Bill Text: NY A04861 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Enacts the New York state senior housing opportunities partnership act; establishes the New York state senior housing opportunities partnership authority; provides that such authority will finance or collaborate in the financing of senior housing opportunities facility projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to aging [A04861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04861-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4861

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing the New  York
          state senior housing opportunities partnership act

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new section  209-a  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  209-a.  The New York state senior housing opportunities partnership
     4  act.  1. Short title. This section shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     5  the "New York state senior housing opportunities partnership act".
     6    2. Definitions. As used in this section:
     7    a.  "Authority"  means the New York state senior housing opportunities
     8  partnership authority created by this section.
     9    b. "Bank" means any banking organization defined by section two of the
    10  banking law that has a market capitalization (determined by  multiplying
    11  the   number of shares times the current market price), of less than two
    12  billion dollars.
    13    c. "Senior" means a person who is sixty years of age or older  who  is
    14  the  head  of  a  household. Any other provision of any other law to the
    15  contrary notwithstanding, including any provision of article fifteen  of
    16  the  executive law, it shall not be unlawful to restrict rental, sale or
    17  lease of a senior housing project financed in whole or in  part  by  the
    18  authority  exclusively  to  persons  sixty years of age or older and the
    19  spouse of any such person.
    20    d. "Senior housing opportunities development  corporation"  means  any
    21  person,  individual,  firm, partnership, association, or other entity or
    22  collaboration of entities organized or existing under the  laws  of  the
    23  state  or  any  other  state,  domestic or foreign, exclusive of a state
    24  agency, undertaking the construction of a senior housing facility.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04238-01-3

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     1    e. "Senior housing  opportunities  partnership  financing  instrument"
     2  means  any financing instrument, including a bank loan, bonds and notes,
     3  or credit enhancement issued or purchased by or on behalf  of  a  senior
     4  housing  opportunities  development  corporation  for  a  senior housing
     5  opportunities facility.
     6    f.  "Senior  housing  opportunities  facility"  means  any  structure,
     7  improvement, furnishing, equipment or other real  or  personal  property
     8  that  is  or  is  to be used, owned or occupied in whole or in excess of
     9  fifty percent by housing for seniors, whether as rental  or  owner-occu-
    10  pied  housing.  Senior  housing  facility means and includes, but is not
    11  limited to naturally occurring retirement  communities  (as  defined  in
    12  section two hundred nine of this title, or any successor thereto), mark-
    13  et-rate independent living, adult home (as defined in section two of the
    14  social  services law), as well as any and all recreational, educational,
    15  cultural, office, living, rehearsal, parking, restaurant, retail,  stor-
    16  age  and  other facilities necessary or desirable in connection with the
    17  activities of the senior facility. For purposes of this section,  owner-
    18  occupied  means  and  includes any provision or instrument that allows a
    19  senior to own or to eventually  own  their  living  unit  such  that  it
    20  becomes  an  owner-occupied living unit, including through such means as
    21  direct purchase, reverse-mortgage, lease-to-own, subsidized mortgage, or
    22  any similar provision allowing for transfer of title of the living  unit
    23  to  a  senior;  owner-occupied  living  unit means and includes any unit
    24  which is or will upon completion or shortly thereafter  be  occupied  by
    25  the  purchasing  senior,  including  condominium  or  cooperative units.
    26  Notwithstanding any implication of the foregoing, senior housing facili-
    27  ty shall be deemed to mean and include scattered site housing, or  hous-
    28  ing units scattered throughout a neighborhood or an area which is broad-
    29  ly  defined  by  traditional  neighborhood  or community boundaries, and
    30  where appropriate, bounded by major natural or man-made physical bounda-
    31  ries, such as bodies of water, railroad lines, or limited  access  high-
    32  ways.
    33    g.  "Senior housing opportunities facility project" means a project to
    34  construct a senior housing opportunities facility, including all  build-
    35  ings,  systems, facilities, appurtenances, machinery and equipment which
    36  the authority deems necessary for the operation of the project.
    37    h. "Project" means and includes the site or sites for a senior housing
    38  opportunities facility project, which may be composed of  non-contiguous
    39  parcels, together with all property, rights, easements and interests, on
    40  or  off  such  site or sites, which may be required for the operation of
    41  the project.
    42    i. "Activities in a project which may be financed  by  the  authority"
    43  means all activities necessary to the successful development and placing
    44  in operation of the project, including but not limited to the costs of:
    45    (1) construction of the project;
    46    (2)  acquisition  of property, both real and personal and improved and
    47  unimproved;
    48    (3) demolishing, removing or relocating  buildings  or  structures  on
    49  lands  acquired, including acquisition of any lands to which such build-
    50  ings or structures may be moved or relocated;
    51    (4) systems, facilities, machinery and equipment;
    52    (5) financing charges, interest prior to and during construction;
    53    (6) professional services,  including  engineering  and  architectural
    54  services,  plans  and  specifications,  consultants' and legal services,
    55  lease guarantee or bond insurance, fiscal and  economic  investigations,
    56  studies,  surveys, designs, plans, drawings, specifications, procedures,

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     1  and other such similar activities related thereto,  regardless  of  when
     2  completed,  as  well  as the costs of a project manager or clerk-of-the-
     3  works or other such similar personnel;
     4    (7) all or part of the initial operational expenses, provided these do
     5  not exceed two years duration;
     6    (8) development, contingency, and other financial plan costs; and
     7    (9)  any other expenses necessary or incidental to the construction of
     8  such project and the financing of its construction.
     9    j. "Real property" means and includes  lands,  structures,  franchises
    10  and  interests  in  land, waters, lands under water, riparian rights and
    11  air-rights and any and all things and rights included within  said  term
    12  and  includes  not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser
    13  interests including but not limited to easements, rights of  way,  uses,
    14  leases,  licenses  and  all  other  incorporeal  hereditaments and every
    15  estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years
    16  and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.
    17    k. "State agency" means any officer, authority,  corporation,  depart-
    18  ment,  board,  commission, bureau, division, public benefit corporation,
    19  council, agency or instrumentality of the state.
    20    3. New York state senior housing opportunities partnership  authority.
    21  a.  The New York state senior housing opportunities partnership authori-
    22  ty  is  hereby  created  as  a body corporate and politic constituting a
    23  public benefit authority. Its purpose shall be to finance or collaborate
    24  in the financing of senior housing opportunities facility  projects  for
    25  or  on  behalf of senior housing opportunities development corporations,
    26  as provided in this section. The authority may  make  loans  or  provide
    27  credit for loans which may be secured by mortgage, contracts, or provide
    28  other  financing instruments to senior housing opportunities development
    29  corporations in accordance with the provisions of this  article.  It  is
    30  hereby found and declared that such purposes are in all respects for the
    31  benefit  of  the people of the state of New York and the authority shall
    32  be regarded as performing an essential governmental function in carrying
    33  out its purposes and in exercising the powers granted by this section.
    34    b. Membership of the authority shall consist of  seven  directors,  of
    35  whom  six  shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and
    36  consent of the senate, two of whom shall be so appointed on  recommenda-
    37  tion of the temporary president of the senate, and two on recommendation
    38  of  the  speaker  of  the  assembly.  Each director shall at the time of
    39  appointment have had at least five years experience in  finance,  as  an
    40  officer in an entity in which he or she served as a banker or investment
    41  banker,  and/or  as  a developer of senior housing or other projects for
    42  seniors with a development cost  in  excess  of  five  million  dollars.
    43  Directors  shall  serve  for terms of six years each, provided, however,
    44  that of the directors first appointed, two shall serve for terms of  two
    45  years,  two  for  terms  of  four  years and two for terms of six years,
    46  respectively, from January first next succeeding their appointment.  Any
    47  vacancy  occurring  otherwise than by expiration of term shall be filled
    48  in the same manner as the original appointment for the  balance  of  the
    49  unexpired  term. The director of the office for the aging shall serve as
    50  ex officio member with the same rights and duties as other members,  and
    51  shall  also be the chair of the authority and chief executive officer of
    52  the authority, and shall appoint such vice-chairman as he or  she  deems
    53  appropriate.  Directors  of the authority shall continue in office until
    54  their successors are appointed and shall have qualified. A director,  on
    55  his  or  her  initiative, may acquire by loaned employee from the office
    56  for the aging, through the powers provided him or her, no more than  two

