§ 1147-e. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power:\n 1. To prepare or cause to be prepared plans, designs and estimates of\ncosts for the construction of the project, and from time to time modify\nsuch plans, designs or estimates.\n 2. To construct the project and any additions, betterments and\nextensions to the facilities of the authority by contract or contracts,\nor through or by means of its own officers, agents and employees.\n 3. To have jurisdiction, control, possession and supervision of any\nexisting sewer system acquired by the authority and the project; to\nmaintain, operate, reconstruct and improve the same as a comprehensive\nsewerage system and to make additions, betterments and extensions\nthereto, and to have all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction\nnecessary or proper for carrying such power into execution. No\nenumeration of powers in this or any other general, special or local law\nshall operate to restrict the meaning of this general grant of power or\nto exclude other powers comprehended within this general grant.\n 4. To sue and be sued.\n 5. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.\n 6. To borrow money and issue negotiable notes, bonds or other\nobligations and provide for the rights of the holders thereof.\n 7. To enter into contracts and execute all instruments necessary or\nconvenient or desirable for the purposes of the authority to carry out\nany powers expressly given it in this title.\n 8. 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 and to sell, lease as lessor, transfer or\notherwise dispose of, any real or personal property or any interest\ntherein, within or without the district, as the authority may deem\nnecessary, convenient or desirable to carry out the purposes of this\ntitle; provided, however, that the authority may not condemn real\nproperty of a municipality without the consent of the governing body of\nsuch municipality.\n 9. To purchase in the name of the authority, any sewer system,\nincluding but not limited to trunk, intercepting and connecting, lateral\nand outlet sewers, pumping and ventilating stations, disposal or\ntreatment plants or works, and other appliances and structures, which in\nthe judgment of the authority will provide an effective and advantageous\nmeans of relieving the area within the bounds of the authority,\nincluding surface and ground waters from inadequate sanitary drainage\nand for the sanitary disposal or treatment of the sewage thereof, or\nsuch sections or parts of such system as the authority may from time to\ntime deem it proper or convenient.\n 10. To construct, improve or rehabilitate sewage disposal facilities\nand appurtenances required for the maintenance, development or expansion\nof the sewage disposal system within the bounds of the authority.\n 11. To operate and manage and to contract for the operation and\nmanagement of facilities of the authority.\n 12. To enter into contracts, and carry out the terms thereof, for the\nwholesale provision of sewerage disposal with municipalities and private\nindividuals or corporations.\n 13. To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal,\nstate and local governments for such licenses, permits or approval of\nits plans or projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and upon\nsuch terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate, to accept, in its\ndiscretion, such licenses, permits or approvals as may be tendered to it\nby such agencies and officials.\n 14. To take all necessary and reasonable actions within the bounds of\nthe authority to protect from pollution surface and ground waters within\nthe district, including the making of plans and studies, the adoption of\nrules and regulations relating to the disposal of sewage, the enforcing\nof compliance with all current and future rules and regulations of the\nstate sanitary co
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