Section 1096. Powers of the authority

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, in the name of the authority, lease, hold and dispose
  of personal property or any interest therein for its corporate purposes,
  including the power to  purchase  prospective  or  tentative  awards  in
  connection  with  the  exercise of the power of condemnation hereinafter
  granted;
    4. To purchase or lease, in the  name  of  the  authority,  any  water
  supply  system,  water  distribution  system,  including  plants, works,
  instrumentalities or parts thereof  and  appurtenances  thereto,  lands,
  easements,  rights  in  land  and  water rights, rights-of-way, contract
  rights, franchises, approaches,  connections,  dams,  reservoirs,  water
  mains  and  pipe  lines,  pumping  stations  and equipment, or any other
  property incidental to and included in such system or part thereof,  and
  any  improvements,  extensions,  and  betterments,  situated  within the
  county, or in Genesee county, or in the town or village  of  Victor  and
  the  towns  of East Bloomfield and West Bloomfield in Ontario county, or
  in the village of Holley and the town of Clarendon in Orleans county for
  the purpose of supplying water  for  domestic,  commercial,  and  public
  purposes  at  retail to individual consumers within the county of Monroe
  or in the manner provided by subdivision seven of this section; and as a
  means of so acquiring for such purposes, and subject to the approval  of
  the  public  service  commission,  the authority may purchase all of the
  stock of any existing privately owned water corporation or company,  and
  thereafter,  within a reasonable time, such water corporation or company
  shall be dissolved;
    5. To condemn in the name of the authority in the counties  of  Monroe
  and  Genesee,  or  in  any  other  county  or  municipality specifically
  enumerated in the first sentence of subdivision six of this section,  or
  in  the  name  of  the  county in the case of any water facilities to be
  owned and financed by the county pursuant to  subdivision  sixteen-b  of
  this  section, except where located in any other county or municipality,
  any water supply system, water distribution  system,  including  plants,
  works,  instrumentalities,  or  parts thereof and appurtenances thereto,
  lands, easements,  rights  in  land  and  water  rights,  rights-of-way,
  contract  rights, franchises, approaches, connections, dams, reservoirs,
  water mains and pipe lines, pumping stations and equipment, or any other
  property incidental to and included in such system or part thereof,  and
  any  improvements,  extensions,  and  betterments  for  the  purpose  of
  supplying water for domestic, commercial, and public purposes at  retail
  to  individual consumers within the counties of Monroe and Genesee or in
  any other county or municipality specifically enumerated  in  the  first
  sentence  of  subdivision  six  of  this section, or at wholesale in the
  manner provided by subdivision seven  of  this  section.  The  authority
  shall  exercise  the  power of condemnation hereby granted in the manner
  provided by the eminent domain procedure law or any such  proceeding  to
  condemn  may  be  instituted  by  the  authority before a justice of the
  supreme court or an official referee thereof. In the  exercise  of  such
  power  of  condemnation,  the  property being condemned shall be deemed,
  when so determined by the authority, to be for a public use superior  to
  the  public  use  in  the  hands  of  any  other person, association, or
  corporation; provided, however, that the authority shall have  no  power
  to condemn property the legal title to which is vested in a municipality
  or  in  a private corporation owning such property primarily for its own
  use, unless such  municipality  or  private  corporation  shall  consent
  thereto;

    6.   To   construct   and  develop  any  water  supply  system,  water
  distribution system,  including  plants,  works,  instrumentalities,  or
  parts thereof, and appurtenances thereto, dams, reservoirs, water mains,
  pipe  lines,  pumping  stations  and  equipment,  or  any other property
  incidental  to  or  included  in  such system or part thereof within the
  county of Monroe, or in Genesee county, or in the  town  or  village  of
  Victor  and  the towns of East Bloomfield and West Bloomfield in Ontario
  county, or in the village of Holley and the town of Clarendon in Orleans
  county. To acquire, by condemnation, in the name of the authority in the
  counties of Monroe and Genesee, or in any other county  or  municipality
  specifically enumerated in the first sentence of this subdivision, or in
  the  name of the county of Monroe in the case of any water facilities to
