§ 6. Transfer of canal lands and other assets. 1. The jurisdiction of\nthe thruway authority over the New York state canal system and over all\nstate assets, equipment and property, both tangible and intangible,\nowned or used in connection with the planning, development,\nconstruction, reconstruction, maintenance and operation of the New York\nstate canal system, as set forth in articles one through and including\nfourteen, except article seven, of this chapter, and except properties\nin use on the effective date of this article in support of highway\nmaintenance, equipment management and traffic signal operations of the\ndepartment of transportation, heretofore transferred by the commissioner\nof transportation to the thruway authority, are hereby transferred\nwithout consideration to the authority, to be held by the authority in\nthe name of the people of the state of New York. In addition the\ncommissioner of transportation and the chair of the authority or his or\nher designee may, in their discretion, enter into an agreement or\nagreements transferring jurisdiction over any or all of the bridges and\nhighways set forth in article seven of this chapter, and any or all\nstate assets, equipment and property, both tangible and intangible,\nowned or used in connection with the planning, development,\nconstruction, reconstruction, maintenance and operation of such bridges\nand highways, which shall be transferred without consideration to the\nauthority, to be held by the authority through the corporation in the\nname of the people of the state of New York. Any other rights and\nobligations resulting from or arising out of the planning, development,\nconstruction, reconstruction, operation or maintenance of the New York\nstate canal system shall be deemed assigned to and shall be exercised by\nthe authority through the corporation, except that the authority may\ndesignate the chair of the thruway authority to be its agent for the\noperation and maintenance of the New York state canal system, provided\nthat such designation shall have no force or effect after January first,\ntwo thousand seventeen. Such canal system shall remain the property of\nthe state and under its management and control as exercised by and\nthrough the authority, through the corporation which shall be deemed to\nbe the state for the purposes of such management and control of the\ncanals but for no other purposes.\n 2. The department of transportation and thruway authority shall\ndeliver to the authority all books, policies, procedures, papers, plans,\nmaps, records, equipment and property of such department pertaining to\nthe functions transferred pursuant to this article.\n 3. All rules, regulations, acts, determinations, orders and decisions\nof the commissioner of transportation, department of transportation, or\nthruway authority pertaining to the functions transferred pursuant to\nthis article in force at the time of such transfer shall continue in\nforce and effect as rules, regulations, acts, determinations, orders and\ndecisions of the authority and corporation until duly modified or\nabrogated by such authority or corporation.\n 4. Any business or other matters undertaken or commenced by the\nthruway authority, including executed contracts, permits and other\nagreements, but excluding bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness, pertaining to or connected with the powers, duties and\nobligations transferred pursuant to this article, and in effect on the\neffective date of the transfer of such matters from the thruway\nauthority to the authority provided for in this article, shall, except\nas otherwise agreed by the authority and the thruway authority, be\nconducted and completed by the authority through the corporation in the\nsame manner and under the same terms and conditions and with the same\neffect as if conducted and completed by the thruway authority, provided\nthat nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to require the\nauthori
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