Section 37.09. Cooperation with municipalities

1.  The  commission is a
  cooperative regional organization established to implement a county  and
  state  approved  management plan for the Mohawk Valley heritage corridor
  based upon the mutual assent  and  participation  of  each  municipality
  therein.  The activities of the commission shall be coordinated with the
  local planning, cultural and park activities of  each  municipality.  No
  real  property  may  be  acquired  or  capital project undertaken by the
  commission in a city, town or village without the written  approval  for
  such action of the chief elected official of such city, town or village.
  Nothing  herein  shall be construed to grant the commission the power of
  eminent domain.
    2. Each municipality may provide the commission with the  services  of
  its  agents, employees and facilities without charge to the corporation.
  Persons serving as officers  or  employees  of  the  commission  may  be
  employees  of  a  municipality and the commission, in such case, may pay
  the municipality an agreed portion of the compensation or costs.
    3. For purposes of implementing the management  plan,  any  individual
  municipality  may  carry  out  an individual project in its own name or,
  with the agreement of  the  commission,  acquire  real  property  for  a
  project  in  the  name  of the commission at the cost and expense of the
  commission. In case the commission shall have the use and  occupancy  of
  any  real  property which it shall determine is no longer required for a
  project then, if such property was acquired at the cost and expense of a
  municipality, the commission shall have the power to surrender  its  use
  and occupancy thereof to the municipality, or, if such real property was
  acquired  at the cost and expense of the commission, then the commission
  shall have power to sell,  lease  or  otherwise  dispose  of  said  real
  property  at public sale, and shall retain and have the power to use the
  proceeds of sale, rentals, or other moneys derived from the  disposition
  thereof for its purposes.
    * NB Repealed April 1, 2013