  notes.   Subject to any
  agreements with bondholders 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.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2061 - Agreements of the State.

*  §  2061. Agreements 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 impair  the  rights  hereby  vested  in  the  authority  to  acquire,
  construct,  maintain,  reconstruct and operate the project, to establish
  and collect rentals, fees and other charges 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 the bondholders, until  the  bonds,  together
  with  interest  thereon,  with  interest  on  any  paid  installments of
  interest and all costs and expenses in connection  with  any  action  or
  proceeding  by  or  on  behalf  of  the  bondholders  are  fully met and
  discharged.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2062 - New York State and Broome County Not Liable on Bonds.

*  §  2062. New York state and Broome county not liable on bonds.  The
  bonds and other obligations of the authority shall not be a debt of  the
  state  of New York or of the county of Broome, and neither the state nor
  the county shall be liable thereon, nor shall they be payable out of any
  funds other than those of the authority.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2063 - Bonds Legal Investments for Public Officers and Fiduciaries.

* § 2063. Bonds legal investments for public officers and fiduciaries.
  The  bonds  are  hereby made securities in which all public officers and
  bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal  subdivisions,
  all  insurance  companies and associations and other persons carrying on
  an insurance business, all  banks,  bankers,  trust  companies,  savings
  banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations,
  investment  companies  and  other persons carrying on a banking business
  and all other persons whatsoever, except as  hereinafter  provided,  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; provided that,
  notwithstanding the provisions of any other general or  special  law  to
  the  contrary,  such  shall not be eligible for the investment of funds,
  including capital, trusts, estates or guardianships under the control of
  individual administrators,  guardians,  executors,  trustees  and  other
  individual  fiduciaries. The bonds are also hereby made securities which
  may be deposited with and may be received by  all  public  officers  and
  bodies  of  this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions
  for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other  obligations  of
  this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2064 - Exemptions From Taxation.

* § 2064. Exemptions from taxation. It is hereby found, determined and
  declared  that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its
  corporate purposes will alleviate juvenile delinquency, will improve the
  general health and welfare, will in all respects benefit the  people  of
  the  state  of  New York, and constitutes a public purpose, and that the
  authority will be performing an essential governmental function  in  the
  exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this title, and the state of
  New  York  covenants  with  the  holders of the bonds that the authority
  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  the  project  or any tolls, revenues or other income received by the
  authority and that the bonds of the authority and the  income  therefrom
  shall  at  all  times  be  exempt from taxation, except for transfer and
  estate taxes.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2065 - Tax Contract by the State.

*  §  2065. Tax contract by the state. The state of New York 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, and
  all moneys, funds and revenues pledged to pay or secure the  payment  of
  such bonds, shall at all times be free from taxation except for transfer
  and estate taxes.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2067 - Actions Against the Authority.

*  §  2067.  Actions against the authority. a. In every action against
  the authority for damages, for injuries to real or personal property, or
  for the destruction thereof, or for  personal  injuries  or  death,  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.
b.  An  action  against  the  authority  founded  in tort shall not be
  commenced more than one year after the cause of  action  therefor  shall
  have accrued, nor unless a notice of claim shall have been served on the
  authority  within  the  time  limited,  and  in  compliance with all the
  requirements of section fifty-e of the general municipal law.
c. All actions against the authority of  whatsoever  nature  shall  be
  brought in the county of Broome.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2068 - Title Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

*   §  2068.  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.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 14 - Broome County Sports Center Authority › 2069 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.

* § 2069. 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 of any local law of the county, the
  provisions of this title shall be controlling.
* NB Authority dissolved September 1, 1977
2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 15 - Auburn Industrial Development Authority › 2305 - Video Recordings of Open Meetings and Public Hearings.

§  2305.  Video  recordings  of open meetings and public hearings. The
  authority shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and
  public hearings on its website in real-time. The  authority  shall  post
  video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website
  within  five  business days of the meeting or hearing and shall maintain
  such recordings for a period of not less than five years.