2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 34 - Syracuse Regional Airport Authority › 2799-HHH - Special Powers of the Authority.

§  2799-hhh.  Special  powers of the authority. In order to effectuate
the purpose of this title:
1. The authority may enter into  any  joint  service  arrangements  as
provided in this section.
2.  The  authority  may,  establish,  construct,  effectuate, operate,
manage, maintain, renovate,  improve,  extend  or  repair  any  aviation
facilities  or  pollution  control  facilities,  or may provide for such
establishment,  construction,   effectuation,   operation,   management,
maintenance,  renovation,  improvement, extension or repair by contract,
lease, or other arrangement with the federal government,  any  state  or
agency  or instrumentality thereof, or any person or public corporation.
In connection with the operation of any such facilities,  the  authority
may   establish,   construct,  effectuate,  operate,  manage,  maintain,
renovate, improve, extend or repair or may provide by contract, lease or
other arrangement for  the  establishment,  construction,  effectuation,
operation,  management,  maintenance, renovation, improvement, extension
or repair of any related services and activities.
3. The authority may establish, fix, revise, levy and collect or cause
to be established, fixed, revised, levied and collected and, in the case
of a joint service arrangement, join with others in  the  establishment,
fixing,  revision,  levy  and  collection of such fares, rentals, rates,
charges, landing and field use fees, concession fees and other fees  for
the  use  and  operation  of  any  real  property,  aviation facilities,
pollution control facilities, facility and related services operated  or
managed  by the authority or under contract, lease or other arrangement,
including joint service arrangements, with the  authority.  Such  fares,
rentals,  rates, charges, landing and field use fees, concession fees or
other fees shall be at least sufficient at all times in the judgment  of
the  authority  to establish and maintain the combined operations of the
authority on a self-sustaining basis. Such operations shall be deemed to
be on a self-sustaining basis  as  required  by  this  title,  when  the
authority  is  able  to  pay  or fund or cause to be paid or funded from
revenues and any other funds actually available to the authority:
(a) the principal of,  premium,  if  any,  and  the  interest  on  the
outstanding  bonds  of  the  authority  as the same shall become due and
payable and any capital or debt service reserve  therefor  and,  to  the
extent required by any agreement between the city and the authority, the
principal  of  and  interest  on  any general obligation bonds, notes or
other evidence of indebtedness of the city issued for  or  allocable  to
any  project  of  the authority as the same shall become due and payable
and any reserves therefor;
(b) the cost of administering, maintaining,  repairing  and  operating
any project of the authority;
(c)  the cost of constructing capital improvements thereto pursuant to
any agreement between the city and the authority;
(d) any liabilities incurred for or allocable to any  project  of  the
authority including any liabilities of the city assumed by the authority
pursuant  to  any  agreement  between the city and the authority, as the
same become due and payable;
(e) any requirements of any agreement including those relating to  the
establishment   of   reserves   for  renewal  and  replacement  and  for
uncollected fares,  rentals,  rates,  charges  and  fees  and  covenants
respecting rates and debt service and earnings coverage ratios;
(f) all other reasonable and necessary expenses of the authority; and
(g)  the  cost  of such additional projects as may be now or hereafter
authorized by law and agreed to by the authority.
4. The authority may establish and,  in  the  case  of  joint  service
arrangements,  join  with  others in the establishment of such schedules

and standards  of  operations  and  such  other  rules  and  regulations
including  but  not  limited  to  rules  and  regulations  governing the
conduct, safety and security of the public as  it  may  deem  necessary,
convenient  or  desirable  for  the use, operation and management of any
project and related services operated or managed  by  the  authority  or
under  contract,  lease  or  other  arrangement, including joint service
arrangements, with the authority. Such rules and  regulations  governing
the  conduct,  safety and security of the public shall be filed with the
department of state in the manner provided by section one hundred two of
the executive law. In the case of any conflict between any such rule  or
regulation  of  the authority governing the conduct, safety and security
of the public and any local law, local ordinance, local  rule  or  local
regulation,  such  rule  or  regulation  of the authority shall prevail.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt the authority  from
any state law, rule or regulation.
5.  The  authority  may manage, control and direct the maintenance and
operation of aviation facilities, equipment or property operated  by  or
under contract, lease or other arrangement with the authority. Except as
agreed to pursuant to any agreement between the authority and any public
corporation   and   except   as   hereinafter   specially  provided,  no
municipality except for the  city,  shall  have  jurisdiction  over  any
facilities  of the authority or any of its activities or operations. The
city may  provide  for  such  facilities'  police  and  fire  protection
services.
6.  The authority may accept unconditional grants of money or property
from any municipality the whole or any part of which municipality  shall
be  served  or  to  be  served  by  an aviation facility operated by the
authority. Such grants of money or property would be for the purpose  of
assisting  the  authority  in meeting its capital or operating expenses.
The acceptance of any such grant shall not operate to make the authority
an agency of the municipality making the grant.
7. In any instance where the city is required by law, with respect  to
an  airport  or  any aviation facilities, to conduct a public hearing in
connection with a contract, lease, joint  service  arrangement,  charge,
fare,  rental  or fee, the authority shall not enter into such contract,
lease, joint service arrangement, or establish, fix, revise or levy  any
charge, fare, rental, landing and field use fee, concession fee or other
fee  unless  and  until the authority has held a public hearing at which
interested persons have had an opportunity to be  heard  concerning  the
same,  provided  however,  if the city has conducted a public hearing in
connection with such contract, lease, joint service arrangement, charge,
fare, rental or fee, the authority shall  not  be  required  to  hold  a
public  hearing. Notice of such public hearing shall be published by the
authority at least ten days before the date set therefor,  in  at  least
one  newspaper of general circulation in the county and on the authority
website. Such notice shall set forth the date, time and  place  of  such
hearing  and  shall  include  a  brief  description of the matters to be
considered at such meeting. At all such hearings, any interested persons
shall have an opportunity to  be  heard  concerning  the  matters  under
consideration.  Any  decision  of the authority on matters considered at
such public hearing shall be in writing and be  made  available  in  the
office  of  the  authority  for  public inspection during regular office
hours and posted on the authority website.
8. The authority may acquire, hold, own, lease, establish,  construct,
effectuate,  operate,  maintain, renovate, improve, extend or repair any
of its facilities through, and cause any one  or  more  of  its  powers,
duties, functions or activities to be exercised or performed by, no more
than  two  wholly owned subsidiary corporations of the authority for the

purposes of operating parking and concessions including food,  beverage,
and  retail  services,  and  airline  and  aircraft  services  including
ticketing, baggage and fueling  services  and  other  services  for  the
operation of the airport. The authority may transfer to or from any such
corporation,  or between such corporations, any moneys, real property or
other property or the services of any officers, employees or consultants
for any of the purposes of this title. The directors or members of  each
such  subsidiary  corporation  shall  be  the  same  persons holding the
offices of members of the authority. Each  such  subsidiary  corporation
and  any of its property, functions and activities shall have all of the
privileges, immunities, tax  exemptions  and  other  exemptions  of  the
authority  and  of  the  authority's property, functions and activities.
Each such subsidiary corporation shall be subject  to  the  restrictions
and  limitations  to  which  the  authority  may  be  subject. Each such
subsidiary corporation shall be  subject  to  suit  in  accordance  with
section   twenty-seven   hundred  ninety-nine-www  of  this  title.  The
employees of any such subsidiary corporation, except those who are  also
employees  of  the  authority,  shall  not  be  deemed  employees of the
authority.