Bill Text: NY S04918 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires one representative be appointed upon the recommendation of the mayor of Niagara Falls and one by the Niagara Falls common council, to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-08 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04918-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4918--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by Sen. THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation  --  recom-
         mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
         Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public authorities law, in relation to adding two
         member positions to the Niagara Frontier transportation authority
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 1 of section 1299-c of the
    2  public authorities law, as amended by chapter 388 of the laws  of  2007,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  There  is  hereby  created  the  "Niagara Frontier transportation
    5  authority." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic  consti-
    6  tuting  a  public  benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a
    7  chairman, ten other members and shall  have  one  non-voting  member  as
    8  described in paragraph (b) of this subdivision appointed by the governor
    9  by  and  with the advice and consent of the senate. The chairman and all
   10  members shall be residents of the district. Of  the  ten  members  other
   11  than  the  chairman, one shall be appointed upon the written recommenda-
   12  tion of the Erie county executive, ONE SHALL BE APPOINTED UPON THE WRIT-
   13  TEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NIAGARA FALLS, ONE  SHALL
   14  BE APPOINTED UPON THE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE NIAGARA FALLS COMMON
   15  COUNCIL,  and  one shall be appointed upon the written recommendation of
   16  the Erie county legislature. The chairman and each of the members  shall
   17  be  appointed  for  a  term  of  eight years, provided however, that the
   18  chairman first appointed shall serve for a term ending  June  thirtieth,
   19  nineteen  hundred  seventy-three,  and  of the eight other members first
   20  appointed, one shall serve for a term ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen
   21  hundred  sixty-eight,  two shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth,
   22  nineteen hundred sixty-nine, one shall serve  for  a  term  ending  June
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01136-03-0
       S. 4918--A                          2
    1  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred seventy, two shall serve for a term ending
    2  June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-one, one shall serve for a term
    3  ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-two and one shall  serve
    4  for  a  term  ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-three. The
    5  term of one of the members appointed to memberships first created by law
    6  after April first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall end on June thirti-
    7  eth, nineteen hundred seventy-four, and  the  term  of  the  other  such
    8  member  shall  end  on  June  thirtieth,  nineteen hundred seventy-five.
    9  Following the expiration of any term ending on or after June  thirtieth,
   10  nineteen hundred eighty-seven, each member shall be appointed for a term
   11  of  five  years  beginning  on the day after the expiration date of such
   12  prior term; provided,  however,  that  the  term  of  the  member  first
   13  appointed  upon  the written recommendation of the Erie county executive
   14  and the term of the member first appointed upon the written  recommenda-
   15  tion  of  the Erie county legislature shall be for a term ending on June
   16  thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-six; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER,  THAT
   17  THE  TERM  OF THE MEMBER FIRST APPOINTED UPON THE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION
   18  OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NIAGARA FALLS AND THE  TERM  OF  THE  MEMBER
   19  FIRST  APPOINTED  UPON  THE  WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE NIAGARA FALLS
   20  COMMON COUNCIL SHALL BE FOR A TERM ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH,  TWO  THOUSAND
   21  SIXTEEN.
   22    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   23  have become a law.