N.Y. General Municipal Law § 353-a: Joint airports for counties, cities, towns or villages

§ 353-a. Joint airports for counties, cities, towns or villages. Two

or more adjoining counties or two cities in the same county or adjoining

counties, or a city and one or more villages located within the same

county or adjoining counties, or two or more villages, located within

the same county, or adjoining counties, or two or more towns in the same

county or adjoining counties, or a city and one or more towns located

within the same county or adjoining counties, or a town and one or more

villages (including a village or villages within such town), located

within the same county or adjoining counties, may jointly acquire real

property by purchase, lease or condemnation for the purposes of this

article and establish, construct, equip, maintain and operate for such

municipalities jointly an airport or landing field. The ordinance, local

law or resolution providing for such action shall be adopted by the

local legislative body or board of trustees of each municipality and

shall create a committee to be at all times composed of members of each

of such bodies or boards to acquire necessary real property, in the name

of the municipalities jointly, and as their joint agent, and to have

charge of the construction, equipment, maintenance and operation of such

airport or landing field. The ordinance, local law or resolution may

specify matters as to which the action of the committee shall require

the joint approval of such bodies or boards. The ordinance, local law

or resolution also shall prescribe the proportions of the cost of such

project to be borne by the municipalities respectively. The moneys to

pay the share to be borne by each municipality may be provided in the

manner prescribed by this article. The ordinance, local law or

resolution may be amended from time to time with the concurrence of each

of such bodies or boards, and the boundaries of the airport or landing

place may be extended or the project abandoned in like manner at any

time. A joint airport or landing place established under this article

shall be located in one or more of the counties participating in the

joint undertaking, or within the county in which the cities or one of

them is located, or the county in which the villages or towns are

located. The limitation contained in section three hundred and fifty as

to distance from the boundaries of any such city, village or town shall

not apply to such a joint airport or landing place.