New York Public Authorities Law Title 1 - POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

• 1000 - Short Title.
  This title may be cited as the "Power Authority Act."
• 1001 - Declaration of Policy.
  Those parts of the Niagara and Saint Lawrence rivers within the boundaries of the state of New York are hereby declared to be natural resources...
• 1001-a - Emergency Provisions for the Metropolitan Area of the City of New York.
  The legislature hereby finds and declares that extraordinary circumstances, including excessive costs, shortages of supply, and the inflated price of fuel threaten the capacity to...
• 1002 - Power Authority of the State of New York.
  1. For the purpose of effectuating the policy declared in section one thousand one of this chapter there is hereby created a corporate municipal instrumentality...
• 1003 - Trustees.
  The authority shall consist of seven trustees, five of whom shall serve respectively for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, to be...
• 1004 - Officers and Employees; Expenses.
  The trustees shall choose from among their own number a chairman and vice-chairman. They shall select such officers and employees, including a chief executive officer...
• 1005 - Powers and Duties of Authority.
  Forthwith upon the appointment and organization of the trustees and subject to the conditions and limitations in this title contained, the authority, in cooperation with...
• 1005-a - Actions or Contracts Involving Certain Nuclear Power Plants.
  Whenever the authority undertakes or executes any action or contract involving the closure, maintenance, decommissioning or conversion of any nuclear power plant constructed by a...
• 1005-b - New York State Canal Corporation.
  1. The public benefit corporation known as the "New York state canal corporation" (hereinafter referred to as the "canal corporation") created as a subsidiary corporation...
• 1005-c - Additional Powers of the Authority to Finance Certain Projects in Connection With the New York State Canal System.
  1. (a) The authority is hereby authorized, as an additional corporate purpose thereof, to issue its bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness in conformity...
• 1005-d - Sharing Employees, Services and Resources; Indemnity and Defense.
  1. For the purposes of this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another meaning or intent:...
• 1006 - Power to Compel Attendance of Witnesses.
  For the purpose of exercising its powers and performing its duties hereunder and of securing such information as it may deem necessary hereunder, the authority...
• 1007 - Acquisition of Property.
  If, for any of the purposes hereunder, including temporary construction purposes and the making of additions or improvements, the authority shall find it necessary or...
• 1008 - Consent of State.
  The state of New York hereby consents to the occupation and use by the authority of any and all property of the state of whatever...
• 1009 - Contracts Negotiated by Authority.
  Contracts negotiated by the authority as provided in sub-paragraph five or six of section one thousand five of this title shall be entered into and...
• 1009-a - Notes of the Authority.
  The authority shall have the power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable notes in conformity with applicable provisions of...
• 1010 - Bonds of the Authority.
  1. The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable bonds in conformity with applicable provisions of...
• 1010-a - Deposit and Investment of Moneys of the Authority.
  All moneys of the authority from whatever source derived shall be paid to the comptroller as agent of the authority, who shall not commingle such...
• 1011 - Agreement of the State.
  1. The state of New York does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any obligations issued under this title, and with those...
• 1012 - Exemption From Taxation.
  It is hereby found and declared that the projects authorized by this title are for the aid and improvement of commerce and navigation and that...
• 1012-a - Emergency Contributions to County of Niagara and City of Niagara Falls.
  1. On June seventh, nineteen hundred fifty-six a collapse of the rock wall of the Niagara river resulted in the substantial destruction of a hydro-electric...
• 1013 - Repayment of State Appropriations.
  All appropriations made by the state to the authority shall be treated as advances by the state to the authority, and shall be repaid to...
• 1014 - Public Service Law Not Applicable to Authority; Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.
  The rates, services and practices relating to the generation, transmission, distribution and sale by the authority, of power to be generated from the projects authorized...
• 1015 - Title Not Affected If in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.
  If any term or provision of this title shall be declared unconstitutional or ineffective in whole or in part by a court of competent jurisdiction,...
• 1017 - Actions Against Authority.
  1. In any action founded upon tort a notice of claim shall be required as a condition precedent to the commencement of an action or...

Last modified: February 3, 2019