37.07 - Powers and duties of the commission.
* § 37.07 Powers and duties of the commission. The purposes of the commission shall be to undertake the necessary activities in furtherance of the management plan; and to carry out the aforesaid purposes, the commission shall have the following powers: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; 3. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate purposes; 4. To acquire by purchase, grant, lease, gift, or otherwise and to use, real property or rights or easements therein necessary for its corporate purposes subject to the local zoning, planning and historic preservation regulations as well as regional and local comprehensive land use plans, and to sell, convey, mortgage, lease, pledge, exchange or otherwise dispose of any such property in such manner as the commission shall determine; 5. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs; 6. With the consent of the state or municipality, to use agents, employees and facilities of the state or municipality; 7. To appoint officers, agents and employees, to prescribe their qualifications and to fix their compensation and to pay the same out of funds of the commission; 8. To make contracts and leases, and to execute all instruments necessary or convenient with any person, firm, partnership or corporation, either public or private; 9. To establish and administer a preservation revolving fund, including provision for grants and loans therefrom with funds for such purpose from any federal, state, municipal, and/or private sources for the preservation of historic properties in furtherance of the public interest in preservation as declared in section 14.01 of this chapter; 10. To accept gifts, grants, loans, or contributions from, and enter into contracts or other transactions with, the United States and the state or any commission of either of them, any municipality, any public or private corporation or any other legal entity, and to use any such gifts, grants, loans or contributions for any of its corporate purposes; 11. To designate the depositories of its money; 12. To make amendments to the management plan subject to the approval of the participating counties and the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of section 35.05 of this chapter; 13. To establish and re-establish its fiscal year; 14. To review and comment on capital and long range plans of state agencies as they affect the criteria, objectives and plans of the heritage corridor; 15. To encourage individuals, corporations, associations and public entities to protect and preserve the unique resources of the heritage corridor and make grants to municipalities and nonprofit entities within the heritage corridor therefor; 16. To prepare an annual report on the conduct of its activities which shall include a financial statement for that year and a work plan for the next year which may include an estimate of the resources required to complete it to be sent to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chief elected official of each municipality; 17. To contract with the state as an independent body corporate; 18. To enter into cooperative agreements with the management entities of heritage areas located in whole or in part within the boundaries of the heritage corridor to advance their common goals of historic preservation, education, recreation and economic development;19. To evaluate ways the heritage corridor can assist and support agricultural activity in the heritage corridor including the promotion of Mohawk Valley agricultural products through direct marketing and farmers' markets and the development of agri-tourism; 20. To designate districts and routes through amendment of the management plan for planning and project purposes; 21. To become a member of an organization of heritage areas, except that such membership shall confer no additional powers beyond those authorized pursuant to this article nor affect the powers of municipalities; 22. To designate and enter into agreements with public facilities and attractions throughout the heritage corridor to create a network thereof; and 23. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title. * NB Repealed April 1, 2013