N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1029: Powers of the board

* § 1029. Powers of the board. The power conferred by this title shall

be exercised by the board of directors of the authority, subject to the

terms of such title. In the exercise of those powers, either directly or

through its officers and employees, the board may do the following

things, among others, and the following list of powers shall not be

deemed complete or exclusive, or to deny the existence of other powers,

whether similar or different, so long as they are reasonably necessary

for accomplishing the purposes declared and indicated in this title:

1. To determine upon the location, type, size, construction, lease,

purchase, ownership, acquisition, use and operation of any plant or

plants or other structure or property, within or without the territorial

limits of the district;

2. To acquire on behalf and in the name of the county or the

authority, whether by agreement with and purchase from the owner or

owners, or by condemnation, the whole or any part of any existing plant

or plants or of any other property which it is authorized to acquire

under this title;

3. Subject to the provisions of the public service law, and to its

agreement with any municipality, to fix rates and charges for the

furnishing or rendition of light, heat or power or of any connected

service, and to collect through bills therefor which shall be rendered

at least once in each calendar month the revenues derived therefrom;

4. To appoint and at pleasure discharge a secretary and such clerical,

engineering, legal and other professional assistants as it may deem

necessary for the purposes of this title and to fix their compensation;

5. To appoint and at pleasure remove all employees, to transfer

employees from their positions to other positions and to consolidate or

abolish such positions;

6. To enter upon any lands and within any building whenever in its

judgment it may be necessary for the purpose of making surveys and

examinations to accomplish any purpose authorized by this title;

7. When so authorized by resolution of the board of supervisors with

respect to service within any town or by resolution of the governing

body of any other municipality, to investigate the cost of operation of

any light, heat or power utility or service within any municipality, and

for such purpose to examine and inspect the records, books, papers,

accounts and other documents of any owner, whether individual or

corporate, of any plant or plants, within or without the territorial

limits of the district, and to make copies thereof or extracts

therefrom;

8. To make to the public service commission, the annual report

prescribed by subdivision seven of section sixty-six of the public

service law, which report shall be verified by the oath of the president

of the authority;

9. By the whole, or by any one or more, of the members of the

authority, to make any investigation which it may deem necessary to

enable it effectually to carry out the provisions of this title and, for

that purpose, to take and hear proofs and testimony, to compel the

attendance of witnesses and to require the production of records, books,

papers, accounts and other documents including public records;

10. To execute contracts, borrow money, issue bonds, certificates of

indebtedness and other obligations, and sell or dispose of the same in

such amounts and at such rates of interest as may be advisable. This

shall include the power to dispose of its bonds or other obligations to,

and to borrow money from, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the

federal emergency administrator of public works or any other federal or

state agency, and it may also accept a grant from such corporation,

administrator or agency, and donations from any public or private

source;

11. To adopt, revise and amend rules and regulations to enable the

authority to carry out the purposes of this title, every such rule and

regulation, and each amendment thereof, to be filed with the county

clerk;

12. Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of section

seventy-seven of the public service law, to do whatever may be necessary

to give effect to the purposes of this title, and in general to have and

exercise all other powers necessary or incidental to the purposes of

this title which may be exercised by a gas and electric corporation

under the transportation corporation law.

* NB Terminated July 1, 1963