N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1020-C
* § 1020-c. Long Island power authority; creation. 1. For the purpose of effectuating the policy declared in section one thousand twenty-a of this title, there is hereby created a corporate municipal instrumentality of the state to be known as the "Long Island power authority", which shall be a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the state, exercising essential governmental and public powers.