Title PBA, Public Authorities

§ 1283. Purposes of the corporation. 1. The purposes of the corporation shall be the planning, financing, construction, maintenance and operation of sewage treatment works, sewage collecting systems, air pollution control facilities, water management facilities, storm water coll…

§ 1284. General powers of the corporation. Except as otherwise limited by this title, the corporation shall have power: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; 3. To borrow money and issue negotiable or non-negotiable notes, bonds or other obliga…

§ 1285. Special powers of the corporation. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following special powers: 1. Construction, operation and maintenance of sewage treatment works, sewage collecting systems and solid waste disposal facilit…

§ 1285-a. Construction, operation and maintenance of air pollution control facilities, water management facilities and storm water collecting systems. 1. The corporation and any municipality having power to construct air pollution control facilities, water management facilities …

§ 1285-b. Additional special powers of the corporation with respect to projects and persons. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers; (1) to extend credit and make loans to a person or persons for the …

§ 1285-c. Construction, operation and maintenance of industrial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities. In addition to its existing powers, the corporation is hereby empowered to construct, operate and maintain industrial hazardous waste treatment, storage an…

§ 1285-d. Studies regarding design, construction and operation of industrial waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities. 1. The purposes of the corporation shall include research and development of technologies for treatment, storage and disposal of industrial hazardous wa…

§ 1285-e. Inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial programs. In addition to its existing powers, the corporation is hereby empowered to carry out inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial programs. The corporation may subcontract for the work included in carrying ou…

§ 1285-f. Program for ultimate disposal of hazardous wastes. 1. The corporation shall immediately begin preparation of a comprehensive program for the ultimate disposal of hazardous wastes which shall include, but not be limited to, technology, siting and marketing and financing…

§ 1285-g. Industrial materials recycling program. 1. Applicability. It is the purpose of this section to establish a program within the corporation to encourage the reduction, recovery and recycling of industrial materials otherwise requiring disposal. 2. Definitions. When used …

§ 1285-h. Inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial programs. 1. The corporation and any owner of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site, or any state agency or any person or municipality identified by the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation pur…

§ 1285-i. Commercial and industrial waste audits. a. The corporation shall establish and be responsible for administration of a commercial and industrial waste audit program to help businesses identify and evaluate the potential at their New York facilities for reducing the amou…

§ 1285-j. Water pollution control revolving fund. 1. (a) The corporation shall undertake and provide assistance in support of the program to make financial assistance available to municipalities to encourage and support the planning, development and construction of municipal wat…

§ 1285-k. Financing of the design, acquisition, construction, improvement and installation of Riverbank Park. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to th…

§ 1285-l. State park infrastructure projects. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the office of parks, recreation a…

§ 1285-m. Drinking water revolving fund. 1. (a) The corporation shall undertake and provide assistance in support of the program to make financial assistance available to recipients to encourage and support the planning, development and construction of water supply facilities in…

§ 1285-n. Issuance and sale of recipient bonds and notes. Notwithstanding subdivision two of section one thousand eighty of this article, or any by-law, rule or regulation requiring the recipient to issue bonds or notes at a public or competitive sale, any recipient of a financi…

§ 1285-o. Pipeline for jobs fund. The corporation shall undertake to provide financial assistance to recipients to encourage and support the planning, design and construction of eligible projects which provide an economic development benefit to the state. 1. There is hereby esta…

§ 1285-p. State environmental infrastructure projects. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Subject to chapter fifty-nine of the laws of two thousand, but notwithstanding any other provisions of…

§ 1285-q. Financing of hazardous waste site remediation projects. In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Subject to chapter fifty-nine of the laws of two thousand, but notwithstanding any other pr…

§ 1285-r. State beginning farmer program. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the corporation shall undertake to provide financial assistance to beginning farmers to purchase agricultural land, improvements and other agricultural prop…

§ 1285-s. New York state intermunicipal water infrastructure grants program. 1. For purposes of this section: (a) "water quality infrastructure project" shall mean "sewage treatment works" as defined in section 17-1903 of the environmental conservation law or "eligible project" …

§ 1285-t. Water infrastructure emergency financial assistance. 1. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any county, city, town, village, district corporation, county or town improvement district, school district, Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the…

§ 1285-u. Septic system replacement fund. 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section: (a) "Cesspool" means a drywell that receives untreated sanitary waste containing human excreta, which sometimes has an open bottom and/or perforated sides. (b) "Fund" means the state septic s…

