* § 1199-ee. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have the\npower:\n 1. To sue and be sued;\n 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;\n 3. To borrow money and issue negotiable or non-negotiable notes, bonds\nor other obligations and to provide for the rights of the holders\nthereof;\n 4. 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 5. To acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease\nor by condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law within\nthe district, lease as lessee, hold, and use and to sell, lease as\nlessor, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any real or personal property\nor any interest therein, within or without the district, as the\nauthority may deem necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out the\npurpose of this title and to pay the costs thereof; provided, however,\nthat the authority may not condemn real property of a municipality\nwithout the consent of the governing body of such municipality;\n 6. To purchase, in the name of the authority, any water or sewerage\nfacility, including plants, works, instrumentalities or parts thereof\nand appurtenances thereto, lands, easements, rights in land and water\nrights, rights-of-way, contract rights, franchises, permits, approaches,\nconnections, dams, wells, pumps, reservoirs, water or sewer mains and\npipe lines, pumping stations, treatment facilities, meters, equipment\nand inventory, or any other property incidental to and included in such\nsystem or part thereof, and any improvements, extensions and\nbetterments, situated wholly within the district and to pay the costs\nthereof; provided, however, that the authority shall have the power to\npurchase any source of supply, supply facility, water supply system, or\ntransmission facility or any part thereof situated wholly or partly\nwithout the territorial limits of the district, provided the same shall\nbe necessary in order to supply water within the district; and in\nconnection with the purchase of such properties, the authority may\nassume any obligations of the owner of such properties and, to the\nextent required by the terms of any indentures or other instruments\nunder which such obligations were issued, the authority may assume and\nagree to perform covenants and observe the restrictions contained in\nsuch instruments; and furthermore the owner of any properties, which the\nauthority is authorized to acquire, is hereby authorized to sell or\notherwise transfer the same to the authority, whereupon the authority\nshall become charged with the performance of all public duties with\nrespect to such properties with which such owner was charged and such\nowner shall become discharged from the performance thereof, and as a\nmeans of so acquiring for such purpose, the authority may purchase all\nof the stock of any existing privately owned water corporation or\ncompany and in the case of a sale or other transfer of properties of a\npublic utility corporation pursuant to this provision, upon the purchase\nof the stock of such corporation or company it shall be lawful to\ndissolve such corporation within a reasonable time;\n 7. To construct, improve, maintain, develop, expand or rehabilitate\nwater or sewerage facilities and to pay the costs thereof;\n 8. To operate and manage and to contract for the operation and\nmanagement of facilities of the authority;\n 9. To enter into contracts, and carry out the terms thereof, for the\nwholesale provision of water produced by supply facilities constructed,\nowned or operated by the authority, to municipalities and private water\ncompanies and to carry out the terms thereof, for the transmission of\nwater from new or existing supply facilities;\n 10. To enter into contracts with municipalities or other persons for\nthe collection, treatment and disposal of sewage;\n 11. To appl
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