N.Y. PBA Law § 2799-BBB

§ 2799-bbb. Statement of legislative findings and purpose. The\nlegislature hereby finds and declares as follows:\n 1. The economic well-being of the state and the general welfare of its\npeople require adequate, safe, secure and efficient aviation and\ntransportation facilities at a reasonable cost to the people.\n 2. The strengthening and improvement of aviation facilities and\nrelated services for the central part of the state is a matter of vital\nimportance not only to the residents of central New York but to all the\nstate's residents and is therefore a matter of state concern.\n 3. In order to ensure a healthy economy for such area and to promote\nthe general welfare of its residents, it is necessary to expand and\nimprove the existing aviation facilities and services in the central New\nYork region in such a manner as to stimulate and promote increased\nlocal, state, national and international air travel and commerce\nthroughout central New York.\n 4. The health, welfare, safety and security of the state's residents\nand of those passengers using air transportation requires coordinated\noperation of aviation facilities and services in the central New York\nregion by a public benefit airport authority.\n 5. The purposes of such authority shall be:\n (a) to stimulate and promote economic development, trade and tourism;\n (b) to acquire, construct, reconstruct, continue, develop, equip,\nexpand, improve, maintain, finance and operate aviation and other\nrelated facilities and services within central New York;\n (c) to promote safe, secure, efficient and economical air\ntransportation by preserving and enhancing airport capacity;\n (d) to form an integral part of a safe and effective nationwide system\nof airports to meet the present and future needs of civil aeronautics\nand national defense and to assure inclusion of the authority's\nfacilities in state, national and international programs for air\ntransportation and for airport or airway capital improvement, all in\naccordance with the provisions of this title; and\n (e) to ensure that aviation facilities authorized pursuant to this\ntitle shall provide for the protection and enhancement of the natural\nresources and the quality of the environment of the state and the\ncentral New York area.\n 6. Such purposes are in all respects public purposes for the benefit\nof the people of the state of New York and for which public funds may be\nexpended and both the city of Syracuse and the authority in carrying out\ntheir respective powers and duties under this title shall be deemed to\nbe acting in a governmental capacity. The acquisition, construction,\nreconstruction, development, expansion, improvement, equipping,\noperation and maintenance of any project financed or undertaken by the\nauthority or the city shall be deemed to be the performance of an\nessential governmental function by the authority or the city acting in\nits governmental capacity, whether such project shall be owned or\noperated by the authority or by any person or public corporation.\n 7. It is hereby found and declared that it has been and remains the\npolicy of the state of New York to promote equal opportunity in\nemployment for all persons, without discrimination on account of race,\ncreed, color, national origin, sex, sexual preference, age, disability\nor marital status, to promote equality of economic opportunity for\nminority group members and women, and business enterprises owned by\nthem, and to eradicate the effects of private and governmental\ndiscrimination which has erected and continues to maintain barriers that\nunreasonably impair access by minority and women-owned business\nenterprises to state contract opportunities
age, disability\nor marital status, to promote equality of economic opportunity for\nminority group members and women, and business enterprises owned by\nthem, and to eradicate the effects of private and governmental\ndiscrimination which has erected and continues to maintain barriers that\nunreasonably impair access by minority and women-owned business\nenterprises to state contract opportunities. For the purpose of\nfurthering the state's compelling interest in eradicating the effects of\nracial and sexual discrimination, therefore, it is necessary and proper\nthat article fifteen-a of the executive law, concerning participation by\nminority group members and women and business enterprises owned by them,\nshall apply to the Syracuse regional airport authority.\n