STATE OF NEW YORK
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3593--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, ABBATE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the medical board of the New York city employees' retire-
ment system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 13-123 of the administrative code
2 of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 59 of the city
3 of New York for the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. [(1)] There shall be a medical board of three physicians. [One of
5 such physicians shall be appointed by the board and shall hold office at
6 the pleasure of such board, one shall be appointed by the commissioner
7 of health and shall hold office at the pleasure of such commissioner,
8 and the third shall be appointed by the commissioner of citywide admin-
9 istrative services and shall hold office at the pleasure of such commis-
10 sioner.
11 (2)] The board, the commissioner of health and the commissioner of
12 citywide administrative services shall each have power to appoint one or
13 more but not exceeding [four alternate] eight physicians, who shall hold
14 office at the pleasure of such appointing board or official. Whenever
15 the board of trustees of the retirement system shall so direct, the
16 functions, powers and duties of the medical board, [in addition to being
17 performed and exercised by the three physicians appointed pursuant to
18 paragraph one of this subdivision,] shall be performed and exercised by
19 one or more groups of three physicians as hereinafter prescribed. Each
20 such group of three physicians shall function separately as the medical
21 board and each such group may consist [partly] of [a physician or] any
22 physicians appointed pursuant to [paragraph one of] this subdivision
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 [and partly of one or more alternate physicians or may consist entirely
2 of alternate physicians; provided, however, that one of the physicians
3 or alternate physicians in each such group shall be appointed by the
4 board, one by the commissioner of health and one by the commissioner of
5 citywide administrative services].
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.