Section 1178. Powers of the authority

The authority shall have power:
    1.  To prepare or cause to be prepared plans, designs and estimates of
  costs for the construction of the project, and  from  time  to  time  to
  modify such plans, designs or estimates;
    2.  To  construct  the  project  and  any  additions,  betterments and
  extensions to the facilities of the authority by contract or  contracts,
  or  under,  through,  or  by  means  of  its  own  officers,  agents and
  employees;
    3. To have jurisdiction, control, possession and  supervision  of  the
  existing sewer system and the project; to maintain, operate, reconstruct
  and  improve  the  same  as  a comprehensive sewerage system and to make
  additions, betterments and extensions  thereto,  and  to  have  all  the
  rights,  privileges  and  jurisdiction  necessary or proper for carrying
  such power into execution. No enumeration of powers in this or any other
  general, special or local law shall operate to restrict the  meaning  of
  this  general  grant  of  power  or to exclude other powers comprehended
  within this general grant;
    4. To sue and be sued;
    5. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
    6. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate
  purposes;
    7. To acquire, in the name of the city, by purchase  or  condemnation,
  real  property  or  rights or easements therein, necessary or convenient
  for its corporate purposes and to use the same so long as its  corporate
  existence shall continue;
    8.  To  make  by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs
  and, subject to agreements with bondholders, for the regulation  of  the
  use  of  its  property  and  the  establishment and collection of rates,
  rentals and charges;
    9.  To  make  contracts  and  execute  all  instruments  necessary  or
  convenient;
    10.  To  borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds and to provide for
  the rights of the holders thereof;
    11. To fix and collect rates, rentals and other charges for  goods  or
  services  rendered  by  the authority, subject to and in accordance with
  such agreements with holders of bonds as  may  be  made  as  hereinafter
  provided;
    12.  To  enter  on any lands, water and premises as in the judgment of
  the authority shall be necessary for  the  purpose  of  making  borings,
  samples,  surveys, soundings and examinations of any effluent source and
  to accomplish any purpose authorized by this title;
    13. To accept, treat and dispose  of  the  sewage  and  waste  of  all
  municipal  corporations in the county of Erie and from any other persons
  from whatever source derived;
    14. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out  the  powers
  expressly given by this title;
    15.  To  establish,  adopt,  amend  or  cancel  and  issue such rules,
  regulations, permits and orders as  it  deems  necessary,  desirable  or
  convenient,  for  the jurisdiction, control, supervision, possession and
  use of the facilities and for the administration and enforcement of this
  title and such rules, regulations, permits and orders applicable to  all
  users;
    16.  To  enforce  the  rules,  regulations,  orders and permits of the
  authority for all users and in the event  of  non-compliance  therewith,
  the  authority may take any enforcement action, as may be established in
  the authority's rules and  regulations  or  otherwise  allowed  by  this
  title. The rules, regulations, permits and orders of the authority shall
  be  enforced in jurisdictions outside of the city pursuant to agreements

  with  the  county  of  Erie   or   the   respective   sewer   districts,
  municipalities  or  political  subdivisions for effluent sources located
  therein. In the absence of such agreements, the authority is  authorized
  to   enforce   its  rules,  regulations,  permits  and  orders  in  such
  jurisdictions located outside the city directly upon users  who  violate
  the  authority's  rules,  regulations,  permits  or  orders,  where such
  violations  are  not  discontinued  and  remedied,  to  the  authority's
  satisfaction,  by  the  county of Erie or the respective sewer district,
  municipality or political subdivision wherein such  effluent  source  is
  located.