N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2052-e: Appropriations for purposes of the authority; transfer of property to authority; acquisition of property by county or other municipality ...

§ 2052-e. Appropriations for purposes of the authority; transfer of

property to authority; acquisition of property by county or other

municipality for authority; contracts with county or other municipality;

use of Murnane Field by Utica city school district. 1. In addition to

any powers granted to it by law, the county board of legislators, or the

finance board, as such term is defined in the local finance law, of any

other municipality in the county may, from time to time, appropriate by

resolution sums of money for purposes of the authority to defray project

costs or any other costs and expenses of the authority or to pay amounts

payable or anticipated to be payable to the authority pursuant to any

contract or lease authorized by this title. Such county board of

legislators or finance board may determine if the moneys so appropriated

shall be subject to repayment by the authority to the appropriate

municipality and, in such event, the manner and time or times for such

repayment. In the event there shall remain at the end of any fiscal year

of the county or any such municipality an unexpended balance of any such

appropriation, such unexpended balance shall remain on deposit in the

fund or account and such appropriation shall not lapse.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special

or local to the contrary, real property acquired by the authority, the

county or any other municipality from the state may be used for any

corporate purpose of the authority.

3. The county, one or more municipalities and the authority shall have

the power to contract, from time to time, between or among themselves,

in relation to the use of the project of the authority, which contracts

may include any or all of the following provisions: (a) requiring the

use of such project by the county or such municipality for a specified

period of time; (b) limiting the right, including a prohibition, of the

county or any such municipality to construct a sports facility which

will serve the same, or substantially the same, function as the project

owned, leased or to be constructed or leased by the authority; (c)

providing for specified minimum periodic payments whether or not a

project is actually used, subject to such limitations, exceptions and

provisions therein; and (d) requiring the county or any such

municipality to pay to the authority such amounts as shall be necessary

to assure the continued operation of the authority. All such payments

shall be determined and paid in such manner and at such times as may be

provided in such contracts.

4. Any gift, grant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract or lease

authorized by this section may be made or entered into by the county,

any other such municipality and/or the authority and no such gift,

grant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract or lease shall be subject to

referendum, permissive or otherwise.

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special

or local to the contrary, the authority shall allow the Utica city

school district to use Murnane Field, and the Utica city school district

shall be authorized to use Murnane Field, for the use of its students,

subject only to general rules for the use of such sports facility and

reasonable scheduling requirements, without charge to said school

district, except for reimbursement of actual expenses occasioned by its

use.