  be owned and financed by such county pursuant to  subdivision  sixteen-b
  of  this section, lands, easements, rights in land and water rights, and
  rights-of-way within the counties of Monroe and Genesee, or in any other
  county or municipality specifically enumerated in the first sentence  of
  this  subdivision,  in the manner provided by this title; or to purchase
  or lease  lands,  easements,  rights  in  land  and  water  rights,  and
  rights-of-way  in  connection  therewith  within the county of Monroe or
  within  Genesee  county,  or  in  any  other  county   or   municipality
  specifically  enumerated  in the first sentence of this subdivision; and
  to own and operate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct, enlarge, and
  extend, subject to the provisions of this title, any of  its  properties
  acquired  or  constructed  under this title, all of which, together with
  the acquisition of such properties, are hereby  declared  to  be  public
  purposes;
    6-a.  The  authority  shall  not exercise any of the powers granted in
  subdivisions  four  and  six  of  this  section  with  respect  to   the
  acquisition, purchase, leasing, construction, or development of property
  outside  of  the county without first having obtained the prior approval
  of such purchase, leasing, acquisition, construction, or development  of
  such  property  outside  of  the county by resolution of the legislative
  body of the municipality wherein the affected property  outside  of  the
  county  is  located.  Notwithstanding  any inconsistent provision of any
  general, special, or local law, ordinance, resolution, or  charter,  any
  public  corporation  or  improvement district thereof may, by a majority
  vote of its governing body, give, grant, sell, convey, lend, license the
  use of, or lease to the authority any property or facilities,  including
  any  water  supply  system, water distribution system, including plants,
  works, instrumentalities or parts  thereof  and  appurtenances  thereto,
  lands,  easements,  rights  in  land  and  water  rights, rights-of-way,
  contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, dams,  reservoirs,
  water mains and pipe lines, pumping stations and equipment, or any other
  property  incidental to and included in such system or part thereof, and
  any  improvements,  extensions,  and  betterments  for  the  purpose  of
  supplying   water   for  domestic,  commercial,  industrial  and  public
  purposes, which property or facilities are useful in connection with the
  exercise by the authority of its powers under this title. Any such gift,
  grant, sale, conveyance, loan, license, or  lease  shall  be  upon  such
  terms  and  conditions,  and for such term or terms of years, subject to
  the rights of the holders of any bonds, as the authority and such public
  corporation or improvement district thereof may agree.  Any  such  gift,
  grant, sale, conveyance, loan, license, or lease shall not be subject to
  referendum,  permissive  or  mandatory.  In  the  event  that any public
  corporation  or  improvement  district  thereof  gives,  grants,  sells,
  conveys,  lends, licenses the use of, or leases any water supply system,
  water  distribution  system,  or  other   improvements,   extension   or
  betterments  for  the purpose of supplying water, to the authority, such

  public corporation or improvement district thereof may contract with the
  authority to lease, borrow,  license,  operate,  maintain,  manage,  and
  provide services for such facilities upon such terms and conditions, and
  for  such  term  or  terms of years, subject to the rights of holders of
  bonds, as the authority  and  such  public  corporation  or  improvement
  district  thereof  may  agree.  The  authority,  in  furtherance  of any
  purchase, conveyance, or lease of any  property  or  facility  from  any
  public  corporation  or  improvement  district  thereof,  may assume the
  primary responsibility for the payment of the principal and interest  on
  any  bonds  or  notes  issued  by such public corporation or improvement
  district thereof for such property or facility. For purposes of  section
  136.00  of  the  local  finance  law,  any agreement by the authority to
  assume the primary responsibility for the payment of the  principal  and
  interest  on any bonds or notes issued by any such public corporation or
  improvement district thereof shall, so  long  as  such  agreement  shall
  continue to be honored by the authority, cause such bonds or notes to be
  deemed  to  have  been  refunded,  and  any  such  public corporation or
  improvement district thereof may deduct from its gross indebtedness  any
  outstanding  indebtedness contracted for such property or facility to be