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     1  officers and employees, plus administrative-secretarial support staff as
     2  required,  the  duties  and  work  of  whom are hereby declared to be an
     3  essential state purpose, and who shall suffer  no  diminution  of  their
     4  compensation  or benefits as result of such assignment, provided that no
     5  such transfer be made except with the approval of the  director  of  the
     6  budget,  and  in  compliance with the rules and regulations of the civil
     7  service commission of the state; and may retain or employ counsel, audi-
     8  tors, engineers and private consultants on a contract basis or otherwise
     9  for rendering professional or technical services and advice.
    10    c. Directors shall receive no salary or other compensation, but  shall
    11  be  entitled  to  reimbursement  for their actual and necessary expenses
    12  incurred in the performance of official duties. Any other  provision  of
    13  law  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding,  no  officer or employee of the
    14  state, or of any  civil  division  thereof,  shall  be  deemed  to  have
    15  forfeited  or shall forfeit his or her office or employment or any bene-
    16  fits provided under the retirement and social security law by reason  of
    17  acceptance  of  membership  on  the authority, provided, however, that a
    18  director who holds such other public office or employment shall  receive
    19  no  additional compensation for services rendered pursuant to this arti-
    20  cle, but shall be entitled to reimbursement  for  actual  and  necessary
    21  expenses  incurred  in  the  performance of such services. Directors may
    22  engage in private employment, or in a profession or business, subject to
    23  the limitations contained in sections seventy-three and seventy-four  of
    24  the  public  officers  law.  The  authority  shall,  for the purposes of
    25  sections seventy-three and seventy-four of the public officers law, be a
    26  state agency, and its directors shall be officers of the  authority  for
    27  the purposes of said sections.
    28    d. Four directors of the authority shall constitute a quorum for tran-
    29  saction  of business or the exercise of any power of the authority.  For
    30  the transaction of business or the exercise of any power of the authori-
    31  ty, the authority shall have power to act by majority of  the  directors
    32  present at any meeting at which a quorum is in attendance. The authority
    33  may  delegate  to  one or more of its directors, or its officers, agents
    34  and employees, such powers and duties as it  may  deem  proper.  Nothing
    35  contained  in this paragraph shall prevent the directors from conducting
    36  their meetings by televideo or teleconference, or by  telephone  confer-
    37  ence,  provided  that at least three directors of the authority shall be
    38  physically present.
    39    e. The governor may remove any director for inefficiency,  neglect  of
    40  duty  or  misconduct  in  office  after  giving him or her a copy of the
    41  charges against him or her and an opportunity to be heard, in person  or
    42  by  counsel  in his or her defense, upon not less than ten days' notice.
    43  If any director shall be so removed, the  governor  shall  file  in  the
    44  office  of  the department of state a complete statement of charges made
    45  against such director, and his or her findings thereon, together with  a
    46  complete record of the proceedings.
    47    f.  The  authority  shall  continue  so long as it shall have bonds or
    48  other obligations outstanding and until its existence  shall  be  termi-
    49  nated  by  law.  Upon the termination of the existence of the authority,
    50  all its rights and properties shall pass to and be vested in the state.
    51    4. Powers of the  authority.  Except  as  otherwise  limited  by  this
    52  section, the authority shall have power:
    53    a. To sue and be sued;
    54    b. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;

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     1    c. To borrow money and issue negotiable or non-negotiable notes, bonds
     2  or  other  obligations,  to the limits and for the purposes described in
     3  this section, and to provide for the rights of the holders thereof;
     4    d. To invest any funds held in reserve or sinking funds, or any monies
     5  not required for immediate use or disbursement, at the discretion of the
     6  authority,  in obligations of the state or the United States of America,
     7  in obligations the principal and interest of which are guaranteed by the
     8  state or the United States of America, or in deposits with such banks or
     9  trust companies as may be designated by the authority. Each such bank or
    10  trust company deposit shall be continuously and fully secured by  direct
    11  obligations  of  the  state or the United States of America, or by obli-
    12  gations the principal and interest of which are guaranteed by the  state
    13  or  the United States of America, and additionally, any funds managed by
    14  the authority for any senior housing opportunities  corporation  may  be
    15  continuously  and  fully  secured  by  obligations of any senior housing
    16  opportunities corporation of a market value equal at all  times  to  the
    17  amount  of  the  deposit,  and  all banks and trust companies are hereby
    18  authorized to give such security;
    19    e. To make and alter by-laws for its organization and internal manage-
    20  ment, and rules and regulations governing the exercise of its powers and
    21  the fulfillment of its purposes under this section;
    22    f. To enter into contracts and leases and to execute  all  instruments
    23  necessary  to  the  purposes of the authority or to carry out any powers
    24  expressly given it;
    25    g. To acquire, purchase, hold, lease as lessee, dispose of and use any
    26  real or personal property or any interest therein, or to sell, lease  as
    27  lessor,  grant easements or rights on, transfer and dispose of any prop-
    28  erty or interest therein at any time as it may deem  necessary,  conven-
    29  ient or desirable to effectuate the purposes of this section;
    30    h. To make plans, surveys and studies necessary, convenient or desira-
    31  ble to effectuate its purposes and powers;
    32    i.  To enter upon such lands, waters or premises as in the judgment of
    33  the authority may be necessary, convenient or desirable for the  purpose
    34  of making surveys, soundings, borings and examinations to accomplish any
    35  purpose authorized by this article, the authority being liable for actu-
    36  al damage done;
    37    j.  To  conduct  investigations and hearings in the furtherance of its
    38  general purposes, and in aid  thereof  to  have  access  to  any  books,
    39  records  or  papers  relevant thereto; and if any person whose testimony
    40  shall be required for the  proper  performance  of  the  duties  of  the
    41  authority  shall  fail  or  refuse to aid or assist the authority in the
    42  conduct of any investigation or hearing,  or  to  produce  any  relevant
    43  books, records or other papers, the authority is authorized to apply for
    44  process  of  subpoena,  to  issue  out  of any court of general original
    45  jurisdiction whose process can reach such person, upon due cause shown;
    46    k. To acquire senior housing opportunity corporation bonds and  notes,
    47  and  to  make  loan  commitments and loans to senior housing opportunity
    48  corporations, and to enter into option arrangements with senior  housing
    49  opportunity  corporations for the purchase of senior housing opportunity
    50  corporations bonds and notes;
    51    1. To sell any senior housing opportunity corporations bonds or notes,
    52  other securities, or other personal property acquired by  the  authority
    53  whenever it is determined by the authority that the sale of such proper-
    54  ty  is  desirable, such bonds and notes to be sold by the authority only
    55  at public sale at such price or prices as the authority shall determine,
    56  provided that a notice of such sale shall be published at least once not

