30-129. Cooperation with operating
units
A. Any person or operating unit, or combination thereof, may petition the authority
for the exercise of its powers and privileges in making any project or proposed project
survey or investigation, or for authorized assistance in the inauguration or completion
of any works or projects authorized by this chapter.
B. Upon filing the petition, the authority may conduct hearings and conduct
investigations deemed necessary and advisable, and thereafter take action as it deems
appropriate in the premises and within its sphere of cooperative action. The authority
may:
1. Act as a bargaining and negotiating agency in transactions and dealings between
the various departments of the federal government and any petitioning persons or
operating units.
2. Serve as a connecting, intermediate or contracting medium for the petitioners
when for united or joint participation such a medium is convenient or essential to the
receipt, acceptance or enjoyment by the petitioners of any financial proposals, grants or
other benefits made available by any federal statute or federal department.
3. Act as a coordinating, clearing, administering, supervising or activating
instrumentality by and through which petitioners may cooperate or unite through or by
contracts or agreements in the application or pooling of their resources, functional
rights or privileges for common purposes cognizable by this chapter.
C. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or statutory
regulation, operating units may enter into contracts, agreements and arrangements which
may be found necessary for effectuating the intent and securing the benefits of
paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of subsection B. If found convenient and essential to the
accomplishment of such purposes, the cooperators may associate themselves in a
cooperative corporation under the incorporation laws of the state, and it shall be their
respective duties to do and perform all things on their respective parts undertaken by
them to be done or performed thereby or thereunder.
D. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to alter or change any debt
limitation of the operating units.
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