N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1299-q: Station operation and maintenance

§ 1299-q. Station operation and maintenance. The operation,

maintenance and use of passenger stations shall be public purposes of

the counties of Erie and Niagara. The total cost to the authority and

each of its subsidiary corporations of operation, maintenance and use of

each passenger station within the district serviced by one or more

railroad facilities of the authority or of such subsidiary corporation,

including the buildings, appurtenances, platforms, lands and approaches

incidental or adjacent thereto, shall be borne by the county within the

district in which such station is located. On or before June first of

each year, the authority shall determine and certify to the counties of

Erie and Niagara the total cost to the authority and its subsidiary

corporations, for the twelve-month period ending the preceding March

thirty-first, of operation, maintenance and use of each such passenger

station within each county, respectively. On or before the following

September first, of each year, each such county shall pay to the

authority such cost so certified to it on or before the preceding June

first. If for any such twelve-month period the authority determines that

the total revenues of any railroad facility will be such as not to

require payment for the full amount of the costs of operation,

maintenance and use of the passenger stations served by such facility,

the authority in its discretion may reduce by a uniform percentage of

established costs the amounts required of each county so served,

provided however, that the amount required of any such county shall not

be reduced for any such twelve-month period below the total cost to the

authority and its subsidiary corporations so certified of maintenance

and use of such passenger stations so served in such county. Each county

shall have power to finance such costs to it by the issuance of budget

notes pursuant to section 29.00 of the local finance law.