  acquired by the authority. The net proceeds of any purchase, conveyance,
  or lease of any property  or  facility  from  a  public  corporation  or
  improvement  district  thereof may be used by such public corporation or
  improvement district thereof for any general or specific public use;
    7. To sell water,  however  acquired,  by  volume  and  at  retail  to
  individual   consumers   within  the  county  of  Monroe  for  domestic,
  commercial, industrial, and public purposes, or by volume or in bulk and
  at wholesale to any or all  municipalities  or  privately  owned  public
  water  supply and distribution systems in such county. The fact that any
  municipality has procured or is about to procure an  independent  source
  of  water  supply  shall  not  prevent such municipality from purchasing
  water from the authority. To sell any water not needed in such county by
  volume and at retail  to  individual  consumers  within  the  county  of
  Genesee,  or  in  the  town  or  village of Victor and the towns of East
  Bloomfield and West Bloomfield in Ontario county, or in the  village  of
  Holley  and  the  town  of  Clarendon  in  Orleans county, for domestic,
  commercial, industrial, and public purposes, or by volume or in bulk and
  at wholesale to any municipality or privately owned public water  supply
  and  distribution  system outside of the county; provided that any costs
  incurred by the authority related to the Genesee county project shall be
  recovered by the authority solely from Genesee county or from rates  and
  charges  collected  from  customers  within  Genesee county; and further
  provided that the authority shall not sell water in any area outside  of
  the  county  unless the governing board of the municipality wherein such
  area is located shall enter into an agreement  with  the  authority  for
  service  or  sale  of  water  by  it in such area or shall by resolution
  request the authority to sell water  within  such  area.  Any  agreement
  between  a  municipality outside of the county and the authority for the
  sale of water to or within such municipality shall  be  subject  to  the
  approval  of  the legislative body of the contiguous county wherein such
  municipality is located. Not only may the  authority  sell  any  surplus
  water it may have developed, but it may develop and provide a sufficient
  amount  of  water  so  as  to  supply  water  outside  of  the county to
  individual consumers, any municipality, or privately owned public  water
  supply and distribution system;
    8.  To  purchase  water  in bulk or by volume from any person, private
  corporation  or  municipality  when  necessary  or  convenient  for  the
  operation  of  any water supply and distribution system developed by it,

  or when necessary or convenient  for  resale  under  the  authority  and
  provisions of subdivision seven of this section;
    9.  To  acquire,  hold,  use, lease, sell, transfer and dispose of any
  property,  real,  personal  or  mixed,  or  interest  therein,  for  its
  corporate purposes;
    10.  To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs,
  and subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the sale of  water
  and  the  collection of rents and charges therefor. A copy of such rules
  and by-laws, and all amendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary
  of the authority shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county
  and thereafter  published  once  in  two  newspapers  having  a  general
  circulation   in  the  county.  Violation  of  such  rules  shall  be  a
  misdemeanor, punishable by fine, not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  or  by
  imprisonment  for  not  longer  than  thirty  days,  or  both. Exclusive
  jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the local criminal courts  of  the
  county, which have trial jurisdiction, to hear and determine, subject to
  the  provisions  of  the  criminal  procedure law, any violation of this
  title;
    11. To use the officers, employees, facilities and  equipment  of  the
  county  with  the  consent of the county, paying a proper portion of the
  compensation or cost;
    12. To make contracts and  to  execute  all  necessary  or  convenient
  instruments,   including   evidences   of  indebtedness,  negotiable  or
  non-negotiable;
    13. To enter on any lands, waterways and premises for the  purpose  of
  making surveys, soundings and examinations;
    14. To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds or notes and to fund
  or  refund the same, and to provide for the rights of the holders of its
  obligations;
    15. To fix rates and collect charges for the use of the facilities of,
  or services rendered by, or any commodities furnished by  the  authority