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     1  less than five days prior to the date of such sale in a financial  news-
     2  paper or journal published in the city of New York. The proceeds of such
     3  sale shall be subject to such agreements with bondholders or noteholders
     4  as may then exist;
     5    m.  To  apply  for  and receive, in its own name or in the name of the
     6  state, gifts or grants or loans of funds or property  from  the  federal
     7  government  or  from the state or from any other federal or state public
     8  body or political subdivision or any other person or  entity,  which  it
     9  may  use  to  meet  capital  or operating expenses and for any other use
    10  within the scope of its powers, and to negotiate for the same upon  such
    11  terms  and  conditions  as  the authority may determine to be necessary,
    12  convenient or desirable, and to comply, subject  to  the  provisions  of
    13  this section, with the terms and conditions thereof; and
    14    n. To appoint such advisory committees as may be necessary, convenient
    15  or desirable to effectuate the purposes and powers of the authority.
    16    5. Special powers of the authority. In order to carry out the purposes
    17  of  this  section,  the  authority shall have and exercise the following
    18  special powers:
    19    a. Commitments for senior housing opportunities partnership  financing
    20  instruments:
    21    (1) The authority shall enter into a contract or contracts with a bank
    22  or  consortium of banks to make senior housing opportunities partnership
    23  financing instruments available to  senior  housing  opportunity  corpo-
    24  rations  for  the development of projects in an amount or amounts not to
    25  exceed the cost of such project.   In connection with  making  available
    26  such senior housing opportunities partnership financing instruments, the
    27  authority  may  fix and collect such fees and charges, including but not
    28  limited to reimbursement of all costs of financing by the authority,  as
    29  the authority shall determine to be reasonable.
    30    (2)  In  no  event shall the authority approve such financing prior to
    31  the formal approval of financing or of a financial  pro  forma  by  such
    32  bank  or  banks in whatever means are traditionally and customarily used
    33  to approve such commitments,  through  the  credit  committees  of  such
    34  banks,  or  through  their boards of directors, as appropriate, provided
    35  that such formal approval may be  contingent  on  participation  by  the
    36  authority in the financing.
    37    (3)  The  authority may sell a credit enhancement, letter of credit or
    38  other similar credit device for purposes of the development of a  senior
    39  housing opportunities facility project to a bank, consortium of banks or
    40  a senior housing opportunities development corporation, upon application
    41  by  such  bank  or  consortium,  or  by the senior housing opportunities
    42  development corporation at an appropriate and competitive  market  rate,
    43  or  in the absence of such appropriate and competitive market rate, upon
    44  such security as the authority shall deem appropriate. In  the case of a
    45  mixed-use project, or a project that  encompasses  more  than  a  senior
    46  housing  opportunities  facility, such credit device shall be limited to
    47  the senior housing opportunities facility portion of the  project.  Such
    48  credit  device  shall  not  exceed  one hundred percent of the appraised
    49  value of the project as built and fully occupied, after discounting  for
    50  other security pledges.
    51    (4)  The  authority may deny an application for a financing instrument
    52  for any reason it deems appropriate in the public interest.  The  exten-
    53  sion of any such credit or loan is subject to the ability of the author-
    54  ity to secure the necessary financing.
    55    b.  Construction, operation and maintenance of senior housing opportu-
    56  nities facility projects.

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     1    (1) The authority and a senior  housing  opportunity  corporation  may
     2  enter  into  a  contract  for  the operation and maintenance of a senior
     3  housing opportunities facility owned by the  authority  by  such  senior
     4  housing opportunity corporation or by a person approved by the authority
     5  and  such  senior  housing  opportunity  corporation.  Such contract may
     6  include provision for all or part of the amounts  necessary  to  provide
     7  for  (A) the expense of operation and maintenance of such senior housing
     8  opportunities facility including, without limitation, insurance,  exten-
     9  sions, betterments and replacements and the principal of and interest on
    10  any bonds or notes of the authority, (B) deficits resulting from failure
    11  to  secure sums payable to the authority by such senior housing opportu-
    12  nity corporation, (C) reserves or sinking funds for any of  the  forego-
    13  ing,  and  (D)  the payment to the authority of expenses incurred by the
    14  authority related to placing the project in operation.  Subject  to  any
    15  contracts with the holders of its bonds or notes, the authority is here-
    16  by  authorized  to  do and perform any and all acts or things necessary,
    17  convenient or desirable to carry out and perform its  obligations  under
    18  every  such contract and, in accordance with any such contract to waive,
    19  modify, suspend or reduce charges which would otherwise be  charged  and
    20  collected  by  the  authority from the senior housing opportunity corpo-
    21  ration. A senior housing opportunity corporation shall not be liable for
    22  any act or omission of the authority, its officers, agents, servants  or
    23  contractors in the performance of any such contract by the authority.
    24    (2)  A  contract  entered  into  by the authority and a senior housing
    25  opportunity corporation pursuant to this subdivision may provide that at
    26  its termination the title to the senior housing  opportunities  facility
    27  shall  vest in the senior housing opportunity corporation or its succes-
    28  sor in interest, if any, free and clear of any  indebtedness  contracted
    29  by  the  authority.  Any such contract entered into by the authority and
    30  any senior housing opportunity corporation  which  provides  that  title
    31  shall  so  vest  in  the  senior  housing opportunity corporation or its
    32  successor in interest shall be subject at a  minimum  to  the  following
    33  provisions:  (A) the senior housing opportunity corporation shall pledge
    34  security for the payment of annual payments including interest on  debt;
    35  (B)  the  total  unpaid  payments  in  relation  to the principal of the
    36  indebtedness shall be deemed to be indebtedness of  the  senior  housing
    37  opportunity  corporation;  and (C) the senior housing opportunity corpo-
    38  ration shall not be liable for a  default  on  the  obligations  of  the
    39  authority  with  respect  to the facility if it is not in default on its
    40  payment pursuant to the contract.
    41    6. Miscellaneous provisions. a. The authority may acquire, hold,  own,
    42  lease,  establish,  construct,  effectuate, operate, maintain, renovate,
    43  improve, extend or repair any of its facilities through, and  cause  any
    44  one  or  more of its powers, duties, functions or activities to be exer-
    45  cised or performed by, one or more wholly owned subsidiary  corporations
    46  of  the  authority  and may transfer to or from any such corporation any
    47  moneys, real property or other property for any of the purposes of  this
    48  section.  The  directors or members of each subsidiary corporation shall
    49  be the same persons holding the offices of  members  of  the  authority.
    50  Each  subsidiary  corporation  and  any  of  its property, functions and
    51  activities shall have all of the privileges, immunities, tax  exemptions
    52  and  other  exemptions of the authority and of the authority's property,
    53  functions and activities, and shall be subject to the  restrictions  and
    54  limitations to which the authority may be subject.  The employees of any
    55  such  subsidiary corporation, except those who are also employees of the
    56  authority, shall not be  deemed  employees  of  the  authority.  If  the

