2006 New York Code - Purpose And Powers Of The Authority.

 
    §  1604.  Purpose  and  powers  of  the  authority. The purpose of the
  authority shall be to  construct,  operate  and  maintain  one  or  more
  projects  in  the  city.  To carry out said purpose, 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, including the  power  to  purchase  prospective  or  tentative
  awards in connection with the condemnation of real property;
    4. To acquire in the name of the city by purchase or condemnation, and
  use necessary real property. All real property acquired by the authority
  by  condemnation shall be acquired in the manner provided in the eminent
  domain  procedure  law  or  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the
  condemnation  of  land  by  the  city,  and  further  provided, that the
  authority shall give the common council of the city  written  notice  of
  its  intent  to  acquire any land by condemnation, whereupon said common
  council, within a period of forty-five days after  the  giving  of  such
  notice,  by resolution voted upon affirmatively by at least four members
  of such common council, may determine that such land  shall  not  be  so
  acquired, in which event the authority shall be without further power to
  so acquire the same by condemnation;
    5.  To  make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs,
  and, subject to agreements with bondholders, for the regulation  of  the
  project;
    6.  With  the  consent  of  the  city  to  use  agents,  employees and
  facilities of the city, paying to the city its agreed proportion of  the
  compensation or costs;
    7.  To  appoint  officers,  agents  and  employees, to prescribe their
  qualifications and to fix their compensation; subject, however,  to  the
  provisions of the civil service law, as hereinafter provided;
    8.  To appoint an attorney, who may be the corporation counsel, and to
  fix his compensation;
    9. To make contracts  and  leases,  and  to  execute  all  instruments
  necessary or convenient;
    10.  To  construct such buildings, structures and facilities as may be
  necessary;
    11. To reconstruct, improve, maintain and operate the projects;
    12. 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 city, or an individual, by bequest  or  otherwise,  and  to
  expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;
    13.  To fix and collect rentals, fees and other charges for the use of
  the projects or any of them subject  to  and  in  accordance  with  such
  agreements with bondholders as may be made as hereinafter provided;
    14.  To  construct, operate or maintain in the projects all facilities
  necessary or convenient in connection therewith; and to contract for the
  construction, operation or maintenance  of  any  parts  thereof  or  for
  services  to be performed; to rent parts thereof, and grant concessions,
  all on such terms and conditions as it may determine; provided, however,
  that neither the authority, the city of North Tonawanda, or  any  agency
  of  the  authority  or  city,  or  any other person, firm or corporation
  shall, within or on any  property  comprising  a  part  of  any  project
  authorized by this title, sell, dispense or otherwise handle any product
  used  in  or for the servicing of any motor vehicle using any project or
  facility authorized by this title.