  such  as to provide revenues sufficient at all times to pay, as the same
  shall become due, the principal and interest on the bonds  or  notes  of
  the authority together with the maintenance of proper reserves therefor,
  in  addition  to  paying  as  the  same  shall become due the expense of
  operating and maintaining the properties of the authority together  with
  proper reserves for depreciation, maintenance, and contingencies and all
  other obligations and indebtedness of the authority;
    16. To enter into cooperative agreements with other water authorities,
  municipalities,  or  utility  companies,  for  the  inter-connection  of
  facilities, the exchange or inter-change of  services  and  commodities,
  and  to  enter  into  contracts for the construction of water supply and
  distribution  systems  by  the  authority  for  any  municipality  which
  possesses  express  reciprocal  powers and having power to construct and
  develop a water supply and distribution system,  or  contracts  for  the
  construction  of  a  water  supply  and  distributions  systems  for the
  authority by a municipality which possesses  express  reciprocal  powers
  and   having   power  to  construct  and  develop  a  water  supply  and
  distribution  system,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  shall  be
  determined   to  be  reasonable  including,  but  not  limited  to,  the
  reimbursement of all costs of such construction, or for any other lawful
  purposes necessary or desirable to effect the purposes  of  this  title,
  provided,  however,  that any such agreement with a municipality located
  in a county, other than Monroe county, shall be subject to the  approval
  of  the  legislative  body of such county. The authority shall also have
  the power to enter into contracts or agreements with other corporations,
  public  or  private,  (i)  for  or  with  respect  to   the   financing,
  construction,  development,  expansion  or  improvement  of  properties,

  facilities, and appurtenances owned by the authority, with a part of the
  capacity  or  use  of  such  properties,  facilities  and  appurtenances
  utilized or to be utilized by or for the benefit of any such corporation
  and  (ii)  for or with respect to the use, operation, management, repair
  and maintenance of such properties, facilities, and appurtenances of the
  authority, upon such terms and conditions as shall be determined  to  be
  reasonable,  which  may  include,  without limitation, collection by the
  authority of rents, rates or other  charges  to  pay  for  the  cost  of
  construction,  including  debt  service  on obligations of the authority
  issued to  finance  construction,  operation,  management,  maintenance,
  repair  and  use  of such facilities; and municipalities having power to
  construct and develop water supply and distribution systems  shall  have
  the power to enter into contracts or agreements contemplated herein with
  the  authority, including any such contract to which another corporation
  is a party;
    16-a. To enter  into  a  contract  or  contracts  with  the  board  of
  supervisors  of  Monroe  county  for  the  acquisition, construction and
  development of a water supply and distribution system, or  any  part  or
  parts thereof, on behalf of a county water district, and to contract for
  the  operation  and  management  of  such  county water district, all as
  provided in article five-a of the county law and article five-b  of  the
  general municipal law. Such water authority shall be deemed the agent of
  Monroe  county under any such contract. If such contract shall authorize
  the water authority to purchase supplies or equipment  or  to  construct
  public  works,  such authority shall be subject to all provisions of law
  to which Monroe county would be subject in relation to  advertising  and
  awarding any such contracts for supplies, equipment or public works.
    16-b.  (1)  It  is  the purpose of this subdivision to provide a means
  whereby: (i) the authority shall plan,  construct,  operate  and  manage
  both  the  water  properties owned by the authority and additional water
  facilities to be hereafter constructed by the authority but financed and
  owned by the county  so  that  such  water  properties  and  such  water
  facilities  may  be operated as an integrated water system; and (ii) the
  county shall finance  the  construction  of  and  own  additional  water
  facilities  and  lease  the same to or otherwise make the same available
  for use by the authority in order to assist the authority  in  providing
  such  necessary  improvements  required  for  the operation of the water
  properties of the authority (the title to which water  properties  will,
  as provided by law, become vested in the county).
