N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1120-d: Powers of the authority

§ 1120-d. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have the power:

1. To sue and be sued;

2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;

3. To borrow money and issue bonds or other obligations and to provide

for the rights of the holders thereof;

4. To enter into contracts and execute all instruments necessary or

convenient or desirable for the purposes of the authority to carry out

any powers expressly given it in this title;

5. To acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease

or by condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law, lease

as lessee, hold, and use any real or personal property or any interest

therein, as the authority may deem necessary, convenient or desirable to

carry out the purpose of this title; provided however, that the

authority may not condemn real property of a municipality without the

consent of the governing body of such municipality;

6. To purchase, in the name of the authority, any water facility, and

any improvements, extensions and betterments, situated wholly within the

district, provided, however, that the authority shall have the power to

purchase any source of supply, supply facility, water supply system or

transmission facility or any part thereof situated wholly or partly

without the territorial limits of the district, provided the same shall

be necessary in order to supply water within the district; and in

connection with the purchase of such properties, the authority may

assume any obligations of the owner of such properties and, to the

extent required by the terms of any indentures or other instruments

under which such obligations were issued, the authority may assume and

agree to perform covenants and observe the restrictions contained in

such instruments; and furthermore, the owner of any properties, which

the authority is authorized to acquire, is hereby authorized to sell or

otherwise transfer the same to the authority, whereupon the authority

shall have become charged with the performance of all public duties with

respect to such properties with which such owner was charged and such

owner shall have become discharged from the performance thereof, and as

a means of so acquiring for such purpose, the authority may purchase all

of the stock of any existing privately owned water corporation or

company and in the case of a sale or other transfer of properties of a

public utility corporation pursuant to this provision, upon the purchase

of the stock of such corporation or company it shall be lawful to

dissolve such corporation within a reasonable time;

7. To construct, improve, maintain, develop, expand or rehabilitate

water facilities and to pay the costs thereof;

8. To operate and manage and to contract for the operation and

management of properties of the authority;

9. To enter into contracts, and carry out the terms thereof, for the

wholesale provision of water produced by supply facilities constructed,

owned or operated by the authority, to municipalities and private water

companies and to carry out the terms thereof, for the transmission of

water from new or existing supply facilities;

9-a. To enter into cooperative agreements and contracts with the town

of Clifton Park pursuant to article five-G of the general municipal law

to render maintenance and repair services to sewer districts located in

the town of Clifton Park.

10. To take all necessary and reasonable actions within the district

to conserve, preserve and protect the water supply to the district,

including the making of plans and studies, the adoption of watershed

rules and regulations, the enforcing of compliance with all current and

future rules and regulations of the state sanitary code with regard to

water supply and usage, the requiring of cross-connection controls, the

providing of educational material and programs to the public, and the

cooperating with water suppliers outside the district to conserve,

preserve and protect the entire water reserve as it is affected within

and outside the authority's supply area;

11. To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal,

state and local governments for such licenses, permits or approvals of

its plans or projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and upon

such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate, and to accept, in

its discretion, such licenses, permits or approvals as may be tendered

to it by such agencies and officials;

12. To appoint such officers and employees as are required for the

performance of its duties, to fix and determine their qualifications,

duties and compensation, and to retain or employ counsel, auditors,

engineers, and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise for

rendering professional or technical services and advice;

13. To make plans and studies necessary, convenient or desirable for

the effectuation of the purposes and powers of the authority and to

prepare recommendations in regard thereto;

14. To enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of

the authority shall be necessary for the purpose of making surveys,

soundings, borings and examinations to accomplish any purposes

authorized by this title, the authority being liable only for actual

damage done;

15. To apply for and to accept any gifts or grants or loans of funds

or property or financial or other aid in any form from the federal

government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from the state

or any agency or instrumentality thereof or from any other source, for

any or all of the purposes specified in this title, and to comply,

subject to the provisions of this title, with the terms and conditions

thereof;

16. To obtain, store, treat, distribute, supply and sell water for

domestic, commercial and public purposes at retail to individual

consumers within the district;

17. To purchase water in bulk from any person, private corporation,

public corporation or municipality when necessary or convenient for the

operation of such water system;

18. To produce, develop, distribute and sell water or water services

within or without the territorial limits of the district; and to

purchase water from any public corporation, town water district,

municipality, person, association or corporation; provided, however,

that water services may be sold at retail to individual consumers only

within the district and further provided that in exercising the powers

granted by this title, the authority shall not sell water services in

any area outside of the town (a) without town board approval and (b) in

any area which is served by a water system owned or operated by a

municipality or special improvement district unless the governing body

of such municipality or district shall adopt a resolution requesting the

authority to sell water services in such served area;

19. To make and amend from time to time by-laws for the management and

regulation of its affairs and rules and regulations for the

construction, preservation and protection of the authority's water

supply and, subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the sale

of water and the collection of rents and charges therefor. A copy of

such rules, regulations and by-laws, and any rules and regulations

adopted pursuant to subdivision eleven of this section, and all

amendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary of the authority

shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the town. In addition, the

town board by local law shall have power to prescribe that violation of

specific by-laws, rules and regulations of the authority, published once

in a newspaper having a general circulation in the town, shall be

punishable by fine, not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for

not longer than thirty days, or both;

20. To fix rates and collect charges for the use of the facilities of,

or services rendered by, or any commodities furnished by the authority

such as to provide revenues sufficient at all times to pay, as the same

shall become due, the principal and interest on the bonds or other

obligations of the authority together with the maintenance of proper

reserves therefor, in addition to paying as the same shall become due

the expense of operating and maintaining the properties of the authority

together with proper maintenance reserves, capital reserves, repair

reserves, tax stabilization reserves and other contingency reserves and

all other obligations and indebtedness of the authority;

21. To enter into cooperative agreements with other authorities,

municipalities, water districts, utility companies, individuals, firms

or corporations, within or without the territorial limits of the

district, for the interconnection of facilities, the exchange or

interchange of services and commodities, and within the territorial

limits of the district to enter into a contract for the construction and

operation and maintenance of a water system by the authority for any

municipality, public corporation or water district having power to

construct and develop a water system, upon such terms and conditions as

shall be determined to be reasonable including but not limited to the

reimbursement of all costs of such construction, or for any other lawful

purpose necessary or desirable to effect the purposes of this title;

22. To provide for the discontinuance or disconnection of water

service, for non-payment of fees, rates, rents or other charges therefor

imposed by the authority, provided such discontinuance or disconnection

of any water service, shall not be carried out except in the manner and

upon the notice as is required of a waterworks corporation pursuant to

subdivisions three-a, three-b and three-c of section eighty-nine-b and

section one hundred sixteen of the public service law;

23. With the consent of the governing body of a municipality, to use

officers and employees of such municipality and to pay a proper

proportion of the compensation or costs for the services for such

officers or employees; and

24. To do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out

its purposes and for the exercise of the powers granted in this title.