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     1  authority  shall  determine  that  one  or more of its subsidiary corpo-
     2  rations should be in the form of a public benefit corporation, it  shall
     3  create each such public benefit corporation by executing and filing with
     4  the  secretary  of  state  a  certificate of incorporation, which may be
     5  amended from time to time by filing, which shall set forth the  name  of
     6  such  public  benefit subsidiary corporation, its duration, the location
     7  of its principal office, and any or all of the  purposes  of  acquiring,
     8  owning,  leasing,  establishing,  constructing, effectuating, operating,
     9  maintaining, renovating, improving, extending or repairing one  or  more
    10  facilities  of the authority. Each such public benefit subsidiary corpo-
    11  ration shall be a body politic and corporate and shall  have  all  those
    12  powers  vested  in the authority by the provisions of this section which
    13  the authority shall determine to include in its certificate of  incorpo-
    14  ration  except  the  power to contract indebtedness. Whenever any state,
    15  political subdivision, senior housing opportunity  corporation,  commis-
    16  sion, agency, officer, department, board, division or person shall enter
    17  into  agreements with the authority it shall have the same authorization
    18  and power for any of such purposes to cooperate and  enter  into  agree-
    19  ments with a subsidiary corporation of the authority.
    20    b.  For  purposes  of  the  federal  internal  revenue service revenue
    21  rulings or revenue procedure, including revenue ruling 63-20 and revenue
    22  procedure 82-26 and successors and  amendments  thereto,  the  authority
    23  shall be and is hereby declared to be a political subdivision, or in the
    24  alternative  an  agent for the state for purposes of acquiring a benefi-
    25  cial interest in a senior housing project and approving the  obligations
    26  issued by the senior housing development corporation.
    27    7.  Revolving  fund.  a. There is hereby established in the custody of
    28  the authority a special fund to be known as the senior housing  opportu-
    29  nities facilities revolving fund. Moneys in the fund shall be segregated
    30  from  all  other  funds of or in the custody of the authority subject to
    31  any rights of holders  of  authority  bonds  or  notes  issued  for  the
    32  purposes  of this section. Moneys in the revolving fund shall be applied
    33  to or paid out for authorized purposes of the fund on the  direction  of
    34  the  chair  of  the  authority  in accordance with this section, or such
    35  other person as the authority shall authorize to make such direction. In
    36  consultation with the director  of  the  division  of  the  budget,  the
    37  authority may establish within the revolving fund additional accounts or
    38  subaccounts  and  specify  any  conditions applicable to the transfer of
    39  moneys between such accounts or subaccounts. With respect to each senior
    40  housing opportunities facilities project, the authority shall  establish
    41  and  maintain a record of the corpus allocation for such project and any
    42  applicable investment earnings attributable to  such  corpus  allocation
    43  for  the  benefit  of  such  project in accordance with the terms of the
    44  applicable project financing or loan agreement.
    45    b. Such fund shall consist of  federal  grants  and  awards  or  other
    46  federal  assistance; moneys appropriated for the purpose of such fund or
    47  otherwise transferred by the state for  deposit  therein  by  the  comp-
    48  troller  as  required by law; payments of principal and interest made by
    49  senior housing opportunity   corporations  pursuant  to  loan  or  other
    50  agreements  entered into pursuant to this section, provided, however, if
    51  such loans were financed by the  issuance  of  bonds  or  notes  of  the
    52  authority,  deposit  of  such payments into the fund shall be subject to
    53  the rights of the holders of such bonds or notes to receive such moneys;
    54  investment earnings on amounts in such fund; any other payments received
    55  from senior housing opportunity corporations pursuant to a loan or other
    56  agreement made pursuant to this section for costs of managing and admin-

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     1  istering the program; and the proceeds of bonds or notes issued  by  the
     2  authority for purposes of providing financial assistance to senior hous-
     3  ing opportunity corporations.
     4    c.  Moneys  in the revolving fund shall be applied by the authority to
     5  provide financial assistance to senior housing opportunity  corporations
     6  for projects, including any one or more of the following:
     7    (1)  making  loans  to  senior  housing  opportunity  corporations for
     8  projects, provided such loans are made at market or below  market  rates
     9  and  do  not  have  a  final maturity of more than forty years following
    10  scheduled completion of the eligible project;
    11    (2) buying or refinancing debt obligations of senior housing  opportu-
    12  nity corporations at market or below market rates;
    13    (3)  guarantying  or  purchasing insurance or other credit enhancement
    14  for senior housing opportunity corporation bonds  and  notes  or  senior
    15  housing opportunities partnership financing instrument where such action
    16  would  improve credit market access for or reduce interest rates on such
    17  senior housing opportunity corporation financing;
    18    (4) providing a source of revenue or security for payment of principal
    19  and interest on bonds or notes issued by the authority if  the  proceeds
    20  of the sale of such bonds or notes will be deposited in the fund;
    21    (5)  providing  interest  rate  subsidies  from investment earnings on
    22  corpus allocations to subsidize  loans  to  senior  housing  opportunity
    23  corporations made from the proceeds of the authority's bonds or notes;
    24    (6)  using  investment earnings on moneys in the fund to pay the costs
    25  of the authority of administering and managing the program.
    26    d. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subdivision if the
    27  sources of revenues described in this subdivision are at any time insuf-
    28  ficient to make a reimbursement when due, the authority shall make  such
    29  reimbursement  from  any  other available amounts in the revolving fund,
    30  excluding all amounts that are  the  subject  of  a  corpus  allocation,
    31  provided  that  the  amounts  paid from fund sources shall be reimbursed
    32  upon a determination by the director of the budget that future  revenues
    33  obtained from such sources are in excess of the amounts reasonably need-
    34  ed to make future reimbursements pursuant to this subdivision.
    35    e.  Moneys  in  the  revolving fund may be invested as provided in (1)
    36  investment agreements  continuously  secured  by  obligations  with  any
    37  insurance or reinsurance company or corporate affiliate thereof rated by
    38  a  nationally recognized rating agency in one of its two highest catego-
    39  ries, any bank, trust company or broker or dealer,  as  defined  by  the
    40  securities  exchange  act  of  nineteen  hundred thirty-four, which is a
    41  dealer in government bonds, which reports to, trades with and is  recog-
    42  nized  as  a primary dealer by a federal reserve bank and is a member of
    43  the securities investors protection authority, provided that no  invest-
    44  ment  agreement  shall  be entered into with an insurance or reinsurance
    45  company or corporate affiliate thereof, if, (A) such obligations  secur-
    46  ing  such  investment  agreements  are  obligations  of the state or the
    47  United States of America, or obligations the principal and  interest  of
    48  which  are  guaranteed by the state or the United States of America, (B)
    49  such obligations are delivered to a  trustee  for  the  benefit  of  the
    50  authority or, with respect to moneys pledged under an indenture of trust
    51  relating  to  bonds or notes of the authority, to the trustee under such
    52  indenture, or are supported by a safe keeping receipt issued by a depos-
    53  itory satisfactory to the authority as applicable,  provided  that  such
    54  investment  agreements  must  provide  that  the value of the underlying
    55  obligations shall be maintained at a current market value, calculated no
    56  less frequently than monthly, of not  less  than  the  amount  deposited

