The authority may also:

1. (1) finance, improve, construct, reconstruct, renovate, purchase, lease, acquire, and equip capital improvements;
2. (2) lease those capital improvements to the capital improvement board;
3. (3) sue, be sued, plead, and be impleaded, but all actions against the authority must be brought in the circuit or superior court of the county in which the authority is located;
4. (4) condemn, appropriate, lease, rent, purchase, and hold any real or personal property needed or considered useful in connection with capital improvements;
5. (5) acquire real or personal property by gift, devise, or bequest and hold, use, or dispose of that property for the purposes authorized by this chapter;
6. (6) enter upon any lots or lands for the purpose of surveying or examining them to determine the location of a capital improvement;
7. (7) design, order, contract for, and construct, reconstruct, and renovate any capital improvements or improvements thereto;
8. (8) employ managers, superintendents, architects, engineers, attorneys, auditors, clerks, construction managers, and other employees necessary for construction of capital improvements or improvements thereto;
9. (9) make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this chapter; and
10. (10) take any other action necessary to implement its purposes as set forth in section 10 of this chapter.

As added by P.L.82-1985, SEC.12.