2680-E - Appropriations for purposes of the authority; transfer of property to the authority; acquisition of property from other municipality for authority;
§ 2680-e. Appropriations for purposes of the authority; transfer of property to the authority; acquisition of property from other municipality for authority; contracts with county or other municipality; use of such facilities by residents and school districts. 1. In addition to any powers granted to it by law, the county may, from time to time, appropriate by resolution sums of money for the purposes of the authority to defray project costs or any other costs and expenses of the authority or to pay amounts payable or anticipated to be payable to the authority pursuant to any contract or lease authorized by this title. The county may determine if the moneys so appropriated shall be subject to repayment by the authority to the county and, in such event, the manner and time or times for such repayment. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special or local to the contrary, real property acquired from the state by the authority, or the county or any other municipality in the service area may be used for any corporate purpose of the authority. 3. The county and the authority shall have the power to contract, from time to time, between or among themselves, in relation to the use of the project of the authority, which contracts may include any or all of the following provisions: (a) requiring the use of such project by the county; (b) limiting the right, including a prohibition, of the county to construct a sports, recreation or cultural facility which will serve the same, or substantially the same, function as the project owned, leased or to be constructed or leased by the authority; (c) limiting the right, including a prohibition, of the authority to construct a sports, recreation or cultural facility which will compete in the same geographic service area as a project owned, leased or to be constructed or leased by the county or such other municipality unless approved by the county or such affected municipality; (d) providing for specified minimum periodic payments whether or not a project is actually used, subject to such limitations, exceptions and provisions therein; and (e) requiring the county to pay to the authority such amounts as shall be necessary to assure the continued operation of the authority. All such payments shall be determined and paid in such manner and at such times as may be provided in such contracts. 4. Any gift, grant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract, or lease authorized by this section may be made or entered into by the county or any other such municipality and/or the authority and no such gift, grant, sale, conveyance, loan, contract or lease shall be subject to referendum, permissive or otherwise.