37.09 - Cooperation with municipalities.
* § 37.09 Cooperation with municipalities. 1. The commission is a cooperative regional organization established to implement a county and state approved management plan for the Mohawk Valley heritage corridor based upon the mutual assent and participation of each municipality therein. The activities of the commission shall be coordinated with the local planning, cultural and park activities of each municipality. No real property may be acquired or capital project undertaken by the commission in a city, town or village without the written approval for such action of the chief elected official of such city, town or village. Nothing herein shall be construed to grant the commission the power of eminent domain. 2. Each municipality may provide the commission with the services of its agents, employees and facilities without charge to the corporation. Persons serving as officers or employees of the commission may be employees of a municipality and the commission, in such case, may pay the municipality an agreed portion of the compensation or costs. 3. For purposes of implementing the management plan, any individual municipality may carry out an individual project in its own name or, with the agreement of the commission, acquire real property for a project in the name of the commission at the cost and expense of the commission. In case the commission shall have the use and occupancy of any real property which it shall determine is no longer required for a project then, if such property was acquired at the cost and expense of a municipality, the commission shall have the power to surrender its use and occupancy thereof to the municipality, or, if such real property was acquired at the cost and expense of the commission, then the commission shall have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of said real property at public sale, and shall retain and have the power to use the proceeds of sale, rentals, or other moneys derived from the disposition thereof for its purposes. * NB Repealed April 1, 2013