N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1268: Co-operation and assistance of other agencies

§ 1268. Co-operation and assistance of other agencies. 1. To avoid

duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the authority may

make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other materials

in the possession of any state agency or any municipality or political

subdivision of the state. Each such agency, municipality or subdivision

is hereby authorized to make the same available to the authority and

otherwise to assist it in the performance of its functions. At the

request of the authority, each such agency, municipality or subdivision

which is engaged in highway or other transportation activities or in

land use or development planning, or which is charged with the duty of

providing or regulating any transportation facility or any other public

facility, is further authorized to provide the authority with

information regarding its plans and programs affecting the

transportation district so that the authority may have available to it

current information with respect thereto. The officers and personnel of

such agencies, municipalities or subdivisions, and of any other

government or agency whatever, may serve at the request of the authority

upon such advisory committees as the authority shall determine to create

and such officers and personnel may serve upon such committees without

forfeiture of office or employment and with no loss or diminution in the

compensation, status, rights and privileges which they otherwise enjoy.

2. The authority shall, at the request of any state agency,

municipality or political subdivision of the state, engaged in highway

or other transportation activities or in land use or development

planning, provide said state agency, municipality or political

subdivision with all current and relevant information regarding its

plans or programs, so as to enable said agency, municipality or

subdivision to properly effectuate said activities or planning.

3. To the extent that the provisions of this title authorize the

authority to enter into any agreement or arrangement with, or undertake

any other activity requiring the participation of, the New York city

transit authority or any of its subsidiary corporations in furtherance

of their respective purposes and powers or the Triborough bridge and

tunnel authority in furtherance of its purposes and powers, such

entities are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into and perform

such contract or other arrangement and to undertake such activities.