N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1178: Powers of the authority

§ 1178. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power:

1. To prepare or cause to be prepared plans, designs and estimates of

costs for the construction of the project, and from time to time to

modify such plans, designs or estimates;

2. To construct the project and any additions, betterments and

extensions to the facilities of the authority by contract or contracts,

or under, through, or by means of its own officers, agents and

employees;

3. To have jurisdiction, control, possession and supervision of the

existing sewer system and the project; to maintain, operate, reconstruct

and improve the same as a comprehensive sewerage system and to make

additions, betterments and extensions thereto, and to have all the

rights, privileges and jurisdiction necessary or proper for carrying

such power into execution. No enumeration of powers in this or any other

general, special or local law shall operate to restrict the meaning of

this general grant of power or to exclude other powers comprehended

within this general grant;

4. To sue and be sued;

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

6. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate

purposes;

7. To acquire, in the name of the city, by purchase or condemnation,

real property or rights or easements therein, necessary or convenient

for its corporate purposes and to use the same so long as its corporate

existence shall continue;

8. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs

and, subject to agreements with bondholders, for the regulation of the

use of its property and the establishment and collection of rates,

rentals and charges;

9. To make contracts and execute all instruments necessary or

convenient;

10. To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds and to provide for

the rights of the holders thereof;

11. To fix and collect rates, rentals and other charges for goods or

services rendered by the authority, subject to and in accordance with

such agreements with holders of bonds as may be made as hereinafter

provided;

12. To enter on any lands, water and premises as in the judgment of

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

samples, surveys, soundings and examinations of any effluent source and

to accomplish any purpose authorized by this title;

13. To accept, treat and dispose of the sewage and waste of all

municipal corporations in the county of Erie and from any other persons

from whatever source derived;

14. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers

expressly given by this title;

15. To establish, adopt, amend or cancel and issue such rules,

regulations, permits and orders as it deems necessary, desirable or

convenient, for the jurisdiction, control, supervision, possession and

use of the facilities and for the administration and enforcement of this

title and such rules, regulations, permits and orders applicable to all

users;

16. To enforce the rules, regulations, orders and permits of the

authority for all users and in the event of non-compliance therewith,

the authority may take any enforcement action, as may be established in

the authority's rules and regulations or otherwise allowed by this

title. The rules, regulations, permits and orders of the authority shall

be enforced in jurisdictions outside of the city pursuant to agreements

with the county of Erie or the respective sewer districts,

municipalities or political subdivisions for effluent sources located

therein. In the absence of such agreements, the authority is authorized

to enforce its rules, regulations, permits and orders in such

jurisdictions located outside the city directly upon users who violate

the authority's rules, regulations, permits or orders, where such

violations are not discontinued and remedied, to the authority's

satisfaction, by the county of Erie or the respective sewer district,

municipality or political subdivision wherein such effluent source is

located.