N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1065
No certificate of convenience and necessity, license, consent or other authorization shall be required to be obtained by the authority or by a water-works corporation from any board, commission or other agency of the state in order that the authority may acquire, lease, own and operate, maintain, improve, extend or enlarge any property or properties referred to in this title, or that any water-works corporation may sell, transfer, or lease its franchise, works or system, or any part thereof to the authority, except that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to deprive the state water power and control commission of any jurisdiction which that commission may now or hereafter have pursuant to the provisions of the conservation law (constituting chapter sixty-five of the consolidated laws), or of any jurisdiction which the state commissioner of health may now or hereafter have pursuant to the provisions of article five of the public health law (constituting chapter forty-five of the consolidated laws). Neither the state public service commission nor any other board or commission of like character shall, unless expressly authorized hereafter, have jurisdiction over the authority in the management and control of its properties or operations or any power over the regulation of the rates fixed or charges collected by the authority.
N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1065