New York Transportation Law Article 2-D - UTICA TRANSIT AUTHORITY

• 40 - Definitions.
  Whenever used in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Authority" shall mean a public benefit corporation created by section...
• 41 - Organization.
  1. There is hereby created the Utica transit authority. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation and shall...
• 42 - Scope of Jurisdiction.
  The territorial jurisdiction of the Utica transit authority shall be coterminous with the territorial limits of the City of Utica and of the areas the...
• 43 - Powers and Duties.
  1. Except as otherwise limited by this article and by article five-I of the general municipal law, the Utica transit authority shall have the following...
• 44 - Officers and Employees; Compensation and Expenses.
  1. When the office of the first chairman of the mass transportation authority becomes vacant, the authority shall select a chairman from among its members....
• 45 - Vacancies and Removals.
  A vacancy occurring other then by reason of the expiration of the term of a member of the Utica transit authority shall be filled for...
• 46 - Non-Liability of Authority Members.
  No personal liability or accountability shall attach to any member of the Utica transit authority or to any person executing bonds of such authority by...
• 47 - Disqualification of Members and Employees.
  No member or employee of the Utica transit authority should have any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or engage in any business or...
• 48 - Not Within Jurisdiction of Public Service Commission.
  The acquisition, construction, reconstruction or improvement of any omnibus transportation capital project by the Utica transit authority pursuant to this article shall not be subject...
• 49 - Plans for Proposed Municipal Projects; Statement of Project Costs.
  The Utica transit authority shall file with the commissioner a copy of each proposed municipal project embodying the plans, specifications, estimated costs and proposed method...
• 50 - Statewide Transportation Planning.
  Project coordination with statewide transportation plan. Upon review of a proposed municipal project submitted to the commissioner under section forty-nine herein, the commissioner may transmit,...
• 51 - Comprehensive Regional Planning.
  Project coordination with comprehensive regional planning. Prior to undertaking a municipal project, the Utica transit authority shall comply with the provisions of this section. Where...
• 52 - Construction Contracts, Cancellation of Contracts, Disqualification to Contract With Mass Transportation Authority, Statement of Non-Collusion in Bids
  on proposals. 1. Contracts of the Utica transit authority for construction, alteration, renovation, demolition, excavation or for purchase of materials or supplies shall be in...
• 53 - Financial Assistance From and Cooperation With the State and Federal Governments.
  The Utica transit authority is empowered to include in agreements with the state and/or federal governments provisions that such government or governments shall have the...
• 54 - Bonds.
  1. The Utica transit authority shall have the power, and is hereby authorized, from time to time to borrow money and issue bonds in such...
• 55 - Provisions of Bonds.
  Bonds of the Utica transit authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued singly or in one or more series, and shall...
• 56 - Negotiability of Bonds.
  Whether or not any bonds, interim certificates or other obligations of the Utica transit authority issued pursuant to this article are of such form and...
• 57 - Signature on Bonds.
  In case any of the members or officers of the Utica transit authority whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be...
• 58 - Repurchase of Bonds.
  The Utica transit authority shall have power to purchase any bonds issued by it for the purpose of retirement or investment. The Utica transit authority...
• 59 - Suit on Bonds.
  In any suit, action or proceeding upon any bond of the Utica transit authority or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that...
• 60 - Bond Covenants.
  1. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of an obligation, and to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the...
• 61 - Bonds and Notes As Legal Investments.
  The bonds and notes of the Utica transit authority are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all...
• 62 - Remedies Against the Utica Transit Authority.
  1. In an action or proceeding to foreclose a mortgage on property of the Utica transit authority, the authority and all other necessary parties, shall...
• 62-a - Actions Against Authority.
  Except in an action for wrongful death, no action or special proceeding shall be prosecuted or maintained against the authority, its members, officers, or employees...
• 63 - Liability of State or Municipality.
  The bonds or other obligations of the Utica transit authority shall not be a debt of the state or a municipality and neither the state...
• 64 - Tax Exemptions.
  1. The Utica transit authority shall be exempt from the payment of (a) any taxes or fees to the state or any subdivision thereof, (b)...
• 65 - Depositories of Funds.
  In order to protect funds deposited by the Utica transit authority all banks, bankers, trust companies or other persons carrying on a banking business, organized...
• 66 - Filing of By-Laws, Rules and Regulations.
  1. The Utica transit authority shall file with the commissioner a copy of any by-laws, rules and regulations and amendments thereto adopted by it from...
• 67 - Dissolution.
  The Utica transit authority may apply to the supreme court in any county within the Utica transit authority's jurisdiction for an order dissolving such authority....
• 68 - Disposal of Records.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the Utica transit authority or officer or employee thereof is hereby empowered to destroy,...
• 69 - Reproduction of Records.
  The Utica transit authority may cause any paper, document or other record kept or recorded by it to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any...

Last modified: February 3, 2019