New York Public Authorities Law Title 11-A - NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

• 1299 - Short Title.
  This title may be cited as the "Niagara Frontier Transportation Act."
• 1299-a - Definitions.
  As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by...
• 1299-b - Niagara Frontier Transportation District.
  There is hereby created and established a transportation district to be known as the Niagara Frontier transportation district which shall embrace the counties of Erie...
• 1299-c - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.
  1. (a) There is hereby created the "Niagara Frontier transportation authority." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation....
• 1299-d - Purposes of the Authority.
  1. The purposes of the authority shall be the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation and other services related thereto within the Niagara Frontier...
• 1299-e - General Powers of the Authority.
  Except as otherwise limited by this title, the authority shall have power: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter...
• 1299-Eee - Transit Adjudication Bureau.
  1. Establishment. There is hereby created in the authority a transit adjudication bureau. The head of such bureau shall be the director, who shall be...
• 1299-f - Special Powers of the Authority.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title: 1. The authority may acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease, any transportation facility,...
• 1299-g - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property.
  1. In addition to the powers provided in section twelve hundred ninety-nine-f of this title to acquire transportation facilities, equipment and real property, the authority...
• 1299-Gg - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property by Department of Transportation.
  * If funds are made available by the authority for the payment of the cost and expense of the acquisition thereof, the department of transportation...
• 1299-h - Co-Operation 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...
• 1299-i - Notes and Bonds of the Authority.
  1. (a) The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable bonds and notes in conformity with...
• 1299-j - Reserve Funds and Appropriations.
  1. The authority may create and establish one or more reserve funds to be known as debt service reserve funds and may pay into such...
• 1299-k - Agreement of the State.
  --The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any notes or bonds issued under this title, that the state will not...
• 1299-l - Right of State to Require Redemption of Bonds.
  Notwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption of bonds which may be contained in any contract with the holders of the bonds,...
• 1299-m - Remedies of Noteholders and Bondholders.
  1. In the event that the authority shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of notes or bonds after...
• 1299-n - Notes and Bonds As Legal Investment.
  The notes and bonds of the authority are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and...
• 1299-o - Exemption From Taxation.
  It is hereby found, determined and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its purposes is in all respects for...
• 1299-p - Actions Against the Authority.
  1. As a condition to the consent of the state to such suits against the authority, in every action against the authority for damages, for...
• 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...
• 1299-r - Agreements Relating to Payments in Lieu of Taxes.
  To the end that municipal corporations, counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts may not suffer undue loss of taxes or assessments: If the authority...
• 1299-s - Five-Year Capital and Operating Plans.
  1. (a) On or before October first, nineteen hundred ninety, and annually thereafter on or before April first, the authority shall adopt a capital program...
• 1299-t - Contracts.
  The authority shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the state administrative procedure act governing the award of all contracts for public work and all purchase contracts,...
• 1299-u - Title Not Affected If in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.
  If any provision of any section of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be adjudged invalid by a court...

Last modified: February 3, 2019