[HISTORY: Adopted by the Legislature of the County of Putnam 5-5-1981
by L.L. No. 6-1981. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Pursuant to the authority conferred by § 119-r of Article
5-I of the General Municipal Law and in order to make available mass transportation
services of the people of Putnam County at reasonable cost, the County Executive
of the County of Putnam is hereby authorized to:
A.
Acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, equip, maintain
and operate one or more mass transportation projects using any of the streets,
highways or public places in said county therefore.
B.
Enter into contracts for the acquisition by purchase
of all or any part of the property, plant and equipment of an existing mass
transportation facility used and useful for the convenience of the public.
C.
Enter into contracts with any person, firm or corporation,
including a public authority, for the equipment, maintenance or operation
of a mass transportation facility owned, acquired, constructed, reconstructed
or improved by it.
D.
Enter into contracts for a fair and reasonable consideration
for mass transportation services to be rendered to the public by a privately-owned
or operated mass transportation facility. Such power shall include, but not
be limited to, the power to appropriate funds for payment of such consideration
and to provide that all or part of such consideration shall be in the form
of capital equipment to be furnished to and used and maintained by such privately-owned
or operated mass transportation facility.
E.
Make unconditional grants of money or property
to a public authority providing mass transportation services to all or part
of the County of Putnam in order to assist such public authority in meeting
its capital or operating expenses, provided that such money does not consist
of borrowed funds and such property was not acquired by the use of borrowed
funds. Such purpose is hereby declared to be county purposes.[1]