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     1  thereunder,  (C)  a prior perfected security interest in the obligations
     2  which are securing such agreement has been granted to the authority,  as
     3  applicable, and (D) such obligations are free and clear of adverse third
     4  party  claims,  or  (2)  obligations the interest on which is excludable
     5  from gross income under section one hundred three of the internal reven-
     6  ue code, provided that such obligations are rated by a nationally recog-
     7  nized rating agency in one of its two highest rating categories.
     8    f. In addition to the powers granted to  the  authority  elsewhere  in
     9  this section, the authority may make loans to senior housing opportunity
    10  corporations  for purposes of financing projects for which the revolving
    11  fund may be used, may accept  the  obligations  of  any  senior  housing
    12  opportunity  corporation as security for the repayment of a loan to such
    13  senior housing opportunity corporation, and may assign and  pledge  such
    14  senior  housing  opportunity corporation obligations and loan agreements
    15  for the benefit of the holder of obligations of the authority  from  the
    16  proceeds of which such loans are made. Loan proceeds may be disbursed to
    17  a  senior  housing opportunity corporation with any restrictions imposed
    18  by the authority in connection with such  loan  or  obligations  of  the
    19  authority from the proceeds of which such loan is made.
    20    8.  Audits. The authority shall arrange for any audits required by law
    21  for the purpose of issuing its bonds or notes or  otherwise  to  provide
    22  financial  assistance  to  senior  housing opportunity corporations, and
    23  provide for the implementation of any independently conducted reviews or
    24  audits.
    25    9. Default. In the event  a  senior  housing  opportunity  corporation
    26  shall  fail  to  make  any  payment due the authority pursuant to a loan
    27  agreement or other obligation of the senior housing  opportunity  corpo-
    28  ration  issued  as  security  for  the undertaking of the senior housing
    29  opportunity corporation thereunder, the authority shall certify  to  the
    30  comptroller,  and  notify the chair of the senate finance committee, the
    31  chair of the assembly ways and means  committee,  the  director  of  the
    32  division  of  the  budget,  and the governing body of the senior housing
    33  opportunity corporation that such senior housing opportunity corporation
    34  has failed to make such payment. Such certificate shall be in such  form
    35  as  may  be  determined  by  the authority provided it shall specify the
    36  exact amount of debt service and surcharge, if applicable,  required  to
    37  satisfy such senior housing opportunity corporation's unpaid obligation.
    38  The comptroller, upon receipt of such certificate from the authority, is
    39  authorized  to  and shall, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by law
    40  and subject to any other provision of law providing for  withholding  of
    41  payments  to  the  senior  housing  opportunity  corporation  which take
    42  precedence over this subdivision,  withhold  from  such  senior  housing
    43  opportunity  corporation  the  next  succeeding payments of state aid or
    44  local assistance otherwise payable to it to the extent necessary to meet
    45  the certified amount of debt service and surcharge, if  applicable,  due
    46  the  authority and shall immediately pay over to the authority as a debt
    47  service payment on behalf of such senior housing opportunity corporation
    48  the amount so withheld. The authority  shall  further  take  any  action
    49  permitted by law to recover such amount.
    50    10.  Issuance  and  sale of loan recipients bonds and notes.  Notwith-
    51  standing any by-law, rule or regulation requiring the recipient to issue
    52  bonds or notes at a public or competitive sale, any recipient of a  loan
    53  from  the authority pursuant to this article may validly issue its notes
    54  or bonds to the authority, as evidence of its obligation to  repay  such
    55  loan.

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     1    11.  Co-operation  and assistance of other agencies. The authority may
     2  make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and  other  materials
     3  in  the  possession  of  any  state  agency or municipality or political
     4  subdivision of the state. Each such agency, municipality and subdivision
     5  is  hereby  authorized  to  make the same available to the authority and
     6  otherwise to assist it in the performance of its functions. The officers
     7  and personnel of such agencies, municipalities and subdivisions, and  of
     8  any other government or agency whatever, may serve at the request of the
     9  authority upon such advisory committees as the authority shall determine
    10  to create and such officers and personnel may serve upon such committees
    11  without  forfeiture  of office or employment and with no loss or diminu-
    12  tion in the compensation,  status,  rights  and  privileges  which  they
    13  otherwise enjoy.
    14    12.  Notes  and  bonds  of the authority. a.  The authority shall have
    15  power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable
    16  or  non-negotiable  bonds  and  notes  in  conformity  with   applicable
    17  provisions  of the uniform commercial code in such principal amount, as,
    18  in the opinion of the authority, shall be necessary  to  provide  suffi-
    19  cient funds for achieving its purposes or to any senior housing opportu-
    20  nity  corporation  or  recipient  for such purposes. The authority shall
    21  have power, from time to time, to issue renewal notes, to issue bonds to
    22  pay notes and whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds
    23  by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded  have  or
    24  have  not  matured,  and  to  issue  bonds  partly  to refund bonds then
    25  outstanding, and partly for any other purpose. The refunding bonds shall
    26  be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption or  payment
    27  of the bonds to be refunded.
    28    b.  Except  as  may  otherwise be expressly provided by the authority,
    29  every issue of its notes or bonds shall be (1)  general  obligations  of
    30  the  authority  payable  out of any revenues or monies of the authority,
    31  subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular  notes  or
    32  bonds  pledging any particular recipients or revenues, (2) special obli-
    33  gations of the authority  payable  solely  from  the  revenues,  service
    34  charges,  rentals,  proceeds or other payments to be received on account
    35  of the mortgage, loan or other  agreements  and  payments,  reserve  and
    36  insurance  funds  or accounts issuance of special obligations, and fees,
    37  charges or other monies to be received by the authority  in  respect  to
    38  loans  made  pursuant  to  this section, or from amounts received by the
    39  authority pursuant to any contract, lease, easement,  license  or  other
    40  instrument  entered  into by the authority pursuant to this section, and
    41  may, but need not, be secured by mortgages, assignments  or  pledges  of
    42  such revenues, service charges, rentals, proceeds, other payments, funds
    43  and  accounts,  fees,  charges  and  other  monies,  and by mortgages or
    44  assignments thereof in respect  to  projects,  and  may  include  pooled
    45  financings subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular
    46  special  obligation  notes  or  bonds  issued to finance the cost of, or
    47  loans for, a project or projects.
    48    c. Any bonds or notes issued for  the  purpose  of  financing  amounts
    49  deposited  or  to be deposited in the revolving fund may be issued in an
    50  aggregate principal amount sufficient to finance the amount to be depos-
    51  ited plus an amount sufficient to fund any  debt  service  reserve  fund
    52  established  by the authority and to provide for the payment of fees and
    53  other charges and expenses of the  authority  in  connection  with  such
    54  bonds and notes.
    55    d. The notes and bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the direc-
    56  tors  of  the authority, shall bear such date or dates, and shall mature

