1699-F - Succession by authority to powers, duties and functions of the agency and corporation.

§  1699-f.  Succession by authority to powers, duties and functions of  the agency and corporation. 1. The  authority  hereby  succeeds  to  the  powers,  duties and functions of each of the agency and the corporation,  each of which shall continue its corporate existence in and through  the  authority.  The agency shall not be deemed to have been terminated under  subdivision eight of section  four  of  section  one  of  chapter  three  hundred ninety-two of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-three.    2.  The  authority,  subject  to  the  provisions of this title, shall  hereafter possess all the rights,  privileges,  immunities,  powers  and  purposes  of  each  of the agency and the corporation. All the property,  real and personal, including moneys, investments, causes of  action  and  every  other  asset,  of  each  of the agency and the corporation hereby  vests in the authority without further act or deed; and the title to any  real estate, or interest therein, vested in the agency,  corporation  or  authority  shall  not  revert or be in any way impaired by reason of the  succession effected hereby.    3. The authority hereby assumes and is liable for all the  liabilities  and  obligations  of  each  of  the  agency  and the corporation without  further act or deed, including, without limitation,  the  obligation  of  the agency to make payments on its outstanding bonds, and notes or other  obligations.  No  liability or obligation due or to become due, claim or  demand for any cause existing against the  agency  or  the  corporation,  respectively,  or  any  officer  or member thereof, shall be released or  impaired, or in any respect expanded in regard to the source of  payment  thereof  or  otherwise,  by  the succession effected hereby. Neither the  rights of creditors nor any liens upon, or security  interests  in,  the  property  of  the  agency,  the  corporation  or  the authority shall be  impaired by the succession effected hereby.  No  action  or  proceeding,  whether  civil  or  criminal,  pending  by  or against the agency or the  corporation, respectively, or any officer or member thereof, shall abate  or be discontinued  by  the  succession  effected  hereby,  but  may  be  enforced,  prosecuted,  settled or compromised as if such succession had  not occurred, or the authority may be  substituted  in  such  action  or  special  proceeding in place of either the agency or the corporation, as  the case may be.    4. With respect to contracts, agreements, leases,  and  other  similar  arrangements   previously  made  by  and  between  the  agency  and  the  corporation or by and among the agency, the corporation  and  any  other  party,  the  authority  shall,  in  succeeding to the powers, duties and  functions of each of the agency and the  corporation,  perform  all  the  obligations  and  duties  of, and shall have all the rights, powers, and  functions of, each of the agency and the corporation under and  pursuant  to such contracts, agreements, leases or other similar arrangements.    5.  Except  as  provided  in  paragraph (b) of subdivision six of this  section, nothing in this title shall limit or otherwise affect the power  of the authority to issue bonds, notes and other obligations  under  and  pursuant  to  and  in  accordance  with  the terms and conditions of the  dormitory authority act, as amended. In addition, in succeeding  to  the  powers,  duties and functions of the agency, the authority is authorized  to issue bonds, notes and other obligations for any  purpose  for  which  the  agency  has  been  authorized by law to issue bonds, notes or other  obligations, under and pursuant to, in accordance  with  the  terms  and  conditions  of,  and  subject  to the limitations in, the New York state  medical care facilities finance agency act, as  amended  in  the  public  health   law,   the  mental  hygiene  law,  the  facilities  development  corporation act, sections sixteen hundred ninety-nine-h through  sixteen  hundred ninety-nine-j of this act, and any other law.6.  (a)  The exercise of powers, duties and functions of the agency to  which the authority has  succeeded,  including  without  limitation  the  execution  of  contracts  in  connection therewith, shall be governed by  applicable provisions of the medical care facilities finance agency act.  The exercise of powers, duties and functions of the corporation to which  the  authority has succeeded, including without limitation the execution  of contracts in connection therewith, shall be  governed  by  applicable  provisions of the facilities development corporation act.    (b)  The  financing of any project initiated on or after the effective  date of this section which the agency would be authorized  to  undertake  by  the  provisions  of  the  medical care facilities finance agency act  prior to such effective date shall be governed by such act.