39.13 - Cooperation with municipalities, state agencies and public corporations.

§  39.13  Cooperation  with  municipalities, state agencies and public  corporations. 1. The commission is a cooperative  regional  organization  established  to  implement  a  greenway based upon the mutual assent and  participation of each municipality, state agency and public  corporation  holding  lands under its jurisdiction adjacent to the Niagara river. The  activities of  the  commission  shall  be  coordinated  with  the  local  planning  and cultural and park activities of each municipality adjacent  to the Niagara river.    2. Each municipality, state agency or public corporation  may  provide  the commission with the services of its agents, employees and facilities  without  charge  to  the  commission.  Persons  serving  as  officers or  employees of the commission may be employees of a municipality  and  the  commission,  and  the  commission  may  pay  the  municipality an agreed  portion of the compensation or costs of such officers or employees.    3. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to affect, impair  or supersede the provisions of any city  charter,  local  law,  rule  or  other local requirements and procedures heretofore or hereafter adopted,  including,  but  not  limited  to,  any  such provisions relating to the  zoning and use of land.