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PUBLIC LAW 86-302-SEPT. 21, 1959

[73 S T A T.

"(e) The transportation agency shall have power to conduct investigations and hearings in the furtherance of its general purposes, and in aid thereof to have access to any books, records, or papers relevant thereto; and if any person whose testimony shall be required for the proper performance of the duties of such agency shall fail or refuse to aid or assist such agency in the conduct of any investigation or hearing, or to produce any relevant books, records, or other papers, such agency shall be authorized to apply for process of subpoena, to issue out of any court of general original jurisdiction whose process can reach such person, upon due cause shown. " (f) The transportation agency shall have power to negotiate and enter into agreements within the scope of its functions with any person or persons, including but not limited to any railroad or other common carrier engaged or willing to engage in transit services, or owning or possessing transit facilities, the port of New York authority, any city or county, and the New York city transit authority, whether for the providing or use of facilities, the leasing of lines, the conducting of transit operations, the issuance of tickets, the providing, maintenance and use of stations, the providing of shops and repair facilities and the making of repairs, the fixing of commuter fares and the sharing thereof, or the providing, maintaining and operating of trains, busses, signal systems, parking lots or any other facilities, services, or other relationships necessary to the providing of an adequate system or systems of transit services. " (g) The transportation agency shall have power to expend, or to authorize the expenditure of, funds appropriated to it, but the same shall at all times be within the terms of an annual budget to be adopted in advance for each fiscal period, and which may be amended or modified from time to time. Each state reserves the right to provide by law for the furnishing by the transportation agency of such supporting detail in connection with the preparation or adoption of such budget, as well as to provide for the furnishing by such agency of such audit or audits as such state may consider proper from time to time. " (h) The transportation agency shall have power to make such application to the government of the United States or any branch, department or agency thereof, as may be necessary or advisable to render feasible the achievement of any plan negotiated or prepared " (i) The transportation agency shall have such additional powers and duties as may be provided by concurrent legislation hereafter adopted. "(j) The transportation agency shall have such additional powers, incidental to the express powers granted to it, as may be necessary or proper for the effective performance of its duties and the achievement of its objects. "3.8. Reports. The transportation agency shall make such periodic reports to the governors and legislatures of the two states with respect to its programs, operations, finances and other subjects, at such times as may be required by law of the states respectively from time to time; and in the absence of any such law, shall report at least annually. Such agency may also prepare, publish and distribute such other reports as it may deem necessary or proper. The states respectively reserve the right to require by law the disclosure and furnishing of any information and data and to such person or persons as such laws may provide from time to time.

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