Section 1199-NNNN. Actions against the authority

1. Except in an action
  for wrongful death, no action or special proceeding shall be  prosecuted
  or  maintained  against  the  authority for personal injury or damage to
  real or personal property alleged to have been sustained  by  reason  of
  the  negligence or wrongful act of the authority or any member, officer,
  agent or employee thereof, unless:
    (a) a notice of claim  shall  have  been  made  and  served  upon  the
  authority  within  the  time  limit prescribed by and in compliance with
  section fifty-e of the general municipal law;
    (b) it shall appear by and as an allegation in the complaint or moving
  papers that at least thirty days have elapsed since the service of  such
  notice  and  that  adjustment  or  payment thereof has been neglected or
  refused; and
    (c) the action or special proceeding shall  be  commenced  within  one
  year  and  ninety  days  after the happening of the event upon which the
  claim is based.
    An action for wrongful death against the authority shall be  commenced
  in accordance with the notice of claim and time limitation provisions of
  title eleven of article nine of this chapter.
    2.  Wherever  a notice of claim is served upon the authority, it shall
  have the right to demand an examination of the claimant relative to  the
  occurrence  and  extent  of  the  injuries or damages for which claim is
  made, in accordance with  the  provisions  of  section  fifty-h  of  the
  general municipal law.
    3.  The  authority may require any person presenting for settlement an
  account or claim for any cause whatever  against  the  authority  to  be
  sworn  before  a  member,  counsel,  or an attorney, officer or employee
  thereof designated for such purpose, concerning such  account  or  claim
  and  when  so  sworn,  to answer orally as to any facts relative to such
  account or claim. The authority shall have power to settle or adjust all
  claims in favor of or against the authority.
    4. Any action or proceeding to which the authority or  the  people  of
  the  state  may  be  parties,  in  which  any  question arises as to the
  validity of this title, shall be preferred over all other  civil  causes
  of  action  or  cases, except election causes of action or cases, in all
  courts of the state and shall be heard and determined in  preference  to
  all  other  civil  business  pending  therein  except  election  causes,
  irrespective of position on the calendar. The same preference  shall  be
  granted  upon  application of the authority or its counsel in any action
  or proceeding questioning the  validity  of  this  title  in  which  the
  authority  may  be allowed to intervene. The venue of any such action or
  proceeding shall be laid in the supreme court of the county.
    5. The rate of interest to be paid by the authority upon any  judgment
  for  which  it is liable, other than a judgment against the authority on
  bonds, shall be the rate prescribed by section five thousand four of the
  civil practice law and rules.  Interest  on  payments  of  principal  or
  interest  on  any bonds in default shall accrue at the rate or rates set
  forth in such bonds from the due date thereof until  paid  or  otherwise
  satisfied.
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