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Cooperation - 64 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6024

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     § 6024.  Cooperation.
        (a)  State public bodies and political subdivisions may
     cooperate.--For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with the
     authority and in the planning, acquisition, clearance,
     relocation, development, design, construction, rehabilitation,
     leasing, subleasing, alteration, expansion, financing,
     improvement, management or operation of a convention center or
     parts of a convention center, any State public body, political
     subdivision or the city may, upon terms with or without
     consideration as it determines, do any of the following:
            (1)  Dedicate, sell, convey, lease or otherwise transfer
        any of its property or any interest in its property, real,
        personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, to the authority.
            (2)  Cause parking, recreational or community facilities
        or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to
        undertake to be furnished in or adjacent to any area selected
        for a convention center or parts of a convention center.
            (3)  Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade,
        regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys,
        sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered so
        to do.
            (4)  Enter into agreements extending over any period with
        the authority or with the Federal Government.
            (5)  Do all things necessary or convenient to aid and
        cooperate in the development, acquisition, design,
        construction, improvement, maintenance, management,
        operation, furnishing, fixturing, equipping, repairing,
        financing, owning, leasing and subleasing of a convention
        center or parts of convention center.
            (6)  In connection with any public improvements made by
        any State public body, political subdivision or the city, in
        exercising the powers granted in this subsection, to incur
        the entire expense of the improvement.
        (b)  Documents.--The Secretary of General Services is
     authorized, with the approval of the Governor and Attorney
     General, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Commonwealth
     conveyances, deeds and leases authorized under this chapter or
     under the former provisions of the act of June 27, 1986
     (P.L.267, No.70), known as the Pennsylvania Convention Center
     Authority Act, formerly codified at 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 59 (relating
     to Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority).
        (c)  City may contract with authority.--In connection with a
     convention center or parts of a convention center, the city may
     contract with the authority or the Federal Government with
     respect to any sums which the authority or the Federal
     Government may agree to pay during any year or period of years
     to the city for the improvements, services and facilities to be
     provided by it for the benefit of the authority, convention
     center or parts of a convention center or the persons occupying
     such area. The absence of a contract for such payments shall not
     relieve the city from the duty to furnish for the benefit of the
     authority, convention center or parts of a convention center or
     the persons occupying the area customary improvements and
     services and facilities as the city usually furnishes without a
     service fee.
        (d)  State and city may designate authority as its agent.--
     The State or the city may, by written agreement, designate the
     authority as its agent within the authority's field of operation
     to perform any specified activity or to administer any specified
     program which the State or the city is authorized by law to do.
     Any such activities or programs must be in furtherance of the
     public purposes specified in this chapter. Such activities
     include development, acquisition, design, construction,
     improvement, maintenance, leasing, management or operation of a
     convention center or parts of a convention center.
        (e)  Powers in addition to other powers.--The powers
     conferred by this section shall be in addition and supplemental
     to the powers conferred by any other law.

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