    (2)  For  the  purposes  of this subdivision sixteen-b the term "water
  facilities" shall mean the acquisition, construction  or  reconstruction
  of  or addition to a water supply or distribution system, whether or not
  including buildings, land  or  rights  in  land,  original  furnishings,
  equipment, machinery or apparatus, or the replacement of such equipment,
  machinery  or  apparatus,  which water facilities are to be financed and
  owned by the county. For the purpose of this subdivision  sixteen-b  the
  term  "water  properties" means the source of water supply and the water
  supply and distribution system of the authority, including  the  plants,
  works,  instrumentalities  or  parts  thereof and appurtenances thereto,
  lands, easements, rights in  land  and  water  rights,  rights  of  way,
  contract  rights, franchises, approaches, connections, dams, reservoirs,
  water mains and pipe lines, pumping  stations  and  equipment,  and  any
  other  property,  real, personal or mixed, incidental to and included in
  such source of  supply  and  such  system  or  parts  thereof,  and  any
  improvements,  extensions and betterments, now or hereafter constructed,
  acquired or made by the  authority,  other  than  the  water  facilities
  constructed  by  the  authority  but financed and owned by the county in
  accordance with the provisions of this subdivision.

    (3) The county may, by resolution of  the  legislative  body  of  such
  county,  enter  into  an  agreement  or  agreements  with  the authority
  providing: (i)  that  water  facilities  shall  be  constructed  by  the
  authority,  which  water  facilities  shall be financed and owned by the
  county  and  leased  or  otherwise  made  available  for  the use of the
  authority; and (ii) for the transfer to the authority  for  use  in  the
  execution  of  its corporate purposes of such water facilities hereafter
  financed and owned by the county in accordance with  the  provisions  of
  this subdivision; provided, however, that title to such facilities shall
  remain in the county.
    Such  agreement  shall  constitute  a  contract for the passing to and
  vesting in the county of all  rights  and  properties,  including  water
  properties,  of  the  authority  when  all liabilities of the authority,
  other than its liabilities to the  county  pursuant  to  any  agreements
  entered  into  pursuant  to  this  subdivision,  and  the  bonds  of the
  authority have been paid in full  or  such  liabilities  or  bonds  have
  otherwise been discharged.
    Such  agreement  or  agreements  may  be amended, modified, changed or
  extended by supplemental agreements authorized and executed in the  same
  manner  as  the  original  agreement provided that the provisions of any
  such  supplemental  agreement  shall  not  be  inconsistent   with   the
  provisions of this subdivision sixteen-b.
    (4) Such agreement shall provide that until the rights and properties,
  including  the  water  properties, of the authority shall pass to and be
  vested in the county as provided by law, the authority shall act as  the
  agent of the county: (i) to provide water facilities deemed necessary by
  the  authority  (a) to provide a supply of water sufficient to serve all
  customers of the water properties of the  authority  and  of  the  water
  facilities  of  the county operated and managed by the authority, or (b)
  water facilities for the distribution of water deemed necessary  by  the
  authority to serve the territory of the authority within the county; and
  (ii)  to  operate,  manage,  replace,  maintain  and  repair  such water
  facilities in conjunction with the water properties of the authority  so
  that both the water properties of the authority and the water facilities
  owned  and financed by the county shall be planned, operated and managed
  as an integrated water system.
    (5) Such agreement shall provide for the transfer to and  use  by  the
  authority   of   such  water  facilities  by  lease,  license  or  other
  arrangement until such time as  all  rights  and  properties,  including
  water  properties,  of  the authority shall pass to and be vested in the
  county as provided by law and shall  authorize  the  authority  to  take
  jurisdiction,   control,   possession  and  supervision  of  such  water
  facilities and operate, manage, replace, maintain and  repair  the  same
  together  with  the  water  properties of the authority as an integrated
  water system.