§ 1286. Acquisition and disposition of real property. 1. The corporation may acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease, or by condemnation pursuant to the condemnation law, any real property it may deem necessary, convenient or desirable to effectuate the pu…

§ 1287. Construction contracts. 1. Construction contracts other than for resource recovery facilities let by the corporation shall be in conformity with the applicable provisions of section one hundred thirty-five of the state finance law, but the corporation in its discretion m…

§ 1288. Co-operation and assistance of other agencies. To avoid duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the corporation may make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other materials in the possession of any state agency or any municipality or politica…

§ 1289. Transfer of officers and employees. Officers and employees of state departments and agencies may be transferred to the corporation and officers and employees of the corporation may be transferred to state departments and agencies without examination and without loss of a…

§ 1290. Notes and bonds of the corporation. 1. (a) The corporation shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable or non-negotiable bonds and notes in conformity with applicable provisions of the uniform commercial code in such principal amou…

§ 1290-a. Insurance and guarantees. The corporation may obtain from any department or agency of the United States of America any available insurance or guaranty for the payment or repayment of interest or principal, or both, or any part thereof, on any bonds or notes issued by t…

§ 1291. Reserve funds and appropriations. 1. The corporation may create and establish one or more reserve funds to be known as debt service reserve funds and may pay into such debt service reserve funds (a) any monies appropriated and made available by the state for the purposes…

§ 1292. Agreement of the state. The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any notes or bonds issued under this title, that the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the corporation to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holde…

§ 1293. Right of state to require redemption of bonds. Notwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption of bonds which may be contained in any contract with the holders of the bonds, the state may, upon furnishing sufficient funds therefor, require the corpor…

§ 1294. Remedies of noteholders and bondholders. 1. In the event that the corporation shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of notes or bonds after the same shall become due, whether on any sinking fund payment date, at maturity or upon call for r…

§ 1295. Notes and bonds as legal investment. The notes and bonds of the corporation are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and political subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carry…

§ 1296. Exemption from taxation; payments in lieu of taxes. It is\nhereby found, determined and declared that the creation of the\ncorporation and the carrying out of its purposes is in all respects for\nthe benefit of the people of the state of New York and for the\nimprovement…

§ 1297. Actions against the corporation. 1. As a condition to the consent of the state to such suits against the corporation, in every action against the corporation for damages, for injuries to real or personal property or for the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries o…

§ 1298. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective. If any provision of any section of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such order or judgment shall be confined …

§ 1299. Short title. This title may be cited as the "Niagara Frontier Transportation Act."

§ 1299-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by section twelve hundred ninety-nine-c of this title. 2. "Authority facilities" shall mean the authority's…

§ 1299-aa. Short title. This title may be cited as the "Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority Act".

§ 1299-b. Niagara Frontier transportation district. There is hereby created and established a transportation district to be known as the Niagara Frontier transportation district which shall embrace the counties of Erie and Niagara.

§ 1299-bb. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by section twelve hundred ninety-nine-dd of this title. 2. "Transportation district" and "district" shall …

1299-c. Niagara Frontier transportation authority. 1. (a) There is hereby created the "Niagara Frontier transportation authority." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a chairman, ten voting…

§ 1299-cc. Rochester-Genesee regional transportation district. 1. There is hereby created and established a transportation district to be known as the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation district. This district shall embrace the county of Monroe and such of the following c…

§ 1299-d. Purposes of the authority. 1. The purposes of the authority shall be the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation and other services related thereto within the Niagara Frontier transportation district, including but not limited to such transpo…

§ 1299-dd. Rochester-Genesee regional transportation authority. 1. (a) There is hereby created the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation authority. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall consist of: (i) at leas…

§ 1299-e. General powers of the authority. Except as otherwise limited by this title, the authority shall have power: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; 3. To borrow money and issue negotiable notes, bonds or other obligations and to provide…

§ 1299-ee. Purposes of the authority. 1. The purposes of the authority shall be the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation and other services related thereto within the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation district, by railroad, omnibus, marine a…

§ 1299-eee. Transit adjudication bureau. 1. Establishment. There is\nhereby created in the authority a transit adjudication bureau. The head\nof such bureau shall be the director, who shall be appointed by the\nchairman of the authority. The director may delegate the powers and\…