N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2634 – Cooperation with municipalities
§ 2634. Cooperation with municipalities. 1. The commission is a cooperative regional organization of six municipalities to implement and manage an urban cultural park encompassing all or part of each of their territory and based upon the mutual assent and participation of each municipality. The activities of the commission shall be coordinated with the local planning, cultural and park activities of each municipality. No real property may be acquired or project undertaken by the commission in a municipality without the written approval for such action of the member of the board from such municipality.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2634
- Board: shall mean the members of the commission. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
- Commission: shall mean the Hudson-Mohawk urban cultural park commission created pursuant to section two thousand six hundred thirty-two of this title. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Management plan: shall mean the management plan prepared pursuant to § 35. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
- Municipality: shall mean the cities of Troy, Cohoes and Watervliet, the town of Waterford and the villages of Green Island and Waterford. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
- Project: shall mean any land, any building or other improvement, and all real and personal properties located within or partially within and partially without the urban cultural park for whose benefit the commission is created, including but not limited to, facilities deemed necessary or desirable in connection therewith, whether or not now in existence, which may include a recreational, educational or urban cultural facility, a transportation or service facility related to the plans and needs of the urban cultural park or any economic use in a facility, the preservation of which is a feature of the urban cultural park. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Real property: shall mean lands, structures, franchises, and interest in lands, and any and all things usually included within the said term, and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interest, such as easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses, and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms of years, and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and also claims for damage to real estate, in the area of the urban cultural park. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
- Urban cultural park: shall mean the Hudson-Mohawk urban cultural park designated pursuant to § 35. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2631
2. Each municipality may provide the commission with the services of its agents, employees and facilities without charge to the corporation. Persons serving as officers or employees of the commission may be employees of a municipality and the commission, in such case, may pay the municipality an agreed portion of the compensation or costs.
3. For purposes of implementing the management plan, any individual municipality may act with the agreement of the commission to carry out an individual project in its own name or acquire real property for a project in the name of the commission at the cost and expense of the commission. In case the commission shall have the use and occupancy of any real property which it shall determine is no longer required for a project then, if such property was acquired at the cost and expense of a municipality, the commission shall have the power to surrender its use and occupancy thereof to the municipality, or, if such real property was acquired at the cost and expense of the commission, then the commission shall have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of said real property at public sale, and shall retain and have the power to use the proceeds of sale, rentals, or other moneys derived from the disposition thereof for its purposes.