2023 New York Laws › COR - Correction › Article 4-B - Alternate Correctional Facilities for the City of New York › 88-A - Authorization for the City of New York to Acquire and Utilize Alternate Correctional Facilities.

§  88-a. Authorization for the city of New York to acquire and utilize
  alternate correctional facilities. As set forth  in  this  article,  the
  city  of  New  York,  acting by and through its mayor, is authorized and
  empowered:
1. To enter into a construction agreement as defined in  this  article
  and  pursuant  to such agreement to advance payment for the construction
  of and to acquire from the state two alternate correctional  facilities,
  one  in  Ogdensburg  and  one  in  Cape  Vincent,  and  to  finance such
  construction and acquisition in the manner provided by law  under  which
  the  city  of  New  York  is  authorized to finance property acquired or
  constructed  for  public  purposes  regardless  of  the  period  of  any
  operation agreement relating to such facilities.
2.  To  enter  into an operation agreement or agreements as defined in
  this article and pursuant to any such agreements  to  utilize  alternate
  correctional   facilities   for  the  housing  of  certain  incarcerated
  individuals of New York city correctional facilities.
3. To pay to the state the costs, both capital  and  operating,  which
  may  be required of the city of New York by the state in accordance with
  a construction agreement or an operation agreement  in  the  manner  set
  forth  in any such agreement, including payment in advance of receipt of
  services.
4. To sell, subject to the provisions of section eighty-nine-k of this
  article, facilities which were originally acquired  from  the  state  as
  alternate correctional facilities. Upon sale for cash by the city of New
  York  of  any  facility  originally  acquired pursuant to a construction
  agreement as defined in this article, an amount equal to  the  principal
  amount  of  any  bonds then outstanding used to finance such acquisition
  shall be utilized by the city  of  New  York  for  its  general  capital
  purposes.
5.  To  make  provision  for  indemnification  in  any construction or
  operation agreement to  conform  with  the  requirements  set  forth  in
  section eighty-nine-l of this article.
6.  From  time  to  time,  to  authorize,  issue and sell obligations,
  pursuant to the local  finance  law,  to  pay  the  costs  of  acquiring
  property,   of   constructing   alternate  correctional  facilities,  of
  constructing,  reconstructing  or  otherwise  providing   other   public
  improvements and appurtenances, including in each case architectural and
  engineering  fees,  and  of  purchasing original furnishings, equipment,
  machinery  and  apparatus  therefor  pursuant  to  this   section.   The
  acquisition  of  such  property,  the  construction of such correctional
  facilities, the construction, reconstruction or other provision of other
  public improvements and appurtenances and the purchase of such  original
  furnishings, equipment, machinery and apparatus are hereby declared city
  purposes.