New York Laws
Title 13 - Onondaga County Solid Waste Disposal Authority
2018 - Powers of the Authority.

§ 2018. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power:

1. To sue and be sued;

2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;

3. To acquire, in the name of the authority, lease, hold and dispose
of real estate and personal property or any interest therein for its
corporate purposes, including the power to purchase prospective or
tentative awards in connection with the exercise of the power of
condemnation hereinafter granted;

4. To acquire in the name of the authority any lands, easements,
rights in lands, contract rights and franchises for the purpose of
erecting receiving/transfer stations and/or treatment stations including
equipment or any other property incidental to and included in such
improvements;

5. To receive, transport, process and dispose of solid waste
materials;

6. To condemn in the name of the authority, within the territorial
limits of the county of Onondaga, any lands, easements or rights in land
required by the authority for the purpose of constructing and erecting
proper receiving/transfer and/or treatment stations;

7. To construct and develop disposal sites for solid waste materials
within the county of Onondaga, and to have the right to contract with
other municipalities or any other governmental subdivision for disposal
outside the county of Onondaga, and to purchase, lands, easements,
rights in lands and rights-of-way in connection therewith within such
county and to own and operate, maintain, repair, improve, reconstruct,
enlarge and extend, subject to provision of this title, any of its
properties acquired or constructed under this title, all of which,
together with the acquisition of such properties, are hereby declared to
be public purposes;

8. To receive from any or all municipalities, as well as private
parties, within the county of Onondaga, or from such other sources as
the authority may deem proper, solid wastes for the purpose of disposal
thereof, with the right of the authority to sell and dispose of any such
products of the waste material as they may deem best and proper;

9. To contract with municipalities within the county of Onondaga or
outside the county of Onondaga or with private contractors for the
purpose of treating and disposing of solid waste materials;

10. To acquire, hold, use, lease, sell, transfer and dispose of any
property, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein, for its
corporate purposes;

11. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs
and subject to agreements with bondholders, rules for the receiving and
disposing of solid wastes and charges therefor. A copy of such rules and
by-laws, and all amendments thereto, duly certified by the secretary of
the authority shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county
and thereafter published once in two newspapers having a general
circulation in the county;

12. To use the officers, employees, facilities and equipment of the
county with the consent of the county, paying a proper portion of the
compensation or cost;

13. To make contracts and to execute all necessary or convenient
instruments, including evidences of indebtedness, negotiable or
non-negotiable;

14. To enter on any lands, waterways and premises for the purpose of
making surveys, soundings and examinations;

15. To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds or notes or other
obligations and to fund or refund the same, and to provide for the
rights of the holders of its obligations;

16. 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 reserves for depreciation, maintenance
and contingencies and all other obligations and indebtedness of the
authority;

17. To accept grants, loans or contributions from the United States,
the state of New York, or any agency or instrumentality of either of
them, or the county, or an individual, by bequest or otherwise, and to
expend the proceeds for any purposes of the authority;

18. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers
expressly given in this title.