New York Laws
Title 1 - Power Authority of the State of New York
1004 - Officers and Employees; Expenses.

ยง 1004. Officers and employees; expenses. The trustees shall choose
from among their own number a chairman and vice-chairman. They shall
select such officers and employees, including a chief executive officer
whose appointment shall be subject to confirmation by the senate in
accordance with section twenty-eight hundred fifty-two of this chapter,
and such engineering, marketing and legal officers and employees, as
they may require for the performance of their duties and shall prescribe
the duties and compensation of each officer and employee. They shall
adopt by-laws and rules and regulations suitable to the purposes of this
title. As long as and to the extent that the authority is dependent upon
appropriations for the payment of its expenses, it shall incur no
obligations for salary, office or other expenses prior to the making of
appropriations adequate to meet the same.