Bill Text: NY A03172 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the appointment of 6 more members to the board of the city of Yonkers parking authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03172 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03172-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3172
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        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    §  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]  six
     9  other  members, who shall also be appointed by the mayor.  The [appoint-
    10  ment of the] chairman shall [be] serve for a term of five years [and  of
    11  each  of  the  other members for terms of one, two, three and four years
    12  from the first day of April, nineteen hundred sixty-four. At the expira-
    13  tion of such terms, the terms of office of  their  successors  shall  be
    14  five years so that the term of office of one-fifth of such members shall
    15  expire  on the thirty-first day of March in each year]; provided, howev-
    16  er, of the two offices of members established pursuant to the chapter of
    17  the laws of two thousand nineteen that amended this section, one  member
    18  shall  be  appointed  for  a  term  to commence on the day of his or her
    19  appointment by the mayor and which shall expire on the thirty-first  day
    20  of  March,  two  thousand twenty and one member shall be appointed for a
    21  term to commence on the day of his or her appointment by the  mayor  and
    22  which  shall expire on the thirty-first day of March, two thousand twen-
    23  ty-one. Each member shall continue to serve until  the  appointment  and
    24  qualification  of  his or her successor.  Vacancies in such board occur-
    25  ring otherwise than by the expiration of such term, shall be filled  for
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the  unexpired  term.  Nothing  in  this  section shall preclude current
     2  members, as of June first, two thousand nineteen, from serving  out  the
     3  remainder  of  their  term.  The  members of the board shall choose from
     4  their  number  a  vice-chairman.  The mayor may remove any member of the
     5  board for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office,  giving
     6  him  or  her a copy of the charges against him or her and an opportunity
     7  of being heard in person, or by counsel, in his or her defense upon  not
     8  less  than  ten days' notice. The members of the board shall be entitled
     9  to  no  compensation  for  their  services  but  shall  be  entitled  to
    10  reimbursement  for  their  actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
    11  performance of their official duties. The powers of the authority  shall
    12  be  vested  in  and  exercised by a majority of the members of the board
    13  then in office. Such board may delegate to one or more of its members or
    14  to its officers, agents and employees such powers and duties as  it  may
    15  deem  proper. Such board and its corporate existence shall continue only
    16  to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  and
    17  thereafter  until  all  its liabilities have been met and its bonds have
    18  been paid in full or such  liabilities  or  bonds  have  otherwise  been
    19  discharged.  Upon  its  ceasing  to exist, all its rights and properties
    20  shall pass to the city.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.