Section 1199-EEEE. Powers of the authority

Except as otherwise limited by
  this title, the authority shall have the power:
    1. To sue and be sued;
    2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
    3.  To  borrow  money  and  issue  negotiable  notes,  bonds  or other
  obligations and to provide for the rights of the holders thereof;
    4. To enter into contracts and execute all  instruments  necessary  or
  convenient  or  desirable for the purposes of the authority to carry out
  any powers expressly given it in this title;
    5. To acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract  or  lease
  or  by  condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law within
  the district, lease as lessee, hold, and  use  and  to  sell,  lease  as
  lessor,  transfer or otherwise dispose of, any real or personal property
  or any  interest  therein,  within  or  without  the  district,  as  the
  authority  may  deem necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out the
  purpose of this title and to pay the costs thereof;  provided,  however,
  that  the  authority  may  not  condemn  real property of a municipality
  without the consent of the governing body of such municipality;
    6. To purchase or refuse to purchase, in the name  of  the  authority,
  any    water    or   sewerage   facility,   including   plants,   works,
  instrumentalities or parts thereof  and  appurtenances  thereto,  lands,
  easements,  rights  in  land  and  water rights, rights-of-way, contract
  rights,  franchises,  permits,  approaches,  connections,  dams,  wells,
  pumps,  reservoirs,  water  or  sewer  mains  and  pipe  lines,  pumping
  stations, treatment facilities, meters, equipment and inventory, or  any
  other  property  incidental  to  and  included  in  such  system or part
  thereof, and any  improvements,  extensions  and  betterments,  situated
  wholly  within  the  district  and  to  pay the costs thereof; provided,
  however, that the authority shall have the power to purchase any  source
  of  supply,  supply  facility,  water  supply  system,  or  transmission
  facility or any part thereof  situated  wholly  or  partly  without  the
  territorial limits of the district, provided the same shall be necessary
  in order to supply water within the district; and in connection with the
  purchase of such properties, the authority may assume any obligations of
  the owner of such properties and, to the extent required by the terms of
  any  indentures  or  other instruments under which such obligations were
  issued, the authority may assume and  agree  to  perform  covenants  and
  observe  the restrictions contained in such instruments; and furthermore
  the owner of any  properties,  which  the  authority  is  authorized  to
  acquire,  is hereby authorized to sell or otherwise transfer the same to
  the authority, whereupon the authority shall  become  charged  with  the
  performance  of  all  public duties with respect to such properties with
  which such owner was charged and such owner shall become discharged from
  the performance thereof, and  as  a  means  of  so  acquiring  for  such
  purpose,  the  authority  may  purchase all of the stock of any existing
  privately owned water corporation or company and in the case of  a  sale
  or other transfer of properties of a public utility corporation pursuant
  to this provision, upon the purchase of the stock of such corporation or
  company  it  shall  be  lawful  to  dissolve  such  corporation within a
  reasonable time;
    7. To construct, improve, maintain, develop,  expand  or  rehabilitate
  water or sewerage facilities and to pay the costs thereof;
    8.  To  operate  and  manage  and  to  contract  for the operation and
  management of facilities of the authority;
    9. To enter into contracts, and carry out the terms thereof,  for  the
  wholesale  provision of water produced by supply facilities constructed,
  owned or operated by the authority, to municipalities and private  water

  companies  and  to  carry out the terms thereof, for the transmission of
  water from new or existing supply facilities;
    10.  To  enter into contracts with municipalities or other persons for
  the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage;
    11. To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal,
  state and local governments for such licenses, permits or  approvals  of
  its  plans  or  projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and upon
  such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate, to accept, in  its
  discretion, such licenses, permits or approvals as may be tendered to it
  by such agencies and officials;
    12.  To  take all necessary and reasonable actions within the district
  to conserve, preserve and protect the  water  supply  to  the  district,
  including  the  making  of  plans and studies, the adoption of watershed
  rules and regulations, the enforcing of compliance with all current  and
  future  rules  and regulations of the state sanitary code with regard to
  water supply and usage, the requiring of cross-connection controls,  the
  providing  of  educational  material and programs to the public, and the
  cooperating with water  suppliers  outside  the  district  to  conserve,
  preserve  and  protect the entire water reserve as it is affected within
  and outside the authority's supply area;
    13. To appoint such officers and employees as  are  required  for  the
  performance  of  its  duties, to fix and determine their qualifications,
  duties and compensation, and to  retain  or  employ  counsel,  auditors,
  engineers,  and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise for
  rendering professional or technical services and advice;
    14. With the consent of the governing body of a municipality,  to  use
  officers  and  employees  of  such  municipality  and  to  pay  a proper
  proportion of the compensation  or  costs  for  the  services  for  such
  officers or employees;
    15.  To  make plans and studies necessary, convenient or desirable for
  the effectuation of the purposes and powers  of  the  authority  and  to
  prepare recommendations in regard thereto;
    16.  To  prepare  a water supply emergency plan which may include, but
  not be limited to, the following:
    (a) establishment of criteria and  procedures  to  determine  critical
  water levels or safe yield of system;
    (b)  identification  of  existing  and  future  sources of water under
  normal conditions and emergency conditions;
    (c) system capacity and ability to meet peak  demand  and  fire  flows
  concurrently;
    (d) storage capacities;
    (e)  current  condition of present interconnections and identification
  of additional interconnections to meet a water supply emergency;
    (f) specific  action  plan  to  be  followed  during  a  water  supply
  emergency including a phased implementation of the plan;
    (g)  general  water  conservation  programs  and  water  use reduction
  strategies for water supply users;
    (h) prioritization of water users;
    (i) identification and  availability  of  emergency  equipment  needed
  during a water supply emergency; and
    (j)   public   notification   program   coordinated  with  the  phased
  implementation schedule.
    Such plan shall not be adopted until a public  hearing  on  such  plan
  shall  have  been held, upon not less than fourteen days' notice thereof
  to each customer, either by mail or by publication once in  a  newspaper
  having  general  circulation within the district; every five years, such
  plan shall be reviewed and revised if necessary after a public  hearing,
  with notice to each customer as aforesaid;

