N.Y. Port of Albany 192/25 § 5: No title

§ 5. Such port commission also shall (1) Have power to confer with the

governing bodies of each of the municipalities within the port district

and dock, port, harbor, channel and improvement commission and any other

body or official having to do with port and harbor facilities within and

without the district and hold public hearings as to such facilities;

(2) Have power to confer with the railroad, steamship, warehouse and

other officials in the district with reference to the development of

transportation facilities in such district and the co-ordination of the

same;

(3) Confer with the proper state officials as to means and measures

for stimulating the use of the barge canal;

(4) Formulate and adopt a financial, building and operation program,

which shall be submitted to the mayor of each city, in the district, who

shall be entitled to be heard thereon before formal adoption, notice of

such hearing to be given in writing at least twenty days before the day

of such hearing;

(5) Have power to adopt a comprehensive plan, and to change or revise

the same, for the development of port facilities in such district, which

plan may provide separately for the work of initial development, and

shall include an estimate of the total cost of all the work and/or of

the work included in such initial development, and to apportion the cost

thereof, as provided in section eight, and not oftener than once in

three years to revise such apportionment to accord with any changes

theretofore made in the comprehensive plan, as required by said section

eight; and as part of such comprehensive plan, or pursuant thereto, to

determine upon the location, type, size and construction of requisite

port facilities, subject, however, to the approval of the secretary of

war and chief of engineers, United States Army, where federal statute or

regulation requires it;

(6) Have power to acquire, lease, erect, construct, make, equip and

maintain port facilities within or outside the district, either on land

owned by the district or upon land set aside for its uses and control,

as provided in section thirteen, and for any such purpose to acquire and

improve real property, including easements therein, lands under water

and riparian rights, by agreement or by condemnation, and to sell, rent,

exchange or dispose of any property, real or personal, as may seem

advisable;

(7) Have power to contract with any municipality in the district for

the construction by the municipality of one or more docks, wharves,

terminals or warehouses, to belong to the municipality and be maintained

by it, whereby a part of the cost of construction shall be borne by the

district, in cases where the commission, after a public hearing,

determines that such work is of common benefit to the municipalities,

inhabitants and property in the district;

(8) Have power to execute contracts within the provisions and

limitations of this act;

(9) Have power to fix rates, charges and wharfage for the use of all

port facilities, or to rent the same or grant the use thereof for

limited periods, and collect rates, rents, charges and wharfage for such

facilities owned or controlled by the district;

(10) Operate and maintain all port facilities owned or controlled by

it, including a general terminal railroad connecting with any railroad

within said district, use the revenues therefrom for the upkeep thereof

and the expenses of the commission and the residue, if any, on hand at

the end of any fiscal year, for further construction and port

development, or in reduction of taxation;

(11) Have power to regulate and supervise the construction and

operation of all port facilities, by whomsoever constructed, installed

or owned;

(12) Expend moneys, if any, appropriated by the state for the purposes

of this act on account of benefits accruing thereunder to the state or

its property;

(13) Have power to create and maintain a traffic bureau;

(14) Have power to employ such clerical, engineering, legal or other

professional assistants as it may deem necessary for the purposes of

this act, fix their compensation and at pleasure discharge any of them;

(15) Have power to do all things necessary to make the deeper Hudson

project useful and productive.

The terms "facilities," "port facilities," "terminals," and "terminal

work" as used in this act, shall include, among other things, wharves,

docks, piers, terminals, railroad tracks on terminals, cold storage and

refrigerating plants, warehouses, elevators, and such facilities,

operations or things as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto, and

such property real or personal as may be acquired or used in connection

therewith, personal service, freight handling machinery and such

equipment as is used in the handling of freight and the establishment

and operation of a port, and the appurtenances thereto, and work of

deepening parts of the Hudson river adjacent to the terminal, exclusive

of the channel, within the port district.