Bill Text: NY A09414 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the appointment of 4 more members to the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-18 - REFERRED TO RULES [A09414 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09414-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9414--C
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 29, 2012
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW, MAYER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         LATIMER -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Corporations,
         Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
         again  reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
         as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and  referred
         to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public authorities law, in relation to increasing
         the membership of the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 1596-c of the public authorities law, as added by
    2  chapter 673 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 1596-c. City of Yonkers parking authority. A board to  be  known  as
    4  "City  of Yonkers parking authority" is hereby created. Such board shall
    5  be a body corporate and politic, constituting a  public  benefit  corpo-
    6  ration,  and  its  existence  shall commence upon the appointment of the
    7  members as [herein] provided IN THIS SECTION.   It shall  consist  of  a
    8  chairman,  appointed  by  the  mayor  of the city of Yonkers, and [four]
    9  EIGHT other members, who shall also be appointed  by  the  mayor.    The
   10  [appointment  of the] chairman shall [be] SERVE for a term of five years
   11  [and of each of the other members for terms of one, two, three and  four
   12  years  from  the first day of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the
   13  expiration of such terms, the terms of office of their successors  shall
   14  be  five  years  so that the term of office of one-fifth of such members
   15  shall expire on the thirty-first day of March in each  year];  PROVIDED,
   16  HOWEVER,  OF  THE  FOUR  OFFICES  OF MEMBERS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THE
   17  CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWELVE THAT  AMENDED  THIS  SECTION,
   18  ONE  MEMBER  SHALL BE APPOINTED FOR A TERM TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS
   19  OR  HER  APPOINTMENT  BY  THE  MAYOR  AND  WHICH  SHALL  EXPIRE  ON  THE
   20  THIRTY-FIRST  DAY  OF  MARCH, TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN; ONE MEMBER SHALL BE
   21  APPOINTED FOR A TERM TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER APPOINTMENT BY
   22  THE MAYOR AND WHICH SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY  OF  MARCH  TWO
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13817-12-2
       A. 9414--C                          2
    1  THOUSAND  FOURTEEN; ONE MEMBER SHALL BE APPOINTED FOR A TERM TO COMMENCE
    2  ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER APPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR AND WHICH SHALL EXPIRE
    3  ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, AND  ONE  MEMBER
    4  SHALL  BE  APPOINTED  FOR  A  TERM  TO COMMENCE ON THE DAY OF HIS OR HER
    5  APPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR AND WHICH SHALL EXPIRE ON THE THIRTY-FIRST  DAY
    6  OF  MARCH, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AND THEIR SUCCESSORS SHALL THEREAFTER BE
    7  APPOINTED TO TERMS OF FIVE YEARS. Each member shall  continue  to  serve
    8  until the appointment and qualification of his OR HER successor.  Vacan-
    9  cies  in  such  board occurring otherwise than by the expiration of such
   10  term, shall be filled for the unexpired term. NOTHING  IN  THIS  SECTION
   11  SHALL  PRECLUDE  CURRENT MEMBERS, AS OF JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE,
   12  FROM SERVING OUT THE REMAINDER OF THEIR TERM. The members of  the  board
   13  shall choose from their number a vice-chairman. The mayor may remove any
   14  member  of  the board for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in
   15  office, giving him OR HER a copy of the charges against him OR  HER  and
   16  an  opportunity  of  being heard in person, or by counsel, in his OR HER
   17  defense upon not less than ten days' notice. The members  of  the  board
   18  shall  be  entitled  to  no compensation for their services but shall be
   19  entitled to  reimbursement  for  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses
   20  incurred  in the performance of their official duties. The powers of the
   21  authority shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the  members
   22  of  the  board then in office. Such board may delegate to one or more of
   23  its members or to its officers, agents and  employees  such  powers  and
   24  duties  as  it  may  deem proper. Such board and its corporate existence
   25  shall continue only  to  the  thirty-first  day  of  December,  nineteen
   26  hundred  ninety-nine, and thereafter until all its liabilities have been
   27  met and its bonds have been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds
   28  have  otherwise  been  discharged.  Upon  its  ceasing to exist, all its
   29  rights and properties shall pass to the city.
   30    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.