New York Public Authorities Law Title 12 - NEW YORK STATE ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES CORPORATION

• 1280 - Short Title.
  This title may be cited as the "New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation Act."
• 1281 - Definitions.
  As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Corporation" shall mean the corporation continued by...
• 1282 - New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation.
  1. The "New York state pure waters authority" is hereby reconstituted and continued as the "New York state environmental facilities corporation". Reference in any provision...
• 1283 - Purposes of the Corporation.
  1. The purposes of the corporation shall be the planning, financing, construction, maintenance and operation of sewage treatment works, sewage collecting systems, air pollution control...
• 1284 - General Powers of the Corporation.
  Except as otherwise limited by this title, the corporation shall have power: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter...
• 1285 - Special Powers of the Corporation.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following special powers: 1. Construction, operation and maintenance of sewage treatment...
• 1285-a - Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Air Pollution Control Facilities, Water Management Facilities and Storm Water Collecting Systems.
  1. The corporation and any municipality having power to construct air pollution control facilities, water management facilities or storm water collecting systems, by resolution of...
• 1285-b - Additional Special Powers of the Corporation With Respect to Projects and Persons.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers; (1) to extend credit and make loans...
• 1285-c - Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Industrial Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities.
  In addition to its existing powers, the corporation is hereby empowered to construct, operate and maintain industrial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities, including...
• 1285-d - Studies Regarding Design, Construction and Operation of Industrial Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities.
  1. The purposes of the corporation shall include research and development of technologies for treatment, storage and disposal of industrial hazardous wastes consistent with economic,...
• 1285-e - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Remedial Programs.
  In addition to its existing powers, the corporation is hereby empowered to carry out inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial programs. The corporation may subcontract...
• 1285-f - Program for Ultimate Disposal of Hazardous Wastes.
  1. The corporation shall immediately begin preparation of a comprehensive program for the ultimate disposal of hazardous wastes which shall include, but not be limited...
• 1285-g - Industrial Materials Recycling Program.
  1. Applicability. It is the purpose of this section to establish a program within the corporation to encourage the reduction, recovery and recycling of industrial...
• 1285-h - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Remedial Programs.
  1. The corporation and any owner of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site, or any state agency or any person or municipality identified by the...
• 1285-i - Commercial and Industrial Waste Audits.
  a. The corporation shall establish and be responsible for administration of a commercial and industrial waste audit program to help businesses identify and evaluate the...
• 1285-j - Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
  1. (a) The corporation shall undertake and provide assistance in support of the program to make financial assistance available to municipalities to encourage and support...
• 1285-k - Financing of the Design, Acquisition, Construction, Improvement and Installation of Riverbank Park.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law...
• 1285-l - State Park Infrastructure Projects.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general...
• 1285-m - Drinking Water Revolving Fund.
  1. (a) The corporation shall undertake and provide assistance in support of the program to make financial assistance available to recipients to encourage and support...
• 1285-n - Issuance and Sale of Recipient Bonds and Notes.
  Notwithstanding subdivision two of section one thousand eighty of this article, or any by-law, rule or regulation requiring the recipient to issue bonds or notes...
• 1285-o - Pipeline for Jobs Fund.
  The corporation shall undertake to provide financial assistance to recipients to encourage and support the planning, design and construction of eligible projects which provide an...
• 1285-p - State Environmental Infrastructure Projects.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Subject to chapter fifty-nine of the...
• 1285-q - Financing of Hazardous Waste Site Remediation Projects.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the corporation shall have the following additional special powers: 1. Subject to chapter fifty-nine of the...
• 1285-r - State Beginning Farmer Program.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the corporation shall undertake to provide financial assistance to beginning farmers to...
• 1285-s - New York State Intermunicipal Water Infrastructure Grants Program.
  1285-s. New York state intermunicipal water infrastructure grants program. 1. For purposes of this section: (a) "water quality infrastructure project" shall mean "sewage treatment works"...
• 1285-t - Water Infrastructure Emergency Financial Assistance.
  1. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any county, city, town, village, district corporation, county or town improvement district, school district, Indian nation or...
• 1285-u - Septic System Replacement Fund.
  1. Definitions. For purposes of this section: (a) "Cesspool" means a drywell that receives untreated sanitary waste containing human excreta, which sometimes has an open...
• 1286 - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property.
  1. The corporation may acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease, or by condemnation pursuant to the condemnation law, any real property it...
• 1287 - Construction Contracts.
  1. Construction contracts other than for resource recovery facilities let by the corporation shall be in conformity with the applicable provisions of section one hundred...
• 1288 - Co-Operation and Assistance of Other Agencies.
  To avoid duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the corporation may make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other materials...
• 1289 - Transfer of Officers and Employees.
  Officers and employees of state departments and agencies may be transferred to the corporation and officers and employees of the corporation may be transferred to...
• 1290 - Notes and Bonds of the Corporation.
  1. (a) The corporation shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable or non-negotiable bonds and notes in...
• 1290-a - Insurance and Guarantees.
  The corporation may obtain from any department or agency of the United States of America any available insurance or guaranty for the payment or repayment...
• 1291 - Reserve Funds and Appropriations.
  1. The corporation may create and establish one or more reserve funds to be known as debt service reserve funds and may pay into such...
• 1292 - 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...
• 1293 - 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,...
• 1294 - Remedies of Noteholders and Bondholders.
  1. In the event that the corporation shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of notes or bonds after...
• 1295 - Notes and Bonds As Legal Investment.
  The notes and bonds of the corporation are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and...
• 1296 - Exemption From Taxation; Payments in Lieu of Taxes.
  It is hereby found, determined and declared that the creation of the corporation and the carrying out of its purposes is in all respects for...
• 1297 - Actions Against the Corporation.
  1. As a condition to the consent of the state to such suits against the corporation, in every action against the corporation for damages, for...
• 1298 - 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