2023 New York Laws › ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs › Title S - Enacted Without Title Heading › Article 54 - Executive Mansion Trust › 54.07 - Purposes and Powers of the Trust.

§ 54.07. Purposes  and  powers of the trust. The purposes of the trust
  shall be to preserve, improve and promote the  executive  mansion  as  a
  historical  and cultural resource of the state of New York, including by
  operation of an executive mansion museum, and to serve as a focal  point
  for  the  receipt  and administration of private, gifts, devises, loans,
  and bequests made or donated to these ends. To carry out such  purposes,
  the trust shall have power:
1.  To accept unconditional gifts, devises and bequests, and, with the
  approval of the director of  the  budget,  conditional  gifts,  devises,
  loans,  and  bequests,  of real or personal property for the purposes of
  preserving, improving or promoting the executive mansion as a historical
  and cultural resource of the state of New York.
2. To accept, administer and expend funds made available to the  trust
  by  private  donation  or  public  grant or appropriation for any of its
  purposes.
3. To  operate  an  executive  mansion  museum  within  the  executive
  mansion.
4.  To  acquire artifacts or furnishings to enhance the historical and
  cultural character of the executive mansion, and other real or  personal
  property  by purchase, gift, bequest, loan, or exchange, for use in, on,
  or to benefit the executive mansion,  its  grounds,  and  any  executive
  mansion  museum  operated  by the trust. The cost of acquisition of such
  property, exclusive of services provided by any state department, board,
  commission or agency, shall be paid from funds available to the trust.
5. To retain or, as appropriate, transfer immediate  jurisdiction  and
  control over any property acquired by the trust to the office of general
  services or other appropriate public body or agency with its consent and
  the prior approval of the director of the budget.
6.  To  undertake  any  work,  including  furnishing  of  services and
  materials, required to preserve, restore, maintain, improve  or  promote
  the  historical  or  cultural significance or character of the executive
  mansion and the executive mansion museum,  or  any  property  associated
  with  them  related  to  their  historical  and cultural character, upon
  request or approval of the office of  general  services,  and  with  the
  prior approval of the director of the budget.
7.  To undertake or commission research or studies and to make reports
  relating to the executive mansion, including  development  of  a  master
  plan  for  the preservation and maintenance of the executive mansion and
  its grounds as a historic and cultural resource  of  the  state  of  New
  York.
8. To appoint and employ such officers, employees and staff, qualified
  by  training  and experience, who shall be deemed to be state employees,
  and to retain such expert legal, financial,  architectural,  curatorial,
  conservation  and  other  consultant  services  as it deems necessary to
  carry out its corporate purposes, including operation  of  an  executive
  mansion museum.
9.  To  sell and convey real or personal property or interest therein,
  acquired by and under the jurisdiction of the trust and surplus  to  its
  needs  and  the  needs  of  the executive mansion, excluding property to
  which the state of New York has  title,  in  accordance  with  generally
  accepted  museum  standards,  provided such sale and conveyance receives
  the prior approval of the director of the budget and does not contravene
  the terms or conditions of any gift, devise, loan, or bequest. The trust
  shall retain the proceeds derived therefrom for its  corporate  purposes
  in accordance with generally accepted museum standards.
10.  To  participate  and  cooperate  with  other  public  and private
  agencies having mutual interests and purposes  in  appropriate  programs
  and  projects intended to preserve, improve and promote the historic and

  cultural significance and character of the executive mansion or  of  the
  properties  and  activities  associated  with  the  historic or cultural
  significance of such mansion or executive mansion museum.
11.  To  administer,  manage  or  operate any property acquired by the
  trust pending transfer or jurisdiction thereof, and to  retain  for  its
  corporate  purposes  any  receipts,  revenues or income derived from the
  operation or use of such property during the pendency of such transfer.
12. To sue and be sued.
13. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.
14. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes
  of this trust.