5:10A-62 Actions by public bodies to aid, cooperate.

62. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with the commission, including the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of its activities, any public body may, with or without consideration, as it may determine:

a. Dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its property to the commission or the federal government;

b. Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to, or in connection with, projects of the commission;

c. Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, or plan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake;

d. Plan, zone, or rezone any part of such public body;

e. Make exceptions from building regulations and ordinances and change its map;

f. Enter into agreements, which, notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, may extend over any period, with the commission or the federal government respecting action to be taken by such public body;

g. Do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and co-operate in planning, undertakings, construction, or operations of the commission;

h. Cause services to be furnished to the commission of the character which the public body is otherwise empowered to furnish;

i. Purchase, or legally invest in, any of the bonds of the commission, and exercise all of the rights of any holder of such bonds;

j. In connection with any public improvements made by a public body in exercising the powers herein granted, the public body may incur the entire expense thereof. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, any grant, sale, conveyance, lease, or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement, or public bidding; or

k. Upon such terms as it may deem advisable, with or without consideration, grant, sell, convey, or lease any of its property, including real property already devoted to a public use, whether held in a proprietary or governmental capacity to the commission, provided, that the public body making the grant or lease determines that the premises are no longer required for the public purposes to which the property is devoted, and that it is in the public interest so to grant, sell, convey, or lease said property.

L.2015, c.19, s.62.