Section 2580. Acquisition of real property for the authority

1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local  law  or
  charter,  the  county  is hereby empowered to purchase or lease from the
  authority for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years, a sports facility,
  or enter into any other agreement relating to a  sports  facility,  upon
  such  terms  and  conditions as may be agreed upon by the county and the
  authority.
    2. The county may enter into agreements with  the  authority  for  the
  management or operation, in whole or in part, of a sports facility owned
  or acquired by the county.
    3.  The  county  may  enter into agreements with the authority for the
  operation or maintenance, in whole or in part, of  a  facility  for  the
  purpose of minor league baseball, presently known as Frontier Field.
    4.  The county may enter into agreements with the authority to pay for
  planning, design and feasibility studies undertaken,  or  caused  to  be
  undertaken, by the authority.
    5.  Since  the  authority's  continued  discharge  of  its  public and
  governmental purposes is of benefit to the county, the county  may  pay,
  within  the  appropriations  available therefor, if any, the expenses of
  the establishment and continued operation of the authority.
    6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county  shall  have
  the power to contract indebtedness and to issue its obligations pursuant
  to  the  local  finance  law  for  the  purpose of financing any payment
  authorized to be made pursuant to subdivision two, three, four  or  five
  of  this section. Any such payment shall constitute an object or purpose
  for which the period of probable usefulness is hereby determined  to  be
  five years.