Bill Text: NY S01937 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the membership of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S01937 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01937-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1937
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
        AN ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the membership
          of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 2 and 19 of section 2601 of the New York city
     2  charter, as added by a vote of the people of the city of New York at the
     3  general election held in November  of  1988,  are  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    2.  "Agency"  means a city, county, borough or other office, position,
     6  administration, department, division, bureau, board, commission, author-
     7  ity, corporation, advisory committee or other agency of government,  the
     8  expenses  of  which are paid in whole or in part from the city treasury,
     9  and shall include but not be limited to, the  council,  the  offices  of
    10  each  elected official, the board of education, community school boards,
    11  community boards, the financial services  corporation,  the  health  and
    12  hospitals  corporation,  the public development corporation, and the New
    13  York city housing authority, but shall not  include  any  court  or  any
    14  corporation  or institution maintaining or operating a [public library,]
    15  museum, botanical garden, arboretum, tomb, memorial building,  aquarium,
    16  zoological garden or similar facility.
    17    19.  "Public  servant"  means all officials, officers and employees of
    18  the city, including members of community boards [and], members of  advi-
    19  sory committees, executive directors and key library executive personnel
    20  of  the Queens Borough Public Library, except unpaid members of advisory
    21  committees shall not be public servants.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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