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SECTION 1599-DDD
Purpose and powers of the authority
Public Authorities (PBA) CHAPTER 43-A, ARTICLE 7, TITLE 16
* § 1599-ddd. Purpose and powers of the authority. The purpose of the
authority shall be to construct, operate and maintain one or more
projects in the village. To carry out said purpose, the authority shall
have power:

(a) To sue and be sued;

(b) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;

(c) To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its
corporate purposes, including the power to purchase prospective or
tentative awards in connection with the condemnation of real property;

(d) To acquire, in the name of the village by purchase or
condemnation, and use necessary real property. All real property
acquired by the authority by condemnation shall be acquired in the
manner provided in the condemnation law or in the manner provided by law
for the condemnation of land by the village, and further provided, that
the authority shall give the board of trustees of the village written
notice of its intent to acquire any land by condemnation, whereupon said
board of trustees, within a period of forty-five days after the giving
of such notice, by resolution voted upon affirmatively by at least four
members of such board of trustees, may determine that such land shall
not be so acquired, in which event the authority shall be without
further power to so acquire the same by condemnation;

(e) To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs,
and, subject to agreements with bondholders, for the regulation of the
project;

(f) With the consent of the village to use agents, employees and
facilities of the village, paying to the village its agreed proportion
of the compensation or costs;

(g) To appoint officers, agents and employees, to prescribe their
qualifications and to fix their compensation; subject, however, to the
provisions of the civil service law, as hereinafter provided; to
designate officers and employees, appointed or used by the authority, as
hereinabove specified, who shall be empowered to issue appearance
tickets as provided for in article one hundred fifty of the criminal
procedure law. Persons so designated are hereby authorized to issue and
serve such tickets for traffic infractions relating to parking within
"project" areas as defined herein, in accordance with law and when
authorized by local law of the town of Mount Kisco or the village to
issue and serve such tickets for traffic infractions committed anywhere
in such town or such village including at parking spaces controlled by
parking meters;

(h) To appoint an attorney, who may be the village attorney, and to
fix his compensation;

(i) To make contracts and leases, and to execute all instruments
necessary or convenient;

(j) To construct such buildings, structures and facilities as may be
necessary;

(k) To reconstruct, improve, maintain and operate the projects;

(l) To accept grants, loans or contributions from the United States,
the state of New York, or any agency or instrumentality of either of
them, or the village, or an individual, by bequest or otherwise, and to
expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;

(m) To fix and collect rentals, fees and other charges for the use of
the projects or any of them subject to and in accordance with such
agreements with bondholders as may be made as hereinafter provided;

(n) To construct, operate or maintain in the projects all facilities
necessary or convenient in connection therewith; and to contract for the
construction, operation or maintenance of any parts thereof or for
services to be performed; to rent parts thereof, and grant concessions,
all on such terms and conditions as it may determine; provided, however,
that neither the authority, the village of Mount Kisco, or any agency of
the authority or village, or any other person, firm or corporation
shall, within or on any property comprising a part of any project
authorized by this title, sell, dispense or otherwise handle any product
used in or for the servicing of any motor vehicle using any project or
facility authorized by this title.

* NB Authority ceased to exist 06/01/1976

* NB There are 2 § 1599-ddd's