2006 New York Code - Cooperation And Assistance Of Other Agencies.

 
    §  1309. Cooperation and assistance of other agencies. In the interest
  of economy and to promote coordination of authority projects with state,
  local, county and regional plans and also to carry out the objective  of
  full   participation   of   all   agencies   in  the  development  of  a
  transportation system and facilities to meet the objectives of this act,
  the authority shall request and  use  existing  studies,  master  plans,
  surveys,  data  and other materials completed by or under development by
  any state agency or any municipality or  political  subdivision  of  the
  state.   The  authority  shall  consult  with  and  cooperate  with  the
  commissioner of transportation and  with  planning  authorities  in  the
  areas of its operations and shall utilize local and state planning. When
  a project is contemplated by the authority, the authority shall submit a
  preliminary prospectus thereof to the commissioner of transportation for
  review  and comment and shall consider the report of the commissioner in
  formulating  detailed  plans  for  such  project.  When  a  project   is
  contemplated  by  the  authority  within  the jurisdiction of any county
  planning board or the capital  district  regional  planning  board,  the
  authority  shall  prepare  and submit to such planning board or boards a
  preliminary  prospectus  thereof,  describing   the   purpose,   general
  location, and nature of the project contemplated, with such further data
  relative  thereto  that  the  authority shall consider pertinent. Within
  sixty days of receipt of such prospectus such planning board  or  boards
  shall  prepare a report thereon, commenting on its conformity or lack of
  conformity with any related official plan of the state or region or  any
  official  planning  agency  within  the  region.  Such  report  shall be
  considered by the authority in formulating detailed  plans  for  such  a
  project. At the request of the authority, each such agency, municipality
  or  subdivision  which  is  engaged  in  highway 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
  the transportation district 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.