    17.  To  enter upon such lands, waters, or premises as in the judgment
  of the authority shall be necessary for the purpose of  making  surveys,
  soundings, borings and examinations to accomplish any purpose authorized
  by this title, the authority being liable only for actual damage done;
    18.  To  apply for and to accept any gifts or grants or loans of funds
  or property or financial or other aid  in  any  form  from  the  federal
  government  or  any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from the state
  or any agency or instrumentality thereof or from any other  source,  for
  any  or  all  of  the  purposes  specified in this title, and to comply,
  subject to the provisions of this title, with the terms  and  conditions
  thereof;
    19.  To  supply  and  sell  water  for domestic, commercial and public
  purposes at retail to individual consumers within  the  district  or  to
  collect, treat or discharge sewage produced within the district;
    20.  To  purchase  water  in  bulk  from any person, private or public
  benefit corporation or municipality when necessary or convenient for the
  operation of such water system;
    21. To  produce,  develop,  distribute  and  sell  water  or  sewerage
  services  within  or without the territorial limits of the district; and
  to purchase water from any municipality, town  water  district,  person,
  association  or  corporation; provided, however, that water and sewerage
  services may be sold at retail to individual consumers only  within  the
  district  and  further provided that in exercising the powers granted by
  this title, the authority shall not sell  water  services  in  any  area
  which is served by a water system or sewerage services in any area which
  is  served  by  a sewerage system owned or operated by a municipality or
  special  improvement  district  unless  the  governing  body   of   such
  municipality  or  district  shall  adopt  a  resolution  requesting  the
  authority to sell water or sewerage services, as the  case  may  be,  in
  such served areas;
    22.  To  make  bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs
  and  rules  and  regulations  for  the  conservation,  preservation  and
  protection  of  the  authority's water supply and, subject to agreements
  with bondholders, rules for the sale of water or  collection  of  sewage
  and  the collection of rents and charges therefor. A copy of such rules,
  regulations and bylaws and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
  subdivision twelve of this section, and  all  amendments  thereto,  duly
  certified by the secretary of the authority shall be filed in the office
  of  the  county clerk of the county. In addition, the county legislature
  by local law shall have power to prescribe that  violation  of  specific
  bylaws, rules, or rules and regulations of the authority, published once
  in  a  newspaper  having general circulation within the county, shall be
  punishable by fine, not exceeding fifty dollars per violation;
    23. 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,  notes,  or
  other  obligations  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 maintenance reserves, capital reserves,
  repair  reserves,  tax  stabilization  reserves  and  other  contingency
  reserves, and all other obligations and indebtedness of the authority;
    24.  To  enter  into  cooperative  agreements  with other authorities,
  municipalities, counties,  cities,  towns,  villages,  water  districts,
  utility companies, individuals, firms or corporations, within or without
  the  territorial  limits  of  the  district  for  the interconnection of
  facilities, the provision,  exchange  or  interchange  of  services  and

  commodities,  the  conservation,  preservation  and  protection  of  the
  authority's water reserve as it  is  affected  within  and  outside  the
  authority's  supply  area,  and  within  the  territorial  limits of the
  district  to  enter  into a contract for the construction, operation and
  maintenance of a water supply and distribution system or sewerage system
  or facilities by the authority for  any  municipality  having  power  to
  construct and develop a water supply and distribution or sewerage system
  or  facilities, 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;
    25. To provide for the discontinuance or  disconnection  of  water  or
  sewerage  service,  or both, as the case may be, for nonpayment of fees,
  rates, rents  or  other  charges  therefor  imposed  by  the  authority,
  provided  such  discontinuance or disconnection of any water or sewerage
  service, or both, as the case may be, shall not be carried out except in
  the  manner  and  upon  the  notice  as  is  required  of  a  waterworks
  corporation  pursuant  to  subdivisions  three-a, three-b and three-c of
  section eighty-nine-b and section one  hundred  sixteen  of  the  public
  service law;
    26.  To act as a county water agency in accordance with the provisions
  of article five-A of the county law;
    27. For the purposes of article fifteen-A of the  executive  law  only
  the  authority shall be deemed a state agency as that term is defined in
  such article and its contracts for  procurement,  design,  construction,
  services  and  materials  shall  be  deemed  state  contracts within the
  meaning of that term as set forth in such article; and
    28. To do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to  carry  out
  its purposes and for all exercise of the powers granted in this title.
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