N.Y. PBA Law § 2052-E

§ 2052-e. Appropriations for purposes of the authority; transfer of\nproperty to authority; acquisition of property by county or other\nmunicipality for authority; contracts with county or other municipality;\nuse of Murnane Field by Utica city school district. 1. In addition to\nany powers granted to it by law, the county board of legislators, or the\nfinance board, as such term is defined in the local finance law, of any\nother municipality in the county may, from time to time, appropriate by\nresolution sums of money for purposes of the authority to defray project\ncosts or any other costs and expenses of the authority or to pay amounts\npayable or anticipated to be payable to the authority pursuant to any\ncontract or lease authorized by this title. Such county board of\nlegislators or finance board may determine if the moneys so appropriated\nshall be subject to repayment by the authority to the appropriate\nmunicipality and, in such event, the manner and time or times for such\nrepayment. In the event there shall remain at the end of any fiscal year\nof the county or any such municipality an unexpended balance of any such\nappropriation, such unexpended balance shall remain on deposit in the\nfund or account and such appropriation shall not lapse.\n 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special\nor local to the contrary, real property acquired by the authority, the\ncounty or any other municipality from the state may be used for any\ncorporate purpose of the authority.\n 3. The county, one or more municipalities and the authority shall have\nthe power to contract, from time to time, between or among themselves,\nin relation to the use of the project of the authority, which contracts\nmay include any or all of the following provisions: (a) requiring the\nuse of such project by the county or such municipality for a specified\nperiod of time; (b) limiting the right, including a prohibition, of the\ncounty or any such municipality to construct a sports facility which\nwill serve the same, or substantially the same, function as the project\nowned, leased or to be constructed or leased by the authority; (c)\nproviding for specified minimum periodic payments whether or not a\nproject is actually used, subject to such limitations, exceptions and\nprovisions therein; and (d) requiring the county or any such\nmunicipality to pay to the authority such amounts as shall be necessary\nto assure the continued operation of the authority. All such payments\nshall be determined and paid in such manner and at such times as may be\nprovided in such contracts.\n 4. Any gift, grant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract or lease\nauthorized by this section may be made or entered into by the county,\nany other such municipality and/or the authority and no such gift,\ngrant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract or lease shall be subject to\nreferendum, permissive or otherwise.\n 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special\nor local to the contrary, the authority shall allow the Utica city\nschool district to use Murnane Field, and the Utica city school district\nshall be authorized to use Murnane Field, for the use of its students,\nsubject only to general rules for the use of such sports facility and\nreasonable scheduling requirements, without charge to said school\ndistrict, except for reimbursement of actual expenses occasioned by its\nuse.\n