2015 New York Laws
PBA - Public Authorities
Article 5 - PUBLIC UTILITY AUTHORITIES
Title 11-A - (1299 - 1299-U) NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
1299-Q - Station operation and maintenance.

   1299-q.   Station   operation   and  maintenance.  The  operation,
  maintenance and use of passenger stations shall be  public  purposes  of
  the  counties  of  Erie and Niagara. The total cost to the authority and
  each of its subsidiary corporations of operation, maintenance and use of
  each passenger station within the  district  serviced  by  one  or  more
  railroad  facilities of the authority or of such subsidiary corporation,
  including the buildings, appurtenances, platforms, lands and  approaches
  incidental  or adjacent thereto, shall be borne by the county within the
  district in which such station is located. On or before  June  first  of
  each  year, the authority shall determine and certify to the counties of
  Erie and Niagara the total cost to  the  authority  and  its  subsidiary
  corporations,  for  the  twelve-month  period ending the preceding March
  thirty-first, of operation, maintenance and use of each  such  passenger
  station  within  each  county,  respectively. On or before the following
  September first, of each  year,  each  such  county  shall  pay  to  the
  authority  such  cost so certified to it on or before the preceding June
  first. If for any such twelve-month period the authority determines that
  the total revenues of any railroad facility  will  be  such  as  not  to
  require  payment  for  the  full  amount  of  the  costs  of  operation,
  maintenance and use of the passenger stations served by  such  facility,
  the  authority  in  its discretion may reduce by a uniform percentage of
  established costs  the  amounts  required  of  each  county  so  served,
  provided  however, that the amount required of any such county shall not
  be reduced for any such twelve-month period below the total cost to  the
  authority  and  its  subsidiary corporations so certified of maintenance
  and use of such passenger stations so served in such county. Each county
  shall have power to finance such costs to it by the issuance  of  budget
  notes pursuant to section 29.00 of the local finance law.