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     1  at such time or times, as such resolution or  resolutions  may  provide;
     2  provided,  however,  that  the final maturity of any bond issued for the
     3  purpose of financing any amounts deposited or to  be  deposited  in  the
     4  revolving  fund  shall  not exceed forty years from the date of issue of
     5  such bond. The notes and bonds shall bear interest at such rate or rates
     6  which may vary from time to time, be in such denominations, be  in  such
     7  form,  either  coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges,
     8  be executed in such manner, be payable in such  medium  of  payment,  at
     9  such  place or places and be subject to such terms of redemption as such
    10  resolution or resolutions may  provide.  The  notes  and  bonds  of  the
    11  authority  may  be  sold by the authority, at public or private sale, at
    12  such price or prices as the authority shall determine. No notes or bonds
    13  of the authority may be sold by the authority at private sale,  however,
    14  unless  such sale and the terms thereof have been approved in writing by
    15  (1) the comptroller, where such sale is not to the comptroller,  or  (2)
    16  the director of the budget, where such sale is to the comptroller.
    17    e. Any resolution or resolutions authorizing any notes or bonds or any
    18  issue  thereof  may  contain  provisions,  which  shall be a part of the
    19  contract with the holders thereof, as to:
    20    (1) pledging all or any part of the rentals, rates, charges and  other
    21  fees  made  or received by the authority and other monies received or to
    22  be received from the ownership or operation or otherwise  in  connection
    23  with  any project or projects and all or any part of the monies received
    24  in payment of principal or interest on bonds or notes of any state agen-
    25  cy and senior housing opportunity corporation bonds or notes acquired by
    26  the authority, to secure the payment of the notes or  bonds  or  of  any
    27  issue  thereof, subject to such agreements with bondholders or notehold-
    28  ers as may then exist;
    29    (2) pledging all or any part of the assets of the authority  including
    30  senior  housing  opportunity corporation bonds and notes acquired by the
    31  authority in the issuance of general obligations, and in the issuance of
    32  special obligations, notes or other evidences  of  indebtedness  of  any
    33  person  acquired  by the authority, and assigning and pledging any mort-
    34  gages or other security interests  acquired  by  the  authority  or  any
    35  interests of the authority in properties or revenues or other sums paya-
    36  ble  to  the authority and any reserve and issuance funds or accounts or
    37  other funds and accounts established in connection with the issuance  of
    38  special  obligations  to  secure the payment of the notes or bonds or of
    39  any issue of notes or bonds of  general  obligations  or  special  obli-
    40  gations, as the case may be, subject to such agreements with noteholders
    41  or bondholders as may then exist;
    42    (3)  the use and disposition of rentals, rates, charges and other fees
    43  made or received by the authority;
    44    (4) the setting aside of reserves or sinking funds and the  regulation
    45  and  disposition thereof from the ownership or operation or otherwise in
    46  connection with any project or projects and of  the  gross  income  from
    47  senior  housing  opportunity  corporation bonds and notes, and bonds and
    48  notes of any state agency owned by the authority;
    49    (5) limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of  notes
    50  or bonds may be applied and pledging such proceeds to secure the payment
    51  of the notes or bonds or of any issue thereof;
    52    (6)  limitations  on  the  issuance  of additional notes or bonds; the
    53  terms upon which additional notes or bonds may be  issued  and  secured;
    54  and the refunding of outstanding or other notes or bonds;
    55    (7)  the  procedure,  if  any, by which the terms of any contract with
    56  noteholders or bondholders may be amended or abrogated,  the  amount  of

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     1  notes or bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner
     2  in which such consent may be given;
     3    (8) limitations on the amount of monies to be expended by the authori-
     4  ty for operating, administrative or other expenses of the authority;
     5    (9) vesting in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and
     6  duties in trust as the authority may determine, which may include any or
     7  all  of  the  rights,  powers and duties of the trustee appointed by the
     8  bondholders pursuant to this section, and  limiting  or  abrogating  the
     9  right  of  the  bondholders  to  appoint a trustee under this section or
    10  limiting the rights, powers and duties of such trustee; and
    11    (10) any other matters, of like or different character, which  in  any
    12  way affect the security or protection of the notes or bonds.
    13    f.  In  addition  to the powers conferred upon the authority to secure
    14  its notes and bonds, the authority shall have power in  connection  with
    15  the  issuance  of  notes  and bonds to enter into such agreements as the
    16  authority may deem necessary, convenient or desirable concerning the use
    17  or disposition of its monies or property including the mortgaging of any
    18  such property and the entrusting, pledging  or  creation  of  any  other
    19  security  interest  in  any such monies or property and the doing of any
    20  act (including refraining from doing any act) which the authority  would
    21  have  the  right  to do in the absence of such agreements. The authority
    22  shall have power to enter into amendments of any such agreements  within
    23  the  powers granted to the authority by this section and to perform such
    24  agreements. The provisions of any such agreements may be made a part  of
    25  the contract with the holders of the notes and bonds of the authority.
    26    g.  It  is the intention of this subdivision that any pledge, mortgage
    27  or security instrument made by the authority shall be valid and  binding
    28  from  the time when the pledge, mortgage or security instrument is made;
    29  that the monies or property so  pledged,  mortgaged  and  entrusted  and
    30  thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the
    31  lien  of  such pledge, mortgage or security instrument without any phys-
    32  ical delivery thereof or further act; and that  the  lien  of  any  such
    33  pledge,  mortgage  or  security instrument shall be valid and binding as
    34  against all parties having claims of  any  kind  in  tort,  contract  or
    35  otherwise  against  the  authority, irrespective of whether such parties
    36  have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any  mortgage,  security
    37  instrument or other instrument by which a pledge, mortgage lien or other
    38  security  is  created  need be recorded or filed and the authority shall
    39  not be required to comply with any of  the  provisions  of  the  uniform
    40  commercial code.
    41    h. Neither the directors of the authority nor any person executing the
    42  notes  or  bonds shall be liable personally on the notes or bonds, or be
    43  subject to any personal liability or accountability  by  reason  of  the
    44  issuance thereof.
    45    i. The authority, subject to such agreements with noteholders or bond-
    46  holders  as  may then exist, shall have power out of any funds available
    47  therefor to purchase notes or bonds of the authority, which shall there-
    48  upon be cancelled, at a price not exceeding (1) if the  notes  or  bonds
    49  are  then  redeemable, the redemption price then applicable plus accrued
    50  interest to the next interest payment thereon, or (2) if  the  notes  or
    51  bonds  are  not  then redeemable, the redemption price applicable on the
    52  first date after such purchase upon which  the  notes  or  bonds  become
    53  subject to redemption plus accrued interest to such date.
    54    j.  Neither  the  state nor any senior housing opportunity corporation
    55  shall be liable on notes or bonds issued as general obligations  of  the
    56  authority  and  such notes and bonds shall not be a debt of the state or

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     1  any senior housing opportunity corporation, and  such  notes  and  bonds
     2  shall  contain on the face thereof a statement to such effect. The state
     3  shall not be liable on notes or bonds issued as special  obligations  of
     4  the authority, and such notes and bonds shall not be a debt of the state
     5  and shall be payable solely from the revenues, service charges, rentals,
     6  proceeds or other payments to be derived from the extension of credit or
     7  the loan for the project for which such notes and bonds were issued, and
     8  such  notes  and  bonds shall contain on the face thereof a statement to
     9  such effect.
    10    k. The authority may obtain from  any  department  or  agency  of  the
    11  United  States  of  America  any available insurance or guaranty for the
    12  payment or repayment of interest or principal,  or  both,  or  any  part
    13  thereof,  on  any  bonds  or notes issued by the authority, but notwith-
    14  standing any other provisions of this section shall not enter  into  any
    15  agreement  or contract with respect to any such insurance or guaranty to
    16  the extent that it would in any way impair or interfere with the ability
    17  of the authority to perform and fulfill the terms of any agreement  made
    18  with the holders of the bonds or notes of the authority.
    19    13.  Reserve funds and appropriations. a. The authority may create and
    20  establish one or more reserve funds to be known as debt service  reserve
    21  funds and may pay into such debt service reserve funds any monies appro-
    22  priated  and made available by the state for the purposes of such funds,
    23  any proceeds of sale of notes or bonds, to the extent  provided  in  the
    24  resolution  of  the  authority authorizing the issuance thereof, and any
    25  other monies which may be  made  available  to  the  authority  for  the
    26  purpose of such funds from any other source or sources.
    27    b.  The  monies  held  in or credited to any debt service reserve fund
    28  established under this subdivision, except as otherwise provided in this
    29  subdivision, shall be used solely for the payment of  the  principal  of
    30  bonds  of the authority secured by such debt service reserve fund as the
    31  same mature or as payments required by the terms of any contracts there-
    32  for as sinking fund payments become due, the purchase of such  bonds  of
    33  the authority, the payment of interest on such bonds of the authority or
    34  the  payment  of  any  redemption  premium required to be paid when such
    35  bonds are redeemed prior to maturity; provided however, that the author-
    36  ity shall have power to provide that monies in any such fund  shall  not
    37  be  withdrawn  therefrom  at any time in such amount of any sinking fund
    38  payments becoming due and principal and interest maturing  and  becoming
    39  due  in  any succeeding calendar year on the bonds of the authority then
    40  outstanding and secured by such debt service reserve  fund,  except  for
    41  the purpose of paying any sinking fund payments becoming due and princi-
    42  pal  of and interest on such bonds of the authority secured by such debt
    43  service reserve fund maturing and becoming due and for  the  payment  of
    44  which  other  monies  of  the authority are not available. Any income or
    45  interest earned by, or increment to, any such debt service reserve  fund
    46  due to the investment thereof may be transferred by the authority to any
    47  other  fund  or  account  of  the authority and the authority shall have
    48  power to provide that any such transfer shall not reduce the  amount  of
    49  such  debt  service reserve fund below the maximum amount of any sinking
    50  fund payments becoming due  and  principal  and  interest  maturing  and
    51  becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on all bonds of the author-
    52  ity then outstanding and secured by such debt service reserve fund.
    53    c.  The  authority  shall  not  issue bonds at any time if the maximum
    54  amount of any sinking fund  payments  becoming  due  and  principal  and
    55  interest  maturing  and  becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on
    56  the bonds outstanding and then to  be  issued  and  secured  by  a  debt

