New York Laws
Title 28-AA - Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority
2642-G - Cooperation and Assistance of Other Agencies.

§ 2642-g. Cooperation and assistance of other agencies. 1. To avoid
duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the authority may
make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other materials
in the possession of any state agency or any municipality or political
subdivision of the state. Each such agency, municipality or subdivision
located in or serving some portion of the state is hereby authorized to
make the same available to the authority and otherwise to assist it in
the performance of its functions. At the request of the authority, each
such agency, municipality or subdivision located in or serving some
portion of the state which is engaged in railroad or other
transportation activities or in land use or development planning, or
which is charged with the duty of providing or regulating any
transportation facility or any other public facility, is further
authorized to provide the authority with information regarding its plans
and programs affecting railroad transportation within the participating
counties so that the authority may have available to it current
information with respect thereto. The officers and personnel of such
agencies, municipalities or subdivisions, and of any other government or
agency whatever, may serve at the request of the authority upon such
advisory committees as the authority shall determine to create and such
officers and personnel may serve upon such committees without forfeiture
of office or employment and with no loss or diminution in the
compensation, status, rights and privileges which they otherwise enjoy.

2. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, every municipality
located in the counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany or Steuben
is authorized and empowered to consent to the use by the authority of
any real or personal property owned by any such municipality and
necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the authority for
any of the facilities or projects authorized under this title, including
such real property as has already been devoted to a public use, and as
an incident to such consent, to lease or otherwise transfer and convey
to the authority any such real or personal property upon such terms as
may be determined by the authority and any such municipality. Every such
municipality also is authorized and empowered, as an incident to such
consent, to vest in the authority the control, possession, operation,
maintenance, rents, charges and any and all other revenues of any
facilities now owned by any such municipality, the title to such
facilities remaining in such municipality.