2622 - Actions.
§ 2622. Actions. 1. In any case founded upon tort a notice of claim shall be required as a condition precedent to the commencement of an action or special proceeding against the authority or any officer, appointee or employee thereof, and the provisions of section fifty-e of the general municipal law shall govern the giving of such notice. 2. Except in an action for wrongful death, no action shall be commenced (a) prior to the expiration of thirty days from the date on which the demand claim or claims upon which the action is founded were presented to a member of the authority or other officer thereof designated for such purpose; nor (b) more than one year and ninety days after the cause of action therefor shall have accrued. An action against the authority for wrongful death shall be commenced in accordance with the notice of claim and time limitation provisions of title eleven of article nine of this chapter. 3. The venue of any action or proceeding against the authority or its members, officers, employees or agents, or in which any question arises as to the validity of any section of this act, shall be laid in the county in which the principal office of the authority is located. 4. Notwithstanding subdivision three of this section, exclusive jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the court of claims to hear and determine any claim of any person brought hereafter against the authority to recover damages for injuries to property or for personal injury arising out of the operation by the authority of any participating olympic facility owned by the state or of the Gore mountain ski center, in the same manner and to the extent provided and subject to the provisions of the court of claims act with respect to claims against the state, and to make awards and render judgments therefor. The payment of awards and judgments for any such claims brought in the supreme court pursuant to this title or in the court of claims shall be made from appropriations for judgments against the state pursuant to section twenty of the court of claims act.