Section 879. Purposes and powers of the authority

The purposes of the
  authority shall be to acquire, construct, reconstruct,  improve,  equip,
  operate  and  maintain  adequate  regional  market facilities within the
  district for the buying and selling  of  agricultural  products  and  to
  conduct  such  other business activities as reasonably are incidental to
  and  in  furtherance  of  the  convenient,  efficient,  profitable   and
  successful  operation  of such regional market facilities. To enable the
  authority to carry out such purposes, the authority shall have power:
    1. To sue and be sued.
    2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.
    3. To acquire, hold, lease, sell, convey and dispose of any  property,
  real or personal, or interest therein, for its corporate purposes.
    3-a. To lease real property heretofore acquired and now held by it and
  not  required for regional market facilities for agricultural, business,
  commercial or industrial uses.
    4. To condemn real property which shall be necessary for its corporate
  purposes, in the manner provided in the condemnation law.
    5. To determine the location, type, size, construction  and  equipment
  of requisite regional market facilities within the district.
    6.  To  prepare  a  plan  for financing the acquisition, construction,
  equipment and operation of such facilities.
    7. To make such investigations and hold hearings  and  conferences  as
  may  be  necessary or convenient to formulate, adopt and revise programs
  and  plans  for  financing,  building,  acquiring  and  operating   such
  facilities.
    8. To acquire, erect, construct, reconstruct, improve, equip, maintain
  and  operate  such  buildings,  structures  and  facilities  as  may  be
  necessary or convenient.
    9. To appoint officers, agents and employees  and  fix  and  determine
  their qualifications, duties and compensation, subject to the provisions
  of  the civil service law of the state of New York and such rules as the
  civil service commission of the county of  Monroe  may  adopt  and  make
  applicable to public authorities.
    10. To contract for expert and other professional services.
    11.  To  make  contracts  and  leases,  and to execute all instruments
  necessary or convenient.
    12. To fix and collect rentals, fees and other charges for the use  of
  its  property  or facilities, subject to the provisions of section eight
  hundred eighty of this title.
    13. To make by-laws for the organization, management and regulation of
  its affairs.
    14. To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds  and  notes  and  to
  provide for the rights of the holders thereof.
    15.  To  do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers
  expressly given by this title.