N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2642-g: Cooperation and assistance of other agencies

§ 2642-g. Cooperation 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

located in or serving some portion of the state 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 located in or serving some

portion of the state which is engaged in railroad 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 railroad transportation within the participating

counties 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. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, every municipality

located in the counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany or Steuben

is authorized and empowered to consent to the use by the authority of

any real or personal property owned by any such municipality and

necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the authority for

any of the facilities or projects authorized under this title, including

such real property as has already been devoted to a public use, and as

an incident to such consent, to lease or otherwise transfer and convey

to the authority any such real or personal property upon such terms as

may be determined by the authority and any such municipality. Every such

municipality also is authorized and empowered, as an incident to such

consent, to vest in the authority the control, possession, operation,

maintenance, rents, charges and any and all other revenues of any

facilities now owned by any such municipality, the title to such

facilities remaining in such municipality.