2006 New York Code - 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.