Section 1009. Contracts negotiated by authority  


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  • Contracts negotiated by the
      authority  as  provided  in  sub-paragraph  five  or  six of section one
      thousand five of this title  shall  be  entered  into  and  executed  as
      follows:
        1.  After  agreement  upon  the terms of any such contracts shall have
      been reached by the  authority  and  its  co-party  or  co-parties,  the
      authority  shall  promptly  transmit a copy of such proposed contract to
      the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the minority  leader  of  the
      assembly,  the chairman of the assembly committee on ways and means, the
      temporary president of the senate and the minority leader of the  senate
      and the chairman of the senate finance committee and shall hold a public
      hearing or hearings upon the terms thereof. At least thirty days' notice
      of  such  hearing shall be given by publication once in each week during
      such period in each of six newspapers within the state to be selected by
      the authority. Copies of  proposed  contracts  shall  be  available  for
      public  inspection  during  such  period of thirty days at the office or
      offices of the authority and at such other places throughout  the  state
      as it may designate.
        2.  Following  such public hearing, the authority shall reconsider the
      terms of the proposed contract or contracts  and  shall  negotiate  such
      changes  and modifications in the contract or contracts as it then deems
      necessary or advisable.
        3. When such contract or contracts are finally agreed  upon  in  terms
      satisfactory  to the authority and its co-party or co-parties, and which
      the authority believes to be in the public interest, the authority shall
      thereupon report the proposed contract or contracts, together  with  its
      recommendations  and  the  record of the public hearings thereon, to the
      speaker of the assembly, the chairman of the assembly committee on  ways
      and  means,  the  temporary president of the senate, the chairman of the
      senate finance committee and the governor. The  governor  shall,  within
      sixty  days thereafter, indicate his approval or disapproval thereof and
      give his reasons therefor.
        4. If the governor shall approve such contract, then the same shall be
      executed by the chairman and secretary of the  authority  and  it  shall
      thereupon  come  into  full  force  and  effect  and be binding upon the
      authority and all other parties thereto in accordance with its terms.