§ 654. Powers of the authority. The authority 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 acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate\npurposes;\n 4. To acquire in the name of the county by purchase or condemnation,\nand use real property necessary or convenient for its corporate\npurposes, including real property of municipal corporations, public\nutilities and railroads. All real property acquired by the authority by\ncondemnation shall be acquired in the manner provided in the eminent\ndomain procedure law, or in the Nassau county administrative code. The\npower to acquire real property hereby granted shall include the power to\nacquire Atlantic beach bridge and any or all rights or franchises\nconnected with the operation of said bridge which it may be necessary or\nconvenient for the authority to acquire;\n * 4. a. To acquire in the name of the county by purchase, lease or\ngift, and use real property necessary or convenient for its corporate\npurposes, including real property of municipal corporations, public\nutilities and railroads except that no real property may be acquired by\nthe authority for any park, playground, beach or other recreational\nfacility which is not owned by the county of Nassau on April first,\nnineteen hundred seventy-three, and such real property must be located\nwithin the county of Nassau and, in addition, must be located within one\nmile and one-half from any point of the Atlantic Beach bridge. The power\nto acquire real property hereby granted shall include the power to\nacquire Atlantic beach bridge and any or all rights or franchises\nconnected with the operation of said bridge which it may be necessary or\nconvenient for the authority to acquire;\n b. The Nassau county bridge authority, having been granted the power\nto acquire real property owned by the county of Nassau for a park,\nplayground, beach or other recreational facility, shall have the power\nand authority with respect to such property, to pay or transfer out of\nany authority funds available to it, annual sums in lieu of taxes to the\naffected taxing jurisdiction, in order that no inequitable loss of\nrevenue shall be suffered by virtue of such park, playground, beach or\nother recreational facility; provided further, that the amount so paid\nor transferred for any year shall not exceed the sum last levied for the\nbenefit of such taxing jurisdiction as an annual tax on such property\nprior to the time of its acquisition for such purpose or purposes;\n c. As used in this subdivision, the term "taxing jurisdiction" means\nany municipal corporation or district corporation, including any school\ndistrict or any special district, having the power to levy and collect\ntaxes and benefit assessments upon real property which has been acquired\nby the authority for park, playground, beach or other recreational\nfacility purpose, or in whose behalf such taxes or benefit assessments\nmay be levied or collected.\n * NB Expired June 30, 1976\n 5. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs,\nand subject to agreements with the noteholders and bondholders, for the\nregulation of the use of the project and the establishment and\ncollection of tolls, fees, rentals and other charges;\n 6. With the consent of the county to use agents, employees and\nfacilities of the county, including the county attorney, paying to the\ncounty its agreed proportion of the compensation or costs;\n 7. To appoint officers, agents and employees, to prescribe their\nqualifications and to fix their compensation; subject, however, to the\nprovisions of the civil service law, as hereinafter provided;\n 8. To make contracts, and to execute all instruments necessary or\nconvenient;\n 9. To construct a new bridge across Reynolds channel, together with\nthe approaches thereto, and all structures and facilities necessary or\nconvenient in connection therewith. Suc
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