§ 1115-f. General powers of the water board. Except as otherwise\nlimited by this title, the water board shall have power:\n 1. To sue and be sued;\n 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;\n 3. To enter into contracts and to execute all instruments necessary or\nconvenient or desirable for the purposes of the water board to carry out\nany powers expressly given it in this title, provided nothing herein\ncontained shall authorize the water board to borrow money or otherwise\ncontract indebtedness;\n 4. To enter into agreements pursuant to sections one thousand one\nhundred fifteen-g and one thousand one hundred fifteen-h of this title\nwith the authority and the city to provide a means whereby the authority\nshall finance the cost of constructing projects, as described in the\nagreement, and the water board may agree to assume title to the water or\nsewerage system, or both, and to raise revenues from users through fees,\nrates, rents or other service charges necessary or appropriate to secure\nsuch financing and to pay the cost of the operation, management and\nrepair of such water or sewerage system;\n 5. To acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease\nor by condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law, lease\nas lessee, hold and use any property, real, personal or mixed or any\ninterest therein, as the water board may deem necessary, convenient or\ndesirable to carry out the purposes of this title; provided, however,\nthat the water board may not condemn real property of the city, or of\nany municipal corporation or district corporation, as such terms are\ndefined in section sixty-six of the general construction law, without\nthe consent of the city, or any such municipal corporation or district\ncorporation, as the case may be and, provided, further however, that the\nwater board may not exercise the power of eminent domain with respect to\nreal property outside the city which is owned by any individual,\npartnership, corporation (other than a municipal corporation or district\ncorporation), association, trust, or legal entity without the consent\nof: (a) the governing body of a city, other than the city of Albany, if\nsuch real property is wholly located within such city, or (b) the town\nboard if such real property is wholly located within such town, or (c)\nthe governing body of a city, other than the city of Albany, and the\ntown board if such real property is partly located within such city and\npartly located within such town; and, subject to any limitations in any\nagreement with the city entered into pursuant to section one thousand\none hundred fifteen-g or section one thousand one hundred fifteen-h of\nthis title, to sell, lease as lessor, transfer or otherwise dispose of\nany such property or interest therein;\n 6. To acquire from the city title to the sewerage system, water\nsystem, or both the sewerage and water systems, as the case may be, of\nsuch city;\n 7. To make and amend by-laws for its organization and internal\nmanagement, and rules and regulations for the sale of water or\ncollection of sewage and the collection of rents and charges therefor\nand otherwise governing the exercise of its powers and duties and the\nfulfillment of its purposes under this title. A copy of such rules,\nregulations and by-laws, and all amendments thereto, duly certified by\nthe secretary of the water board shall be filed in the office of the\nclerk of the city. In addition to the civil penalties described in\nsection one thousand one hundred fifteen-g of this title, the common\ncouncil, upon the written request of the water board, shall have power\nto prescribe that violation of specific by-laws, rules or regulations of\nthe water board, published once in a newspaper having a general\ncirculation in the city, shall be punishable by a fine, not exceeding\nfifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not longer than thirty days, or\nboth;\n 8. To establish, fix, revise, charge and co
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