N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 153: Powers of the authority

* § 153. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power

1. To sue and be sued;

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

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

purposes;

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

5. With the consent of the commission to use the agents, employees and

facilities of the commission and to authorize the making of improvements

by the commission when funds are available therefor and funds of the

authority are insufficient for such purposes;

6. To appoint officers, agents and employees and fix their

compensation; subject, however, to the provisions of the civil service

law, which shall apply to the authority as a municipal corporation other

than a city;

7. To make contracts, and to execute all instruments necessary or

convenient;

8. By contract, or contracts, or by its own employees, but as a single

enterprise, to construct the Meadowbrook parkway, the Loop parkway and

to reconstruct the Wantagh parkway on lands acquired or to be acquired

by the state of New York, together with incidental roads, structures,

facilities and bridges, subject to such consents and approval of federal

authorities in any case as may be necessary;

9. To maintain, reconstruct, and operate the Jones Beach parkway;

10. To charge tolls for the use of Jones Beach parkway subject to and

in accordance with such agreements with bondholders as may be made as

hereinafter provided; provided, however, that no tolls may be charged on

Wantagh parkway until after the first day of January, nineteen hundred

thirty-five;

11. To construct and maintain over, under, along or across Jones Beach

parkway, telephone, telegraph or electric wires and cables, gas mains,

water mains, and other mechanical equipment not inconsistent with

parkway purposes, to contract for such construction and to lease the

right to construct and/or use the same on such terms and for such

consideration as it shall determine, provided, however, that no lease

shall be made for a period of more than ten years from the date when it

is made;

12. To construct and maintain facilities for the public, not

inconsistent with the use of Jones Beach parkway as a parkway, to

contract for such construction, and to lease the right to construct

and/or use such facilities on such terms and for such considerations as

it shall determine, provided, however, that no lease shall be made for a

period of more than ten years from the date when it is made;

13. To issue negotiable bonds and to provide for the rights of the

holders thereof;

14. To enter on any lands, waters and premises for the purpose of

making surveys, soundings and examinations;

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

expressly given in this title.

* NB (Authority abolished June 30, 1978)