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     1  service reserve fund will exceed the amount of such debt service reserve
     2  fund  at  the time of issuance, unless the authority, at the time of the
     3  issuance of such bonds, shall deposit in such debt service reserve  fund
     4  from  the proceeds of the bonds so to be issued, or otherwise, an amount
     5  which, together with the amount then in such debt service reserve  fund,
     6  will  be  not  less than the maximum amount of any sinking fund payments
     7  becoming due and principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any
     8  succeeding calendar year on the bonds then to be issued and on all other
     9  bonds of the authority then outstanding and secured by such debt service
    10  reserve fund.
    11    d. To assure the continued operation and solvency of the authority for
    12  the carrying out of the public purposes of this  section,  provision  is
    13  made  in  this section for the accumulation in each debt service reserve
    14  fund of an amount equal to  the  maximum  amount  of  any  sinking  fund
    15  payments  becoming due and principal, and interest maturing and becoming
    16  due in any succeeding calendar year as determined by  the  authority  on
    17  all  bonds  of  the  authority then outstanding and secured by such debt
    18  service reserve fund. In order further to assure the maintenance of such
    19  debt service reserve funds in the respective amounts  provided  therefor
    20  by  the  authority  in  the issuance of its bonds secured thereby, there
    21  shall be annually apportioned and paid to the authority for  deposit  in
    22  each  such  debt  service  reserve fund such amount, if any, as shall be
    23  certified by the chief executive officer of the authority to the  gover-
    24  nor and director of the budget as necessary to restore such debt service
    25  reserve  fund to an amount equal to the maximum amount provided therefor
    26  by the authority as  aforesaid.  The  chief  executive  officer  of  the
    27  authority  shall annually, on or before December first, make and deliver
    28  to the governor and director of the budget his or her certificate  stat-
    29  ing  the  amount,  if any, required to restore each debt service reserve
    30  fund to the amount aforesaid and the amount or amounts so certified,  if
    31  any,  shall  be  apportioned  and  paid to the authority during the then
    32  current state fiscal year. The principal amount of bonds  secured  by  a
    33  debt  service reserve fund or funds to which state funds are apportiona-
    34  ble pursuant to this subdivision shall be limited to the total amount of
    35  bonds and notes outstanding on the effective date of this section,  plus
    36  the  total amount of bonds and notes contracted after the effective date
    37  of this section to finance projects in progress on the effective date of
    38  this section as determined by the  New  York  state  public  authorities
    39  control  board  created pursuant to the state finance law whose affirma-
    40  tive determination shall be conclusive as to all matters of law and fact
    41  solely for the purposes of the limitations contained  in  this  subdivi-
    42  sion, but in no event shall the total amount of bonds so secured by such
    43  a  debt  service reserve fund or funds exceed forty million five hundred
    44  thirteen  thousand  dollars,  excluding  bonds  issued  to  refund  such
    45  outstanding  bonds  until  the  date  of  redemption of such outstanding
    46  bonds. As outstanding bonds so secured are paid, the amount  so  secured
    47  shall  be  reduced  accordingly  but  the redemption of such outstanding
    48  bonds from the proceeds of refunding bonds shall not reduce  the  amount
    49  so secured.
    50    e.  For  the  purposes  of this section, maximum amount of any sinking
    51  fund payments becoming due  and  principal  and  interest  maturing  and
    52  becoming  due  in  any succeeding year means, as of the date of computa-
    53  tion, the largest amount of money required in any  succeeding  year  for
    54  the  payment  of interest on and maturing principal of outstanding bonds
    55  and payments required by the terms of any contracts to be  made  to  any
    56  sinking  fund  established  for the payment or redemption of such bonds,

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     1  provided that the principal amount of any bonds required to be  made  to
     2  any  such  sinking  fund during any year shall, for the purposes of this
     3  definition, be considered as maturing in  the  year  during  which  such
     4  payment  is required and not in the year in which the stated maturity of
     5  such bonds occurs. In computing the amount of any debt  service  reserve
     6  fund  for  the  purposes  of  this section, securities in which all or a
     7  portion of such fund shall be invested shall be valued  at  par,  or  if
     8  purchased at less than par, at their cost to the authority.
     9    14.  Agreement of the state. The state does hereby pledge to and agree
    10  with the holders of any notes or bonds issued under this  section,  that
    11  the  state  will  not  limit  or  alter  the rights hereby vested in the
    12  authority to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with  the  holders
    13  thereof,  or  in  any way impair the rights and remedies of such holders
    14  until such notes or bonds, together  with  the  interest  thereon,  with
    15  interest  of  any  unpaid  installments  of  interest, and all costs and
    16  expenses for which the authority is liable in connection with any action
    17  or proceeding by or on  behalf  of  such  holders,  are  fully  met  and
    18  discharged.  The  authority  is  authorized  to  include this pledge and
    19  agreement of the state in any agreement with the holders of  such  notes
    20  or bonds.
    21    15. Right of state to require redemption of bonds. Notwithstanding and
    22  in  addition  to any provisions for the redemption of bonds which may be
    23  contained in any contract with the holders of the bonds, the state  may,
    24  upon  furnishing  sufficient  funds  therefor,  require the authority to
    25  redeem, prior to maturing, as a whole, any issue of bonds on any  inter-
    26  est  payment date not less than twenty years after the date of the bonds
    27  of such issue at one hundred five per centum of  their  face  value  and
    28  accrued interest or at such lower redemption price as may be provided in
    29  the bonds in case of the redemption thereof as a whole on the redemption
    30  date. Notice of such redemption shall be published in at least two news-
    31  papers  publishing  and circulating respectively in the cities of Albany
    32  and New York at least twice, the first publication to be at least thirty
    33  days before the date of redemption.
    34    16. Remedies of noteholders and bondholders. a. In the event that  the
    35  authority  shall  default  in the payment of principal of or interest on
    36  any issue of notes or bonds after the same shall become due, whether  on
    37  any  sinking fund payment date, at maturity or upon call for redemption,
    38  and such default shall continue for a period of thirty days, or  in  the
    39  event  that  the  authority  shall  fail  or  refuse  to comply with the
    40  provisions of this section or shall default in any agreement  made  with
    41  the  holders  of any issue of notes or bonds, the holders of twenty-five
    42  per centum in aggregate principal amount of the notes or bonds  of  such
    43  issue then outstanding, by instrument or instruments filed in the office
    44  of  the  clerk of the county of Albany and proved or acknowledged in the
    45  same manner as a deed to be recorded, may appoint a trustee to represent
    46  the holders of such notes or bonds for the  purposes  provided  in  this
    47  subdivision.
    48    b.  Such trustee may, and upon written request of the holders of twen-
    49  ty-five per centum in principal amount  of  such  notes  or  bonds  then
    50  outstanding shall, in his or its own name,
    51    (1)  by  suit, action or proceeding in accordance with the civil prac-
    52  tice law and rules, enforce all rights of the noteholders  or  bondhold-
    53  ers,  including  the  right to require the authority to collect rentals,
    54  rates, charges and other fees and to collect interest  and  amortization
    55  payments  on  senior housing opportunity corporation bonds and notes and
    56  bonds and notes of any state agency held by it adequate to carry out any

