N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1205-a: Surrender of power plants

§ 1205-a. Surrender of power plants. Notwithstanding any other

provision of law, in the event the authority shall surrender power

plants to the city in connection with the sale thereof by the city to a

third party, the city shall establish a fund out of the purchase price

or the installments of purchase price, from which it shall pay to the

authority for a period of ten years the sum of five million dollars a

year in semi-annual installments of two million five hundred thousand

dollars each. The first such payment shall be made six months after the

date when possession of the power plants is transferred to the purchaser

of such plants. Such moneys shall be used by the authority to pay, in

part, for the cost of electricity purchased by the authority for the

operation of transit facilities.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the city may, from time to

time, at the request of the authority, prepay to the authority any and

all of the remaining semi-annual installments due it as aforesaid, when

the city and the authority have determined that such prepayment will

serve the financial needs of the authority. In the event that said fund

is not sufficient for the prepayment of any such installments, then the

city may make up any insufficiency through a budgetary appropriation or

may issue serial bonds and notes, pursuant to the local finance law, to

finance such insufficiency. The maximum period of probable usefulness

for such object or purpose is hereby determined to be three years.