Section 1225-F. General powers of the fund  


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  • The  fund  shall have the
      following powers in addition to those specially conferred  elsewhere  in
      this  title:  (1)  to  sue and be sued; (2) to have a seal and alter the
      same at its pleasure; (3) to make and alter by-laws for its organization
      and internal management; (4) to prescribe a system of accounts  for  the
      fund;  (5)  to  purchase,  receive,  lease,  accept jurisdiction over or
      otherwise acquire real or personal property necessary and convenient for
      its corporate purposes; to execute and deliver deeds for  real  property
      held in its own name; and to transfer, lease, sublease or otherwise make
      such real or personal property available to the transportation authority
      or  the  transit authority or their subsidiaries or to sell or otherwise
      to dispose of such real or personal property that, in  the  judgment  of
      the fund, is no longer necessary for its corporate purposes; (6) subject
      to  other  provisions of law, to transfer upon such terms and conditions
      as is deemed appropriate such sums of money  as  are  not  required  for
      other purposes; (7) to make and execute contracts, leases, subleases and
      all  other  instruments  or  agreements  necessary or convenient for the
      exercise of its corporate powers and purposes; (8) with the  consent  of
      the  transportation  authority  or  the transit authority to use with or
      without compensation the  agents,  employees  and  facilities  of  those
      authorities  or  their  subsidiaries;  (9)  to  engage  the  services of
      construction,   engineering,   architectural,   legal   and    financial
      consultants,  surveyors  and  appraisers,  on  a  contract  basis  or as
      employees, for professional service and technical assistance and advice;
      (10) to cause, by agreement with the transportation  authority,  transit
      facilities  to  be  planned,  designed, constructed, acquired, extended,
      reconstructed, rehabilitated, modernized,  and  otherwise  improved,  in
      accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  title; (11) to procure such
      insurance as  is  deemed  necessary;  (12)  to  accept,  administer  and
      disburse  federal  and  state  aid  and  (13)  to  do any and all things
      necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate powers and purposes.