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     1  agreement as to, or pledge of, such rentals, rates,  charges  and  other
     2  fees  and of such interest and amortization payments, and to require the
     3  authority to carry out any other agreements with  the  holders  of  such
     4  notes or bonds and to perform its duties under this section;
     5    (2) bring suit upon such notes or bonds;
     6    (3)  by action or suit, require the authority to account as if it were
     7  the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such notes or bonds;
     8    (4) by action or suit, enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful
     9  or in violation of the rights of the holders of such notes or bonds; and
    10    (5) declare all such notes or  bonds  due  and  payable,  and  if  all
    11  defaults  shall  be  made  good, then with the consent of the holders of
    12  twenty-five per centum of the principal amount of such  notes  or  bonds
    13  then outstanding, to annul such declaration and its consequences.
    14    c.  Such  trustee  shall in addition to the foregoing have and possess
    15  all of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of any func-
    16  tions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general represen-
    17  tation of bondholders or noteholders in the enforcement  and  protection
    18  of their rights.
    19    d.  The  supreme  court shall have jurisdiction of any suit, action or
    20  proceeding by the trustee on behalf of such noteholders or  bondholders.
    21  The  venue  of  any such suit, action or proceeding shall be laid in the
    22  county of Albany.
    23    e. Before declaring the principal of notes or bonds due  and  payable,
    24  the  trustee  shall  first  give  thirty  days' notice in writing to the
    25  governor, to the authority, to  the  comptroller  and  to  the  attorney
    26  general of the state.
    27    17.  Notes  and  bonds as legal investment. The notes and bonds of the
    28  authority are hereby made securities in which all  public  officers  and
    29  bodies  of the state and all senior housing opportunity corporations and
    30  political subdivisions, all insurance  companies  and  associations  and
    31  other  persons  carrying  on  an insurance business, all banks, bankers,
    32  trust companies,  savings  banks  and  savings  associations,  including
    33  savings  and  loan associations, building and loan associations, invest-
    34  ment companies, and other persons carrying on a  banking  business,  all
    35  administrators,  guardians,  executors,  trustees and other fiduciaries,
    36  and all other persons whatsoever who are now or  who  may  hereafter  be
    37  authorized  to  invest  in  bonds or other obligations of the state, may
    38  properly and legally invest funds including capital in their control  or
    39  belonging  to  them.  Notwithstanding  any  other provisions of law, the
    40  bonds of the authority are also hereby  made  securities  which  may  be
    41  deposited  with  and shall be received by all public officers and bodies
    42  of this state and all senior housing opportunity corporations and  poli-
    43  tical  subdivisions  for  any  purpose for which the deposit of bonds or
    44  other obligations of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized.
    45    18. Exemption from taxation; payments in lieu of taxes. a. Real  prop-
    46  erty  owned  by the authority shall be exempt from any taxation, special
    47  ad valorem levy and special  assessment,  but  shall  be  subject  to  a
    48  payment in lieu of taxes.
    49    b.  The  authority  shall be required to pay no fees or taxes, whether
    50  state or local, including but not limited  to  fees  or  taxes  on  real
    51  estate,  franchise taxes, sales taxes or other excise taxes, upon any of
    52  its property, real or personal, or upon the use  thereof,  or  upon  its
    53  activities  in the operation and maintenance of its facilities or on any
    54  rentals, rates, charges or other fees, revenues or other income received
    55  by the authority and that the bonds and notes of the authority  and  the
    56  income  therefrom shall at all times be exempt from taxation, except for

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     1  gift and estate taxes and taxes on transfers. Nothing contained in  this
     2  subdivision  shall  affect the obligation imposed by this section on the
     3  authority to make in lieu payments.
     4    c.  This  section  shall  constitute a covenant and agreement with the
     5  holders of all bonds and notes issued by the authority.
     6    19. Actions against the authority. a. As a condition to the consent of
     7  the state to such suits against the authority, in every  action  against
     8  the  authority for damages, for injuries to real or personal property or
     9  for the destruction thereof, or for  personal  injuries  or  death,  the
    10  complaint  shall  contain  an  allegation that at least thirty days have
    11  elapsed since the demand, claim or claims  upon  which  such  action  is
    12  founded  were  presented  to  a member of the authority or other officer
    13  designated for such purpose and that  the  authority  has  neglected  or
    14  refused to make an adjustment or payment thereof.
    15    b.  An  action against the authority founded on tort, except an action
    16  for wrongful death, shall not be commenced more than one year after  the
    17  cause  of  action  therefor  shall  have accrued, nor unless a notice of
    18  claim shall have been served on the authority within the time limited by
    19  and in compliance with all the requirements of section  fifty-e  of  the
    20  general  municipal  law.  An  action  against the authority for wrongful
    21  death shall be commenced in accordance with the notice of claim and time
    22  limitation provisions of title eleven of  article  nine  of  the  public
    23  authorities law.
    24    c.  The authority may require any person, presenting for settlement on
    25  account or claim for any cause whatever against  the  authority,  to  be
    26  sworn  before a director, counsel or an attorney, officer or employee of
    27  the authority designated for such purpose, concerning  such  account  or
    28  claim  and  when  so  sworn to answer orally as to any facts relative to
    29  such account or claim. The authority  shall  have  power  to  settle  or
    30  adjust all claims in favor of or against the authority.
    31    d.  The rate of interest to be paid by the authority upon any judgment
    32  for which it is liable shall not exceed four per centum per annum.
    33    20. Severability. If any provision of this section or the  application
    34  thereof  to  any  person  or circumstance shall be adjudged invalid by a
    35  court of  competent  jurisdiction,  such  order  or  judgment  shall  be
    36  confined  in  its operation to the controversy in which it was rendered,
    37  and shall not affect or invalidate the remainder  of  any  provision  of
    38  this  section or the application of any part thereof to any other person
    39  or circumstance and to this end the provisions of  each  subdivision  of
    40  this  section  are  hereby  declared  to  be  severable.  Insofar as the
    41  provisions of this section are inconsistent with the provisions  of  any
    42  other  law,  general,  special  or local, the provisions of this section
    43  shall be controlling.
    44    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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