§ 2564. Special powers and duties of the corporation. The corporation
shall have the power and duty:

1. To maintain and operate the convention center including the
expansion project; to rent parts thereof, and grant concessions, all on
such terms and conditions as it may determine are fair and reasonable,
subject, in the case of rentals and concessions other than for
exhibition purposes, to the prior approval of the state comptroller;

2. To approve the plan and design of the convention center project as
required by a chapter of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-nine and
the plan and design of the expansion project and any convention hotel
financed by the chapter of the laws of two thousand four which amended
this subdivision; and

3. To transfer or otherwise make available to the subsidiary of New
York state urban development corporation organized pursuant to said
chapter of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-nine, without
consideration and when and as requested by said subsidiary, any or all
rights, property and assets which shall have been transferred to the
corporation pursuant to section twenty-two-a of chapter ten hundred
eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-one as added by section
eighteen of said chapter of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-nine.