N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2018: Powers of the authority

§ 2018. 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, in the name of the authority, lease, hold and dispose

of real estate and personal property or any interest therein for its

corporate purposes, including the power to purchase prospective or

tentative awards in connection with the exercise of the power of

condemnation hereinafter granted;

4. To acquire in the name of the authority any lands, easements,

rights in lands, contract rights and franchises for the purpose of

erecting receiving/transfer stations and/or treatment stations including

equipment or any other property incidental to and included in such

improvements;

5. To receive, transport, process and dispose of solid waste

materials;

6. To condemn in the name of the authority, within the territorial

limits of the county of Onondaga, any lands, easements or rights in land

required by the authority for the purpose of constructing and erecting

proper receiving/transfer and/or treatment stations;

7. To construct and develop disposal sites for solid waste materials

within the county of Onondaga, and to have the right to contract with

other municipalities or any other governmental subdivision for disposal

outside the county of Onondaga, and to purchase, lands, easements,

rights in lands and rights-of-way in connection therewith within such

county and to own and operate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct,

enlarge and extend, subject to provision of this title, any of its

properties acquired or constructed under this title, all of which,

together with the acquisition of such properties, are hereby declared to

be public purposes;

8. To receive from any or all municipalities, as well as private

parties, within the county of Onondaga, or from such other sources as

the authority may deem proper, solid wastes for the purpose of disposal

thereof, with the right of the authority to sell and dispose of any such

products of the waste material as they may deem best and proper;

9. To contract with municipalities within the county of Onondaga or

outside the county of Onondaga or with private contractors for the

purpose of treating and disposing of solid waste materials;

10. To acquire, hold, use, lease, sell, transfer and dispose of any

property, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein, for its

corporate purposes;

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

and subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the receiving and

disposing of solid wastes and charges therefor. A copy of such rules and

by-laws, and all amendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary of

the authority shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county

and thereafter published once in two newspapers having a general

circulation in the county;

12. To use the officers, employees, facilities and equipment of the

county with the consent of the county, paying a proper portion of the

compensation or cost;

13. To make contracts and to execute all necessary or convenient

instruments, including evidences of indebtedness, negotiable or

non-negotiable;

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

making surveys, soundings and examinations;

15. To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds or notes or other

obligations and to fund or refund the same, and to provide for the

rights of the holders of its obligations;

16. To fix rates and collect charges for the use of the facilities of,

or services rendered by, or any commodities furnished by the authority

such as to provide revenues sufficient at all times to pay, as the same

shall become due, the principal and interest on the bonds, notes or

other obligations of the authority together with the maintenance of

proper reserves therefor, in addition to paying as the same shall become

due the expense of operating and maintaining the properties of the

authority together with proper reserves for depreciation, maintenance

and contingencies and all other obligations and indebtedness of the

authority;

17. To accept grants, loans or contributions from the United States,

the state of New York, or any agency or instrumentality of either of

them, or the county, or an individual, by bequest or otherwise, and to

expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;

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

expressly given in this title.