2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13 - Onondaga County Solid Waste Disposal Authority › 2018 - Powers of the Authority.

§ 2018. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power:
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3.  To  acquire, in the name of the authority, lease, hold and dispose
  of real estate and personal property or any  interest  therein  for  its
  corporate  purposes,  including  the  power  to  purchase prospective or
  tentative awards in  connection  with  the  exercise  of  the  power  of
  condemnation hereinafter granted;
4.  To  acquire  in  the  name  of the authority any lands, easements,
  rights in lands, contract rights  and  franchises  for  the  purpose  of
  erecting receiving/transfer stations and/or treatment stations including
  equipment  or  any  other  property  incidental  to and included in such
  improvements;
5.  To  receive,  transport,  process  and  dispose  of  solid   waste
  materials;
6.  To  condemn  in  the name of the authority, within the territorial
  limits of the county of Onondaga, any lands, easements or rights in land
  required by the authority for the purpose of constructing  and  erecting
  proper receiving/transfer and/or treatment stations;
7.  To  construct and develop disposal sites for solid waste materials
  within the county of Onondaga, and to have the right  to  contract  with
  other  municipalities or any other governmental subdivision for disposal
  outside the county of  Onondaga,  and  to  purchase,  lands,  easements,
  rights  in  lands  and rights-of-way in connection therewith within such
  county and to own and operate, maintain, repair,  improve,  reconstruct,
  enlarge  and  extend,  subject  to  provision  of this title, any of its
  properties acquired or constructed  under  this  title,  all  of  which,
  together with the acquisition of such properties, are hereby declared to
  be public purposes;
8.  To  receive  from  any  or  all municipalities, as well as private
  parties, within the county of Onondaga, or from such  other  sources  as
  the  authority may deem proper, solid wastes for the purpose of disposal
  thereof, with the right of the authority to sell and dispose of any such
  products of the waste material as they may deem best and proper;
9. To contract with municipalities within the county  of  Onondaga  or
  outside  the  county  of  Onondaga  or  with private contractors for the
  purpose of treating and disposing of solid waste materials;
10. To acquire, hold, use, lease, sell, transfer and  dispose  of  any
  property,  real,  personal  or  mixed,  or any interest therein, for its
  corporate purposes;
11. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of  its  affairs
  and  subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the receiving and
  disposing of solid wastes and charges therefor. A copy of such rules and
  by-laws, and all amendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary  of
  the  authority  shall  be filed in the office of the clerk of the county
  and thereafter  published  once  in  two  newspapers  having  a  general
  circulation in the county;
12.  To  use  the officers, employees, facilities and equipment of the
  county with the consent of the county, paying a proper  portion  of  the
  compensation or cost;
13.  To  make  contracts  and  to  execute all necessary or convenient
  instruments,  including  evidences  of   indebtedness,   negotiable   or
  non-negotiable;
14.  To  enter on any lands, waterways and premises for the purpose of
  making surveys, soundings and examinations;
15. To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds or  notes  or  other
  obligations  and  to  fund  or  refund  the same, and to provide for the
  rights of the holders of its obligations;
16. To fix rates and collect charges for the use of the facilities of,
  or services rendered by, or any commodities furnished by  the  authority
  such  as to provide revenues sufficient at all times to pay, as the same
  shall become due, the principal and interest  on  the  bonds,  notes  or
  other  obligations  of  the  authority  together with the maintenance of
  proper reserves therefor, in addition to paying as the same shall become
  due the expense of operating  and  maintaining  the  properties  of  the
  authority  together  with  proper reserves for depreciation, maintenance
  and contingencies and all other  obligations  and  indebtedness  of  the
  authority;
17.  To  accept grants, loans or contributions from the United States,
  the state of New York, or any agency or  instrumentality  of  either  of
  them,  or  the county, or an individual, by bequest or otherwise, and to
  expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;
18. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out  the  powers
  expressly given in this title.