New York Public Authorities Law Title 9 - NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

• 1200 - Definitions.
  Unless expressly otherwise provided, whenever used in this title, the following terms shall mean or include: 1. "Authority." The corporation created by section eighteen hundred...
• 1201 - New York City Transit Authority.
  1201. New York city transit authority.--1. A board, to be known as "New York City Transit Authority" is hereby created. Such board shall be a...
• 1202 - Purposes of the Authority.
  1. The purposes of the authority shall be the acquisition of the transit facilities operated by the board of transportation of the city, the operation...
• 1203 - Transfer of Transit Facilities by the City to the Authority.
  1. a. On or before June first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, the city may, by resolution of the board of estimate or by instruments authorized by...
• 1203-a - Subsidiary Corporation.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of this title or of any general, special or local law to the contrary, the city and the transit authority may...
• 1203-b - Transfer of Funds.
  The authority and its subsidiary corporation, the Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating authority, may each transfer to the other from time to time such...
• 1204 - General Powers of the Authority.
  1. To sue and be sued. 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure. * 3. To acquire, hold, use and dispose...
• 1204-a - Rapid Transit Noise Code.
  1. As used in this section, unless another meaning is indicated by the context: a. "Authority" means the New York City Transit Authority. b. "Subways"...
• 1204-c - Receipt of Line of Duty Pay.
  1. A member of the New York city transit authority police force in the rank of police officer or a member of such force who...
• 1204-d - Special Powers of the Authority.
  1. The authority may enter into a joint service arrangement with a bi-state agency, the state of New Jersey, any state agency, authority, municipality or...
• 1204-e - New York City Transit Authority Advisory Council.
  1. There is hereby created the New York city transit authority advisory council, to study, investigate, monitor and make recommendations with respect to the maintenance...
• 1205 - Rates of Fare and Levels of Service.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the terms of any contract or franchise, the authority shall have the power at all times to...
• 1205-a - Surrender of Power Plants.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event the authority shall surrender power plants to the city in connection with the sale thereof by...
• 1206 - Omnibus Operations.
  1. The authority, as soon as practicable and not later than July first, nineteen hundred fifty-five, shall prepare a plan for the sale and transfer...
• 1206-a - Transit Construction Fund.
  In addition to the powers provided elsewhere in this title, and to effectuate the purposes of the transit construction fund act, constituting title nine-a of...
• 1207 - Notes and Equipment Trusts.
  1. The authority may issue notes in conformity with applicable provisions of the uniform commercial code in anticipation of the receipt of revenues provided that...
• 1207-a - Purchase of Cars by the Authority and Disposition Thereof.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections twelve hundred through twelve hundred twenty-one, inclusive, of this title or of any other provisions of law to the...
• 1207-b - Issuance of Bonds and Notes by the Authority.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections twelve hundred through twelve hundred twenty-one, inclusive, of this title or of any other provisions of law to the...
• 1207-c - Required 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 bonds, either...
• 1207-d - Agreement of the State.
  The state of New York does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds and notes of the authority that the state...
• 1207-e - State and City Not Liable on Bonds or Notes.
  The bonds and notes of the authority shall not be a debt of the state of New York or the city, and neither the state...
• 1207-f - Bonds and Notes Legal Investments for Fiduciaries.
  The bonds and notes of the authority are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and...
• 1207-g - Exemptions From Taxation.
  1. It is hereby found, determined and declared that the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the...
• 1207-h - Remedies of Bondholders and Noteholders.
  1. In the event that the authority shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of the bonds or notes...
• 1207-i - Rates of Fare While Bonds, Notes and Other Obligations are Outstanding.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section twelve hundred five of this title or the provisions of any other law to the contrary, so long as the...
• 1207-j - Limitation on the Exercise of Powers by Authority and Lease Renewal.
  1. The powers granted and conferred upon the authority by section twelve hundred seven-a of this title to purchase cars for the rapid transit lines...
• 1207-k - Purchase, Financing and Lease of Cars and Rolling Stock by City.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the city may purchase from the authority, by negotiation and without competitive bidding, from time to time,...
• 1207-l - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Acts Superseded.
  Insofar as the provisions of section twelve hundred seven-a through twelve hundred seven-k, inclusive, are inconsistent with any other provisions of this title or of...
• 1207-m - Transit Projects.
  1. The term "transit project" as used in this section shall have the meaning given to such term from time to time in section twelve...
• 1208 - Revenue and Accounts.
  1. The authority shall establish and maintain a system of accounts to show at all times the cost of the several classes of property used...
• 1209 - Contracts.
  1. Any contract for public work, except where there is an emergency involving danger to life or property, the estimated cost of which exceeds twenty...
• 1209-a - Transit Adjudication Bureau.
  1. Establishment. There is hereby created in the authority a transit adjudication bureau. The head of such bureau shall be the executive director, who shall...
• 1210 - Employees.
  1. Employees in the competitive and labor classes of the classified service in the employ of the board of transportation and performing services in respect...
• 1210-a - Flexible Benefits Program.
  1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. "Code" shall mean the United States internal revenue code of...
• 1211 - Members and Employees Not to Be Interested in Contracts.
  It shall be a misdemeanor for any member, officer or employee of the authority to be in any way or manner interested, directly or indirectly,...
• 1212 - Actions Against the Authority.
  1. In every action against the authority for damages, for injuries to real or personal property, or for the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries...
• 1212-a - Security by Authority.
  1. Each provision of statute or rule requiring a party to give security for the purpose of procuring an order of arrest, an injunction order,...
• 1213 - Report.
  Copies of the annual report required to be made and submitted pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of this chapter also shall be submitted to the...
• 1214 - Rapid Transit Law.
  During any period when the transfer, or any renewal thereof, authorized by section eighteen hundred three of this title shall be in effect: 1. Articles...
• 1215 - Construction of Terms.
  Whenever the term public service commission, or board of rapid transit railroad commissioners, or transit construction commissioner, or transit commission or board of transportation, occurs...
• 1216 - Exemption From Taxation and Fees.
  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...
• 1217 - Records; Prima Facie Evidence.
  The record of the proceedings of the authority and of the board of transportation, the records and printed minutes of the transit commission, of the...
• 1218 - Pending Actions and Proceedings.
  1. Provision shall be made in the agreement described in section eighteen hundred three of this title for the assumption by the city of the...
• 1219 - Continuity of Jurisdiction.
  The authority shall be deemed and held to constitute a continuation, as to matters within its jurisdiction, of the board of transportation for the purpose...
• 1219-a - Transfer and Receipt of Surplus Funds.
  1. Notwithstanding any provision of this title or any other provision of law, general, special or local, the authority may from time to time transfer...
• 1220 - Separability.
  If any section, clause or provision of this title shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it...
• 1221 - Inconsistent Provisions in Other Acts Superseded.
  In so far as the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, or of any local...

Last modified: February 3, 2019