§ 5. General powers and duties of corporation. The corporation shall\nhave the following powers in addition to those specifically conferred\nelsewhere in this act.\n 1. To sue and be sued.\n 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.\n 3. To make and alter by-laws for its organization and internal\nmanagement.\n 4. With the approval of the comptroller, to prescribe a system of\naccounts.\n 5. To make rules and regulations governing the exercise of its\ncorporate powers and the fulfillment of its corporate purposes, which\nrules and regulations shall be filed with the secretary of state in the\nmanner provided by section one hundred two of the executive law.\n 6. To accept jurisdiction over and to hold, use and improve, in\naccordance with such terms and conditions as the corporation and the\nstate housing finance agency or the state medical care facilities\nfinance agency, as the case may be, shall determine, any or all real\nproperty acquired by such agency for a health facilities improvement\nprogram.\n 7. Subject to the terms and conditions of any lease, sublease, loan or\nother financing agreement with the appropriate commissioner of the\ndepartment or the state housing finance agency or the state medical care\nfacilities finance agency, to possess, hold, use and improve, all mental\nhygiene facilities and all real and personal property acquired by or on\nbehalf of the corporation for a mental hygiene facilities improvement\nprogram so long as its corporate existence shall continue.\n 8. a. With the approval of the appropriate commissioner of the\ndepartment and the director of the budget, to purchase real property\nnecessary or convenient for a mental hygiene facilities improvement\nprogram in the name of the state, except where such purchase is for the\npurpose of providing community mental health and developmental\ndisabilities facilities in which case such purchase shall be in its own\nname; provided, however, that all such purchases shall be made pursuant\nto legislation or appropriations in accordance with section nine of this\nact. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prohibit\nthe acquisition of real property by purchase or appropriation by the\nappropriate commissioner of the department pursuant to article\nseventy-one of title E of the mental hygiene law for the purpose of\nmaking mental hygiene facilities available under license or permit from\nthe corporation to a voluntary agency, subject to the terms and\nconditions of any lease, sublease, loan or other financing agreement\nwith the state housing finance agency or the state medical care\nfacilities finance agency, (i) for use in providing community mental\nhealth and developmental disabilities services, including services in a\nresidential care center for adults, or (ii) for the conduct of an\nalcoholism or substance abuse treatment program as defined in article\nnineteen of title D of the mental hygiene law.\n b. To execute and deliver deeds for real property held in its own\nname.\n c. To convey an easement as described in this subdivision, in or over\nstate-owned lands under the jurisdiction of the facilities development\ncorporation for the use of the department of mental hygiene subject to\nprior notice to the commissioner of general services by filing with him\na copy of the proposed easement which shall be followed by such filing\nof a copy of the easement conveyed, to a public corporation or a public\nservice corporation, in perpetuity or otherwise. For the purposes of\nthis subdivision an easement may be granted for the connection of a\nwater main, sewer pipe or other utility line or similar facility\nmaintained for public use, owned by any public corporation or public\nservice corporation, which shall be used for or in connection with any\nfacility occupied, used or serving the program of one of the offices of\nthe department of mental hygiene as defined in subdivision two-a of\nsection three of section one of thi
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