Bill Text: NY A08030 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the appointment of members of the Battery Park city authority; increases the number of members to nine; requires five of the nine members be primary residents of Battery Park city.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - reported referred to rules [A08030 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08030-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8030

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the  appoint-
          ment of members of the Battery Park city authority

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1973  of  the  public  authorities
     2  law, as amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (1)  There  is  hereby  created  the battery park city authority which
     5  shall be a body corporate and politic,  constituting  a  public  benefit
     6  corporation.  Its membership shall consist of [seven] nine members to be
     7  appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One
     8  of the members first appointed shall serve for a term ending four  years
     9  from  January first next succeeding his appointment; one of such members
    10  shall serve for a term ending five years from such date; and one of such
    11  members shall serve  for  a  term  ending  six  years  from  such  date.
    12  Provided,  however,  that  two board members first appointed on or after
    13  the effective date of chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of two
    14  thousand five shall serve an initial term of two years; provided further
    15  that two other board members first appointed on or after  the  effective
    16  date of chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of two thousand five
    17  shall  serve  an initial term of four years. Provided, however, that one
    18  board member first appointed on or after the effective date of the chap-
    19  ter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four which amended this  subdivi-
    20  sion shall serve an initial term of two years; provided further that the
    21  other board member first appointed on or after the effective date of the
    22  chapter  of  the  laws  of  two  thousand twenty-four which amended this
    23  subdivision shall serve an initial term of four years. Their  successors
    24  shall  serve  for  terms  of six years each.   Members shall continue in
    25  office until their successors have been appointed and qualified and  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  provisions  of  section  thirty-nine  of  the  public officers law shall
     2  apply. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the office of a member  by
     3  death,  resignation or otherwise, the governor shall appoint a successor
     4  with  the  advice  and consent of the senate to serve for the balance of
     5  the unexpired term. After the effective date of the chapter of the  laws
     6  of  two  thousand [seventeen] twenty-four that amended this subdivision,
     7  if the membership of the corporation is such that less than  [two]  five
     8  of  the  members are primary residents of Battery Park city as described
     9  by the Battery Park project area defined by subdivision five of  section
    10  nineteen  hundred seventy-two of this title, any appointments made shall
    11  be primary residents of Battery Park city. Appointments  shall  continue
    12  in  such a manner until [two] five of the members of the corporation are
    13  primary residents of Battery Park city. Thereafter, [two]  five  of  the
    14  corporation's members shall be primary residents of Battery Park city.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.