    (6) Such agreement shall provide that the county shall pay  an  amount
  not  to  exceed  twenty-seven  million  dollars to provide certain water
  facilities to be owned by the county and leased  to  or  otherwise  made
  available  for use by the authority in accordance with the provisions of
  such agreement, which water  facilities  shall  be  described  in  terms
  sufficient  for identification in the first agreement so executed by and
  between the county and the authority.  The county may issue  obligations
  pursuant   to  the  local  finance  law  in  an  amount  not  to  exceed
  twenty-seven million dollars to pay the cost of such  water  facilities.
  The provisions of section four hundred of the county charter prohibiting
  the  financing  of permanent improvements by the issuance of obligations
  pursuant to the local finance law unless such permanent improvements are
  included in a budget of permanent improvements adopted and  approved  as

  provided  by  such  section  four hundred shall not be applicable to the
  financing of such water facilities by the issuance of  such  obligations
  of the county authority by this paragraph.
    (7)  Such  agreement shall provide that the authority shall pay to the
  county for each fiscal year of the county an annual rental for  the  use
  of  the water facilities financed and owned by the county which shall be
  an operating expense of the authority, and shall be equal to the sum  of
  the following: (i) the principal of any bonds of the county becoming due
  in such fiscal year issued in accordance with any agreement entered into
  pursuant  to  this subdivision; and (ii) the interest on any obligations
  of the county, including bonds and notes, issued in accordance with  any
  such  agreement  and  becoming  due  in such fiscal year. Such agreement
  shall provide such further details as the parties  deem  necessary  with
  respect  to the time and manner of the payment of such annual rentals in
  order to assure that such annual rentals shall be available to  the  the
  county  at the times and in the amounts required for the payment of such
  principal of bonds of the county and such interest on obligations of the
  county. Notwithstanding that the payment of such annual rentals shall be
  an operating expense of the authority, such agreement may  provide  that
  payment  thereof  shall be subordinate to all or any of certain payments
  hereinafter described required to be made by a certain  trust  indenture
  between the authority and a trustee dated as of February first, nineteen
  hundred  fifty-nine.  Such payments are the payments required to be made
  by said trust indenture to the debt service fund and  the  debt  service
  reserve fund both created by such indenture.
    (8)  Such  agreement  shall  provide  that  to  facilitate the further
  acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extension  or  betterment  of
  water  facilities  by  the  authority  to  be  owned and financed by the
  county, other than and  in  addition  to  the  water  facilities  to  be
  financed  by  the  county pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6) of
  this subdivision, the authority, on or before September  first  in  each
  year  or  on  or before such earlier date in each year as such agreement
  may provide, may submit to the county manager a capital budget  for  the
  calendar year beginning on the succeeding January first of such proposed
  water  facilities  and  the estimated cost thereof.  Such capital budget
  shall be accompanied by a report of the consulting engineers retained by
  the authority pursuant to a certain trust  indenture  of  the  authority
  dated  as  of  February one, nineteen hundred fifty-nine. Such report of
  the consulting engineers shall explain the need for or  desirability  of
  such  proposed  water  facilities  and  shall  state that the consulting
  engineers have approved the estimated cost thereof. Such capital  budget
  of  the authority and report of such consulting engineers shall describe
  such proposed water facilities in terms sufficient  for  identification.
  When  received  by  the  county  manager,  such  capital  budget  of the
  authority and the report of the consulting engineers shall  be  used  in
  the  preparation  of  the budget of permanent public improvements of the
  county required to be prepared by section four  hundred  of  the  Monroe
  county charter in the same manner as if the providing of such additional
  water  facilities  originally  were  proposed  by the county. The county
  shall pay the cost of any water facilities  contained  in  a  budget  of
  permanent  improvements  after such budget has been adopted. At any time
  after the adoption of such budget of permanent improvements  the  county
  may  finance  any  water  facilities  contained  therein pursuant to the
  provisions of and in the manner  provided  by  the  local  finance  law.
