§ 17351 — Cooperation

Pennsylvania § 17351

• Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
• Title 16: COUNTIES
• Part: PART IV
• Ch. 173: THIRD CLASS COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITIES
• Subch.: THIRD CLASS COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITIES,

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(a) Rights given authority.--For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with the authority and in the planning, acquisition, clearance, relocation, development, design, construction, rehabilitation, leasing, subleasing, alteration, expansion, financing, improvement, management or operation of a convention center, any public body or political subdivision of the Commonwealth or the county or county seat may, with or without consideration:

(1) Dedicate, sell, convey, lease or otherwise transfer property or any interest, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, to the authority.

(2) Cause parking, recreational or community facilities or any other works, which the political body or political subdivision is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished in or adjacent to any area selected for a convention center or part of a convention center.

(3) Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which the political body or political subdivision is empowered to act.

(4) Enter into agreements, extending over any period, with the Federal Government or the authority with respect to action by a State public body pursuant to the powers granted by this section.

(5) Incur the entire expense in connection with public improvements made by a State public body, political subdivision, county or the county seat, in exercising the powers granted under this section.

(6) Aid and cooperate in the development, acquisition, design, construction, improvement, maintenance, management, operation, furnishing, fixturing, equipping, repairing, financing, owning, leasing and subleasing of a convention center or part of a convention center.

(b) Power of Secretary of General Services.--The Secretary of General Services is authorized, with the approval of the Governor and Attorney General, to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Commonwealth, conveyances, deeds and leases authorized under this subchapter.

(c) Payments.--

(1) In connection with a convention center, the county or county seat may contract with the authority or the Federal Government with respect to sums which the Federal Government or the authority may agree to pay during any year or period of years to the county or county seat for the improvements, services and facilities to be provided by the county or county seat for the benefit of the authority, convention center facility or the persons occupying the area.

(2) The absence of a contract for payments under paragraph (1) does not relieve the county or county seat from the duty to furnish for the benefit of the authority, convention center or the persons occupying the area customary improvements and services and facilities as the county or county seat usually furnish without a service fee.

(d) Agency.--The Commonwealth, county or county seat may, by written agreement, designate the authority as an agent within the authority's field of operation to perform any specified activity or to administer any specified program which the Commonwealth, county or county seat is authorized by law to do if these activities or programs are in furtherance of the public purposes specified in this subchapter. Activities include development, acquisition, design, construction, improvement, maintenance, leasing, management or operation of a convention center or part of a convention center.

(e) Supplemental powers.--Powers granted under this section shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.