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--A
                              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
       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, TWO MEMBERS  APPOINTED  BY
    9  THE  COMMON COUNCIL AND THREE 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 TERM OF OFFICE OF EACH MEMBER SHALL BE FIVE  YEARS.  THE  MAYOR
   16  SHALL  FILE  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT OF THE
   17  CHAIRMAN AND OF EACH MEMBER. ANY MEMBER OTHER THAN THE CHAIRMAN  MAY  BE
   18  REMOVED  BY THE MAYOR FOR CAUSE AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING. A VACANCY IN THE
   19  OFFICE OF A MEMBER OTHER THAN THE CHAIRMAN OCCURRING OTHERWISE  THAN  BY
   20  EXPIRATION  OF  TERM  SHALL  BE FILLED FOR THE UNEXPIRED TERM; PROVIDED,
   21  HOWEVER, THAT A VACANCY IN THE SEAT HELD BY EITHER TENANT  MEMBER  SHALL
   22  BE FILLED BY THE MAYOR WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF SUCH VACANCY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07000-07-1
       A. 3899--A                          2
    1    4.    THE  CHAIRMAN  AND  THE  MEMBERS OF THE AUTHORITY OTHER THAN THE
    2  TENANT MEMBERS SHALL RECEIVE A SALARY, THE  AMOUNT  OF  WHICH  SHALL  BE
    3  FIXED  BY  LOCAL  LAW.  THE  TWO  TENANT MEMBERS SHALL RECEIVE A MONTHLY
    4  STIPEND IN THE AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.