  Notwithstanding  any  other provisions of this subdivision, in the event
  that any item for the providing of water  facilities  contained  in  the
  capital  budget  and  report of the consulting engineers as submitted to
  the county manager shall not be made a part of the budget  of  permanent

  improvements  of the county, the authority may, nevertheless, proceed to
  construct such proposed water facility  as  an  addition  to  the  water
  properties  of  the  authority  and  finance the same by the issuance of
  obligations  of the authority, subject, however, to:  (i) the provisions
  of any resolutions or trust indentures heretofore or  hereafter  adopted
  or  executed  by  the authority, as the case may be, with respect to the
  construction of water  properties  and  the  financing  thereof  by  the
  authority; and (ii) the limitations, if any, on the issuance of bonds or
  obligations  by  the  authority  contained  in  any  agreement  executed
  pursuant to this subdivision sixteen-b.
    (9) Such agreement  may  contain  further  provisions  concerning  the
  following, provided, however, that no provisions in any agreement or any
  supplemental agreement thereto shall require the authority to in any way
  impair  the  rights  and  remedies  of the holders of obligations of the
  authority pursuant to any resolution or trust indenture of the authority
  heretofore adopted or executed authorizing or  securing  obligations  of
  the authority: (i) further provisions relating to the annual rentals due
  by  the  authority  to  the county as provided in this subdivision; (ii)
  provisions that the rates, fees, rentals and other charges for the  sale
  or  distribution  of  water  or for other services rendered by the water
  properties of the authority shall be in an amount  sufficient  to  fully
  comply  with  any covenants with holders of obligations of the authority
  and in addition sufficient to pay the  annual  rentals  payable  by  the
  authority  to  the  county  as  provided  in this subdivision and in any
  agreements or supplemental agreements executed in  accordance  with  the
  provisions  of  this subdivision; (iii) provisions limiting the issuance
  of bonds or obligations by the authority; (iv) provisions  limiting  the
  power  of  the  authority  to  sell  or  otherwise  dispose of its water
  properties without the consent of the county; (v)  providing  that  when
  the  rights  and properties of the authority shall pass to and be vested
  in the county as provided by law the authority shall act as the agent of
  the county to plan, construct, operate and manage the  water  properties
  and  water  facilities  then  vested in and owned by the county for such
  term and extensions of  such  term  as  may  be  provided  by  any  such
  agreements;  and  (vi)  such  other provisions not inconsistent with the
  provisions of this subdivision  sixteen-b  as  the  parties  shall  deem
  necessary  or  desirable to implement the purpose and provisions of this
  subdivision sixteen-b.
    (10) The proceeds of sale of obligations of the county issued pursuant
  to any agreement entered into pursuant  to  this  subdivision  shall  be
  subject to the provisions of section one hundred sixty-five of the local
  finance  law  and shall be paid and disbursed by the director of finance
  of the county on requisition by the authority or such person or  persons
  as the authority may authorize to make such requisitions without further
  audit; provided, however, that the director of finance of the county may
  require that such requisitions shall be accompanied by properly itemized
  and verified or certified bills for materials, supplies or services.
    (11)  All  contracts  for the purchase of supplies or equipment or the
  construction of water  facilities  entered  into  with  respect  to  the
  providing of water facilities to be financed and owned by the county and
  constructed  by  the authority shall be subject to all provisions of law
  which  the  county  of  Monroe  would  be  subject  to  in  relation  to
  advertising  and  awarding any such contracts for supplies, equipment or
  the construction of water facilities
    (12) The provisions of this subdivision sixteen-b shall be independent
  and cumulative power for the authority and the county to enter into  the
  agreements  authorized  hereby  and  shall  not  be construed with or be

  limited by any of the provisions of article five-a of the county law and
  of this article of the public authorities law.
    17.  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 county, or an individual, by bequest or otherwise, and to
  expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;
    18. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out  the  powers
  expressly given in this title.
    19. To contract for the purposes of subdivision twenty-four of section
  ten of article two of the highway law.
    In  exercising  the  powers granted by this title, the authority shall
  not sell water in any area which is served by a water  system  owned  or
  operated   by   a  municipality  unless  the  governing  board  of  such
  municipality shall adopt a resolution requesting the authority  to  sell
  water in such area.