§ 2704. Powers of the authority. Except as otherwise limited by this\ntitle, the authority shall have power:\n 1. to make and alter by-laws for the regulation of its affairs and the\nconduct of its business;\n 2. to adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure;\n 3. to maintain a principal office in the city of Watertown, and\nregional offices at such place or places as it may designate within the\nparticipating counties;\n 4. to sue and be sued;\n 5. to make and execute contracts and all other instruments necessary\nor convenient for the exercise of its powers and functions under this\ntitle;\n 6. pursuant to a plan approved, or amended and approved, pursuant to\nsection twenty-seven hundred five of this title, in connection with any\nproject, to determine the feasibility, location and character of such\nproject and to acquire, construct, or to acquire any interest in or\nright to capacity in, and to reconstruct, renovate, replace, maintain,\nrepair, enlarge, extend, operate, lease, as lessee or lessor, and\nregulate such project, to enter into contracts for any or all of such\npurposes, to enter into contracts for the management and operation of a\nproject and, to enter into contracts for any or all of such purposes,\nincluding contracts for the management and operation of such project and\nto sell, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of any project or part\nthereof to the state, any person, public corporation or municipality;\n 7. to borrow money and to issue bonds of the authority for any of its\ncorporate purposes, to secure the same with its revenues or other funds\nand otherwise to provide for and secure the payment thereof and to\nprovide for the rights of holders thereof and to fund or refund the\nsame.\n 8. to make contracts and to execute all necessary or convenient\ninstruments, including evidences of indebtedness, negotiable or\nnonnegotiable in each case for securing its bonds or to provide direct\npayment of any costs which the authority is authorized to pay;\n 9. subject to any limitation imposed or authorized by law, to fix and\nrevise from time to time and charge and collect rates, rents, fees and\ncharges for the use of and for the services furnished or to be furnished\nby a project or any portion thereof and to contract with any person,\npartnership, association or authority or other body public or private\nincluding a public corporation in respect thereof provided, however,\nthat the authority shall not have the power, within any city, to collect\nrentals, charges, rates or fees from the owners of real estate, or the\noccupants of real estate (other than the occupants of premises owned or\ncontrolled by such authority, or by the state or any civil division\nthereof), for services or facilities furnished or supplied in connection\nwith such real estate, if such services or facilities are of a character\nor nature that as of the enactment of this act or formerly were\nfurnished or supplied by the city, unless the electors of the city shall\napprove the granting to such authority of such powers by a majority vote\nat a general or special election in such city;\n 10. pursuant to a plan approved, or amended and approved, pursuant to\nsection twenty-seven hundred five of this title and upon approval by\nresolution of the governing body of the county in which such property is\nlocated, to condemn, in the name of the authority, pursuant to the\neminent domain procedure law, any real property within the participating\ncounties required by the authority for any project to carry out the\npowers granted by this title;\n 11. to employ consulting engineers, architects, attorneys,\naccountants, construction and financial experts, superintendents,\nmanagers, and such other agents as may be necessary in its judgment, and\nto fix their compensation;\n 12. pursuant to a plan approved, or amended and approved, pursuant to\nsection twenty-seven hundred five of this title, to assist in the\nplanning, devel
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