Bill Text: NY A04492 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that two members of the Niagara Frontier transportation authority will be appointed upon recommendation of the mayor of Buffalo and of the Buffalo common council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-12 - enacting clause stricken [A04492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04492-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4492
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  requiring
         that  two  member  positions  to  the  Niagara Frontier transportation
         authority be appointed by the mayor and common council of the city  of
         Buffalo
         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 220 of the laws of 2012,
    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 two non-voting members as
    8  described in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision appointed by the
    9  governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The  chairman
   10  and  all  members shall be residents of the district. Of the ten members
   11  other than the chairman, one shall be appointed upon the written  recom-
   12  mendation  of the Erie county executive, ONE SHALL BE APPOINTED UPON THE
   13  WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO, ONE SHALL BE
   14  APPOINTED UPON THE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE BUFFALO COMMON COUNCIL,
   15  and one shall be appointed upon the written recommendation of  the  Erie
   16  county  legislature.  The  chairman  and  each  of  the members shall be
   17  appointed for a term of eight years, provided however, that the chairman
   18  first appointed shall serve for a term ending June  thirtieth,  nineteen
   19  hundred  seventy-three,  and of the eight other members first appointed,
   20  one shall serve for a  term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
   21  sixty-eight,  two shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
   22  hundred sixty-nine, one shall serve for a term  ending  June  thirtieth,
   23  nineteen hundred seventy, two shall serve for a term ending June thirti-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07882-01-3
       A. 4492                             2
    1  eth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-one,  one shall serve for a term ending
    2  June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-two and one shall serve  for  a
    3  term  ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-three. The term of
    4  one  of  the members appointed to memberships first created by law after
    5  April first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall end  on  June  thirtieth,
    6  nineteen  hundred  seventy-four,  and  the term of the other such member
    7  shall end on June thirtieth, nineteen  hundred  seventy-five.  Following
    8  the  expiration  of any term ending on or after June thirtieth, nineteen
    9  hundred eighty-seven, each member shall be appointed for a term of  five
   10  years beginning on the day after the expiration date of such prior term;
   11  provided,  however, that the term of the member first appointed upon the
   12  written recommendation of the Erie county executive and the term of  the
   13  member first appointed upon the written recommendation of the Erie coun-
   14  ty  legislature  shall  be for a term ending on June thirtieth, nineteen
   15  hundred ninety-six; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  TERM  OF  THE
   16  MEMBER  FIRST  APPOINTED UPON THE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAYOR OF
   17  THE CITY OF BUFFALO AND THE TERM OF THE MEMBER FIRST APPOINTED UPON  THE
   18  WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION OF THE BUFFALO COMMON COUNCIL SHALL BE FOR A TERM
   19  ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY.
   20    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   21  have become a law.