Bill Text: NY A03899 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to modifying the composition of membership of the Buffalo municipal housing authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-07-11 - enacting clause stricken [A03899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03899-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3899--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. HOYT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Housing -- 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 recommit-
         ted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in  relation  to  modifying  the
         composition of the membership of the Buffalo municipal housing author-
         ity
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 404 of the public housing law, as amended by  chap-
    2  ter 576 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  404. Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority.  1. The Buffalo Municipal
    4  Housing Authority is hereby constituted and declared to be a body corpo-
    5  rate and politic with all the powers, rights and  duties  set  forth  in
    6  article five of the former state housing law.
    7    2.  THE  GOVERNING  BOARD OF THE AUTHORITY SHALL BE COMPRISED OF SEVEN
    8  MEMBERS, WITH TWO MEMBERS ELECTED BY TENANTS, ONE  MEMBER  APPOINTED  BY
    9  THE  COMMON  COUNCIL AND FOUR MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR OF BUFFALO,
   10  ONE OF WHOM SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY THE MAYOR AS  CHAIRMAN  REMOVABLE  AT
   11  HIS  OR HER PLEASURE. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
   12  any member of such authority appointed  or  reappointed  by  THE  COMMON
   13  COUNCIL  OR  the  mayor of Buffalo shall be subject to confirmation by a
   14  majority vote of the common council of such city.
   15    3.   THE CHAIRMAN AND THE MEMBERS OF  THE  AUTHORITY  OTHER  THAN  THE
   16  TENANT  MEMBERS  SHALL  RECEIVE  A  SALARY, THE AMOUNT OF WHICH SHALL BE
   17  FIXED BY LOCAL LAW. THE TWO  TENANT  MEMBERS  SHALL  RECEIVE  A  MONTHLY
   18  STIPEND IN THE AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.
   19    S 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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